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Tag Archives: China
The Other Half / Ling yi ban (2006) Liang Ying, Xigui Chen, Gang Deng, Huibin Liu

Working as a secretary for a legal office, Xiaofen records clients detailing Read More »
Black Spot / Hei se zou lang (1994) Bruce Le, Rossieo Badin, Yuen-Man Cheng, Tao Chiang

A reformed former drug kingpin (Bruce Le) goes undercover to investigate Read More »
Zhou Yu’s Train / Zhou Yu de huo che (2002) Zhou Sun, Li Gong, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Honglei Sun

Zhou Yu, a ceramic decorative artist, travels twice a week from her hometown of San Ming to Chongyang Read More »
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)

An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia. Read More »
The Story of Qiu Ju / Qiu Ju da guan si (1992) Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang

A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village Read More »
Life / Ren sheng (1984) Tian-Ming Wu, Lijing Zhou, Yufang Wu, Baocheng Gao

Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. Read More »
Watermarks: Three Letters from China (2013) Luc Schaedler

Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people Read More »
The Winter of Three Hairs / San Mao liu lang ji (1949) Gong Yan, Ming Zhao, Mo Cheng, Longji Wang, Long Gongboan

San mao was an orphan in old Shanghai. He ate poster paste, slept in garbage truck, kept warm in ragged sacks in winter. Read More »
Longing for the Rain / Chunmeng (2013) Tian-yi Yang, Siyuan Zhao, Jia Fu, Pongpazroj Dej

Fang Lei, a Beijing housewife, is leading a peaceful and affluent life with her husband and daughter. Read More »
Personal Tailor / Si ren ding zhi (2013) Xiaogang Feng, Baihe Bai, Nathaniel Boyd, Bingkun Cao

A story centered on a company that grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives. Read More »
Stage Sisters / Wutai jiemei (1964) Jin Xie, Fang Xie, Yindi Cao, Nan Deng

Chronicles the fortunes of two actresses in pre-revolutionary China, who are separated by money and politics. Read More »
Romancing in Thin Air / Gao hai ba zhi lian II (2012) Johnnie To, Louis Koo, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao

After a popular actor is jilted at the altar by an actress he travels Read More »
Back to Back, Face to Face / Bei kao bei, lian dui lian (1994) Jianxin Huang, Yazhou Yang, Zhenhua Niu, Kesheng Lei, Qiang Li

Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. Read More »
Homecoming / Si shui liu nian (1984) Ho Yim, Josephine Koo, Gaowa Siqin, Weixiang Xie

Coral, a Hong Kong woman tortured by city life, went back to her home town to visit her two old friends. Read More »