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Tag Archives: China
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt AKA Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin
Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
The Spring River Flows East AKA Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (1947) Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng, Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai
1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
Bloody Morning AKA Xuese Qingchen (1992) Shaohong Li, Zhaohui Gong, Yajie Hu, Lu Hui
The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because Read More »
The Warrior and the Wolf AKA Lang zai ji (2009) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Joe Odagiri, Maggie Q, Tsung-Hua To
The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to wolves. Read More »
Lust, Caution AKA Se, jie (2007) Ang Lee, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Frustrated in his attempts to assassinate Yee, who is an important official in Japanese-ruled Shanghai Read More »
Fleeing by Night AKA Ye ben (2000) Li-Kong Hsu, Chi Yin, Rene Liu, Lei Huang, Chao-te Yin
Set in China in the 1930s, the film is about the unsettling relationship between three characters. Read More »
Green Tea AKA Lü cha (2003) Yuan Zhang, Wen Jiang, Wei Zhao, Lijun Fang
Well, apparently Wu Fang (Wei Zhao) is a young lady on a mission. Read More »
Taking Father Home AKA Bei yazi de nanhai (2005) Liang Ying, Xiaopei Liu, Jie Wang, Yun Xu
A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father Read More »
Go Home AKA Sheng dan jing mo (2002) Cheng-sheng Lin
Go Home tells the story of an old Peking Opera master, Zhang Jin He (Liu Pei Qi of The Story of Qiu Ju) Read More »
Platform AKA Zhantai (2000) Zhangke Jia, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang
Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers Read More »
The Red Detachment of Women AKA Hong se niang zi jun (1961) Jin Xie, Qiang Chen, Niu Tie, Xin-Gang Wang
In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 1: Rust (2003) Bing Wang
Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions Read More »
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons AKA Xi you: Xiang mo pian (2013) Stephen Chow, Chi-Kin Kwok, Zhang Wen, Qi Shu, Bo Huang
Tang Sanzang, an aspiring Buddhist hero tries to protect a village from three demons. Read More »
The Blue Kite AKA Lan feng zheng (1993) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen
On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. Read More »