Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Read More »
Tag Archives: Kaige Chen
Farewell My Concubine / Ba wang bie ji (1993) Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong
In 1924, young Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) begins training at the Beijing Opera House Read More »
Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) Stanley Kwan, Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung
This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality Read More »
The Big Parade / Da yue bing (1986) Kaige Chen, Qiang Guan, Lu Lei, Chun Sun
Army volunteers train for places in China’s 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit. Read More »
King of the Children (1987) Kaige Chen, Yuan Xie, Xuewen Yang, Shaohua Chen
Set during the twilight of the Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige’s third film, King of the Children Read More »
Huang tu di / Yellow Earth (1984) Kaige Chen, Xueqi Wang, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Drama, Music
‘Yellow Earth’ focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spell-bound by his talk of the freedom women have under communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.
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