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Tag Archives: Mandarin
Apartment for Ladies (1970) Nu zi gong yu

Who wouldn’t want to visit an all-girls dormitory? Certainly not Hong Kong audiences Read More »
To Live Is Better Than to Die / Hao si bu ru lai huo zhe (2003) Weijun Chen, Shenyi Ma, Mei Lei, Ningning Ma

A heartbreaking story from Wenlou, a small village in central China, where more than 30% of the villagers Read More »
The Opium War / Ya pian zhan zheng (1997) Jin Xie, Guoan Bao, Liankun Lin, Sihung Lung

Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium Read More »
Honey Pupu / Xiao shi da kan (2011) Hung-i Chen, Prince Chiu, Ralf Chiu, Bridget Dennison

Taipei, 2010. Radio show hostess Vicky (Peggy Tseng), who likes going round the city photographing buildings Read More »
Holiday Dreaming / Meng you xia wei yi (2004) Fu-chun Hsu, Janine Chun-Ning Chang, Hui-ni Hsu, Anne Huang

Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. Read More »
All the Wrong Spies / Wo ai Ye Lai Xiang (1983) Teddy Robin Kwan, George Lam, Brigitte Lin

In Hong Kong, Circa 1940s, World War II, private detective Yoyo Read More »
The Illegal Immigrant / Fei fat yi man (1985) Mabel Cheung, Wanting Zhang, Yung-Cho Ching, Fu-Sheng Wu, Chung-yu Liao

Cheung, an illegal immigrant in a completely Chinese area of New York 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 »
Oxhide / Niu pi (2005) Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu

Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait Read More »