
Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
Battle of Wits / Mo gong (2006) Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung, Andy Lau, Sung-Ki Ahn, Zhiwen Wang

In 370 B.C, China was separated as seven nations and several other small tribes Read More »
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 »
Linger / Hu die fei (2008) Johnnie To, Vic Chou, Bingbing Li, Maggie Siu

A woman is revisited by the ghost of her ex-boyfriend, three years after a car crash took his life. Read More »
Once Upon a Time in China and America / Wong fei hung VI: Sai wik hung see (1997) Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xin Xin Xiong

The story is set in both Hong Kong and the U.S. So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Read More »
The Pirate / Da hai dao (1973) Cheh Chang, Hsueh-Li Pao, Wu Ma, Lung Ti, David Chiang, Ching Tien

Toward the end of the Ching Dynasty, the South China Sea was swarming Read More »
The Wheel of Life / Da lunhui (1983) King Hu, Hsing Lee, Ching-Jui Pai, Hsueh-Fen Peng, Huo-Yen Chiang, Chun Shih

This 3-parter uses the same 3 leads in each of its parts. 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 »
Prince of Tears / Lei wangzi (2009) Yonfan, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Xuan Zhu, Wing Fan

It happened in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror 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 »