Tag Archives: Mandarin

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains. Read More »

A ruthless band of thugs kidnaps a young official to exchange for their leader who has been captured. Read More »

A low level gangster in Hong Kong gains new respect after saving a boss’s life in a gang fight. Read More »

11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. Read More »

In the 1980s, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country, in order to develop local industry. Read More »

Lin, a sea captain, returns from a 6 month journey when he is told that his 25-year-old son Lin Bo has been gunned down by the police. Read More »

While in Thailand to avenge his brother who was crippled in a fight with a corrupt Thai boxer, a man gets caught up in a web of fate, Buddhism and black magic. Read More »

It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »

In the old days in China, a male servant working in a brothel traditionally wore a green scarf. Read More »

Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Read More »