Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
Kaiwang chuntian de ditie / Spring Subway (2002) Yibai Zhang, Le Geng, Yang Zhang, Lan Ke
A young man and a young woman have been in Beijing for seven years since Read More »
Story of Mother / Mu qin san shi sui (1973) Tsun-Shou Sung, Hsiang Li, Han Chin, Maria Yi
Easily one of the most important directors of 1970s Taiwan cinema, Tsun-Shou Sung daringly tells the story Read More »
Shower / Xi zao (1999) Yang Zhang, Jiayi Du, Zheng Fang, Bing He
A young wealthy businessman’s icy attitude toward his working-class background is about to thaw Read More »
Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons / 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 »
Trap Street / Shuiyin jie (2013) Vivian Qu, Yulai Lü, Wenchao He, Yong Hou
In a southern city of China, a digital mapping surveyor encounters a mysterious woman on an unmappable street. Read More »
Osmanthus Alley / Gui hua xiang (1987) Kun-Hou Chen, Hsiao-Fen Lu, Hsiu-Ling Lin, Simon Yam
Ti Hung’s parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to forget about the poverty. Read More »
A Woman / Kong Xiu (2022) Chao Wang, Hao Guixiang, Shiyu Shen, Xuedong Wang
From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, Kong Xiu, an ordinary female worker Read More »
Old Well / Lao jing (1987) Tian-Ming Wu, Yujing Liang, Yuqing Liao, Liping Lü
A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. Read More »
Night Train / Ye Che (2007) Yi’nan Diao, Rongcai Fu, Chao Ji, Dan Liu
Wu Hongyan is a young woman working as a prison guard during executions of female convicts. Read More »