A father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
A World Without Thieves / Tian xia wu zei (2004)
A con-team couple (Andy Lau & Rene Liu) head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. Read More »
Purple Butterfly / Zi hu die (2003)
Manchuria, 1928. During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Itami, a young Japanese man Read More »
Clans of Intrigue (1977) Yuen Chor, Lung Ti, Fei Ai, Shen Chan
After three Clan leaders are assassinated, Kung Nan-Yen accuses Master Thief Chiu Liu-Hsiang Read More »
A Young Woman Named Xiao Yu (1995) Sylvia Chang
A Taiwanese comedy set in Lower Manhattan which chronicles the travails of two Taiwanese illegal aliens as they try to get a green card. Read More »
Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land (1992) Stan Lai
Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Read More »
Banana Paradise / Xiang jiao tian tang (1989) Tung Wang
“Door Latch” and his friend followed the KMT army and moved to Taiwan in 1949. Read More »
Strawman (1987) Tung Wang
During the last years of Japanese occupation in Taiwan, as tenants from the preceding generation Read More »
Good Men, Good Women (1995) Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan Read More »
On the Beat (1995) Ying Ning
Take crime out of police work, and what’s left is procedures. Read More »