A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father Read More »
Tag Archives: Mandarin
Typhoon / Tai feng (1962) Lei Pan
A clever and lively girl who gets lost in the world of radio drama runs away Read More »
The Time You Need a Friend / Xiao jiang (1985) John Woo, Yueh Sun, David Tao, Linda Jui-Chi Liu
Two old vaudeville comedians who broke up many years ago over a woman Read More »
Xiao cheng zhi chun / Spring in a Small Town (1948) Mu Fei, Chaoming Cui, Wei Li, Yu Shi
Following WWII and with China brought to it’s knees by the actions of the Japanese Read More »
The Spring River Flows East / Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (1947) Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng, Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai
1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
Full Alert / Go do gaai bei (1997) Ringo Lam, Ching Wan Lau, Francis Ng, Amanda Lee
Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested Read More »
Martial Arts of Shaolin / Nan bei Shao Lin (1986) Chia-Liang Liu, Jet Li, Jianqiang Hu, Qiuyan Huang
Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler Read More »
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt / Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006) Ann Hui, Wenshuo Guan, Yun-Fat Chow, Gaowa Siqin
Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Read More »
Jia ru wo shi zhen de / If I Were for Real (1981) Tung Wang, Kuan-Chen Hu, Alan Tam, Lin Hsiang
It is an adaptation of the 1979 play of the same name by Sha Yexin, Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde, set in mainland China. Read More »
The Missing / Bu jian (2003) Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-Ching Lu, Chieh Chang, Tien Miao
A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather. Read More »