Stanley Kwan – RareFilm Archive

Everlasting Regret (2005) Stanley Kwan, Sammi Cheng

rarefilm — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:39:03 +0000

A person’s life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive. A pretty young girl from an ordinary family, Qiyao is lucky enough to win the 2nd runner-up of the “Miss Shanghai” contest. Mr. Cheng, her admirer as well as a photographer who assists her to her success, knows the girl is going to live an extraordinary life. It turns out she is going to witness the decades of changes to her city. 1948, Officer Li, an official in control of the army, keeps her as his lover. During the time, she spends her life at the Parliament ballroom, accompanies him through dangerous situations, and tries to devote all of herself to a man she believes she can spend the rest of her life with. But one day, he disappears and does not return. She never gets to find out the …

Also Known As (AKA): Chang hen ge

IMDB

File Name : Everlasting.Regret.2005.720p.mkv
File Size : 4479.3 MB
Resolution : 1280×720
Duration : 01:49:06

Quality: BRRip
Language: Mandarin
Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Drama, Romance

Everlasting.Regret.2005.720p.mkv

Hong mei gui bai mei gui / Red Rose White Rose (1994) Stanley Kwan, Joan Chen, Veronica Yip, Winston Chao

rarefilm — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:06:30 +0000

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

IMDB

File Name : Hong.mei.gui.bai.mei.gui.AKA.Red.Rose.White.Rose.1994.mkv
File Size : 2.09 GB / 2139.77 MB
Resolution : 692×310 @ 616×310
Duration : 01:50:46

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Chinese
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Genre: Drama, Romance

Hong.mei.gui.bai.mei.gui.AKA.Red.Rose.White.Rose.1994.mkv

Women (1985) Stanley Kwan, Cora Miao, Yun-Fat Chow, Cherie Chung

rarefilm — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:23:41 +0000

Unfortunate Bao-er decides to divorce her husband Derek after she discovers he is having an affair. Seeking solace with her group of friends, who call themselves the ‘Happy Spinsters Club’, she begins to face life as a single mother while Derek moves in with his new young girlfriend.

Also Known As (AKA): Nu ren xin, Mulher, Kobiety

IMDB

File Name : Women.1985.avi
File Size : 1388.95 MB
Resolution : 720×384
Duration : 01:30:50

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Cantonese
Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama

Women.1985.avi
Women.1985.srt

Yan zhi kou / Rouge (1987) Stanley Kwan, Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alex Man

rarefilm — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:02:56 +0000

Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong’s “flower houses” – bordellos and night clubs of the 1930’s. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir to a chain of pharmacies. They agree to a suicide pact. Jump ahead 50 years to modern Hong Kong: Fleur’s ghost appears in Yuen’s newspaper office, wanting to place an ad to find Chan, who never arrived in the afterlife. Yuen, and his equally bewildered girl friend, An Chor, are captivated by Fleur and her story.

IMDB

File Name : Rouge.avi
File Size : 0.97 GB / 989.14 MB
Resolution : 720×404
Duration : 01:36:27

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Cantonese
Subs: English, Chinese (idx/sub files)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Mystery, Romance

Rouge.avi
Rouge.idx
Rouge.sub

The Island Tales (2000) Stanley Kwan, Takao Osawa

rarefilm — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 15:52:38 +0000

The story of seven people stuck on a remote island, quarantined by the government due to a viral outbreak.

Also Known As (AKA): You shi tiaowu

IMDB

File Name : The Island Tales 1999.avi
File Size : 700.83 MB
Resolution : 640×384
Duration : 01:40:41

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Mandarin, English, Japanese, Cantonese
Subs: English (hardcoded)
Country: Japan, Hong Kong, China
Genres: Drama

The_Island_Tales_1999.avi

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1996) Stanley Kwan, Cheh Chang, Kaige Chen, Leslie Cheung

rarefilm — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 19:51:25 +0000

This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality more frankly and provocatively than any other national cinema. Yang ± Yin examines male bonding and phallic imagery in the swordplay and kung fu movies of the ’60s and ’70s; homosexuality; same-sex bonding and physical intimacy; the continuing emphasis on women’s grievances in melodramas; and the phenomenon of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.

IMDB

File Name : YangYin_GenderInChineseCinema.avi
File Size : 1042.09 MB
Resolution : 640×480
Duration : 01:19:00

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English, Cantonese
Subs: English (hardcoded for the Cantonese parts)
Genre: Documentary

YangYin_GenderInChineseCinema.avi

Hold You Tight / Yue kuai le, yue duo luo (1998) Stanley Kwan, Chingmy Yau, Sunny Chan, Eric Tsang

rarefilm — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:06:01 +0000

A man comes to Hong Kong and becomes deeply in love with a girl. He watches when this girl has a passionate relationship with her boyfriend. As he approaches her life, he begins to notice that he is becoming more and more in love with the boyfriend instead.

IMDB

File Name : Hold.You.Tight.1998.mkv
File Size : 0.59 GB / 600.72 MB
Resolution : 720×432
Duration : 01:33:39
Video : AVC, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AAC, 44.1 kHz, 1 channel, 2 streams

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin (2 tracks)
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Hong Kong
Genres: Drama, Romance

Hold.You.Tight.1998.rar

Full Moon in New York / Ren zai Niu Yue (1989) Stanley Kwan, Sylvia Chang, Maggie Cheung, Yat-Gam Chu

rarefilm — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:27:00 +0000

Three very different Asian women forge a friendship in New York.

Also Known As (AKA): Vollmond in New York

IMDB

File Name : Full Moon in New York.mkv
File Size : 1145.49 MB
Resolution : 706×394 @ 626×394
Duration : 01:28:35
Video : AVC, 1 388 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 384 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 3 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, English
Subs: English (embedded, srt)
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Genres: Drama

Full_Moon_in_New_York.rar