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Tag Archives: Ye Lou
Purple Butterfly / Zi hu die (2003)
Manchuria, 1928. During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Itami, a young Japanese man Read More »
Love and Bruises (2011) Ye Lou, Corinne Yam, Tahar Rahim, Jalil Lespert
A female Beijing student living in Paris accidentally meets a French construction worker. Read More »
The Days (1993) Dongchun de rizi
The Days is Wang Xiaoshuai’s 1993 debut. Filmed in black-and-white, The Days follows Read More »
Summer Palace / Yihe yuan (2006) Ye Lou, Lei Hao, Xiaodong Guo, Xueyun Bai
Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. Read More »
Spring Fever / Chun feng chen zui de ye wan (2009) Ye Lou, Hao Qin, Sicheng Chen, Wei Wu
Hired to spy on a philandering husband, Luo Haitao soon becomes entangled Read More »
Suzhou River AKA Su Zhou he (2000) Ye Lou, Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua
The river Suzhou that flows through Shanghai is a reservoir of filth, chaos and poverty Read More »
Weekend Lover (1995) Ye Lou, Nai An, Hongshen Jia, Xiaoqing Ma
The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Read More »
Fu cheng mi shi / Mystery (2012) Ye Lou, Lei Hao, Hao Qin, Xi Qi, Feng Zu, Thriller, Crime, Drama
China’s enfant terrible Lou Ye returns after a five-year government ban on filmmaking with Mystery (2012), a rain-soaked melodrama set against the disconsolate mist of Wuhan’s impetuously erected industrial landscape. Opening with an explosive car crash, Ye’s latest is a tangled wreck of moral impasses and social inspection. Slicing through a sheet of unrelenting rainfall, two modified sports cars – driven by a group of insufferably affluent kids – race through the streets of the Hubei province capital. Their recklessness is dramatically halted, however, when they fail to notice a young woman who has wandered into the road.
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