The Myth
When a fellow scientist asks for Jack’s help in locating the mausoleum of China’s first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact.
Chinaman
Keld is in a rut. His wife of 25 years has left him. For sustenance, he eats his way through the menu at the local Chinese takeaway. The owner talks him into a marriage of convenience with his sister from China and the unplanned-for happens. A delicate romance blossoms between these two damaged, fragile individuals, but a secret gives their relationship a fateful twist. A subtle and touching story of life’s diversity.
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles is a 2005 Chinese / Japanese drama film directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Ken Takakura.
Initial D
After winning his first competition, Takumi focuses his attention on drift racing, a sport he has unknowingly perfected while delivering tofu in his father’s Toyota AE86.
Clan Feuds
Two young lovers, Yun Keng and Ching Shuang belong to opposing clans. Their relationship is a secret for a time. Once Master Diao, head of the Great Banner Clan, learns of this treachery he must execute his son by way of quartering. Ti Zhong Tang as well as Yun’s hot headed brother, Yun Zheng try and coax the old man out of having his son put to death but to no avail. Just before the … Read more
A Dream in Red Mansions
The decline of the Jia clan in imperial China.
Unforgettable Life
After getting an abortion at a local clinic, unwed Beijing TV anchor Lu Yun decides to focus her next special report on women’s reproductive issues, working at that clinic to research her topic.
The Silk Road
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he’s sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu’s care, but … Read more
Yellow River Fighter
In this martial arts action-drama, a swordsman named Toh Hong travels home after a long battle to discover his wife and children have been brutally murdered.
Fist of Fury 3
After avenging the death of his brother, Chen Shen (Bruce Li) returns home from Shanghai. He tells his mother (who went blind from crying over her son’s death) that he will no longer fight. However, being a movie with the words “fist” and “fury” in the title, Chen doesn’t keep his promise for very long. Japanese occupiers who are aware of Chen’s history terrorize his family by, among other things, vandalizing his mother’s store and … Read more
The Story of Qiu Ju
The Story of Qiu Ju is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role. The screenplay is an adaption of Chen Yuanbin’s novella The Wan Family’s Lawsuit. The film tells the story of a peasant woman, Qiu Ju, who lives in a rural area of China. When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village … Read more
The True-Hearted
The film illustrates classical Beijing Opera in different generations and the boy’s process of growing-up.
Stray Dogs
A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely … Read more
Wu lin zhi
Wu lin zhi (1983) — Action, Drama – 1 January 1983 Your rating: Not rated yet! Director: Huaxun Zhang Stars: — Photos No images were imported … Read more
Burning of the Imperial Palace
Dramatization of events from the Second Opium War which culminated in the looting and destruction of imperial estate “Yuan Ming Yuan”, AKA the Old Summer Palace by invading English and French troops.
One And Eight
Director Zhang Junzhao’s superbly tense revisionist war film (featuring striking cinematography from future Fifth Generation standard bearer Zhang Yimou) is widely considered to be the first work of Mainland Fifth Generation cinema.
The Deadly Breaking Sword
Leaving behind an inch of sword in the spent corpses of his opponents, Tuan Changqing (Lung Ti) is known as the Deadly Breaking Sword. After barely surviving a duel, one of his foes is treated by the diabolical Dr. Kuo, who uses his powers of mind control to transform the man into a somnambulistic killer. After Tuan Changqing teams up with Rabelaisian gambler Xiao Dao (Sheng Fu), the story proceeds as a comical kung fu … Read more
The Trouble-shooters
The Trouble-shooters (1989) — Drama, Comedy – 14 September 1989 Your rating: Not rated yet! Director: Jiashan Mi Writers: Jiashan Mi, Shuo Wang Stars: Guoli Zhang, … Read more
The True Story of Ah Q
Inspired by the 1921 novella penned by Lu Xun (Lu Hsun), one of China’s eminent modern authors, ‘The True Story of Ah Q’ is set against the backdrop of the 1911 revolution. The narrative follows Ah Q, a struggling peasant seeking an escape from his crippling poverty. Initially, he believes that marrying into a higher class might be his ticket out, but later, he gets involved in the revolution, hoping it’s a means for him … Read more
The Teahouse
“The Teahouse’ stars the amazing & legendary Chen Kuan Tai, portraying a decent man in a land of criminals and dishonor! Cheng Wang, a refugee, owns a neighborhood Teahouse/restaurant that he obtained through hard work as a street vendor. his restaurant seems to be in the middle of a modern day war zone, with teenage thugs committing robberies, rape, and assaults right outside his door. Cheng quickly becomes the hero of this city, when he … Read more
Warm Spring
Family roles and responsibilities are questioned when an elderly father welcomes a foster child into his home despite the adamant disapproval of his son and daughter-in-law.
Nuan
Like Huo’s Postmen in the Mountains, Nuan is a rural drama. The film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who, for the last ten years, has been living in the big city. When he returns home, he runs into his childhood love, Nuan.
Green Tea
A mysterious woman frequents tea shops and other places looking for the right man. A cup of green tea will show you the way to find your true love.
My Father and I
After Xiao Yu’s mother died in an accident, she moved back to live with her birth father who she knows little about. Gradually, they grew to know each other and to accept each other for who they are.
Uniform
Diao Yinan’s critically acclaimed film, well-shot in DV and set against the fascinating backdrop of modern China, stars Liang Hongli as a struggling, recently unemployed young factory worker who must return to his family’s laundrette, where he ‘borrows’ a police officer’s shirt and begins successfully impersonating an officer of the law.
Goddess of Mercy
Yang Rui falls in love for the cleaning woman who works in a taekwando gym, only to later discover she’s an undercover cop named An Xin. An is in hiding from drug smugglers who have a score to settle with her – a raid she led resulted in the death of one of the smuggler’s parents. To complicate matters further, An was previously romantically involved with the smuggler whose parents were killed.
Warriors of Heaven and Earth
A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
Running on Karma
A monk turned body-builder, with the gift to see into people’s lives, befriends a female cop, and uses his gift to change the force of Karma and her destiny.
Infernal Affairs III
Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events before and after the events in the original.
Infernal Affairs II
In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Blind Shaft
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the “accident”, happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
Purple Butterfly
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover… and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
The Peach Blossom Land
Two drama companies happened to share one auditorium for rehearsal. Friction was inevitable. One of them played ‘Peach Blossom’, a comedy in medieval costume. Another played ‘Secret Love’, a sad story with contemporary setting. Though unreconciled in all aspects, they find themselves telling the same story: the story of Chinese people forced to leave home.
Weekend Lover
The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Once released, he seeks out his old girlfriend Li Xin who has since begun a relationship with La La a young musician. As the two men vie for her attention, tension and violence escalate.