Tag Archives: Mandarin

In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Read More »

Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions Read More »

Japanese-Brazilian Mario and Chinese hairdresser Kei are lovers. Read More »

On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. Read More »

China’s first horror film, this is loosely based on The Phantom of the Opera. Read More »

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Read More »

David Chiang plays Johnny, a reformed criminal turned pop headliner at a hip club in Hong Kong. Read More »

In China, homosexuality isn’t illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for “hooliganism”. Read More »

City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. Read More »

Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. Read More »

Well, apparently Wu Fang (Wei Zhao) is a young lady on a mission. Read More »

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 Read More »

The story of Norbu, a horse thief, who is thrown out of his tribe in an effort to purge it of evil. Read More »

Lin Dong and Wang Mei are a childless couple in Beijing, wealthy, approaching middle age. Read More »

It happened in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror Read More »