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Tag Archives: Mandarin
The Road Home (1999) Yimou Zhang, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng
City businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. Read More »
Little Red Flowers (2006) Yuan Zhang, Bowen Dong, Yuanyuan Ning, Manyuan Chen
Qiang is a four-year-old little rebel, possessed of a pair of luminous eyes and a precociously indomitable will. Read More »
Green Tea (2003) Yuan Zhang, Wen Jiang, Wei Zhao, Lijun Fang
Well, apparently Wu Fang (Wei Zhao) is a young lady on a mission. Read More »
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998) Joan Chen, Xiaolu Li, Lopsang, Zheng Qian
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 Read More »
The Horse Thief (1986) Zhuangzhuang Tian, Peicheng Pan, Daiba, Jiji Dan, Drashi
The story of Norbu, a horse thief, who is thrown out of his tribe in an effort to purge it of evil. Read More »
Lost in Beijing (2007) Yu Li, Bingbing Fan, Dawei Tong, Tony Ka Fai Leung
Lin Dong and Wang Mei are a childless couple in Beijing, wealthy, approaching middle age. Read More »
Prince of Tears (2009) Yonfan, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Xuan Zhu, Wing Fan
It happened in 1950s Taiwan, during the period known as White Terror Read More »
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) Yimou Zhang, Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. Read More »
Everlasting Regret (2005) Stanley Kwan, Sammi Cheng, Tony Ka Fai Leung, Jun Hu
A person’s life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Read More »
Whiplash (1974) Shan-Hsi Ting, Pei-Pei Cheng, Yuan Yi, Ying Ku
The Empress Dowager flees when the allied forces descend upon the capital. Read More »
The Five Billion Dollar Legacy (1970) Umetsugu Inoue, Ping Wang, Margaret Hsing Hui, Feng Chin
Crippled billionaire Lin Zhongyuan mails a letter to each of his long-lost daughters Read More »
The Venus Tear Diamond (1971) Umetsugu Inoue, Lily Ho, Yun Ling, Chih Hsien Po
Legendary jewel thieves “Nocturnal Earl” (Ling Yun) and “Fragrant Night” (Lily Ho) are set on a collision Read More »
True Colors (1986) Kirk Wong, Lung Ti, Brigitte Lin, Raymond Bak-Ming Wong
A criminal has come out of hiding only to find that his old partner has become a priest Read More »
Ameera (2014) Honghui Xu, Collin Chou, So Won Ham, Micheal Han
The film tells the female agent Ameera after a failed mission, private life crisis, conspiracy Read More »