Released Date:
2011-11-25
Languages:
Mandarin, Min Nan, Shanghainese
Countries:
Taiwan
Runtime:
237 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (2092 Reviews)
Director:
Edward YangBased from true story, primarily a conflict between two youth gangs, 14-year-old young boy's girlfriend conflict with the head of the gang for unclear reason, until finally there was a painfully incident.
Released Date:
1996-12-07
Languages:
Mandarin, Min Nan, English
Countries:
Taiwan
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (611 Reviews)
Director:
Edward YangReleased Date:
1997-05-30
Languages:
Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish
Countries:
Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Runtime:
96 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (13630 Reviews)
Director:
Kar Wai WongYiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.
Released Date:
2001-01-12
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, Hong Kong, USA, China
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (205400 Reviews)
Director:
Ang LeeDu Lu Wang (book)
Hui-Ling Wang (screenplay)
James Schamus (screenplay)
Kuo Jung Tsai (screenplay)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is a timeless story that takes place in QING China when miracles were credible and spirits and gods were present in man's world. It is not unbelievable that zen warriors float through the air, skim the water and battle in trees and on rooftops. Pain, revenge and duty are the stuff that bind us in this world and are the main plot line of the movie, but in the afterlife love and faith linger on.
Released Date:
2002-02-06
Languages:
Cantonese, Mandarin
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
97 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1927 Reviews)
Director:
Jeffrey LauIn Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang, both confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress Dowager. The other pair is decidedly lowborn: the wanderer Li Yilong (known as King Bully for the way he terrorized the town of Meilong in his youth) and his sister Phoenix, who still runs a restaurant in Meilong. When both the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang contrive to leave the Palace and head south, they meet the loves of their lives in Meilong. But Wushuang has disguised herself as a man, and the Emperor is incognito. Numerous confusions, complications and misunderstandings ensue: genders and gender-roles are reversed, class differences prove hard to negotiate and identities and egos block the promptings of desire. It takes the interventions of a goddess to get everyone back on the right road. But it may be already too late to heal the wounds of disappointment and separation.
Released Date:
2004-12-03
Languages:
English, Italian, Mandarin
Countries:
USA, Italy, Hong Kong, France, Luxembourg, UK
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(4825 Reviews)
Kar Wai Wong
Steven Soderbergh
Michelangelo Antonioni (book)
Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Released Date:
2004-12-03
Languages:
English, Italian, Mandarin
Countries:
USA, Italy, Hong Kong, France, Luxembourg, UK
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(4831 Reviews)
Kar Wai Wong
Steven Soderbergh
Michelangelo Antonioni (book)
Michelangelo Antonioni (screenplay)
Tonino Guerra (screenplay)
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Released Date:
2009-12-04
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea
Runtime:
148 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (34540 Reviews)
Director:
John WooJohn Woo (screenplay)
Khan Chan (screenplay)
Cheng Kuo (screenplay)
Heyu Sheng (screenplay)
Guanzhong Luo (novel)
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.
Released Date:
2005-10-28
Languages:
Mandarin, Min Nan
Countries:
France, Taiwan
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
(3914 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien Hou(1) "A Time for Love": In 1966, in Kaohsiung, Chen meets May playing pool in a bar when he is joining the army. He sends letters to her and he comes to the bar to meet her again in his leave. However, May had traveled to another place and Chen seeks her out. (2) "A Time for Freedom": In 1911, in Dadaochend, the writer Mr. Chang works for Mr. Liang and frequently travels to a brothel, where he meets the singer. He financially helps the courtesan Ah Mei to become a concubine. When the singer asks him if he would help her to leave the brothel, there is no answer. (3) "A Time for Youth": In 2005, in Taipei, the messy relationship of the photographer Zhen, his girlfriend Jing and a bisexual singer.
Released Date:
2005-10-28
Languages:
Mandarin, Min Nan
Countries:
France, Taiwan
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
(3915 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien Hou(1) "A Time for Love": In 1966, in Kaohsiung, Chen meets May playing pool in a bar when he is joining the army. He sends letters to her and he comes to the bar to meet her again in his leave. However, May had traveled to another place and Chen seeks her out. (2) "A Time for Freedom": In 1911, in Dadaochend, the writer Mr. Chang works for Mr. Liang and frequently travels to a brothel, where he meets the singer. He financially helps the courtesan Ah Mei to become a concubine. When the singer asks him if he would help her to leave the brothel, there is no answer. (3) "A Time for Youth": In 2005, in Taipei, the messy relationship of the photographer Zhen, his girlfriend Jing and a bisexual singer.
Released Date:
2006-09-29
Languages:
Hokkien, English, Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (2529 Reviews)
Director:
Chao-Bin SuIn Taipei, the crippled scientist Hashimoto uses his invention of "Menger Sponge" to capture the energy of the spirit of a child in an old building. He invites the specialist in reading lips, Detective Tung, to join his research team that is studying the phenomenon to understand the movements of the lips of the ghost. Hashimoto is trying to disclose why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, and Tung discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy. He was sick with tumors and was killed by his own mother and buried nearby a nuclear plant. Hashimoto deduces that the rage of the boy for his mother associated to the location where the body was buried were the reason to keep the energy. When the government decides to shutdown the research, Hashimoto becomes insane and takes the spirit with him.
Released Date:
2008-06-12
Languages:
Cantonese
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
118 min
IMDB Ratings:
4.9 (384 Reviews)
Director:
Hark TsuiHark Tsui
Ho Leung Lau (script revision)
In Hong Kong, Dr. Gao Jing is introduced to the brother of her best girlfriend Chen Xiao Kai, the photographer and diver Dave Chen Guo Dong. They fall in love with each other and Guo Dong invites Gao Jing to travel to Taiwan to visit an ancient submarine city, where he intends to propose her. During the dive, Guo Dong vanishes. Gao Jing cannot recall what happened underwater. She decides to investigate.
Released Date:
2007-04-29
Languages:
Korean
Countries:
South Korea
Runtime:
84 min
IMDB Ratings:
(3616 Reviews)
Director:
Ki-duk KimGenres:
DramaA love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
Released Date:
2008-11-28
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan
Runtime:
112 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (496 Reviews)
Director:
Mong-Hong ChungGenres:
DramaOn Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen Mo searches the floors of a nearby apartment building for the owner of the illegally parked car, and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son, a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish head soup, a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp's cruel clutches, and a Hong Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks. After many hardships, Chen Mo finally gets his car out of the parking space, and, with new friends riding beside him, advances toward a new horizon in life.
Released Date:
2009-11-20
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea
Runtime:
142 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (17930 Reviews)
Director:
John WooJohn Woo (screenplay)
Khan Chan (screenplay)
Cheng Kuo (screenplay)
Heyu Sheng (screenplay)
Guanzhong Luo (novel)
In this sequel to Red Cliff, first minister Cao Cao convinces Emperor Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Xu and Wu, who have become allied forces, against all expectations. Red Cliff will be the site for the gigantic battle.
Released Date:
2015-08-27
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
(299 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien HouCheng Ah (screenplay)
T'ien-wen Chu (screenwriter)
Hsiao-hsien Hou (screenplay)
Hai-Meng Hsieh (screenplay)
Xing Pei (short story)
The film is set during the mighty Tang Dynasty-period in Chinese history. Nie Yinniang returns to family after several years in exile. The mission of her order is to eliminate the tyrany of the Governors who avoid the authority of the Emperor. Now she will have to choose between sacrificing the man she loves, or break definitively with the "order of the Assassins".
Released Date:
2014-08-07
Languages:
Mandarin, Mongolian
Countries:
China
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (985 Reviews)
Director:
Yang LuGenres:
ActionThis is a movie set in the late Ming Dynasty. The 3 main characters are all elite guards for the palace. One of their fellow guardsmen goes bad. His former companions must now forget their bond and apprehend him. But are they being lured into a larger conspiracy against their emperor?
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