Released Date:
2001-06-15
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (10089 Reviews)
Director:
Yimou ZhangCity businessman Luo Yusheng returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting that all the traditional burial customs be observed, despite the fact that times have changed so much, and that it involves many people carrying his father's body back to the village - the road home. As Yusheng debates the complications involved in organising such a big feat, he remembers the magical story of how his father and mother first met and got together.
Released Date:
2002-08-01
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1293 Reviews)
Director:
Zhou SunZhou Yu, a ceramic decorative artist, travels twice a week from her home town of San Ming to Chongyang to visit her boyfriend, Chen Qing, a government worker and budding poet. The two met at a dance while Chen Qing was in San Ming, his old home town, on a business trip. She is the inspiration for the best of his poetry. Zhou Yu is a strong willed woman, whereas Cheng Qing is a sensitive soul. These differences in addition to the growing disparity in their life situations places an unspoken strain in their relationship, despite each truly loving the other. As such, Zhou Yu befriends Zhang Qiang, a veterinarian who travels on the same trains as her. Like Zhou Yu, Zhang Qiang is a strong personality whose emotional temperament more closely matches hers. Ultimately, the three, individually and collectively, have to decide if, and if so how each of the others fits into his/her future life, especially as Cheng Qing has to make a further decision about his professional life.
Released Date:
2008-07-04
Languages:
Mongolian, Mandarin
Countries:
Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (35870 Reviews)
Director:
Sergey BodrovThe movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temèjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Bèrte, who says she would like to be chosen, which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temèjin's father is poisoned on the trip, and dies. As a boy Temèjin passes through starvation, humiliations and even slavery, but later with the help of Bèrte he overcomes all of his childhood hardships to become one of the greatest conquerors the world has ever known.
Released Date:
2005-07-29
Languages:
Mandarin, Korean, Cantonese
Countries:
Hong Kong, China, South Korea
Runtime:
153 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (7742 Reviews)
Director:
Hark TsuiChi-Sing Cheung
Tin Nam Chun
Yusheng Liang (novel)
Hark Tsui
In the early 1600's, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. While many nationalist revolts still brew within the martial artists' community, the newly set-up government immediately imposes a Martial Arts Ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control and order. Wind Fire (Sun Hong-Lei), a surrendered military official from the previous dynasty, sees this as an opportunity to make a fortune for himself by helping to execute the new law. Greedy, cruel, and immoral, Wind Fire ravages the North-western China, and his next goal is to attack the final frontier, Martial Village. Fu Qingzhu, a retired executioner from the previous dynasty, feels the need to put a stop to this brutality and sets out to save Bowei Fortress. He brings Wu Yuanyin and Han Zhiban from the village with him to Mount Heaven to seek help from Master Shadow-Glow, a hermit who is a master of swords and leads a group of disciples of great swordsmanship. Master Shadow-Glow agrees to help, and orders four of his best disciples to go. Together with Chu Zhaonan, Yang Yunchong, Mulong, and Xin Longzi, the SEVEN SWORDS is formed and their heroic journey begins. As they lead the entire village to the road of a safer place, they begin to encounter mysterious confusion. Food and water is poisoned, and trails of escape are marked with signs leading the enemy to them. They soon realize that there is an undercover spy, and the SEVEN SWORDS must identify him/her before Wind Fire's army gets to them. Between this narrow gap of life and death, the situation is further complicated by the blossoms of love.
Released Date:
2007-10-01
Languages:
Cantonese
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (1422 Reviews)
Genres:
ActionSharon Chung
Kenny Kan
Nai-Hoi Yau
Kin-Yee Au
Tin-Shing Yip
Told in three 30-minute segments, three friends seek out the buried treasure of a mysterious stranger.
Released Date:
2009-12-11
Languages:
Mandarin, English
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (2334 Reviews)
Director:
Yimou ZhangJianquan Shi (screenplay)
Jing Shang (screenplay)
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
Released Date:
2013-04-04
Languages:
Mandarin, Cantonese
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(6384 Reviews)
Director:
Johnnie ToKa-Fai Wai (screenplay)
Nai-Hoi Yau (screenplay)
Ryker Chan (screenplay)
Xi Yu (screenplay)
After losing control of his car and crashing into a local restaurant, a man loses consciousness on the street. Later, while working on a case, the police's anti-drug division captain, Zhang Lei (Honglei Sun), realizes that the man in the crash is drug lord Tian Ming (Louis Koo). In order to avoid the death penalty, Tian Ming helps the police put a stop to the entire drug trafficking circuit, but just as soon as the police are ready to make a large bust, Tian Ming makes a decision that shocks everyone involved.
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