Released Date:
2006-10-13
Languages:
Finnish, Mandarin
Countries:
Finland, Netherlands, China, Estonia
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(3489 Reviews)
Director:
Antti-Jussi AnnilaAntti-Jussi Annila (original idea)
Antti-Jussi Annila (screenplay)
Marko Jatkola (original idea)
Petri Jokiranta (screenplay)
Iiro Kèttner (story)
Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern Finland. Jade Warrior is set in ancient China early iron age and present day Finland. The past is feeding the story in present day, slowly revealing our warrior his real origin, his superior skills and his destiny. Jade Warrior - the first Finnish Kung Fu film - combines Finnish and Chinese mythologies into one film. Jade Warrior is an homage to Kung Fu genre strongly spiced with a truly original approach to Finnish national epic Kalevala. Like Kalevala Jade Warrior is a pure melodrama. A story of Kalevala's greatest hero.
Released Date:
2007-02-13
Languages:
Cantonese, English, Thai
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (3817 Reviews)
Director:
Tung-Shing YeeTung-Shing Yee
Man Hong Lung (additional writing)
Sun Go (additional writing)
A special agent has for 8 years been deep undercover in Asia's lucrative organized crime trade as he plays protègè to one of the key players, Banker. Nick now has but he has started to feel loyalty to his new environment, and to the money.
Released Date:
2008-11-27
Languages:
Cantonese
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
109 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1389 Reviews)
Director:
Dante LamA traffic accident changed their lives forever. In capturing wanted criminal Zhang Yidong, Sergeant Tang Fei (Nicholas Tse) was involved in a gunfight and car accident that put the criminal in a coma. But in the process he also crippled an fellow officer, and mistakenly shot dead the elder daughter of public prosecutor and single mother Gao Min (Zhang Jingchu). Unable to handle the guilt, Tang Fei succumbs to a fog of pain. Gao Min, meanwhile, pours all her love and attention to her younger daughter Ling. Three months later, the criminal Zhang Yidong awakens from his coma. Gao Min, who had been working hard on bringing him to justice, insists he stand trial immediately.
Released Date:
2009-07-24
Languages:
Cantonese
Countries:
Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1902 Reviews)
A trio of police officers conduct surveillance on a listed company.
Released Date:
2009-05-14
Languages:
Mandarin, Cantonese
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (349 Reviews)
Director:
Ann HuiGenres:
DramaKing-wai Cheung (screenplay)
Alex Law (screenplay)
Ann Hui's darkly realistic Night and Fog starts at the end of the story: a man murders his wife and, based on statements by unreliable witnesses, the film goes on to investigate how things could have got this far and what kind of man was able to kill his family; questions that almost inevitably remain unanswered. Night and Fog, named after Nuit et brouillard (1955), Alain Resnais' documentary about concentration camps, looks at the difficult problem of domestic violence. An elderly man from Hong Kong takes a wife from outside the city and goes on to neglect and abuse the woman. Ann Hui's cool registering camera is juxtaposed with flashbacks within flashbacks and dream sequences, just as in her earlier film, Song of the Exile (1990).
Released Date:
2010-07-22
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China
Runtime:
135 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (6835 Reviews)
Director:
Xiaogang FengGenres:
DramaIn Tangshan, the truck driver Da Qiang, his wife Yuan Ni and their twins Fang Da, their son, and Fang Deng, their daughter, are a happy simple family. On 27 July 1976, a devastating earthquake destroys Tangshan, and Da Qiang dies while trying to rescue his children from their apartment. When a collapsed beam traps Fang Da and Fang Deng, Yuan Ni is forced to decide between saving her son or daughter and she chooses Fang Da. However, her daughter Fang Deng overhears her mother's choice and miraculously survives. She is rescued by a soldier and adopted by Mr. Wang and his wife with the name Wang Deng. Thirty-two years later, after an earthquake in China, Wang Deng, now married to a Canadian lawyer and living in Vancouver with her daughter, travels to China and voluntarily joins the rescue team. By chance she meets Fang Da and she learns the drama of Yuan Ni through all those years. The family is finally reunited at Yuan Ni's home, where bitterness is exposed and resolved.
Released Date:
2013-11-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
89 min
IMDB Ratings:
3.7 (152 Reviews)
Director:
Luca BarbareschiGenres:
ThrillerFrancesco Arlanch
Luca Barbareschi
Anna Pavignano
In a small village in China's Yunnan region, Xiwen (Jingchu Zhang) mourns the sudden loss of her beloved, only child, a young boy poisoned by tainted food. Numbed by the pain, she seeks a reason to live. Although a woman of the highest integrity, she has become hard and uncompromising. Far away in Italy, Matteo (Luca Barbareschi) is a ruthless, high-powered player for Hong Kong-based Feng Multinational, an international conglomerate with many interests around the world ... not all of which are above board. Lured by the highly lucrative, international trafficking of adulterated foods, the suave and cynical Matteo has abandoned all scruples and conscience and is well on his way up the underworld corporate ladder. Following a series of cold-blooded successes, he is poised to become CEO of the Feng group when fate abruptly intervenes. Crossing paths with Xiwen, the two instantly share a powerfully undeniable attraction. Tentatively, they begin to see one another, each experiencing feelings they no longer thought possible. Simultaneously, a jealous co-worker tired of living in Matteo's shadow has set into motion a plan to frame him for a triple murder. Still unaware of Matteo's involvement in the very black market trade that killed her son, Xiwen - convinced that he is innocent - compromises her own high standards, lying to police to provide him with an alibi. As Matteo attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders and prove his innocence, his relationship with Xiwen continues to deepen and the emotionally damaged lovers fall deeply in love, providing each other with long-abandoned hope for happiness and a new start. But when the truth is revealed - and amidst the chaos swirling around them - Xiwen must now decide to forsake their love ... or to choose a new path together. Inspired by world affairs and headlines on the real-life trafficking of adulterated foods.
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