Released Date:
1996-11-28
Languages:
Cantonese
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (466 Reviews)
Director:
Tung-Shing YeeA struggling director is offered the opportunity to direct a Cat-III film to revive his career. Torn between artistic integrity and financial troubles, he also has to deal with his jealous girlfriend and a demanding actress, all while keeping his gangster financiers happy.
Released Date:
1999-02-06
Languages:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Min Nan
Countries:
Hong Kong, Taiwan
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(8247 Reviews)
Director:
Vincent KokJackie Chan
Ivy Ho (story)
Vincent Kok
Yiu Fai Lo
A Taiwanese girl named Bu has just been proposed to. While pondering the proposal, she finds a message in a bottle which inspires her go to Hong Kong to meet the guy, Albert, who wrote the message. However, she finds out that Albert is gay. A successful playboy businessman CN, and Howie have been rivals in love and business since school days. Howie finds out that CN is dating his girl and also trying to take over his company. Howie tells his guys to teach CN a lesson. Bu happens to be there and saves CN, but decides to fake her identity and scheme to make him fall in love with her. In the meantime Howie, who wants to teach CN a humiliating lesson, hires a highly trained foreign fighter to beat him.
Released Date:
1999-07-17
Languages:
Cantonese, English
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (1496 Reviews)
Director:
Wai-Keung LauWing-Shing Ma (original story)
Manfred Wong (screenplay)
Episodic saga from the first half of the 20th century follows Hero Hua from an ill-omened June day in his youth to a showdown 17 years later with a disaffected member of his martial-arts school, a Japanese named Invincible. Tensions between Chinese and Japanese, plus U.S. racism, mark the tale. Hero marries Jade, leaves her in China when he goes to America as an indentured servant, rebels against cruel labor conditions, and is joined by her in New York City where she has twins. Jump ahead 16 years: their son Sword comes to New York looking for his father. There, Sword hears many stories of his father, which we see in flashbacks, and the stage is set for the battle with Invincible.
Released Date:
2001-10-31
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, France
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(2817 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien HouTaipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao. She's young, lovely, and aimless. He's a slacker. Cigarettes and alcohol fuel her nights. We see bits of her life: when Hao-Hao steals his father's Rolex and the police detain them; when she gets a job as a club hostess, where she meets Jack, who becomes her patron and protector; when Hao-Hao comes to the club, insisting on talking to her; when she visits Yubari, Japan, for its film festival in the dead of winter; when Jack must go to Japan to straighten out trouble caused by one of his acolytes. Does Vicky have any expectations? Does time simply pass?
Released Date:
2001-10-31
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, France
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (2818 Reviews)
Director:
Hsiao-hsien HouTaipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao. She's young, lovely, and aimless. He's a slacker. Cigarettes and alcohol fuel her nights. We see bits of her life: when Hao-Hao steals his father's Rolex and the police detain them; when she gets a job as a club hostess, where she meets Jack, who becomes her patron and protector; when Hao-Hao comes to the club, insisting on talking to her; when she visits Yubari, Japan, for its film festival in the dead of winter; when Jack must go to Japan to straighten out trouble caused by one of his acolytes. Does Vicky have any expectations? Does time simply pass?
Released Date:
2002-09-12
Languages:
Mandarin, Cantonese, English
Countries:
Hong Kong
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (6209 Reviews)
Director:
Corey YuenThe brothers Chow Nunn and Chow Lui's giant computer company is facing a tense crisis - a powerful computer virus is rapidly wiping out their computer network. At the last minute a cyber-friend arrives to join the battle. The mysterious 'Angel.com' battles the virus and saves the company. Invited by Chow Lui for a visit in person, Angel.com arrives in the form of the beautiful Lynn. But it turns out Lynn is a professional assassin with amazing high-tech and kung fu skills. She kills Chow Lui with cyanide hidden in a pair of sunglasses. She's aided by her sister Sue, who operates the pair's World Panorama surveillance system, which allows them to tap into any video security system in the world. Young cop Kong Yat Hong and her partner Mark are put on the case. Hong has a brilliant mind and immediately senses she's dealing with a killer with very special skills. Realizing they are facing a tough adversary, Lynn and Sue become fascinated with Hong as well. Lynn runs into Yan, the cousin of an old friend who died. Lynn and Yan shared an unspoken love in the past which is now rekindled in the open, and Lynn begins to question whether she wants to continue to be an assassin. Chow Nunn was behind his older brother's death. He hired Angel.com to kill Lui because Lui opposed Nunn's business plans, and also because Nunn is carrying on a secret affair with Lui's wife. But when Hong's investigation starts to point to Nunn, Nunn becomes worried and decides to hire Angel.com for another hit ^è only so he can double-cross them, wipe them out and prevent them from leading the police back to him. Yan tells Lynn he loves her and wants to marry her. After battling an attack by robbers with her amazing martial arts skills, she tells Yan her family's history. Her father invented the World Panorama for use by the authorities, but was turned down. Suspiciously, word of the device got out to the underworld and both parents were brutally killed in front of the girls' eyes by criminals eager to get their hands on the invention. Bereft at the loss of their parents and disillusioned with the law, the sisters turned professional assassins, killing criminals for other criminals. Lynn tells Sue she wants to stop their criminal life and get married ^è she won't accept Chow Nunn's order for the second killing. But Sue, angry and feeling abandoned by Lynn, decides to carry out the killing herself. Lynn realizes what's happening and rushes to save Sue, who doesn't have the skills to carry out the hit. They are attacked by Chow's men but escape. Now the assassin and the cop must join forces - so Sue can avenge her sister's death and Hong can prove her innocence in a spectacular confrontation at Chow Nunn's headquarters...
Released Date:
2004-03-18
Languages:
Cantonese, English, Thai, Mandarin
Countries:
Hong Kong, Singapore
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (3942 Reviews)
Yuet-Jan Hui (story)
Lawrence Cheng (story)
Yuet-Jan Hui
Pregnant Joey (Shu Qi) teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she looks up with her secretive ex-lover Sam (Tik Jesadaporn Pholdee), who may be able to shed some light upon the mysterious twilight world descending upon Joey.
Released Date:
2004-03-18
Languages:
Cantonese, English, Thai, Mandarin
Countries:
Hong Kong, Singapore
Runtime:
95 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (3941 Reviews)
Yuet-Jan Hui (story)
Lawrence Cheng (story)
Yuet-Jan Hui
Pregnant Joey (Shu Qi) teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she looks up with her secretive ex-lover Sam (Tik Jesadaporn Pholdee), who may be able to shed some light upon the mysterious twilight world descending upon Joey.
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:
2008-12-22
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China
Runtime:
130 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (1980 Reviews)
Director:
Xiaogang FengQin Fen, a funny, honest, single inventor, met a girl called Smiley, who was in agony of her boyfriend's betrayal. They traveled to Hokkaido, tried to help Smiley cure her pain in heart, and both of them gradually found their true love and life redemption during the journey.
Released Date:
2010-09-21
Languages:
Mandarin, Japanese, English, French, German
Countries:
Hong Kong, China
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (7509 Reviews)
Director:
Wai-Keung LauGordon Chan (screenplay)
Chi-Sing Cheung
Koon-nam Lui
Frankie Tam
Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. That man is a disguised Chen Zhen, who intends to infiltrate the mob when they form an alliance with the Japanese. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.
Released Date:
2012-09-27
Languages:
Mandarin, English
Countries:
China
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (3747 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen FungChia-lu Chang (screenplay)
Kuo-fu Chen (story)
Hsiao-tse Cheng (screenplay)
Young genius Yang Luchan travels to Chen Village to learn the forbidden secrets of martial arts, but quickly learns that the village is menaced by a formidable battalion of Steampunk soldiers. The villagers realize that in order to save their home, they must trust this strange outsider with their knowledge of Tai Chi.
Released Date:
2013-02-07
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (6584 Reviews)
Stephen Chow
Chi-kin Kwok
Xin Huo
Yun Wang
Chi Keung Fung
Zhengyu Lu
Shing-Cheung Lee
Ivy Kong
Tang Sanzang, a Buddhist trying to protect a village from three demons, his emerging feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who helps him repeatedly, and Sanzang's trans-formative encounter with the Monkey King.
Released Date:
2012-02-10
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
Taiwan, China
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (907 Reviews)
Director:
Doze NiuDoze Niu (screenplay)
Li-ting Tseng (screenplay)
Wang Qian (screenplay)
Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.
Released Date:
2012-10-25
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (2416 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen FungChia-lu Chang (screenplay)
Kuo-fu Chen (story)
Hsiao-tse Cheng (screenplay)
Chinese steampunk martial arts blockbuster about the early years of Tai chi master Yang Luchan, the man who founded in the 19th century what has now become the most popular Tai Chi style in the world. The second instalment of the "Tai Chi" trilogy continues the journey of Yang Luchan, a gifted child with a fleshy growth on his forehead who helped save a village from a frightening army of steampunk soldiers bearing strange machines with the knowledge of Tai Chi that they entrusted him with.
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".
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