6 Movies Starring Xiaodong Guo

Summer Palace

Summer Palace

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-04-18

Languages:

Mandarin, German

Countries:

China, France

Runtime:

158 min

IMDB Ratings:

(1859 Reviews)

Director:

Ye Lou

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Ye Lou

Yingli Ma

Feng Mei

Fullplot:

Country girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom. Protests collapse, and Yu and Zhou lose each other amidst the social chaos and panicked crowds. Zhou Wei is sent to a summer military camp, and on his release moves to Berlin, fleeing both his country and memories of Yu. She finds a job, a lover, but can not forget Zhou. In Germany, social unrest is mounting: calls for freedom, demonstrations for democracy. A familiar story for Zhou. Weary, still haunted by Yu, he returns to China as the Berlin Wall crashes down. He finds her at last, in a small town. From evening to dawn, their future stretches before them, two changed souls in a changed world.

Missing

Missing

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-06-12

Languages:

Cantonese

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

118 min

IMDB Ratings:

4.9 (384 Reviews)

Director:

Hark Tsui

Cast:

Writer:

Hark Tsui

Ho Leung Lau (script revision)

Fullplot:

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.

An Empress and the Warriors

An Empress and the Warriors

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-03-19

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

99 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (2964 Reviews)

Director:

Siu-Tung Ching

Cast:

Writer:

James Yuen (screenplay)

Tan Cheung (screenplay)

Tin Nam Chun (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Can a kingdom change its nature? Yan, one of the Ten Kingdoms, is constantly at war. Yan's emperor dies from a battle wound and a general's treachery. His successor is unclear: his daughter Feier, who would be the kingdom's first empress; his favorite, Xuehu, a warrior of noble heart but not noble blood; and, Hu Ba, the ambitious traitor. Xuehu is Feier's protector and teaches her how to be a warrior queen. Hu's followers plot her failure, first in a kidnapping plot, then in a coup. Feier is saved from the kidnap attempt by Duan Lanquan, an ingenious hermit with a shrouded past. He treats her wound and gives her a vision of a different kind of kingdom. Can his dream become hers?

True Legend

True Legend

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-02-09

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (6985 Reviews)

Director:

Woo-Ping Yuen

Cast:

Writer:

Chi-long To (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Su Qi-Er retired from his life as a renowned Qing dynasty general in order to pursue his dream of a family and his own martial arts school. However, Su's peaceful life is shattered when his vengeful adopted brother, Yuan Lie, kidnaps his son and leaves Su for dead. Saved from his demise by his wife Ying and the reclusive doctor Yu, Su resolves to perfect his technique so that he may defeat Yuan Lie and reunite his family. Aided by the mystical "God of Wushu" and the eccentric "Old Sage," Su masters the art of Drunken Boxing, and embarks on the path that would eventually give rise to the legend of the "King of Beggars."

Motorway

Motorway

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-06-21

Languages:

Cantonese, English

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

90 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(1279 Reviews)

Director:

Pou-Soi Cheang

Cast:

Writer:

Joey O'Bryan (original story)

Joey O'Bryan (screenplay)

Kam-Yuen Szeto (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An overconfident rookie in the Stealth Riders division, a secret police unit consisting of the best drivers on the force that take down criminals in the drag racing underworld, teams up with his veteran partner to take on a legendary escape driver who has never been caught. As they put together a strategic plan to take this criminal down they put the petal to the metal in a death-defying showdown with only their cars as their weapons.

Blind Massage

Blind Massage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-28

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China, France

Runtime:

114 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (502 Reviews)

Director:

Ye Lou

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A drama centered around the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.

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