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:
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:
2001-08-03
Languages:
English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Countries:
USA, Hong Kong
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (148642 Reviews)
Director:
Brett RatnerIt's vacation time for Det. James Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot by L.A. crime boss Steven Reign and Triad Ricky Tan, an ex-cop who played a mysterious part in the death of Det. Lee's father. Throw in a power struggle between Tan and the gorgeous but dangerous Hu Li and the boys are soon up to their necks in fist fights and life-threatening situations. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting, and the true allegiance of sexy customs agent Isabella. Then again, it may turn up more excitement than Carter was looking for during his vacation.
Released Date:
2001-09-07
Languages:
Mandarin, Korean
Countries:
South Korea, China
Runtime:
158 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (9860 Reviews)
Director:
Sung-su KimIn 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert. On the way the group came across a Yuan troop, and the Coryo soldiers managed to survive the battle. They began the journey toward the faraway home country, where they met the Yuan troop again. When they found out the Yuan troop kidnapped a Ming princess, they decided to rescue her so that they could get a ship to go home. Then the battle began...
Released Date:
2001-09-07
Languages:
Mandarin, Korean
Countries:
South Korea, China
Runtime:
158 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (9847 Reviews)
Director:
Sung-su KimIn 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert. On the way the group came across a Yuan troop, and the Coryo soldiers managed to survive the battle. They began the journey toward the faraway home country, where they met the Yuan troop again. When they found out the Yuan troop kidnapped a Ming princess, they decided to rescue her so that they could get a ship to go home. Then the battle began...
Released Date:
2004-08-27
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (142006 Reviews)
Director:
Yimou ZhangIn ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
Released Date:
2004-09-17
Languages:
Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese
Countries:
China, France
Runtime:
127 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (885 Reviews)
Director:
Ye LouDing Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Released Date:
2006-04-26
Languages:
Mandarin, Shanghainese
Countries:
China
Runtime:
130 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (661 Reviews)
Director:
Yong HouYong Hou (screenplay)
Su Tong (novel)
Xian Zhang (screenplay)
Generational family saga set in Shanghai in the thirties, sixties and eighties.
Released Date:
2005-01-14
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (86858 Reviews)
Director:
Yimou ZhangDuring the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. A police officer called Leo sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers". Leo arrests Mei, only to have Jin breaking her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem...
Released Date:
2005-05-28
Languages:
Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (576 Reviews)
Director:
Seijun SuzukiAmechiyo is being hunted by his father for being too beautiful and as he tries to escape he runs into Princess Raccoon, a raccoon in human form. They fall for each other, but humans and raccoons shouldn't mix so the raccoon court causes some trouble. She saves his life, then he saves hers by finding the Frog of Paradise on the Sacred Mountain and so forth, until the tragic finale.
Released Date:
2005-05-28
Languages:
Japanese, Mandarin
Countries:
Japan
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (582 Reviews)
Director:
Seijun SuzukiAmechiyo is being hunted by his father for being too beautiful and as he tries to escape he runs into Princess Raccoon, a raccoon in human form. They fall for each other, but humans and raccoons shouldn't mix so the raccoon court causes some trouble. She saves his life, then he saves hers by finding the Frog of Paradise on the Sacred Mountain and so forth, until the tragic finale.
Released Date:
2006-09-15
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (5567 Reviews)
Director:
Xiaogang FengIn 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan, but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile, studying dance and music. His uncle murders his father, taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes death and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Little Wan's coronation and dispatches Wu Luan to a distant land; he then calls for a midnight banquet on the 100th day of his rule. Poison, treachery, Wu Luan's return, and the love of the innocent Qing for Wu Luan set up the final entanglements. No Fortinbras or Horatio lay the dead to rest.
Released Date:
2009-08-14
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
South Korea, China
Runtime:
107 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (1041 Reviews)
Director:
Eva JinDumped by her fiancè just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's, and the two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two best friends, Lucy and Lily. At the eve of her success, Sophie suddenly realizes that she has been so focused on revenge that she has not heard her own change of heart.
Released Date:
2012-09-27
Languages:
Mandarin
Countries:
China, South Korea, Singapore
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (1385 Reviews)
Director:
Jin-ho HurChoderlos de Laclos (novel)
Geling Yan (screenplay)
In Shanghai, an aging socialite's infatuation with her ex-boyfriend manifests itself as a risky game, where her former lover agrees to seduce, then abandon a naive young woman.
Released Date:
2014-12-02
Languages:
Mandarin, Japanese, Min Nan, Shanghainese
Countries:
China, Hong Kong
Runtime:
129 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (446 Reviews)
Director:
John WooGenres:
DramaIn the midst of the Chinese Revolution during the late 1940s, couples flee to the island of Taiwan.
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