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(111 min)
1978 - Kung Fu - China
During the Qing dynasty, a young student named Liu Yu-De feels hopeless because of the oppressive Manchu forces. His school teacher motivates him to join the rebel causes and a patriotic feeling overwhelms him as he can now do something to help his people. Unfortunately for them, the Manchu forces did not take long to discover that something underground was happening in the small town. In the attempt by the Manchu to capture the rebels, Lius fathers and his teacher get killed. Liu barely manages to escape the raid, but now his only goal is to avenge the death of his father. To attain this goal he decides to go learn kung fu in a Shaolin Temple. But his training is much harder than he expected. The rules of Shaolin are very strict and Liu Yu-De will have to pass through all the 35 chambers, in order, before he can finally complete his training. Each chamber is specially designed to challenge an aspect of the human endurance. However, Liu will also discover that not only physical traini
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Director : Chia Liang Liu, Tang Wei Chen
Cast : Gordon Liu, Lau Kar Wing, Lo Lieh, Wilson Tong, Wong Yu, Simon Yuen
(110 min)
2002 - Drama - France, China
Two city boys are sent to be re-educated in the mountains during the Cultural Revolution. Together with a girl from the next town, they find forbidden literature that end up helping them pass the time in extraordinary ways.
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Director : Dai Sijie
Cast : Xun Zhou, Kun Chen, Ye Liu, Shuangbao Wang, Zhijun Cong, Hong Wei Wang
(107 min)
1973 - Action, Drama, Thriller - China
Women in a Japanese Concentration Camp make a break for it with the help of some insiders. Their goal is to escape the clutches of the japanese and reach a hidden stash of gold that will aid China in buying weapons to fend off their enemies.
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Director : Kuei Chih-hung
Cast : Lo Lieh, Brite Tove, Wang Hsia, Li Hai-shu, Terry Liu
(131 min)
2006 - Drama, Wuxia - China
907 AD, China. The Tang Dynasty has crumbled, it is a time of treachery, power struggles, insugency and rebellion, a period known as 'the five dynasties and the ten kingdoms'. In what remains of the imperial family, Prince Wu Luan (Daniel Wu) has fallen in love with the maiden Little Wan (Zhang Ziyi), but the Emperor chooses to take Little Wan as his wife. Heart-broken, the young prince flees to the southern provinces, seeking refuge in the study of acting, music and dance. Our story begins three years later. The Emperor's brother Li (Ge You) has poisoned the Emperor, seizing the throne and, the now, Empress Wan. Empress Wan sends a messenger to Wu Luan, informing him of his father's murder and urging his return, unaware that the new Emperor Li has also dispatched assassins to snuff out the threat posed by the Prince's return. Evading this threat, the Prince returns to the imperial palace, his heart set on avenging his father...
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Director : Feng Xiaogang
Cast : Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun
(90 min)
1995 - Horror, Drama, Documentary - China
December 1937, Japanese troops invade China and take over the capital of Nanking. In the ensuing six weeks, 300 000 Chinese will die at the hands of the Japanese soldiers. Not only will Chinese soldiers will be killed, but also innocent civilians. Men, women and children will be killed and tortured in one of the most atrocious episodes of human cruelty.
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Director : Tun Fei Mou
(92 min)
2003 - Drama - China
Two workers attempt to draw a young boy into a mining job with the intention of killing him, claiming him as a relative and collecting the money, a plan which was previously executed successfully, the pay off each time being $30,000.
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Director : Li Yang
Cast : Li Yixiang, Wang Shuangbao, Wang Baoqiang, An Jing
(97 min)
2002 - Action, Drama, War - China
From August to November 1999, two young officers from the Chinese Airborne Special Forces were sent to South America. They were ordered to attend the “International School of Hunters” training session hosted by an international military organization managed by the UN. Enduring both physical and psychological ordeals that reached the human limit, they struggled to stand it all until the end. This movie is based on the real personal experiences of these two Chinese officers.
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Director : Song Ye-Ming
Cast : Hou Yong, Mu Li-Xin, Tom Butler
(120 min)
2000 - Swordplay - China
Li Mu Bai a legendary swordsmen decides to retire from the world of martial arts. He pays a visit Yui Hsui Lien an old friend, he asks her to take his sword known as Green Destiny to Mr. Tse a family friend. Hsui Lien convinces Mu Bai to meet her in Peking at Mr. Tse's home. A few days when Mu Bai arrives in Peking he learns the Green Destiny has been stolen and discovers a rumor that Jade Fox (who murdered his master) might be hiding out in the city. Mu Bai tries to find both his swords and Jade Fox but uncovers a lot more is going on
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Director : Ang Lee
Cast : Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Sihung Lung, Pei-pei Cheng
(113 min)
2006 - Wuxia, Drama, Action - China
There is something foul in the royal house of the Tang dynasty. The Emperor (Chow Yun-Fat), whilst wanting to present the image of a family united, has recently begun poisoning his wife, the Empress (Gong Li). The Empress has long since lost any love that she had for the Emperor and has been having an intimate affair with her step-son, the Crown Prince Wan (Lau Yip), for over three years. Wan has been having an affair with the daughter of the Imperial Doctor, Chan (Li Man), and has no aspiration to rise to the throne, instead he dreams of leaving the royal palace and living a less regimented life. The eldest of the Empress's two sons, Prince Jai (Jay Chou), has just returned to the palace, after three years service with the army, to find a family divided and his loyalties tested. The youngest prince, Yu (Qin Jun-Jie), has been growing up and, regardless of the lack of interest the Emperor and Empress show him, quietly observing a family that is rotting from its very core.
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Director : Ching Siu-Tung
Cast : Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Lau Yip, Jay Chou, Qin Jun-Jie, Ni Dahong
(139 min)
2000 - Comedy, Drama - China
A small village is under Japanese occupation during World War II. A humble peasant named Dasan has the whole village talking with rumors of a mistress. During a night of surreptitious love-making, a package is delivered to his door: two Japanese POWs. One is a Japanese soldier and the other is a Chinese Translator for the Japanese. The two men beg for death but Dasan can’t and refuses to commit such an inhumane act. Rather, he opts to engage in a nerve-racking hide-and-seek game with the prisoners and the Japanese military. But with the constant anxiety of being caught and the pressure from the other villagers to kill the prisoners, Dasan’s mind is about to explode. No matter which path he chooses, it just doesn’t seem to be the right one!
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Director : Wen Jiang
Cast : Wen Jiang, Hongbo Jian, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ding Yuan, Zhijun Cong, Zi Xi
(113 min)
2002 - Thriller, Fantasy, Horror - Taiwan, China
An American FBI agent is sent in Taipei to help the local police force solve a series of strange murders. Two bodies have been discovered and they both share some strange connections - a mysterious fungus imbedded in the brains of the bodies, and signs that both died in a hallucinatory state. Huang Huo-Tu, a Chinese police inspector who lost the trust and respect of his co-workers for reporting a corrupt colleague, has to team up with Kevin Richter, the American FBI agent who is a specialist in serial killer profiling. They will soon discover that the murders are not just ordinary murders but seem to have connections with old Chinese legend and beliefs. Conflicts soon rise between the two officers as Kevin is a man of science, and doesn’t believe in ghosts and demons. As the body count rises, other victims are found dead with the same strange causes of death. The two men have to try to understand each other's beliefs and work together to find out what is behind these strange and unnat
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Director : Chen Kuo Fu
Cast : Tony Leung, David Morse, Rene Liu, Dai Li Zen
(120 min)
2003 - Drama - China
A group of friends in a small town are rocked by the news that Monkey and Jan, two of their close friends, have died as stowaways on a boat. This brings a lot of attention on Younger Brother (Long Duan), who left China for America as a stowaway himself, but was deported after a couple of years, leaving a son behind. As the group comes to terms with the loss of a friend, Younger Brother's sense of displacement comes to a head when he hears that his son is back in China for his fifth birthday. As he struggles to re-adapt tho life back in China, Younger Brother, develops a relationship with Little Girl (Yan Shu), a performer in a travelling Shanghai opera troupe, and, despite the disapproval of the mother's family, attempts to reconnect with his son.
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Director : Wang Xiaoshuai
Cast : Long Duan, Yan Shu, Yiwei Zhao, Yang Tang
(124 min)
1994 - Drama - Taiwan, China
The Chu house consist of four family members: a windowed highly-renowned chef, an oldest daughter who is a school teacher, a middle-child who is an airline executive, a youngest daughter who is still a college student making her transaction into the real world. Together, they seek out the recipe for love.
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Director : Ang Lee
Cast : Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang, Chien-lien Wu, Kuei-Mei Yang, Sylvia Chang, Winston Chao
(171 min)
1993 - Drama, Romance - China
‘Farewell my Concubine’ is based on a novel of the same name by Lilian Lee. Duan Xiao-lou and Cheng Die-yi are the fellow apprentices of a Peking Opera troupe. They grew up together. And they become the opera stars by performing their famous renditions of the opera ‘Ba Wang Bie Ji’ (Farewell My Concubine), with Xiao-lou in the role of the King and Die-yi playing the Concubine. They believed they would perform this opera together for the rest of their lives. During the War of Resistance against Japan, Xiao-lou marries Ju-xian, a local prostitute. This makes Die-yi feel very lonely because he has always felt that his soul is attached to Xiao-lou, so he decides not to perform in the opera with him any more. Long after, the political liberation comes; Die-yi and Xiao-lou decide to perform together on the stage again. However, the Great Cultural Revolution soon begins and they both fall into a state of terrible havoc. The revolution broke their performance again. After some hard days, th
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Director : Chen Kai-ge
Cast : Leslie Cheung, Zhang Feng-yi, Gong Li, Ying Da, Ge You
(95 min)
1996 - Drama - China
"Frozen" revolves around the life of performance artist Qi Lei, who has become suicidal in even his own art work. His crowning achievement is to involve a series of burial performances, each taking place in a different season. Starting with Earth burial, then Water burial and Fire burial, and ultimately culminating in Ice burial in the Summer. Each individual performance was planned to push his body to its furthest limits, the final ending in his death. It is said to be based on a true story, but only according to the director.
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Director : Wu Ming
Cast : Jia Hongshen, Ma Xiaoquing, Bai Yu, Li Geng, Wei Ye
(83 min)
2003 - Drama, Romance - China
This is an urban love story based on a short novel named Adiliya by the River by Jin Renshun. Wu Fang (Vicki Zhao) is a master's degree student in university, she always blind dates with different men. During each date, she orders a cup of green tea and tells the story about another close friend named Langlang. Wu Fang and Langlang believe that green tea can forecast a person’s love. Chen Ming-liang (Jiang Wen), an experienced man, falls in love with Wu Fang. But later he meets Langlang, a piano player in the bar, who has the same face of Wu Fang but with an absolutely different character. That makes Chen fell into great confusion. Wu Fang and Langlang, what is the relation between them and whom Chen really loves the most?
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Director : Zhang Yuan
Cast : Jiang Wen, Vicki Zhao
(96 min)
2002 - Wuxia - China
Nameless (Jet Li) is called to the Kingdom of Qin to tell his story on how he was able to defeat three of the most infamous assassins from the Zhao Empire: Broken Sword (Tony Leung), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), and Sky (Donnie Yen). What becomes of this session with the Emperor will not only change Nameless, but the fate of a nation.
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Director : Zhang Yimou
Cast : Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Daoming Chen, Zhang Ziyi
(97 min)
2005 - Horror - Taiwan, China
Young architect James Yang (Jason Chang) returns from the UK to take over his inheritance, a musty mansion on the outskirts of Taipei. His modern ballet dancer girlfriend, Yo (Terri Kwan), wants to study abroad, but then, she inexplicably moves into the spacious house to keep him company, never referring to her previous plans (and plane tickets bought). Several mysterious disappearances and deaths later we get to see what made her change her mind. But should we care?
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Director : Leste Chen
Cast : Jason Chang, Terri Kwan, Chang Yu-chen, Tender Huang
(119 min)
2004 - Wuxia, Drama, Romance - China
During the last years of the Tang Dynasty, a secret faction emerged to fight the corruption that plagued their government. Having killed its leader, police deputies Jin and Leo seek out to wipe out every last member of the House of Flying Daggers clan. Their only lead is a blind girl that works at the local brothel. From there, the movie weaves itself into a story of love, devotion, and betrayal.
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Director : Yimou Zhang
Cast : Andy Lau, Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Dandan Song
(98 min)
1965 - Chinese Opera - China
Madame Li and Madame Liu are concubines to the Emperor who both long for his undivided favor. When Li gives birth to a baby boy, who would ultimately become the prince, Liu swaps the baby with a cat and orders housemaid Kou Zhu to drown the child. Secretly, Kou Zhu and Chen Li hide the baby with the emperor’s brother, where he is raised and ultimately adopted by the emperor and his now empress, Madame Liu. Meanwhile, former concubine Li Zhenfei had been sanctioned to live in the forbidden palace, where she may never see the prince, who is truly her son. Coincidence brings the young prince before her, and a sea of deceit and conspiracy is revealed.
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Director : Kao Li
Cast : Ivy Ling Po, Chin Feng, Ching Miao, Chen Yiu-hsin, Kao Pao-shu, Li Ching
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