Country - China
Battle of Wits. A stranger emerges from the desert to defend a city from a maurauding army. He serves the people but gets nothing but contempt in return. The well worn story is transplanted into ancient China and refreshed by a focus on... » MORE
Crazy Stone. Andy Lau and Focus Films did a wonderful service to Asian Cinema fans by funding Focus: First Cuts, a half dozen films by inexperienced, sometimes first-time directors from a number of asian countries. The China entry in the production range... » MORE
Eight Women Die a Martyr. Bands of Japanese soldiers move through the Chinese countryside during the Sino-Japanese war, through villages already devestated and people on the edge of survival. It is far from clear what the resistance group's aim is, except survival, nor is it... » MORE
Elixir of Love. Richie Jen is a one man Bath & Body shop in imperial China, developing perfumes, soaps, and the like and testing them on a family of fishmongers (Eric Kot, Lam Suet, and Miriam Yeung) for the ultimate prize: being the... » MORE
Emperor and the Assassin, The. A sweeping historical epic by Chen Kaige, who as usual can't stop himself from inserting Gong Li into the proceedings. ... » MORE
Emperor's Shadow, The (Qin Song). The emperor forces his childhood friend to compose a themesong for his conquest, but the musician never fails to disappoint. ... » MORE
Great Conqueror's Concubine, The. This movie is so long it was released as two seperate movies in some markets. It is the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han are rising ascendant, and Gong Li is there. ... » MORE
House of Flying Daggers. This must be the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. The Tang Dynasty fairy tale takes place mostly outdoors, the backdrop the four seasons and the changing terrain, from forests to grasslands to bamboo groves. Against this natural backdrop... » MORE
Ingeniously Taking Mount Hua. A stirring war picture that pits a small group of heroic scouts of the People's Liberation Army against a large force of Nationalist (KMT) soldiers entrenched on the impenetrable Mount Hua. If you watch this film expecting shameless Communist propaganda,... » MORE
Raid. To help the Koreans against the evil imperialist Americans, Feng Yang, a scout for the Chinese army, must take a crack platoon to blow up the Kangping bridge, to cut off the American retreat/reinforcement and make possible a major assault... » MORE
Secret Drawing, The. When Comrade Li Hua arrives in town to attend a party meeting, he is distracted at the train platform by an old lady, falling. He sets down his satchel to assist, but it was all a carefully orchestrated plot to... » MORE
Sparkling Red Star. The story of a young boy, Dongzi, who grows up in the thirties as a sort of unofficial mascot of the Communist Party. The story here is hardly important, it is simply the platter on which a heaping, steaming pile... » MORE
Terracotta Warrior, A. Director Ching Siu-Tung's hard to find epic manages to both entertain and annoy, often simultaneously. This action-adventure love story story begins in the Qin Dynasty but ends in the 1930's, and once again, Gong Li is there. ... » MORE
Time to Love, A. Two weepy, over-melodramatic lovers, Qu Ran (Vicki Zhao Wei) and Hou Jia (Lu Yi) grow up in angst because their fanatically embittered parents hate each other, just like Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, which becomes what they consider to be "their... » MORE
Warrior Lanling. A cross between QUEST FOR FIRE and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, this is a fantasy adventure for those who like 'em sweaty and grunting. Lanling (Lorenzo Callender) is the warrior of the tribe, the son of the high priestess (Yang Liping).... » MORE
Battle of Wits. A stranger emerges from the desert to defend a city from a maurauding army. He serves the people but gets nothing but contempt in return. The well worn story is transplanted into ancient China and refreshed by a focus on... » MORE
Crazy Stone. Andy Lau and Focus Films did a wonderful service to Asian Cinema fans by funding Focus: First Cuts, a half dozen films by inexperienced, sometimes first-time directors from a number of asian countries. The China entry in the production range... » MORE
Eight Women Die a Martyr. Bands of Japanese soldiers move through the Chinese countryside during the Sino-Japanese war, through villages already devestated and people on the edge of survival. It is far from clear what the resistance group's aim is, except survival, nor is it... » MORE
Elixir of Love. Richie Jen is a one man Bath & Body shop in imperial China, developing perfumes, soaps, and the like and testing them on a family of fishmongers (Eric Kot, Lam Suet, and Miriam Yeung) for the ultimate prize: being the... » MORE
Emperor and the Assassin, The. A sweeping historical epic by Chen Kaige, who as usual can't stop himself from inserting Gong Li into the proceedings. ... » MORE
Emperor's Shadow, The (Qin Song). The emperor forces his childhood friend to compose a themesong for his conquest, but the musician never fails to disappoint. ... » MORE
Great Conqueror's Concubine, The. This movie is so long it was released as two seperate movies in some markets. It is the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Han are rising ascendant, and Gong Li is there. ... » MORE
House of Flying Daggers. This must be the most beautiful movie I have ever seen. The Tang Dynasty fairy tale takes place mostly outdoors, the backdrop the four seasons and the changing terrain, from forests to grasslands to bamboo groves. Against this natural backdrop... » MORE
Ingeniously Taking Mount Hua. A stirring war picture that pits a small group of heroic scouts of the People's Liberation Army against a large force of Nationalist (KMT) soldiers entrenched on the impenetrable Mount Hua. If you watch this film expecting shameless Communist propaganda,... » MORE
Raid. To help the Koreans against the evil imperialist Americans, Feng Yang, a scout for the Chinese army, must take a crack platoon to blow up the Kangping bridge, to cut off the American retreat/reinforcement and make possible a major assault... » MORE
Secret Drawing, The. When Comrade Li Hua arrives in town to attend a party meeting, he is distracted at the train platform by an old lady, falling. He sets down his satchel to assist, but it was all a carefully orchestrated plot to... » MORE
Sparkling Red Star. The story of a young boy, Dongzi, who grows up in the thirties as a sort of unofficial mascot of the Communist Party. The story here is hardly important, it is simply the platter on which a heaping, steaming pile... » MORE
Terracotta Warrior, A. Director Ching Siu-Tung's hard to find epic manages to both entertain and annoy, often simultaneously. This action-adventure love story story begins in the Qin Dynasty but ends in the 1930's, and once again, Gong Li is there. ... » MORE
Time to Love, A. Two weepy, over-melodramatic lovers, Qu Ran (Vicki Zhao Wei) and Hou Jia (Lu Yi) grow up in angst because their fanatically embittered parents hate each other, just like Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET, which becomes what they consider to be "their... » MORE
Warrior Lanling. A cross between QUEST FOR FIRE and CONAN THE BARBARIAN, this is a fantasy adventure for those who like 'em sweaty and grunting. Lanling (Lorenzo Callender) is the warrior of the tribe, the son of the high priestess (Yang Liping).... » MORE