Genre - Chinese Opera
Attack of the Joyful Goddess. Never put baby dolls face up in the trunk, they might kill you. Oh, and its also a bad idea to kill one of the actors and bury them under the stage. But you probably knew that. ... » MORE
Demi-Haunted. Eason Chan stars as Buster, an acrobat in a Chinese Opera troupe, never given a starring role and always chastized for his laziness by the troupes star (played by Anthony Wong). When his previous incarnation, a female opera actress (Joey... » MORE
Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE
Farewell My Concubine. A fabulous, sweeping drama about two men in the Peking Opera, one a Hua Dan, the other a Jing, and the annoying prostitute that keeps on screwing up their lives. ... » MORE
Hocus Pocus. Peking Opera actors try to scare each other by pretending to be ghosts until real ghosts show up and join in the hi-jinx. Hilarity fails to ensue. ... » MORE
Painted Faces. Sammo Hung teaches young Peking Opera students about life, love, and psychotic episodes in this dramatization of the adolescence of Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Sammo himself. ... » MORE
Peking Opera Blues. Tsui Hark's masterpiece, a rollicking adventure yarn about revolution, generals, spies, and women warriors, featuring Brigitte Lin. ... » MORE
Princess Chang Ping. In John Woo's Peking Opera film, a scholarly Lao Sheng slides down a banister in slow motion, a gun in each hand, mowing down the Jing in an explosion of blood and doves...well, no, not really. This is a classic... » MORE
Revenge of Angel. Anyone seeing the title and expecting girls-with-guns action may be suprised to find that our heroine gives up the ghost before the opening credits. But she doesn't give it up entirely. ... » MORE
Spooky Bunch, The. A Cantonese Opera troupe gets mixed up with a platoon of ghost soldiers seeking revenge. Lots of atmosphere, little action. ... » MORE
Attack of the Joyful Goddess. Never put baby dolls face up in the trunk, they might kill you. Oh, and its also a bad idea to kill one of the actors and bury them under the stage. But you probably knew that. ... » MORE
Demi-Haunted. Eason Chan stars as Buster, an acrobat in a Chinese Opera troupe, never given a starring role and always chastized for his laziness by the troupes star (played by Anthony Wong). When his previous incarnation, a female opera actress (Joey... » MORE
Dreadnaught. Dreadnaught is, on the face of things, the very simple story of a crazed, relentless, homacidal maniac. In some ways it is what the movie Terminator might have been like, if it was set in Republican China, and instead of... » MORE
Farewell My Concubine. A fabulous, sweeping drama about two men in the Peking Opera, one a Hua Dan, the other a Jing, and the annoying prostitute that keeps on screwing up their lives. ... » MORE
Hocus Pocus. Peking Opera actors try to scare each other by pretending to be ghosts until real ghosts show up and join in the hi-jinx. Hilarity fails to ensue. ... » MORE
Painted Faces. Sammo Hung teaches young Peking Opera students about life, love, and psychotic episodes in this dramatization of the adolescence of Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Sammo himself. ... » MORE
Peking Opera Blues. Tsui Hark's masterpiece, a rollicking adventure yarn about revolution, generals, spies, and women warriors, featuring Brigitte Lin. ... » MORE
Princess Chang Ping. In John Woo's Peking Opera film, a scholarly Lao Sheng slides down a banister in slow motion, a gun in each hand, mowing down the Jing in an explosion of blood and doves...well, no, not really. This is a classic... » MORE
Revenge of Angel. Anyone seeing the title and expecting girls-with-guns action may be suprised to find that our heroine gives up the ghost before the opening credits. But she doesn't give it up entirely. ... » MORE
Spooky Bunch, The. A Cantonese Opera troupe gets mixed up with a platoon of ghost soldiers seeking revenge. Lots of atmosphere, little action. ... » MORE