Genre - Huangmei Opera

Beyond the Great Wall. He's the worst kind of villain: the small-minded, petty, vindictive, mid-level bureaucrat that ruins people's lives to maintain his status or to revenge for losing status. It's not good for one's blood pressure to watch too many films with this... » MORE

Kingdom and the Beauty, The. The Ming Emperor Taicheng ruled for one month in 1620, then dropped dead. Rumor has it he passed away from sexual exhaustion after being "served" by eight women at the same time. While this sounds like great fodder for a... » MORE

Lady General Hua Mu Lan. Ivy Ling Po, famous for playing male roles in Huangmei Opera films, this time plays a young woman disguising herself as a man, in the famous story of Hua Mulan, who went to war because her father was drafted but... » MORE

Maid from Heaven, A. The back of the DVD states that it "took two directors, three assistant directors, and four cinematographers to capture the remarkable epic..." which seems hard to believe considering that all together about all they did was set up a camera... » MORE