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  • Ji Huang & Ryuji Otsuka – Ben Niao AKA The Foolish Bird (2017)

    2011-2020ChinaDramaJi HuangRyuji Otsuka

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    A 16 year-old high-school student is left behind by her parents and longing for love. She steals cellphones and sells them to men she doesn’t know. As she takes risks, she has her first sexual experience – a cruel one.Read More »

  • Quan’an Wang – Tuan yuan (2010)

    2001-2010ChinaDramaQuan'an Wang

    Synopsis:
    Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family’s approval to take her away with him. —AnonymousRead More »

  • Quan’an Wang – Fang zhi gu niang AKA Weaving Girl (2009)

    2001-2010AsianChinaDramaQuan'an Wang

    Diagnosed with cancer and unable to afford treatment, a woman decides to leave her unhappy marriage search for her first love in Beijing.Read More »

  • Qiu Yang – She Runs (2019)

    2011-2020ChinaDramaQiu YangShort Film

    A teenager resorts to desperate measures in her efforts to quit her school’s aerobic dance team and assert her independence.Read More »

  • Qiu Yang – Xiao cheng er yue AKA A Gentle Night (2017)

    2011-2020ChinaQiu YangShort Film

    In a nameless Chinese city, a mother with her daughter missing, refuses to go gentle into this good night.Read More »

  • Sherwood Hu – Prince of the Himalayas (2006)

    2001-2010ChinaDramaEpicSherwood Hu

    From the IMDB:
    Set in ancient Tibet under the shadow of the Himalayas, the young prince Lhamoklodan learns of his father’s mysterious death and returns to the Kingdom Jiaobo. Troubled by his mother’s sudden remarriage to his uncle Kulo-ngam, he swears to find the truth of his father’s death. His obsession of revenge overwhelms his spirit and shadows his love to Odsaluyang. When he points his sword at the new king, Queen Nanm finally tells her beloved son, Lhamoklodan, the true identity of his uncle. In the struggle to face his destiny and fight his demons, a new king is born.Read More »

  • Ye Lou – Saturday Fiction (2019)

    Drama2011-2020ChinaYe Lou

    Quote:
    The incomparable Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern) gives a mesmerizing, take-no-prisoners performance in Saturday Fiction, a slow-burn spy thriller set in Japanese-occupied Shanghai on the cusp of World War II. She plays acclaimed actress Jean Yu, who has returned to Shanghai from China after a long absence. Jean Yu is in rehearsals for a play to be directed by a former lover (Mark Chao), but she seems to have ulterior motives, functioning as a double agent and gathering intelligence for the Allies, including the fateful realization of Japan’s imminent attack on Pearl Harbor. Shooting in evocative black-and-white, director Lou Ye (Spring Fever) has created here a gripping thriller that builds to a nerve-wracking climax, and which never loses sight of the human beings caught up in the gears of history.Read More »

  • Ah Nian – Love in the City (1997) 

    Drama1991-2000Ah NianChina

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    Embodies the historical views and values ​​of young people born in the 1960s. The Cultural Revolution, a very special and extremely embarrassing era in Chinese history, experienced reform and opening up during its adolescence, but also faced a wave of commodities during its maturity period. On the whole, they are a generation that has not been well developed. The film bureau considered the original title “City Love 1997” to be ambiguous, and proposed to change it to “Winter Love” or “Love in the City.” Since then, the film has undergone nearly a year of modification and waiting. The reflection of the Cultural Revolution is one of the main parts requested by the film bureau. The film was changed again and again, but was not approved, and then the director made a copy of the film privately, and participated in the 45th Spanish San Sebastian Film Festival without obtaining the “Film Release License.”Read More »

  • Quan’an Wang – Yue shi (1999)

    1991-2000ChinaDramaQuan'an Wang

    Synopsis: A young newlywed has a chance encounter with an enigmatic minivan driver with a passion for photography. When the amateur photographer confesses to her a previous love affair with a woman who bears an uncanny resembalance to the newlywed, the young woman falls under the spell of this soft-spoken, unkempt, and seemingly hapless young man.Read More »

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