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A man is murdered on a bus for trying to stop a pickpocket; no one lifts a finger to help him. He returns as a ghost and questions the empathy of the onlookers.

There are three spaces in this film. One of them is reality–like the incident on the bus. Another is the space of history, stretching back centuries to the matriarchal society of Banpo Village, outside Xi’an. You see the Mother, playing the drum. And there’s also the space of the imaginary–what the characters are thinking. In fact, it’s the space of the human soul.

1.42GB | 1h 31m | 690×526 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9E40FA79B419C3F/Jian-zhong_Huang_-_(1986)_Questions_for_the_Living.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/6FF6684B857B6F6/Jian-zhong_Huang_-_(1986)_Questions_for_the_Living.srt

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:French (hardcoded),English

The post Jian-zhong Huang – Yi ge shi zhe dui sheng zhe de fang wen AKA Questions for the Living (1988) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot: The young teacher Li Mingguang is to be murdered in the north of China because of having taken the virginity from the young girl Li Pingwa. The whole family wants to take revenge on him for that, even the whole village.

1.07GB | 1h 32m | 1920×1048 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/47C2DA6EAF02436/Bloody.Morning.1992.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/1E95BD9AF1D079D/Bloody.Morning.1992.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-PTerWEB.eng.srt
or
https://fikper.com/CIuiXBlkZF/Bloody.Morning.1992.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-PTerWEB.mkv.html
https://fikper.com/PRvNq3ZQxF/Bloody.Morning.1992.1080p.WEB-DL.H264.AAC-PTerWEB.eng.srt.html

Language(s):Chinese
Subtitles:English

The post Shaohong Li – Xuese Qingchen AKA Bloody Morning (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling. Years later, the matriarch of the family announces that she is dying. When her four grown children return, it becomes the first time the family has been under one roof in decades.

1.76GB | 1h 48m | 1024×556 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/96EAD55B8ABF823/Shanghai.Story.2004.DVDRip.x264.AC3-CMCT.mkv

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:Mandarin

The post Xiaolian Peng – Meili Shanghai AKA Shanghai Story (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Gu Changwei’s Longtou—shot documentary style—features a series of characters who dwell on the realities of expectation, punctuated by a series of memorable shots (a cat stalking and jumping onto an air conditioner unit; an elderly man dragging a series plastic bottles; a weight-lifter practicing his moves and a child blowing bubbles) and nice use of music.

This film is part of Beautiful 2012, a series of four ‘micro-movies’ produced by Youku, China’s leading internet television site. At their core the four short films from award-winning Asian directors have the concept of ‘what is beautiful?’ while also mulling over life, death and unhappiness.
The other movies are:
Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker
Ann Hui’s My Way
Kim Tae-yong’s You Are More Than Beautiful

147MB | 17m 14s | 1104×622 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/470D387F44FF7D9/Longtou_final.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin (?)
Subtitles:English & Chinese hardsubs

The post Changwei Gu – Longtou (2012) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In this metaphysical adventure two very different men come to the same mountain to hunt a special fox and end up hunting each other.

DVD label: N/a
DVD9
DVD Format: NTSC
DVD Audio: PCM 2ch
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Menus: N/a
Video: Untouched
Audio: Untouched
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DVD runtime(s) (main feature and extras): 01:37:54

https://nitro.download/view/B3051ECA17811AA/Sparkling_Fox_Custom.rar

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:Chinese,English (hardcoded)

The post Ziniu Wu – Huo hu AKA Sparkling Fox (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Plot: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

1.56GB | 1h 29m | 702×426 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6FAF8319F3939EF/The.Road.Home.1999.DVDRip.x264-FuFu.mkv

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English Muxed

The post Yimou Zhang – Wo de fu qin mu qin AKA The Road Home (1999) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Five Eighth-Route army soldiers induce a isolated Japanese squad to capitulate.

Set on the end of WWII, Evening Bell follows a battle-hardened band of five Chinese soldiers struggling across a remote landscape wracked by post-armistice horrors. Stumbling from one grim aftermath to the next, they bury piles of the dead, help terrified peasants disarm landmines and save a Japanese officer from dying of exposure. When the officer leads them to a detachment of thirty-three starving Japanese soldiers, the film becomes a tension-filled standoff. In his films Wu Ziniu attempts to lead audiences below the surface of war to focus on human relationships instead of ideology. Needless to day, his approach to this genre has brought him criticism within China. (His third feature Dove Tree, about the Chinese-Vietnamese Border war, is still banned for its sympathetic treatment of the enemy.) Initially shelved, Evening Bell has now been released, though in an extensively re-cut version. The film’s forbidding subject is transfused with humanity as Wu Ziniu skillfully counterpoints cinematographer Hou Yong’s (Horse Thief, SFIFF 1988) stunning images with his actors’ wrenching performances. Wu conveys the surprisingly hopeful theme that, despite execrable acts committed in extremis, the most implacable of enemies may share a spark of empathy. George Eldred

1.44GB | 1h 25m | 735×490 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/074CECF6041E426/Wan_zhong_1989.mkv

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Ziniu Wu – Wan zhong AKA Evening Bell (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.