Not far from Shanghai, in a country town stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well, and then paralysed and effectively brain-dead. Zhongliang, Zhengda’s brother-in-law, is a successful gigolo in Shanghai who seduces older married women and then blackmails them. When Older Master Pang dies, the clan elders make Ruyi take over the role as the head of the household. Zhongliang returns to the Pang family on the death of Old Master Pang, re-encounters Ruyi, and they are secretly attracted to each other. Wanting to seem sophisticated, she succumbs to Zhongliang’s attempts to seduce her. But then an emotional maelstrom follows – for the angry, jealous and sexually frustrated sister (Zhengda’s wife) is also part of the picture.

Temptress Moon.1996.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/B5BB97C56D390EE/Temptress_Moon.1996.576p.BDRip-AVC.ZONE.mkv

Language(s):Chinese
Subtitles:English, Japanese

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Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China’s history.

Farewell.my.Concubine.1993.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/91756E5CA6D9BB4/Farewell.my.Concubine.1993.576p.BDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English

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Michael Brooke, imdb wrote:
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…

1.16GB | 1 h 30 min | 746×448 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/AF9EBE489052E3A/Yellow.Earth.1984.DVDRip.x264.AC3-SEV.mkv

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English, Chinese

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Synopsis:
Liu Xiaochun (Tang Yun), a 13-year-old violin prodigy, and his devoted father, Liu Cheng (Liu Peiqi), leave their provincial Chinese town for Beijing, hoping to find a violin teacher and, ultimately, success. The teenager is at first coached by the eccentric professor Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), but he is soon replaced with the renowned professor Yu (Chen Kaige). The day of the big competition is fast approaching, and Xiaochun must decide if this new, high-pressure life is right for him

2.33GB | 1h 59mn | 1013×548 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F591CB357385467/Together_with_You_(2002)_–_Kaige_Chen.mkv

Language:Chinese
Subtitles:English, French (muxed)

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Quote:
An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, is labouring in the countryside when he is suddenly assigned to teach in a near-by village school. Gradually, he finds the confidence to ditch the Maoist textbook and encourage the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings. At the same time, through a series of dream-like meetings with a young cowherd, he begins to sense the possibilities of a life beyond the parameters of traditional education.

2.59GB | 1 h 45 min | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F7D234C617F1C9E/Kaige_Chen_-_%281987%29_King_of_the_Children.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/39C33AE4AA74F28/Kaige_Chen_-_%281987%29_King_of_the_Children.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/55A0009E817FEFF/Kaige_Chen_-_%281987%29_King_of_the_Children.part3.rar

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English

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Storyline
Sacrifice (Orphan of Zhao Family): To save the only child of the Zhao Family, whose whole clan is massacred at the hands of a nefarious minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son, and later becomes intent on seeking vengeance against the minister after the child grows up. For generations, the Zhao family has wielded power, even extending over the king. In a well-planned coup, their mortal enemy TU’AN GU (Wang Xue Qi) slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. However, a solitary Zhao baby survives the massacre, and is hidden and taken home by CHENG YING (Ge You), the doctor who delivered him, to live with his WIFE (Hai Qing) and their own newborn baby. Set on revenge, and raising the Zhao child as his own, Cheng Ying bides his time, enrolling himself and the Zhao orphan (whom he calls Cheng Bo) into the service of the Tu’an Gu household. Tu’ an Gu grows very fond of Cheng Bo and makes Cheng Bo his godson… Written by BronzeKeilani26

Sacrifice.2010.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/D24BE13E609CB0B/Sacrifice.2010.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis:
Set in 221 BC, The Emperor and the Assassin tells of Ying Zheng (Li Xuejian) and his obsession to unite seven Chinese kingdoms and become the first Emperor of China. The film mixes spectacular battle scenes with court intrigue, counterpointed by the King’s complex relationship with the only woman he has truly loved, the Lady Zhao (Gong Li). From protocol-ridden palaces to wide open grasslands, this is a visually striking film, both beautiful and at the same time burdened with the horrors of the period.

Though this was the most expensive film ever made in China, director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) nevertheless retains a tight reign on character and psychology, recalling Kurosawa’s Ran (1985) and Kagemusha (1980). The cast, particularly the two leads, are magnificent and both production design and score are first rate. While the unfolding story has similar appeal to Gladiator and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, it can be as confusing and jarringly edited as the original (pre-director’s cut) version of The Last Emperor (1987), and for the same reason–despite its 154 minutes–the film was cut by approximately 30 minutes prior to release. The full version may eventually reveal a masterpiece, though in its present form it is still an exceptionally powerful and compelling drama.
— from amazon.co.uk

Review:

As Hollywood, and increasingly Britain, specialises more and more in the utterly obvious, it is a blessed relief to enter not only a quite different world but one which is filmed quite differently as well. The grand historical epics which engage us (or not) normally include battles which, for maximum impact (the director believes), have to last an age and have blood spilling everywhere. In “The Emperor and the Assassin”, battles are briefer and far less bloody, yet the severe violence of this, to us, unknown era is still captured by director Chen Kaige who also made “Farewell My Concubine”. Chen achieves surprise by shifting from one scene to another in ways you just can’t predict, but this originality never once threatens the coherence of the film.

The director’s one mistake is his fondness for pretty pictures which are either harnessed to powerful, surging drama (often communicating the instability of China in the third century BC) or to moments of inertia which mean Chen should have moved much more quickly on to the next scene.

A tragedy of Shakespearean dimensions, “The Emperor and the Assassin” centres on the antics of King Ying Zheng whose decency soon gives way to violence as he tries to subjugate the other Chinese states, even going so far as to plan – with his concubine – a phoney assassination attempt on his own life so as to give himself a raison d’être. Becoming known for the fairly trivial fact that it is the priciest picture ever made in Asia, “The Emperor and the Assassin” in fact gives us striking insights into an unfamiliar period of history, thus reminding us just how little of the world most films cover.
— Michael Thomson (BBCi – Films)

http://nitroflare.com/view/0A7E020F2DF54F9/The_Emperor_and_the_Assassin_%281998%29_–_Chen_Kaige.mkv
http://nitroflare.com/view/3CA833BC701448A/The_Emperor_and_the_Assassin_%281998%29_–_Chen_Kaige.srt

Extra Director’s commentary track in English is included

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English (muxed,srt)

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