The Tsui’s live a happily married middle-class life on a quiet residential street in Hong Kong. He is a writer, she works at a kindergarten. There is only one thing missing from their life – children. Across the street lives a young girl who spends all day playing on the street, alone…Read More »
The Story of Qiu Ju (Chinese: 秋菊打官司) is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the title role. The screenplay is an adaption of Chen Yuanbin’s novella The Wan Family’s Lawsuit.
The film tells the story of a peasant woman, Qiu Ju, who lives in a rural area of China. When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.Read More »
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Wang runs a little noodle shop in a small desert town near Jiayu Pass not far from the Great Wall. He lives in his shop with his wife and their staff. But life with Wang is far from pleasant: he’s a real skinflint who only thinks about himself, and he sometimes doesn’t pay his staff for months on end. His wife also suffers at the hands of this domestic tyrant, although a discrete affair with Li, the shy cook, helps her to bear her lot in life. Every time she needs some more rouge, Li drives his boss lady into town where they have sex. But their regular little tryst doesn’t go unnoticed. Shortly beforehand, Li’s lover purchases a gun from a Persian carpet salesman and gives it to the cook for safekeeping. Wang, she says, must die – it’s the only way they can be happy. In the meantime, a waiter named Zhao and a policeman named Zhang inform Wang about his wife’s love affair and the gun that Li keeps hidden.Read More »
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The mother of a murderer awaits and prepares to meet her son. The true story of a man who killed six Shanghai policemen after suffering police beatings as a punishment for riding an unlicensed bicycle. This film was produced as a part of the Jeonju Digital Project.Read More »
Set during China’s Three Kingdom’s era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king, violent and ambitious, of mysterious methods and motives; his general, a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace, who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called “Lord of all the world”, will be the characters around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.Read More »
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Japanese woman Shuzi committed suicide but was rescued by Kasha, a young Hani army officer, and returned to his hometown in Yunnan with him. Unexpectedly, Ka, who had just arrived home, died of a relapse of an old illness. In order to protect Shuzi from being discriminated by his tribe, Jialuo, the younger brother of Cansha, took good care of Shuzi. Gradually, the two of them developed love, and they married Canluo according to the custom inherited by the local brother, and gave birth to children. Female. As the years passed, Shuzi’s desire for his homeland deepened. On the one hand is the homeland after more than 50 years away, on the other hand is to let go of constant feelings, how should Shuzi decide…Read More »
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A private aeroplane on a flight between Taipei and Seoul is damaged in a hijack, and forced to crash-land in mainland China near Beijing*. The Communist authorities cooperate discreetly with Taiwanese authorities to defuse a tense situation.Read More »
An undocumented Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Ming Ding has only until the end of the day to come up with the money.Read More »
In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country’s traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult. Through his reminiscence, ghosts from 2014 and before appear as witnesses. Part dream documentary, part city symphony, this film traces the lineage of oppression as inscribed in Singapore’s landscape and collective unconscious.Read More »