In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.

2.23GB | 2h 12m | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/AE56F98B09BD3E8/Let.the.Bullets.Fly.2010.Bluray.576p.x264.mkv
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https://tezfiles.com/file/1d8aa35e36f89/Let.the.Bullets.Fly.2010.Bluray.576p.x264.mp4

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

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Stephen Holden in the New York Times wrote:
[The film] belongs to that rarefied breed of antiwar movie that adopts a lofty satirical distance from its characters’ plight. By turns farcical and horrifying, it scrupulously avoids plucking heartstrings to portray the soldiers and peasants alike as paranoid fools buffeted by the shifting winds of war…While acknowledging that war is hell, it goes further to suggest it is ludicrous.

Bilge Ebiri in The Village Voice wrote:
Jiang shows the malleability of public opinion and draws humor from the absurdist nature of tradition and the villagers’ communal decision making. But the strange mixture of tones — slapstick set against a gathering sense that something awful might happen at any moment — is a Jiang hallmark. As is the near-constant duplicity: Everybody in Devils on the Doorstep seems to be lying to everyone else, so that the viewer feels unmoored, uncertain of where things are headed and why. In most other directors’ hands, this could lead to confusion; Jiang makes it entrancing…Dense, diffuse, veering between comedy and tragedy, Devils on the Doorstep is nevertheless Jiang’s most stylistically restrained and consistent effort.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2000.

2.22GB | 2 h 19 min | 824×464 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/8B4C95D593E1793/Guizi.lai.le.2000.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/934A8012FA17E6F/Guizi.lai.le.2000.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/7B9FDA9A6BA2D47/Guizi.lai.le.2000.DVDRip.x264.part3.rar

Language(s):Mandarin, Japanese and a little English
Subtitles:English (srt; default), Traditional Chinese (idx/VobSub), Japanese (idx/VobSub), Korean (idx/VobSub)

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Celebrated Mainland filmmaker Zhang Yimou brings his inimitable touch to Red Sorghum, a sumptuous drama set during 1930s China, just prior to the Japanese occupation. Jiu’er (Gong Li) is a young bride arranged to marry the leprous owner of a sorghum winery. But the leper dies, and Jiu’er takes over the winery, along with her lover (Jiang Wen), a burly rogue with a natural, rough charisma. Their rural lives are filled with struggle and even joy, but the invasion of the Japanese brings tragedy and blood to their doorsteps. Told in glorious shades of red, Red Sorghum is quintessential Zhang Yimou, and uses setting, cinematography, and stunning imagery to create characters and mood that are both iconic and recognizable. Gong Li and Jiang Wen both turn in revelatory performances. As both an anti-war film and a portrait of pre-Communist Chinese life, Red Sorghum is a compelling, powerful achievement from a true master of cinema.

Red Sorghum was the first directorial effort of controversial Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou. The director’s favorite leading lady Gong Li plays a young woman of the 1920s whose family sells her into marriage with a wealthy winemaker. At first a loveless union, the relationship blossoms into one of strong friendship and mutual respect. During World War II, Gong Li fights side by side with her husband against the invading Japanese. A sweeping yet intensely personal historical epic, Red Sorghum won the 1988 Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. Despite its patriotic overtones, the film was heavily censored (when not banned altogether) in certain provinces of Communist China. The first Chinese film to receive a commercial release in the U.S., and the winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival, Zhang Yimou’s fable of Chinese life during the ’20s and ’30s, with it’s plenary abundance of astonishingly sensual images, immediately established him as one of the world’s most gifted directors. Yimou’s saga covers his grandmother’s life, from her arranged marriage as a young girl, to the bloody invasion of the Japanese and WWII.

1.52GB | 1 h 31 min | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D2297A2D44E89E2/Yimou_Zhang_-_(1988)_Red_Sorghum.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin, Japanese
Subtitles:English

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This is an adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s story “Letter from an unknown woman” to China settling in a time period before the cultural revolution (1930-1948).

Plot:
Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him – a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. Her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. She tells their brief but passionate love in her youth and the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails to recognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. Shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman…

https://nitro.download/view/0CF05EA1B63F80E/alfauw-xvid.avi
https://nitro.download/view/87923FAE877A4CD/alfauw-xvid.idx
https://nitro.download/view/A8CE452B39B17F3/alfauw-xvid.sub

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English

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A semi-literate who was deprived of schooling during the Cultural Revolution, Li Huiquan, is released from labor camp. But his attempts to make good are continually thwarted. His street stall selling clothes puts him on the fringe of the black market, and he soon gets lured back into his old neighbourhood gangs. His disenchanted comrades include a nightclub chanteuse as well as an escaped convict. (IMDb)

Black Snow 1990 1080p WEB-DL AAC 2.0 x264-NDD.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 43 min
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https://nitro.download/view/2C6DCBAADBBEDAA/Black_Snow_1990_1080p_WEB-DL_AAC_2.0_x264-NDD.mkv

Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English, French, Dutch

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