Plot:
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.

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https://nitro.download/view/523A1EE20ED2B25/Codename_Cougar.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/693E888436883CF/Codename_Cougar.srt

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English

The post Fengliang Yang & Yimou Zhang – Dai hao mei zhou bao AKA Codename Cougar (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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.

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

The post Wen Jiang – Rang Zi Dan Fei AKA Let the Bullets Fly (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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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Language(s):Mandarin
Subtitles:English

The post Kaige Chen – Sacrifice (2010) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Roger Ebert wrote:
To Live is a simple title, but it conceals a universe. The film follows the life of one
family in China, from the heady days of gambling dens in the 1940s to the austere
hardship of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. And through all of their fierce struggles
with fate, all of the political twists and turns they endure, their hope is basically one
summed up by the heroine, a wife who loses wealth and position and children, and
who says, “All I ask is a quiet life together.” The movie has been directed by Zhang
Yimou, the leading Chinese filmmaker right now (although this film offended Beijing and
earned him a two-year ban from filmmaking). It stars his wife, Gong Li, the leading
Chinese actress (likewise banned). Together their credits include Ju Dou, Raise the Red
Lantern and The Story of Qui Ju. Like them it follows the fate of a strong woman, but
also this time a strong man; somehow they stick together through incredible hardships.

At first, the troubles are the husband’s own fault. Fugui (Ge You) is a degenerate
gambler who loses his family home and fortune at dice. “Turtle spawn!” his old father cries,
beating him with a stick. His wife Jiazhen (Gong Li) wants nothing more to do with
him, and from a life of indolence he finds himself selling needles and thread on the street.

The man who won his house gives him a set of beautiful shadow puppets, and he goes on
the road as an entertainer, quickly swept up by the Nationalist army to amuse the troops.
Then one morning, drunk, he oversleeps as the army retreats, and he hears a thundering
sound on the snow, which is the Red army advancing. Ever adaptable, he joins them, and
eventually finds his way back to his hometown and his wife, son and daughter.

Life is very hard. But they survive under the new communist regime. (Ironically, the man
who won his house at dice is executed as a counter-revolutionary landowner.) A childhood
illness causes their daughter to become mute and hard of hearing, but in the precise
arithmetic of matchmaking a likely partner is found for her: A supervisor of the Red
Guards at a factory, who is lame.

The story progresses in terms of temporary advances and crushing setbacks, one caused
when a starving doctor, jailed by the Red Guards, cannot assist at a crucial time because he
has gorged himself on seven sweet buns. Another family loss is caused by an old friend,
who vows he owes them a life, and will eventually be called upon for repayment. Years come
and go; jolly murals of Mao Tse Tung appear on the courtyard walls, and then fade in the
sun and rain. And somehow they live.

The best art, it is said, comes from turmoil – from hard times. In China no serious
filmmaking took place for decades, and now great films are coming in a torrent from that
country. The authorities are not always so happy to have the nation’s past examined with
such frankness, and with films like To Live and Blue Kite (released earlier this year)
there is a certain inexorable pattern: They are made, shown at foreign film festivals,
honored (To Live won acting awards at Cannes), play briefly in a few sophisticated
cinemas in Beijing or Shanghai, and then they disappear.

The honesty of To Live earned Zhang Yimou and Gong Li not only a two-year ban on
further co-productions, but a ban on even speaking about their film. But To Live has been
made, it is playing all over the world, it exists on the screen as a fascinating testament about
ordinary human lives conducted under terrifying conditions, when one’s fate could hinge
on a chance remark or an instant political edict from a zealous teenager.

It is a big, strong, energetic film, made by a filmmaker whose vision takes in four
decades of his nation’s history, and who stands apart from all the political currents, and
sees that ordinary people everywhere basically want what his heroine cries out for, a
quiet life. It is exciting to see these new films as they emerge from China. They are
history being written, celebrated, and mourned.

2.96GB | 2h 12m | 1008×544 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4E802CD67FD9949/To.Live.1994.BDRip.x264-KG.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/B0AD7AF785DE33B/To.Live.1994.BDRip.x264.en.srt

Language:Mandarin
Subtitles:English

The post Yimou Zhang – Huozhe AKA To Live (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.