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The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)
, 1h40Directed by Herman Yau
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Biography, Action, Historical, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Sammo Hung, Louis Fan, Xu Jiao, Yuen Biao, Lam Suet, Sire Ma
As a child, Ip Man learns Wing Chun from Chan Wah-shun together with Ip Tin-chi (Ip Man's adopted brother) and Lee Mei-wai. After Chan's death from an illness, Ip Man continues to learn Wing Chun from his senior, Ng Chung-sok, before eventually leaving Foshan to study in Hong Kong.
Shadow (2018)
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Betty Sun, Deng Chao, Hu Jun
L’histoire d’un grand roi et de son peuple chassés de leur patrie et aspirant à la reconquérir. Le roi est violent et ambitieux, mais ses motivations et ses méthodes sont mystérieuses. Son général est un visionnaire qui désire ardemment gagner la bataille finale, mais a besoin de préparer ses plans en secret. Les femmes du palais luttent pour trouver la rédemption dans un monde où elles n’ont pas de place. Et puis il y a un roturier, le «Monsieur-tout-le-monde» autour duquel tournent les forces inexorables de l’histoire, toujours prêtes à l’engloutir.
Bitter Money (2018)
, 2h32Directed by Wang Bing (王兵)
Origin Chine
Genres Documentary
Des jeunes gens quittent leur village du Yunnan pour aller travailler dans des ateliers textiles dans la ville de Huzhou à 150 km de Shanghai.
Ash Is Purest White (2018)
, 2h16Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Zheng, Diao Yi'nan, Zhang Yibai
À Datong, une histoire d'amour difficile relie l'ancienne danseuse Qiao et le gangster Bin, de 2001 à 2017.
In Love We Trust (2008)
, 1h55Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Yu Nan, Tian Yuan, Gao Yuanyuan
The film follows a divorced couple living in modern-day China who discover that their daughter is dying of leukemia. Doctors inform them, however, that the child can only be saved with stem cells from an umbilical cord of a sibling.
11 Flowers (2012)
, 1h50Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about children
Durant la Révolution culturelle chinoise en 1975, Wang Han, un garçon de 11 ans, vit chez ses parents dans la province de Guizhou, au sud de la Chine. Il croise un meurtrier qui va le pousser au secret et au mensonge.
Evening Bell (1989)
, 1h30Directed by Wu Ziniu
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Taking place in the immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War (the Chinese branch of the Second World War), Evening Bell follows a small platoon of five Chinese soldiers who must negotiate a devastated landscape, burying bodies, disarming mines, and eventually facing off against a starving band of Japanese soldiers who do not yet know that the war has ended.
Life Show (2002)
, 1h46Directed by Huo Jianqi
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Tao Hong, Pan Yueming
Life Show follows a woman, Lai Shuangyang (Tao Hong), who operates a duck neck stall in night market in an unnamed city in central China (the film was shot in Chongqing). Though Shuangyang keeps her cool, her life is filled with complications. Her brother drug-addicted Jiujiu has been committed to a sanitarium Her assistant, Mei, who has fallen in love with Jiujiu, attempts suicide. Her sister in law, Xiaojin, always leaves Shuangyang's nephew for Shuangyang to take care of. At the same time, Shuangyang is trying to regain her family's home, which was given to a neighbor during the Cultural Revolution. Perhaps worst of all, Shuangyang is at risk of losing her restaurant.
Taming the Horse (2017)
, 1h58Origin Chine
Genres Documentary
Dong, originaire de Mongolie-Intérieure, a émigré à Kunming, dans le Yunnan au sud de la Chine. Ses aspirations sont en contradiction avec la vie moderne et consumériste.
On the Beat (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Ning Ying (宁瀛)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Zhang Guoli
On the Beat consists mainly of a series of vignettes involving members of a local precinct in the Beijing Public Security Bureau. Filmed in the slow months of December, January, and February the members of the PSB find they have little in the way of substantive police work. Instead they spend time (and manpower) on small incidents like the chasing of a possibly rabid dog, the arrest of a small-time con artist, and the reprimanding of a man who sells posters of a woman in a bathing suit.
I Love Beijing (2001)
, 1h20Directed by Ning Ying (宁瀛)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles
Actors Tao Hong
With each entry into Ning Ying's Beijing Trilogy, the focus has been on a different generation: the elderly in For Fun, the middle-aged in On the Beat and now the youth in I Love Beijing. The film follows the twenty-something taxi driver Desi (Yu Lei) and opens on his divorce proceedings. Finding himself alone, Desi becomes something of a Casanova, and is soon dating a waitress, then a librarian, then a radio talk show host. Each woman, however, lacks something he desires. It becomes clear that despite his serial monogamy, Desi is really a romantic, and wonders when he will find the love of his life in the rapidly changing city he lives in.
Rainclouds Over Wushan (1996)
, 1h36Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Mai Qiang (Zhang Xianming) is a lonely thirty-year-old river signalman living in Wushan, on the banks of the Yangtze River. Lonely, he is pushed to meet women by his more socially adept friend (Wang Wenqiang. One day, after getting drunk, he meets a young widow, Chen Qing (Zhong Ping). Chen, works in a small inn destined to be flooded when the Three Gorges Dam is complete and dreams of a better life. Mai, thinking she is the woman he dreams of every night, forces her to have sex but is shamed by his actions when he realizes what he has done the next morning.
Little Big Soldier (2010)
, 1h36Origin Chine
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Jackie Chan, Lin Peng, Ken Lo, Yu Rongguang, Yuen Woo-ping, Niu Ben
On 1 December 2009, a press conference was held for the film, along with Chan's announcement of a new teaser trailer posted on the film's official Sina website. Twitch also released a plot synopsis of the film:
Mountains May Depart (2015)
, 2h6Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Films set in the future
Actors Zhao Tao, Sylvia Chang
The film has three parts, set in the 1990s, the present and in Australia in the year 2025, respectively.