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Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin Hong kongGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes Films about families,
Political filmsActors Gong Li,
Niu Ben,
Guo Tao,
Zhang YimouRating82%
In the 1940s. Xu Fugui (Ge You) is a rich man's son and compulsive gambler, who loses his family property to a man named Long'er. His behaviour also causes his long-suffering wife Jiazhen (Gong Li) to leave him, along with their daughter, Fengxia and their unborn son, Youqing., 1h49
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Politique,
Political filmsActors Gong Li,
Guo Tao,
Zhang Huiwen,
Liu Peiqi,
Zu Feng,
Ding JialiRating71%
The story is adapted from the novel, The Criminal Lu Yanshi (陆犯焉识; 陸犯焉識) written by novelist Geling Yan. Lu Yanshi (陆焉识; 陸焉識, "Yanshi" literally means "how to recognize") was a professor before being sent to the labor camp (laogai, literally "reform through labor") during the Cultural Revolution. He escaped from the labor camp in Xining to meet his long-missed wife Feng Wanyu (冯婉瑜; 馮婉瑜) and daughter Dandan (Chinese: 丹丹). However, the police were already waiting outside the house to arrest him. Dandan, who was then a teenage ballerina, could not play the leading role in Red Detachment of Women due to her father's outlaw status. Under the temptation of regaining the leading role, Dandan revealed her parents' secret meeting plan to the police. The meeting ended with the capture of Lu and Dandan getting the supporting role. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, Lu came home only to find his broken family, his wife suffering from amnesia and his daughter working as textile worker. Under the shock of a former official's sexual harassment, his wife sometimes recognized him as Officer "Fang" instead of being her husband. To reawaken his wife's memory, Lu played out as a total stranger just to be near with his wife. Although she recognized him as a letter reader or a piano tuner, he never could be able to be close enough to live with his chaste wife. During these years, Lu continued to write to his wife as a way of communicating with her, and to convince his wife to forgive their daughter. The movie ended with Feng waiting to receive her husband outside the railway station and Lu standing with her on a snowy day, pretending to be pedicab driver., 2h5
Directed by Zhang Yimou,
Hou Hsiao-hsienOrigin ChineGenres DramaThemes Feminist films,
Political filmsActors Gong Li,
Li BaotianRating80%
The film is set in 1920s China during the Warlord Era, years before the Chinese Civil War. Nineteen-year-old Songlian (Sònglián, played by Gong Li), whose father has recently died and left the family bankrupt, marries into the wealthy Chen family, becoming the fourth wife or rather the third concubine or, as she is referred to, the Fourth Mistress (Sì Tàitai) of the household. Arriving at the palatial abode, she is at first treated like royalty, receiving sensuous foot massages and brightly lit red lanterns, as well as a visit from her husband, Master Chen (Ma Jingwu), the master of the house, whose face is never clearly shown., 2h25
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Christian Bale,
Ni Ni,
Shigeo Kobayashi,
Paul Schneider,
Junichi KajiokaRating74%
In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese Imperial Army overruns China's capital city, Nanking, in December and carries out the systematic and brutal Nanking massacre., 1h39
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
Martial arts,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
Martial artsThemes Films about music and musicians,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Musiques du monde,
Musical films,
Wuxia filmsActors Jet Li,
Tony Leung Chiu-wai,
Maggie Cheung,
Zhang Ziyi,
Donnie Yen,
James HongRating78%
In ancient China during the Warring States period, the nameless prefect of a small jurisdiction arrives at the Qin state's capital city to meet the king of Qin, who has survived an attempt on his life by the assassins Long Sky, Flying Snow, and Broken Sword. Because of the assassination attempt, no visitors are to approach the king within 100 paces. 'Nameless' claims that he has slain the three assassins and he displays their weapons before the king, who allows the former to sit closer to him and tell him his story., 1h54
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Political filmsActors Zhou Dongyu,
Lü Liping,
Sun HaiyingRating71%
Set during the end of China's Cultural Revolution in a small village in Yichang City, Hubei Province, China, this film is about a pure love that develops between a beautiful high school student, Zhang Jing Qiu and a handsome young prospector named Lao San. Jing Qiu is one of the "educated youth" sent to be "re-educated" through work in the countryside under a directive from Chairman Mao Zedong., 1h54
Directed by Zhang YimouOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
Fantasy,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about families,
Films about sexuality,
Sports films,
Martial arts films,
Wuxia filmsActors Chow Yun-fat,
Gong Li,
Jay Chou,
Aaron Shang,
Liu Ye,
Chen JinRating69%
Golden flowers fill the imperial palace on the eve of Zhong Yang. The Emperor (Chow Yun-fat) returns from his campaign with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou), in order to celebrate with his family., 2h50
Directed by Chen KaigeOrigin ChineGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Films about music and musicians,
Politique,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
La sexualité des mineurs,
Transgender in film,
Musiques du monde,
Musical films,
Political films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Leslie Cheung,
Gong Li,
Zhang Fengyi,
Jiang WenliRating80%
Farewell My Concubine spans 53 years, presenting the lives of two men against the historical backdrop of a country in upheaval. It is about the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou and how their lives are affected by the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and the victory of the Communists in 1949., 1h35
Directed by Zhang Yimou,
Yang FengliangGenres Drama,
Horror,
RomanceThemes Films about familiesActors Gong Li,
Li BaotianRating75%
Ju Dou takes place in the early 20th century in rural China. The story begins as Yang Tianqing (the regular Zhang collaborator Li Baotian) is returning from a trek to sell silk for his adoptive uncle, Yang Jinshan (Li Wei). Jinshan, whose trade is dyeing fabrics, is known for his cruelty. Tianqing learns that Jinshan has just recently purchased a new wife, having beaten two previous wives to death after they failed to produce a son, the cruel irony being that Jinshan is in fact impotent., 1h30
Directed by Zhang Yimou,
Yang FengliangGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Transport films,
Aviation filmsActors Gong Li,
Wang Xueqi,
Yu RongguangRating44%
The film follows a commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul that is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the fictional Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Communist authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on the flight, and agree to cooperate discreetly with Taiwanese authorities to defuse an already tense situation.