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The King of Masks (1996)
7.6/10
Director: Wu Tianming
Starring: Chu Yuk, Chao Yim Yin
"The King of Masks" tells a tale steeped in ancient tradition, simultaneously challenging the socio-sexual inequity still plaguing China today. On the... Read more
Dragon Lord ( aka Young Master in Love ) (1981)
7.9/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Chen Hui-min, Sidney Yim, Wong In-sik
Jackie Chan mixes comedy with remarkable martial arts expertise in this actioner that finds him an unwitting participant in a scheme to smuggle pricel... Read more
Pavilion of Women (2000)
5.9/10
Director: Yim Ho
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Luo Yan, Shek Sau, John Cho, Yi Ding, Anita Loo
This romantic, historical epic, set in rural Southern China in 1938 is the love story of Madame Wu (Luo Yan), the Chinese wife of an aristocrat, and A... Read more
Rumble in the Bronx (1996)
6.7/10
Director: Stanley Tong
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Francoise Yip, Bill Tung
Jackie Chan's breakthrough into the Western market comes with this comic-book tale of him arriving from Hong Kong to attend a family wedding but getti... Read more
Platform (2000)
7.4/10
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Wang Hong-wei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jing-dong, Yang Tian-yi
Aka "Zhantai". Jia Zhang-ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history, from 1979 to 1989.... Read more
Red Doors (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Georgia Lee
Starring: Tzi Ma, Jacqueline Kim, Freda Foh Shen, Kathy Shao-Lin Lee, Mia Riverton, Jayce...
The Wongs are a kooky Chinese-American family living in the New York suburbs. Dad is about to retire and is seriously contemplating retiring from lif... Read more
The World (2004)
7.1/10
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang, Yi-qun Wang
Set in the massive theme park outside Beijing where famous world landmarks are recreated, this beautiful allegorical film (and ironic given the endles... Read more
Millennium Mambo (2001)
7/10
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Jun Takeuchi, Doze Niu
The first part of a planned series about life in modern Taipei, this intellectually challenging film begins with bar hostess Vicky (Shu Qi) imagining... Read more