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In The Mood For Love and Centre Stage
Curse Of The Golden Flower
(Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)
(Country: Hong Kong/China; Year: 2006; Director: Zhang Yimou; Writer: Zhang Yimou, based on the play by Yu Cao; Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu, Dahong Ni)
Love and politics lead the way to destruction in the Chinese imperial court.
Centre Stage
(Yuen Ling-yuk)
(Country: Hong Kong; Year: 1992; Director: Stanley Kwan; Writer: Tai An-Ping Chiu; Stars: Paul Chang, Yan Yan Chen, Maggie Cheung, Han Chin, Carina Lau, Waise Lee, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Li-li Li, Lawrence Ng, Lingyu Ruan, Cecilia Yip)
Portrait of the tragic life of the Chinese Greta Garbo, Ruan Lingyu.
Goddess
(Shen Nu)
(Country: China; Year: 1934; Director: Wu Yonggang; Writer: Wu Yonggang; Stars: Ruan Lingyu, Tian Jian, Keng Li, Li Junpan, Tang Huaiqiu, Zhang Zhizhi)
A prostitute in 1930s Shanghai tries to build a future for her son.
Hero
(Ying Xiong)
(Country: China/Hong Kong; Year: 2002; Director: Zhang Yimou; Writer: Li Feng, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin; Stars: Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Daoming, Donnie Yen, Man-Yuk, Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tian Yong, Quin Yan)
Visually ravishing fable of maverick warriors in ancient China.
In The Mood For Love
(Country: France / Hong Kong; Year: 2000; Director: Wong Kar Wai; Writer: Wong Kar Wai; Stars: Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, Rebecca Pan, Lai Chen, Siu Ping-lam)
The history of a love affair that never was.
Hero and Curse Of The Golden Flower
Ju Dou
(Country: Japan, China; Year: 1990; Director: Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang; Writer: Liu Heng; Stars: Gong Li, Li Wei, Li Baotian, Yi Zhang, Ji-an Zheng)
The wife of a brutal dye house owner embarks on an illicit affair with her husband's nephew.
Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles
(Qian Li Zou Dan Qi)
(Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan; Year: 2005; Director: Zhang Yimou; Writer: Zhang Yimou, Zou Jingzhi; Stars: Ken Takakura, Shinobu Terajima,
Lin Qiu, Jiang Wen, Jiamin Li,
Kiichi Nakai, Zhenbo Yang,
Zhezhou He, Ziliang Chen)
A man embarks on a quest of the
head and the heart in an attempt
to reconnect with his son.
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