Yimou Zhang
1) Happy times
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
2002
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In an attempt to impress a portly divorcée that has caught his eye, an unemployed factory worker poses as the wealthy manager of a non-existent hotel. Hoping that his fabricated success will lead to holy matrimony, he instead finds himself the guardian of the woman's blind stepdaughter. Now, as the lies get more complicated and the deception more difficult to sustain, the sweet young blind girl and the crazy middle-aged man find themselves forming...
Publisher
MagicPlay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1991
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1920's China, a female college student agrees to become the fourth wife of a wealthy nobleman. Each night, the master raises a red lantern outside the house of the wife he wishes to spend the night with. The wives have little to do but compete for their husband's favor, which draws them into a fierce battle.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Academy Awards and Golden Globes nominee, SHANGHAI TRIAD, is an absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930's, focusing on a pampered night club singer Xiao, played by Gong Li who takes on a young boy to be her servant. Nominated for an **Academy Award**. **Cannes Film Festival** winner. Official Selection at the **Telluride Film Festival**.
Publisher
Guangzhou yin xiang chu ban she
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The Kingdom of Qin obsessed with conquering all of China had long been the target of assassins throughout the other six states. No matter how hard the King tried, it seems impossible for him to defeat the three legendary assassins, Broken Sword, Flying Snow, and Sky. Suddenly, an enigmatic hero, Nameless, came to the palace bearing the legendary weapons of the slain assassins to the King and told his extraordinary tale sitting only ten paces from...
8) Not one less
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When the regular teacher must leave his post, he can only find a 13 year old girl to take his place. She takes her new job so seriously that she refuses to loose even one student.
10) Shanghai Triad
Author
Language
Mandarin
Description
Hired to be a servant to pampered nightclub singer and mob moll Xiao Jinbao (Gong Li, Ju Dou, Farewell My Concubine), naive teenager Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is thrust into the glamorous and deadly demimonde of Shanghai's crime syndicates. Over the course of seven days, Shuisheng observes mounting tensions as triad boss Tang begins to suspect traitors amongst his ranks and rivals for Xiao Jinbao's affections. Zhang's inventive take on the gangster...