Top 10 Chinese Movies
《霸王别姬》 <Farewell My Concubine>
It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and
the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to
do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the
twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame.
One sentence comment:
How the minds twisted by a broken world manage to nourish profound
and overwhelming love over the years!
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106332/
《甜蜜蜜》 <Comrades: Almost a Love Story>
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn
enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the
streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love,
problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they
somehow keep missing out.
One sentence comment:
The story of one generation of people from mainland striving for a new
life in Hongkong depicted through the sentimental love story of a couple
of ordinary man and woman
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117905/
《卧虎藏龙》<Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon>
The disappearance of a magical jade sword spurs a breathtaking quest
for the missing treasure. Li is embittered by the loss of his jade sword,
and his unrequited pursuit of Yu is further complicated by the mysterious
intrusion of an assassin. The identity of the assassin is gradually
unveiled as another poignant tale of love begins to ravel with that of Li
and Yu against the backdrop of Western China's magnificent landscape.
One sentence comment:
An amazing world of ancient Chinese swordsman in which Martial Arts
and traditional Chinese philosophy couldn’t be presented in a more
beautiful way.
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/
《苏州河》<Suzhou River>
Mardar fell in love with the 16- year-old daughter of a shady alcohol
smuggler, Moudan. But their tender happiness is disrupted when Mardar
kidnapped her for a ransom. Moudan jumps off the bridge into the
Suzhou River and disappear. When Mardar meets the dancer Meimei,
an alter-ego of Moudan afterwards the love story carried by the flow of
Suzhou river gets more and more mysterious.
One sentence comment:
If you ever want to know the dark and mysterious side of Shanghai.
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234837/
《功夫》<Kung Fu Hustle>
Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by
the Axe Gang. Sing who desperately wants to join in the gang stumbles
into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest
kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing's actions eventually cause the Axe
Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung-fu battle. Only
one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung-fu
master of all.
One sentence comment:
Watch out or you will laugh your ass off!
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/
《阳光灿烂的日子》<In the Heat of The Sun>
The movie is set in Beijing in the 1970s after the Chinese Cultural
Revolution when the mischievous boys lacking parental supervision are
free to spend their summer riding their bikes, getting into gang fights,
picking up girls, and asserting their masculinity.
One sentence comment:
The coming of age story of Chinese boys during a very special period
when children enjoyed the utmost freedom and happiness while the
whole country was suffering from the fiercest political oppression.
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111786/
《可可西里》< Kekexili: Mountain Patrol >
The Tibetan Mountain Patrol, a self-sponsored outcast regimen
established to eliminate illegal slaughtering of endangered Tibetan
Antelopes by impoverished local and out-of-province peasants,
intimately engages with a half-Tibetan journalist from Beijing in a
desolate depiction of human nature in the outskirts of Kekexili during a
last resort campaign of portent and trial.
One sentence comment:
The director take full advantage of an incredibly vast, unforgiving, yet
hauntingly mesmerizing landscape to depict the plight of the people who
live and die there.
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386651/
《大红灯笼高高挂》< Raise The Red Lantern >
China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is
forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old
Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses
within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as
their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night
Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is
lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to
make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand...
One sentence comment:
Hauntingly delicate and depressive insights of the human nature
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101640/
《斗牛》< Cow>
1940, China, during Sino-Japanese War. Niu Er lives in a village and is
tasked with taking care of a cow, on loan from the Army. He is a simple
peasant, but he takes his job seriously. And, in the aftermath of Japanese
firebombing, that job is tough. Everybody wants a piece of the cow. The
cow reminds him of his wife. The cow and the man struggle in a hostile
environment with chaos all around to stay alive.
One sentence comment:
A funny yet heartbreaking epic of a man and a cow in the period of war
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0843270/
《大闹天宫》< The Monkey King> (cartoon)
The household myth of the great monkey king, the a rebellious hero who
fight against all of the gods in heaven.
One sentence comment:
Every frame could be taken down as a first class painting.
For more details: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059855/