Directed by John Woo, "Red Cliff" charts the remarkable events leading up to the most famous battle in Chinese history
Chinese disaster film based on events surrounding the 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, which took the lives of 240,000 people. In the aftermath of the devastating quake, a widowed seamstress (Xu Fan) must choose which of her brother-and-sister twins will be saved after rescuers find them pinned down by a single concrete block. She chooses her son, Fang Dan (Chen Li), unaware that her daughter Fang Deng (Jingchu Zhang) has in fact also survived the ordeal. The film then follows the divergent lives of the two siblings from this point until their eventual reunion in the Sichuan earthquake of 2008.
Aftershock
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. In the small town of Fenyang in the remote western province of Shanxi the teenage members of a state theatre troupe stage propoganda plays in praise of Mao. But as the country opens up to the free market and implements wide-ranging reform their lives are irrevocably changed as the world around them is transformed by the music fashions and other cul
Xanda is the latest film to be produced by Tsui Hark famous for his collaborations with John Woo and his attempts to reinvent various Chinese legends in films such as 'Once Upon A Time In China'. Qiang learns that Lung has been training in Xanda under his father Tieh a former Xanda fighter himself who has since retired from the sport and become a coach. When Qiang helps Lung with his training Qiang is able to use his Kung Fu to good use. Along the way he meets Ning a young woman whose feelings for Qiang and his culture soon turn to love. Lung is ready to compete against Wei in the Xanda competition in hopes that he will earn his father's respect by winning the championship. However Lung is viciously mauled by Wei and ends up in the hospital. Qiang offers to take on Wei combining Xanda with his form of Kung Fu. After months of training the time has come for Qiang to step up to the plate and take on Wei in the ultimate Xanda showdown...
Marco Polo
Former Scissor Gang leader Eun-jin (Shin Eun-kyung) who now suffers from amnesia defends Jae-cheol (Jun Gyu Park) a restaurateur who employs her from a gangster who wants his business.
OA 1010; OPUS ARTE - BBC - Inghilterra; Classica contemporanea operistica
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