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.
A zany satiric comedy capturing the dizzy excitement and whirlwind change of modern-day China. World famous film director DonTyler (Sutherland) is surrounded by hundreds of costumed extras in China's fantastic Forbidden City - when a creative drought hits and he has no idea where to put the camera. Tossed off the picture by his studio boss (Mazursky) his depression is only relieved by his unlikely friendship with a down-on-his-luck cameraman YoYo (Ge You). Knowing he's not well
Following in the footsteps of breathtaking martial arts extravaganza's House Of Flying Daggers and Curse Of The Golden Flower the team behind multi-award winning smash Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon bring you this century's most astounding epic! A spectacular dazzling and bloody re-imagining of Shakespeare's legendary Hamlet The Banquet is an epic tale of revenge violence and betrayal. Locked in a loveless marriage Empress Wan (Ziyi Zhang) is desperate to keep her forbidden love for Prince Wu Luan (Daniel Wu) from a family divided by cruelty and oppression. When the Emperor suddenly dies his conniving younger brother Li takes up the throne forcing Wan to marry him. Convinced that this is the only way to protect all she loves from being destroyed by this new power hungry tyrant Wan agrees. But Wu Luan refuses to see his love snatched away through such evil greed and deception. After repeated attempts on his life amid furious confrontations with the new Emperor's imperial assassins Wu Luan resolves to return to the palace and take revenge for himself his beloved and a nation in the grip of a murderous madman. Featuring astonishing career-topping action from the infamous Yuen Wo Ping (Kill Bill The Matrix and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and a cast featuring some of Asia's most acclaimed cinema icons The Banquet is like no other epic you have ever witnessed.
Aftershock
Acclaimed director feng xiaogang and superstar fan bingbing team up for this razor-sharp, intriguing tale of a wronged woman fighting for justice against her duplicitous husband and the government itself. when li xuelian (fan bingbing) and her husband qin yuhe (li zonghan) stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment reserved by the government for single people, all seems to go to plan. six months later, qin remarries, as agreed but to a different woman. furious, li files a lawsuit with the county court, but loses the case after the judge remains convinced the divorce papers are in order. refusing to accept the court's findings, li appeals to the chief justice, the county chief, and even the mayor, but fails at every turn. she decides that only qin can give her peace of mind, if he will just acknowledge that the divorce was fake. instead, he publicly accuses her of being a promiscuous woman - an accusation that drives li back to the courts, and to the capital, to redeem her reputation once and for all shot partly in a circular aspect ratio, mirroring the literati paintings of the song dynasty, i am not madame bovary offers a powerful, compelling and hilarious social satire, which transcends all cultures in uniquely stylish fashion.
The Battle Epic Collection
Set Comprises: Assembly (2007): Based on a true story Assembly follows one man's journey in search of truth and honour. The Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War broke out in the winter of 1948 and became one of the bloodiest battles in Chinese history. Thousands from The People's Liberation Army and the KMT Army fought in a bloodbath in between Xuzhou and Bengbu. Captain Guzidi commanding the Ninth Company led the infantry unit which consisted of a mere 46 men on a sniping mission to defend the south bank of the Wen River. His orders were to fight until the retreat assembly call was charged. After long hours of defence ammunition was running out and the number of men standing in the Ninth Company was quickly decreasing. Everyone began to wonder if they had missed the retreat bugle call. But Guzidi insisted that the bugle had not sounded and that they were to continue to battle at all costs. It was not until later when he found that all the neighbouring troops had already left the field that he realised he might have made a mistake and contributed to his men's deaths. Guzidi woke up in the hospital and discovered that due to a military re-organisation he and the 46 men who sacrificed themselves during the deadly engagement had lost their identities and ranks and were deemed missing. Determined to prove the existence of the 46 men and honour their glorious deaths Guzidi embarks on his journey to search for his troops... Days Of Glory (2006): The critically acclaimed and Oscar nominated war epic Days of Glory (Indigenes) is a chronicle of courage and sacrifice... told with power grace and feeling and brought alive by first-rate acting. Telling the true story of a band of World War II soldiers who heroically fought their way across Europe while battling discrimination within their own ranks the film was hailed for its eloquent performances and potent action sequences. Saints And Soldiers: Belgium: December 1944 and German troops open fire on unarmed American prisoners of war provoking the historic Malmedy Massacre. Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines discover a stranded R.A.F. pilot who holds the key to German intelligence which could save thousands of American lives. The five men must battle through the bitter Winter landscape to smuggle their precious cargo from the clutches of the enemy. Overlord: Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage and a fictional narrative Stuart Cooper's immersive account of one 20-year-old's journey from basic training to the battle front lines at D-day brings all the terrors and isolation of war to its viewers with jolting authenticity. Overlord impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott is both a document of WWII and a dreamlike meditation on man's smallness in a large incomprehensible machine.
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