Chinese Movies&TV

English name：Cradle 2 the Grave Broadcast time：February 28, 2003 Starring：李连杰（Jet Li）、DMX、胡凯莉（Kelly Hu）、Anthony Anderson、Tom Arnold、Mark Dacascos director：Andrzej Bartkowiak Introduction Today, we are going to talk about a film named Cradle 2 the Grave(致命摇篮zhì mìng yáolán）. It is directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak featuring actor Jet Li(李连杰Li Liánjié）and rapper DMX. is a 2003 American action film. Plot  The film opens with a group of thieves—led by Anthony Fait—attempting to steal diamonds for a Frenchman named Christophe, who serves as the middleman for a mysterious employer. When Fait contacts Christophe, a Taiwanese Intelligence Agent named Su intercepts the conversation and attempts to identify the criminals.While the crew gathers up as many diamonds as they can, including a bag of black diamonds, Agent Su calls Fait and demands that he and his crew leave the diamonds in the vault, warning him that the police are on the way. Fait, however, ignores this warning, and the criminals attempt a daring escape past a SWAT-team blockade. While Fait, Daria, and Tommy all manage to escape, Agent Su captures Miles and recovers Miles' share of the diamonds. Su is disappointed to find that Miles does not have the black diamonds though. Fait, meanwhile, asks his friend Archie to appraise the black…

English name：Unleashed / Danny the Dog Broadcast time：February 2, 2005 Starring：李连杰（Jet Li）、Morgan Freeman、Bob Hoskins director：Louis Leterrier Introduction Today,we are going to introduce a movie named Unleashed(狼犬丹尼 Lángquǎn Dān Ní).It is also known as Danny the Dog.Unleashed,is an American-British-French martial arts action thriller film directed by Louis Leterrier in 2005, written by Luc Besson, and produced by Jet Li. It stars Li, Bob Hoskins, Morgan Freeman and Kerry Condon. The film's setting and shooting location was Glasgow. Plot Bart (Bob Hoskins) is a vicious loan shark whose method of persuading men to pay him back involves Danny the Dog (Jet Li), a man with the mentality of a child; only if a metal collar around his neck is removed by Bart will he become a violently skilled fighter who stops at nothing to take down his targets. But once the collar is on, Danny is a harmless, withdrawn person, with very little knowledge of how to live as a socialized person, and he is constantly bullied by his master Bart. One day, Bart realizes he can end his loan shark career by regularly attending an underground fighting tournament and registering Danny to fight; in exchange, if Danny can win and survive the fights,…

English name：The One Broadcast time：November 02, 2001 Starring：李连杰（Jet Li）、Delroy Lindo、Carla Gugino、Jason Statham director：黄毅瑜（James Wong） Introduction Today, we are going to talk about the movie named The One(千方百计qiānfāng-bǎijì). The One , is a 2001 American action film directed by James Wong and starring Jet Li(李连杰Li Liánjié), Delroy Lindo, Jason Statham and Carla Gugino. Plot A superhuman criminal named Gabriel YuLaw (Jet Li), once an officer of the "Multiverse Authority" (MVA) that polices interdimensional travel (via detecting wormhole openings, which can be predicted like the weather), seeks to hunt down and kill all other variations of himself in alternate universes. By killing all of his other selves, (and thus becoming the last version of himself) and absorbing their life energies into himself, he believes he will become "The One", a godlike being. YuLaw is briefly captured by MVA agents Rodecker (Delroy Lindo) and Funsch (Jason Statham), only to escape from captivity during the final phase of his sentence to life in a penal colony. The last known alternate, Gabriel (Gabe) Law, works in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. For two years he has been experiencing increases in strength, speed and mental ability but neither he nor his wife, T.K. Law (TK) (Carla Gugino), can…

English name：Kiss of the Dragon Broadcast time：July 6, 2001 Starring：李连杰（Jet Li）、Bridget Fonda、Tchéky Karyo director：Chris Nahon Introduction Today,I will talk about a film named Kiss of the Dragon(龙之吻lóng zhī wěn) .It is a martial arts action film in 2001, directed by Chris Nahon, co-written and produced by Luc Besson, and starring Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, and Tchéky Karyo. The film was made in response to Li's fans requesting more realistic fight scenes, and is notable as most of the action sequences did not use CGI or wire work; only two scenes required CGI enhancement and only one scene involved wire work. Wire work was also added to one of the last fight sequences between Li and Cyril Raffaelli, only to add clarity to Raffaelli's kicks, as he was moving too fast for the camera. Nahon was also required to slow down this fight scene, as both Li and Raffaelli moved too quickly to be captured clearly at normal recording speed. The film is based on a story by Li. Plot Liu Siu-jian (Jet Li), a Chinese intelligence agent, is sent to Paris to help apprehend Chinese mob boss Mr. Big (Ric Young), who is involved in heroin smuggling. He meets Inspector Jean-Pierre Richard…

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龙) is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus and Kuo Jung Tsai. Overview Chinese Name：卧虎藏龙 English Name：Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Other Names: Tiger et Dragon Director: Ang Lee 李安 Screenwriter: Wang Hui-ling王蕙玲，James Schamus Starring: Chow Yun-fat周润发，Zhang Ziyi章子怡，Michelle Yeoh杨紫琼，Chang Chen张震 Release Year：2000 Running time : 120 Minutes Brief Introduction of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (simplified Chinese: 卧虎藏龙) is a martial arts action film in 2000. It is directed by Ang Lee and co-starred by Chow Yun fat(also starring in Let the Bullets Flying), Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi. The film was released in mainland China on July 8, 2000. The film tells the story that a young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famous swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has a number of award-winning records, including the 73rd Oscar for best foreign language film. It is also the first film in the history of Chinese films to win the Oscar for best foreign-language film . In September 2019, the film was ranked 51st in the “100 best films of…

Hero -- Yīnɡxiónɡ Hero (Chinese: 英雄, Pinyin: yīnɡxiónɡ) is a 2002 kongfu film directed by Zhang Yimou. Starring Jet Li as the nameless protagonist, the film is based on the story of Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin in 227 BC. Hero was first released in China on October 24, 2002. At that time, it was the most expensive project and the highest-grossing motion picture in Chinese film history. Miramax Films owned the American market distribution rights, but delayed the release of the film for nearly two years. It was finally presented by Quentin Tarantino to American theaters on August 27, 2004. Box office When Hero opened in Hong Kong in December 2002, it grossed a massive HK $15,471,348 in its first week. Its final gross of HK $26 million made it one of the top films in Hong Kong that year. On August 27, 2004, after a long delay, Hero opened in 2,031 North American screens uncut and subtitled. It debuted at #1, grossing US $18,004,319 ($8,864 per screen) in its opening weekend. The total was the second highest opening weekend ever for a foreign language film; only The Passion of the Christ has opened to a better reception. Its US $53,710,019 North…