Chinese Movies&TV

English name：Life Broadcast time：1984 Starring：周里京、吴玉芳 director：吴天明 Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Life(人生rén shēng). So let us have a brief introduction. Life is a 1984 Chinese film directed by Wu Tianming (吴天明Wú Tiānmíng ). This film was adapted from Chinese Writer Lu Yao's (路遥Lù Yáo) novel of the same title. Plot Gao Jialin (高佳林Gāo Jiālín) the hero in this film is a zhiqing(知青zhī qīng). He was sent to the coutryside to learn farming, as many other youth at that time. He and the country girl Qiaozhen (巧珍qiǎo zhēn) fell in love with each other. Later on Gao broke up with Qiaozhen for the opportunity to stay in city. However, he finally lost the opportunity and had to go back to the countryside, only to find that Qiaozhen had married someone else. Gao Jialin began to view his life. It reflects the trend of leaving the countryside and pursuing urban life of that period. Therefore this film arouse a lot of attention and discussion. The film won Golden Rooster Award for Best Music, Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress and Best Picture in 1985. This is a very fabulous film. Professional evaluation 1、Director Wu Tianming is somewhat avant-garde in his filming techniques. He uses panoramic…

English name：The Ideal City Broadcast time：September 18, 2013 Starring：房祖名（Jaycee Chan）、王太利（Wang Terry）、黄瀞怡（Albee Huang）、刘岳、谢芳、杨地（TONYYOND） director：孙渤涵 Introduction "A City" is a youth love movie adapted from Han Han's novel of the same name, directed by Sun Bohan, and starring Jaycee Chan, Wang Taili, Huang Zongyi, Liu Yue, Xie Fang, Yang Di, etc. The film was released in mainland China on September 18, 2013. The film tells the story of Lin Xi, who dropped out of school, and fled from Shanghai to a town with his friend Jian Shu because of a gang fight. Jian Shu and Lin Xi lived in the Yangtze River Hotel and wandered around the city all day. Later, they met a new friend Wang Chao, and the three of them started a journey. Plot Because the computer in the dormitory was paralyzed by virus, "I", as a college student, met Uncle Jian, a senior who was good at repairing computers. After that, we had the idea of ​​starting a business, but we took a crooked approach and ended up being expelled from school. Uncle Jian and I were idle, and after trying various ways to make money, we all failed. Then we hired elementary school classmates to help fight…

Street Angel ( 马路天使; Mǎlù tiānshǐ) is a Chinese film released in 1937. The film was directed by Yuan Muzhi and stars the popular singer Zhou Xuan. This dark comedy—a still hilarious and irresistible love story—may not seem like a milestone, but “Street Angel” (《马路天使》 Mǎlù Tiānshǐ) was the first Chinese movie not about high society. For the first time, it gave voice to Shanghai’s laboring classes. It was produced in 1937, and tells the story of a pair of sisters, Little Yun and Little Hong, refugees from the Japanese invasion of Northern China, who’ve migrated to Shanghai to start life anew. The city doesn’t greet them well. To pay the rent, the older sister is forced into a life of prostitution. The younger sister, being groomed for the streets, reluctantly sings in a low-brow teahouse to the snickers of drunken, lecherous customers. We know—it doesn’t sound like much of a comedy. Through indomitable optimism and can-do spirit, they befriend a motley crew of misfits and social dregs—Little Chen the trumpeter, Old Wang the newspaper hawker, a street peddler, a barber and a dwarf—and strive together to fight for a better tomorrow. ?Shanghai, the city, swings along to the beat…

English name：The Great Magician Broadcast time：January 12, 2012 Starring：梁朝伟（Tony Leung Chiu-Wai），刘青云（Sean Andy），周迅，闫妮，吴刚 director：尔冬升（Derek Tung-Shing Yee） Introduction Today,we are going to talk about a 2012 Hong Kong action fantasy film, The Great Magician (大魔术师).It is directed by Derek Yee and starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (梁朝伟Liáng Cháowěi) , Lau Ching-wan (刘青云Liú Qīngyún) and Zhou Xun (周迅 Zhōu Xùn). Plot  In the years after the Revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty (清朝Qīngcháo) in China and established the republic, China broken up into fiefdoms held by warlords (军阀jūnfá) , who are busy fighting each other. A lieutenant, Liu Kun Shan (Wu Gang), used magic to scare convicts into joining a warlord's army. His warlord, Lei Bully (Lau Ching-wan), had imprisoned a girl, Liu Yin (Zhou Xun), and wanted her to be his seventh wife willingly. A group of local revolutionaries wanted to kidnap Lei and bring back the republic. They teamed up with a magician, Chang Hsien (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), to entice Lei to a magic show and kidnap him during the show. It was revealed that Zhang and Liu Yin were ex-lovers in the past and Zhang was an apprentice of Liu's father, a magician, Liu Wan Yao. Chang discovered his former master was imprisioned by Liu Kun Shan as he wanted to extract a magic secret from Liu Wan…

Overview Chinese Name：霸王别姬 English Name：Farewell My Concubine, Ba Wang Bie Ji Other Names: 再见，我的妾, Adieu Ma Concubine Director: Chen Kaige 陈凯歌 Screenwriter: Lilian Lee 李碧华, Lu Wei 芦苇 Starring: Leslie Cheung 张国荣, Gong Li 巩俐, Zhang Fengyi 张丰毅, Ge You 葛优 Release Year：1993 Running time : 171 Minutes Brief Introduction of Farewell My Concubine Farewell My Concubine霸王别姬（Ba Wang Bie Ji） is a love literary film, adapted from Lilian Lee’s李碧华 novel of the same name and directed by Chen Kaige陈凯歌. Focusing on the joys and sorrows of the two Peking Opera actors for half a century, the film shows the thinking and understanding of traditional culture, people’s living state and human nature. In 1993, the film was released in mainland China and Hong Kong, China. Since then, it has been released in many countries and regions around the world, and broke the box office record of literary and artistic films in mainland China in the United States. As a benchmark work in the Chinese film world and a film enjoying world-class important honors, “Farewell My Concubine” has both epic pattern and cultural connotation. Under the background of profound Peking opera art, it shows the multifaceted and richness of people in the face of role…

English name：Evening Rain Broadcast time：1980 Starring：李志舆、张瑜 director：吴永刚，吴贻弓 Introduction Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Evening Rain (巴山夜雨 bā shān yè yǔ). So let us have a brief introduction. Evening Rain reflects the fight between Chinese people and the "Gang of Four" during the ten years of turmoil in China. It was directed by Wu Yigong (吴贻弓Wú Yígōng) Li Zhiyu (李致宇Lǐ Zhìyǔ) , Zhang Yu, Lin Bin (林本Lín Běn) playing the leading role. This movie won the first Golden Rooster for best picture in 1981. Plot During the period that the “Gang of Four” was on the rampage in China, a poet named Qiu Shi (秋石qiū shí) who had been in prison for 6 years was secretly transferred from Sichuan (四川sìchuān) to Wuhan (武汉WǔHàn) by ship under the guard of Li Yan and Liu Wenying (刘文英Liú Wényīng). They met six passengers on the ship – a poor girl named Xing Hua who had to sell herself to pay the debts, a just woman teacher, an old actor of Beijing Opera, a frail old woman who had just lost her son, a young worker that had a clear stand on what to love and what to hate, and a little girl in rags. One night, hopeless about her life, Xin Hua jumped into the river…

“Adlon. A Family Saga” is not only a chronicle of the times and portrayal of morals and customs set against the backdrop of Hotel Adlon; it is also a captivating and emotional drama, telling the tale of two families’ entwined fates throughout four generations. This epic three-part television event spans a historical arch, commencing with the planning of the first Hotel Adlon through to the official opening of the “second Adlon” in 1997. The biography of a fictional hotel guest, Sonja Schadt, forms the guiding thread which seamlessly links the three episodes, thus spinning a tale of almost 100 years of remarkable hotel history. 阿德龙大酒店，一个家族传奇。这不仅是一部以阿德龙大酒店为背景的“编年史”，同时也是一部令人着迷感动的戏剧，讲述着两个家族四代人交错的命运——从第一代阿德龙大酒店的创建，到1997年第二代阿德龙大酒店正式开张的全过程。该剧以一个酒店住客索尼娅•沙特为线索人物串起了大酒店近百年的非凡传奇。

Overview Chinese Name：活着 English Name：To Live Other Names: Lifetimes, Lifetimes Living, Woot jeuk, 人生 Director: Zhang Yimou 张艺谋 Screenwriter: Yu Hua 余华, Lu Wei 芦苇 Starring: Gong Li 巩俐, Ge You 葛优 Release Year：1994 Running time : 132 Minutes To Live 活着 Brief Introduction of To Live To Live 活着 （Huo Zhe） is a feature film produced by Times International Limited in 1994. The film is adapted from Yu Hua’s novel of the same name, directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Ge You and Gong Li. Set in the Chinese civil war and various political movements after the founding of People’s Republic of China, the film reflects the fate of a generation of Chinese people through the rough life of the hero Fu Gui. In 1994, the film won the Grand Jury Prize and the best actor award at the 47th Cannes International Film Festivall and is regarded as one of Zhang Yimou’s best works by some audiences and film critics. Plot of To Live This movie is set in the 1940s, and Fugui is the son of a landlord. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels and the sudden death of his father, Fugui settles down to do the honest work…

Chungking Express（重庆森林） is an romantic crime comedy-drama film produced by Zedong film company. Overview Chinese Name：重庆森林 English Name： Chungking Express Other Names: Chung King Sen Lin，Chungking Forest（literally） Director: Wong Kar-wai王家卫 Screenwriter: Wong Kar-wai王家卫 Starring: Brigitte Lin林青霞，Takeshi Kaneshiro金城武，Tony Leung Chiu-wai梁朝伟，Faye Wong王菲 Release Year：1994 Running time : 98 minutes Chungking Express 重庆森林 Brief Introduction of Chungking Express Chongking Express（重庆森林） is a romantic crime comedy-drama film produced by Zedong film company. It is directed by Wong Kar Wai and starred Lin Qingxia, Liang Chaowei(also starring in Infernal Affairs), Faye Wong and Takeshi Kaneshiro. On July 14, 1994, the film was released in Hong Kong. The film tells two love stories: an urban encounter between a lovelorn policeman and a mysterious female killer, and a love story between patrol 663 and a girl working in a fast-food restaurant. In 1995, the film won the best film award and best director award of the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards. Plot of Chungking Express Police He Qiwu（Takeshi Kaneshiro） is in lovelorn syndrome. One day, he passes by a blonde woman（Brigitte Lin） in the street， which is a killer. 56 hours later, the two met in a bar and spent the night together. On the morning when Wu’s feeling expired, he received…

English name：A Chinese Ghost StoryBroadcast time：1986Starring：张国荣（Leslie Cheung）、王祖贤（JoeyWong）、午马director：程小东 Introduction "A Chinese Ghost Story" is a fantasy film produced by Tsui Hark, directed by Cheng Xiaodong, written by Pu Songling and Ruan Jizhi, and starring Leslie Cheung, Joey Wong, Wu Ma, Wong Jing, and Lin Wei. The film was released in Hong Kong, China on July 18, 1987.The film is a remake of the 1960 Shaw Brothers film of the same name. It tells the story of Yan Chixia helping Ning Caichen to deal with the tree spirit grandma and helping the love between the scholar Ning Caichen and the female ghost Nie Xiaoqian.In 1987, the film won the "Best Adapted Screenplay" at the 24th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards, and was nominated for the "Best Film" at the 7th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1988. Today let's take a brief introduction of a famous Chinese movie named "A Chinese Ghost Story".A Chinese Ghost Story (Qiannv Youhun) is a 1987 Hong Kong ghost film starring Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong, produced by Tsui Hark, and directed by Ching Siu-tung. The plot was adopted from a short story of Qing Dynasty Writer Pu Songling’s Strang Stories from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai Zhiyi). The film is a classic…

Overview Chinese Name：春光乍泄 English Name：Happy Together Director: Wong Kar-wai王家卫 Screenwriter: Wong Kar-wai王家卫 Starring: Leslie Cheung张国荣，Tony Leung Chiu-wai梁朝伟，Chang Chen张震 Release Year：1997 Running time : 96 mins Happy Together Brief Introduction of Happy Together Directed by Wong Kar Wai and starring Zhang Guorong, Liang Chaowei, and Zhang Zhen, the film was released in Hong Kong, China on May 30, 1997. The film tells the story of a pair of same-sex lovers who went to South America and stayed in Buenos Aires because they got lost. Then they broke up because of a series of contradictions. In 1997, the film was shortlisted in the official competition unit of the 50th Cannes International Film Festival, and Wong Kar Wai won the best director award of the 50th Cannes International Film Festival with this film. Tony Leung won the 17th Hong Kong Film Awards for best actor. Plot of Happy Together He Baorong （Leslie Cheung, also starring in Days of Being Wild) and Li Yaohui are a same-sex couple. They went to Argentina together. He Baorong bought an old desk lamp from the stall. The waterfall on the lampshade fascinated them. Finally, they learned that it was Iguazu waterfall, so they made an appointment to look for it together, but…

English name：Breaking the Willow Broadcast time：2003 Starring：张继青、王芳、 赵文林 director：杨凡 Introduction Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Breaking the Willow (凤冠情事fèng Guān Qíng Shì ). So let us have a brief introduction. A documentary on the legacy of China’s traditional kunqu opera (昆曲Kūnqǔ ), BREAKING THE WILLOW tells the story of two Chinese women of different dynasty and society, and their personal link to a bejeweled Phoenix Tierra. Cui (崔Cuī ), a woman of humble background dreams her husband to gain her the Phoenix Tierra but when the dream comes true, it turns out to be too late. Hsiao Yu (霍小玉Huò Xiǎoyù), a beautiful songstress from a royal decent of the past dynasty, meets the First Scholar and falls in love. The day after their wedding, the husband is called for the frontier. The fallen Princess wears the Phoenix Tierra to bid him farewell with poets. The film is amazing and its director is also very famous in China. Plot In Breaking the Willow, tells the story of two Chinese women, of different dynasty & society, their personal link to a bejeweled Phoenix Tierra. Cui, a woman of humble background, who divorce her husband to marry again for comfort, who dreams her husband will gain title…

English name：The Time to Live and Time to Die Broadcast time：February 1, 1986 Starring：游安顺、田丰（Feng Tien）、梅芳、唐如韫（Ru-Yun Tang）、辛树芬 director：侯孝贤（Hou Hsiao-hsien） Introduction Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called The Time to Live and the Time to Die (童年往事tóng nián wǎng shì). So let us have a brief introduction. The Time to Live and the Time to Die is a 1985 film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝贤Hóu Xiàoxián). This film is inspired by screenwriter-turned-director Hou's own coming-of-age story. This film is the second part of Hou's coming-of-age trilogy, preceded by A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) and followed by Dust in the Wind (1986). Synopsis Spanning the years 1947-1960, the film follows the maturation of Ah-ha as he and his family cope with the shock of leaving their homeland. Having been only a child during the move, Ah-ha quickly acclimates himself to the new country, often putting him at odds with his more traditional family. This is a very fabulous film Plot Ah Xiao (played by You Anshun) was born in Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and moved to Taiwan with his family when he was young. He has an older brother, an older sister and two younger brothers. His parents, who had just arrived in Taiwan…

English name：Ocean Heaven Broadcast time：June 18, 2010 Starring：李连杰（Jet Li）、文章、桂纶镁（Kwai Lun Mei）、高圆圆、董勇、朱媛媛 director：薛晓路 Introduction Today,we are going to talk about a movie,Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂hǎiyáng tiāntáng).It's about chinese Kongfu. Ocean Heaven is a 2010 Chinese-Hong Kong drama film starring martial arts superstar Jet Li (李连杰Lǐ Liánjié）in his first full drama role. It also co-stars Taiwanese actress Kwai Lun-mei, who previously starred in Jay Chou's Secret. The movie was filmed in Qingdao at the Qingdao Polar Ocean World and received promotion from the Qingdao council. It was announced that it was to be released in spring 2010, but the release date was pushed back to 24 June 2010, which opened the 2010 Shanghai International Film Festival（上海电影节Shànghǎi diànyǐng jié）on 2 June. Jet Li wants this film to get a good message across and promote the works with autism as well as the works of his charity ‘The One Foundation’. Xue Xiaolu, a teacher at the Beijing Film Academy（北京电影学院Běijīng Diànyǐng Xuéyuàn）, wrote and directed the 7 million yuan (US$1 million) movie. The first-time director has been a volunteer for 14 years with Beijing Stars and Rain, a non-governmental educational organization for children with autism. The story was mostly based on her personal real life and experience. She said, "With the addition…

English name：Shinjuku IncidentBroadcast time：April 2, 2009Starring：成龙（Jackie Chan）、吴彦祖（Daniel Wu）、竹中直人（Naoto Takenaka）、加藤雅也（かとう まさや）、徐静蕾、范冰冰director：尔冬升（Derek Tung-Shing Yee） Introduction Today,we are going to talk about a 2009 Hong Kong action crime drama thriller film, Shinjuku Incident (新宿事件Xīnsù shìjiàn). It is written and directed by Derek Yee, and also produced by and starring Jackie Chan (成龙Chéng Lóng). The film was distributed by Chan's own film company, JCE Movies Limited (成龙英皇影业有限公司Chéng Lóng yīnghuáng yǐngyè yǒuxiàn gōngsī). It was stated in many press reports (新闻报道xīnwén bàodào) that the genre of the film would be closer to drama, Film director Derek Yee said, "People are too familiar with the image of a fighting Jackie Chan. It's time for him to move on to drama."In a recent interview, Chan himself describes the film as, "maybe one percent action. Heavy drama." The film was originally to be released on 25 September 2008 but was delayed to the first quarter of 2009. It premiered at the 2009 Hong Kong International Film Festival and was released on 2 April 2009 in Hong Kong. Plot The story takes place in the 1990s. A tractor worker Tietou risked his life to sneak to Japan and decided to find his girlfriend Xiuxiu who went to Japan with a Japanese orphan. He took refuge with his friend…

English name： Broadcast time：March 28, 2012 Starring：娜仁花 director：谢飞、乌兰 Introduction Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called A Girl from Hunan (湘女萧萧xiāngnǔ xiāoxiāo). So let us have a brief introduction. A Girl from Hunan (湘女萧萧Xiāngnǔ xiāoxiāo) is a 1986 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei (谢飞Xiè Fēi) and U Lan (乌兰Wū Lán). The film is based on a 1929 short story, Xiao Xiao (潇潇Xiāo Xiāo), by author Shen Congwen (沈从文Shěn Cóngwén). Plot A Girl from Hunan tells the story of a willful young girl who, at the start of the film, is about to enter into an arranged marriage with a two-year old child, Chun Guan (春官Chūn Guān). Xiao Xiao, the girl in question, is only twelve.Left by her uncle in this remote village, Xiao Xiao is expected to be less of a wife than a mother to her new husband and lives under the domineering control of her mother-in-law. Now sixteen, Xiao Xiao catches the eye of a farmhand, Hua Gou (花狗Huā Gǒu). She lets herself be seduced by him and soon finds herself pregnant. Knowing that the traditional village still executes women for adultery, Xiao Xiao is desperate to abort the baby but fails to accomplish her goal. With her pregnancy clear, Xiao Xiao faces the wrath of her mother-in-law, only…

Overview Chinese Name：牯岭街少年杀人事件 English Name：A Brighter Summer Day Other Names: Youth Homicide Incident on Guling Street (literally) Director: Edward Yang楊德昌 Screenwriter: Hung Hung, Lai Ming-tang, Edward Yang, Alex Yang, Yan Hong-ya Starring: Chang Chen张震，Lisa Yang，Chang Kuo-Chu，Elaine Jin金燕玲，Wang Chuan，Chang Han Release Year：1991（Taiwan） Running time : 237min Brief Introduction of A Brighter Summer Day A Bright Summer Day is a film adapted from the real murder of teenagers in Taiwan. The film is directed by Yang Dechang and starred Zhang Zhen, Yang Jingyi, Zhang Guozhu, and Jin Yanling. The story tells the story of a homicide in Taiwan in the early 1960s. The film was released in Taiwan on July 27, 1991. other movies only released in Taiwan, China: A City of Sadness 悲情城市（1989） Plot of A Brighter Summer Day In Taiwan in the early 1960s, it seemed that everything was gray, and there was a dark smell in the turbid air. The mood of loss and despair shrouded the city. People from other provinces from all directions speak their strong accents, Shandong dialect, Shanghai dialect, Subei dialect, Sichuan dialect… wandering around the city. The families who fled to Taiwan with the army formed small villages called “dependents’ villages”. In such a city lived Xiao Si, Xiao…

Broadcast time：2013 Starring：觉安 director:余孟庭 This is a documentary about three Tibetans who face a big challenge that could determine their lives. The struggle they are faced with is whether they should enter the modern world or go back to their hometown. After Jue’an finished her internship as a substitute teacher in her hometown, she started to hesitate about whether she teach in her hometown or work as a Tibetan doctor after her graduation. Her two childhood friends, a novice monk and a would-be-businessman-cum-painter, also grapple with which direction their lives will take in the daily lives of a new generation of Tibetans. 这是一部关于年轻人成长的纪录片。觉安是藏医班的学生，实习期间回到家乡做藏文代课老师。即将毕业的她，是留在草原教书，还是通过考试取得藏医工作，觉安在犹豫。同龄的嘎玛和多吉是草原上一起长大的小伙伴，藏历新年他们来到觉安家中，谈论着自己对未来的理想。是离开或留在草原，他们的梦想能否在二十岁的夏天里实现呢？

Pushing Hands is a film directed by Ang Lee.Actually, it is a name for two-person training routines practiced in internal Chinese martial artsin Chinese,we say 推手(tuī shǒu) in Chinese. Released in 1992, it was Lee's first feature film. Together with Ang Lee's two following films, The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), it forms his "Father Knows Best" trilogy, each of which deals with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change.《推手》是李安运用近代家庭变迁搭配细腻描述亲情互动，因而享誉国际的‘父亲三部曲’之第一部曲。1992年上映，是李安第一部特色电影。 The story is about an elderly Chinese t'ai chi ch'uan teacher and grandfather who emigrates from Beijing to live with his son, American daughter-in-law, and grandson in a New York City suburb. The grandfather is increasingly distanced from the family as a "fish out of water" in Western culture. The film shows the contrast between traditional Chinese ideas of Confucian relationships within a family and the much more informal Western emphasis on the individual. The friction in the family caused by these differing expectations eventually leads to the grandfather moving out of the family home (something very alien to traditional expectations), and in the process he learns lessons (some comical, some poignant) about how he…

Overview Chinese Name：无间道 English Name：Infernal Affairs，Wu Jian Dao Director: Andrew Lau 刘伟强, Alan Mak 麦兆辉 Screenwriter: Alan Mak 麦兆辉 , Felix Chong 庄文强 Starring: Andy Lau 刘德华， Tony Leung 梁朝伟， Anthony Wong 黄秋生， Eric Tsang 曾志伟 Release Year：2002 Running time : 101 Minutes Infernal Affairs-无间道 Brief Introduction of Infernal Affairs Infernal Affairs 无间道（Mou gaan dou) is a story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop. Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong action thriller film co-directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. Jointly written by Mak and Felix Chong, it stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. The film follows a police officer who infiltrates a Triad, and another officer secretly working for the same gang. It is the first in the Infernal Affairs series and is followed by Infernal Affairs II and Infernal Affairs III. In 2003, the film won the best film award of the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards and the best film of the 40th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards. With this film, Liang Chaowei won the best actor award of the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards Plot of Infernal Affairs…

Eat Drink Man Woman is the last film of "Father Knows Best" trilogy. It is a 1994 Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee. It talks about central elderly figures dealing with the transition from tradition to modernity.《饮食男女》是父亲三部曲最后一部电影，于1994年上映，导演李安。主要描写了出家庭亲情及世代隔阂。 This film tells the story of a semi-retired and widowed Chinese master chef at the Taipei Grand Hotel. Chef Chu (Sihung Lung) and his family are living in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. At the start of the film, he lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. As the film progresses, each daughter encounters new men. When these new relationships blossom, their roles are broken and the living situation within the family changes. The father eventually brings the greatest surprise to the audience at the end of the story.本片讲述了圆山饭店的大厨，每个星期弄了一大桌菜让三个女儿杨贵媚、吴倩莲和王渝文回家来吃饭，但总是不欢而散，反而他为年轻寡妇张艾嘉的小女儿做几个便当菜，却让小朋友们吃得津津有味。三个女儿各有爱情上的烦恼，没有人关心老爸，令他连味觉也逐渐失去了。女儿们本以为从美国回来的归亚蕾很适合跟老爸凑一对，不料他的再婚物件大爆冷门。本片的剧情安排无疑是相当刻意，用隆重的吃饭仪式来架构全片虽符合主角身份，却表现得不够生动自然。不过导演还是将这个伦理喜剧拍得流畅热闹，风格上依旧兼顾中国文化与国际口味，是典型雅俗共赏路线下的作品，那些令人垂涎的菜式展示更成为本片最大特色。 In 1995, Hsu invited Lee to return to Taiwan to make Eat Drink Man Woman, a film that depicts traditional values, modern relationships, and family conflicts in Taipei. The film was a box office hit and was critically acclaimed. For a second consecutive year, Lee's film received the Best Foreign Language Film nomination in both the Golden Globe and Academy Awards, as well as in the British Academy Award. Eat Drink…

English name：Movie-fan Princess Broadcast time：June 22, 1966 Starring：陈宝珠（Connie Chan）、吕奇、姜中平（Chung Ping Keung）、罗兰（HelenaLawLan） director：黄尧 Introduction Today, I will introduce a Chinese film which called Movie-Fan Princess (影迷公主Yǐngmí Gōngzhǔ). So let us have a brief introduction. During the late 60s Connie Chan (陈宝珠Chén Bǎozhū) was the idol of Hong Kong’s “factory girls,” the young women who worked in the colony’s booming manufacturing industries. These women readily identified with Connie’s down-to-earth nature and can-do attitude. In Movie-Fan Princess she herself plays a factory girl who ends up becoming a movie star and being romanced by her screen idol played by Lv Qi (吕奇Lǚ Qí). Movie-Fan Princess was the first time that Connie was paired with Lv Qi, who would star as her leading man in 25 films over the next four years. Contemporary audiences are probably more familiar with the lampoons of Lv Qi than they are with the man himself. In this film, he plays a popular actor adored by Connie and all the other girls at the factory. Connie quickly loses her crush, however, when she finally sees him in person on the set of one of his films. He turns out to be quite the diva, demanding a break between each take to be pampered by three female…

Is he god, warrior or simply a naughty boy? The Monkey King’s conflicting personas are part of what makes the character so special, but Sun Wukong (孙悟空) in “Uproar in Heaven 3D” (大闹天宫 Dà Nào Tiāngōng) definitely has more of the latter. After all, this is a feature-length cartoon. The protagonist of Wu Cheng’en’s (吴承恩) classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West” (西游记), Sun Wukong is a brave yet mischievous monkey assigned to protect the monk Xuanzang during his pilgrimage to India. Thanks to an array of TV dramas, movies, comics and videogames, his adventures are well known in China, across all generations, particularly those who grew up watching the 1980s TV series (with its epic theme tune) starring Liuxiaolingtong. “Uproar in Heaven 3D” is a remake of another visualization of the Monkey King story, the original “Uproar in Heaven”, which was considered a landmark picture in the potted history of Chinese animated film. The original Uproar focused on the first seven chapters of the epic novel, covering the birth of this miraculous monkey and his rise to become the monk’s divine protector. For producer Wan Laiming (万籁鸣), bringing what he considered to be one of the greatest Chinese narratives…

The Warlords--Tóu Mínɡ Zhuànɡ The Warlords(Chinese:投名状，Pinyin：Tóu Mínɡ Zhuànɡ), previously known as The Blood Brothers, is a 2007 epic war film directed by Peter Chan and starring Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei. The film was released on December 13, 2007 simultaneously in most of Asia, except Japan. Director: Peter Chan The film is set in the 1860s, during the Taiping Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty in China. The story, based on the assassination of Ma Xinyi in 1870, tells of three sworn blood brothers who eventually turn against one another due to the harsh realities of war and political intrigue. Andy Lau(L), Jet Li(M), Takeshi Kaneshiro(R)  When asked why he chose to move away from his familiar turf of romance films, Director Peter Chan said that The Warlords is actually not a martial arts film at its heart, though it contains elements of the martial arts. He added that he had made a wish to make a film depicting men's affections after watching John Woo's 1986 film A Better Tomorrow over twenty years ago, and has now finally gotten the chance. His goal is thus to "lead [his] audience to reclaim [the same kind of passion]" as in A Better Tomorrow, which he said is lacking…