Zhong A-Cheng

6.4 Movie9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional...

The Assassin

2015

7.9 MovieBased on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

Hibiscus Town

1987

7.0 MovieAn unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school....

King of the Children

1987

6.0 MovieA roving ghost spirit controlled by Ying Yang the Evil paints her face in the guise of a concubine. Her spirit can only be released by a ghostbusting monk who comes...

Painted Skin

1993

7.0 MovieIn a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former...

Springtime in a Small Town

2002

6.9 MovieTwo independent stories involving chess wizards are interwoven to satirize the politics of the Chinese Cultural Revolution as well as Taiwan's capitalist boom of the 1970's.

King of Chess

1991

6.5 MovieThe life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the tumultuous...

The Go Master

2007

7.9 MovieThree Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.

Full Moon in New York

1989

7.0 MovieIn a small southern frontier town, an old man called “Nail Li” boasts about his chess skills by nailing a general piece to the board, challenging anyone to remove it....

Chess King

1988

9.7 TV

Control by Zhen Guan

2006

6.0 MovieIn the late 1990s, in a small town in the southwest, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles held a writers' pen meeting, and the participants were more than a...

The Obscure

2007

10.0 MovieActress Tingting and cinematographer Xizi fall in love and their careers flourish.

Big Star

1985

MovieThe essence of progress in civilization has always been handiwork. In traditional Chinese civilization, the emperor was supreme. Vested with the authority to enjoy...

In the Golden Age of Chinese Craftsmanship

2008

MovieYue Yue is a village girl living in the Qin Ling Mountain. Two boys, Cai Cai and Men Men, are her friends and both like her. Cai Cai is diligent and conservative, Men...

Yue Yue

1986

MovieInspired by the novel “King of the Trees” by Ah Cheng.

Cry of the Birds