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AFTERSHOCK
Directors: Feng Xiaogang
Actors: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu
Genre: Drama
Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother. AFTERSHOCK follows the family on their separate journeys over the course of the next 32 years, as they build lives forever shadowed by the traumatic experience of the earthquake, and eventually face each other and the decisions of the past.The acclaimed epic that broke all box-office records in China, AFTERSHOCK Featuring an all-star cast including Jingchu Zhang (Rush Hour 3) and Daoming Chen (Hero), AFTERSHOCK shines with its powerful exploration of how one moment can change a family s life forever.
If You Are The One: Love And Marriage
Directors: Xiaogang Feng
Actor: You Ge, Qi Shu
Genre: Romance, Comedy
IF YOU ARE THE ONE: LOVE & MARRIAGE follows the comedic courtship saga of wealthy, middle-aged retiree Qin Fen (Ge You, To Live) and serious-minded young air hostess Xiaoxiao (Shu Qi, The Transporter). After an amusing prelude in which Qin presides over a lavish divorce ceremony for an amicably splitting married couple, he and Xiaoxiao decide to address their own relationship barriers by entering into a trial marriage and living together full-time in a secluded, tropical villa.
On the island of Hainan, Qin and Xiaoxiao begin their daily life together, learning more about each other, themselves and what it takes to make romance blossom. He s captivated by her beauty and youth and is hopeful that his dream of marriage will become a reality. But Xiaoxiao still has reservations about Qin s cynical and childish sense of humor and uses their trial marriage getaway to determine what s needed in life and love.
Love
Directors: Doze Niu
Actors: Qi Shu, Mark Chao, Wei Zhao
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Taiwanese cinema has proved to be the next Asian powerhouse. Love (2012) is a feel good romantic comedy about what else, but love. Headed by International star Shu Qi and Mainland superstar Zhao Wei, both carries the film broadly on their shoulders. However it is the love stories that make the movie a romantic affair. What makes Love a good movie is the fact that it doesn't go overboard in the overtly romance notion. It tries to deal with some real issues yet at the same time providing a true Hollywood experience. In along the reins of Love Actually and countless Hollywood Valentines' day events, Love is a good movie and works well within its defined boundaries without being truly special.
Shu Qi being the biggest drawer of International audience is able to create a likable and realistic character despite being mostly materialistic. Although her resulting relationship with Ethan Ruan is quite laughable, she is able to convince the audience in the scene where she packs her clothes and decides to leave. Likewise, Zhao Wei excites the audience and her dance tease is quite a treat. Eddie Pang does well and Ivy Chen shows good potential in a difficult role, while fellow Taiwanese actress Doze Niu is thoroughly cute and endearing.
Love in the Buff
Directors: Ho-Cheung Pang
Actor: Miriam Yeung Chin Wah, Shawn Yue, Mi Yang
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Five months after the events in Love in a Puff, Jimmy and Cherie face more difficulties in their romantic relationship as they split up and both individually end up in Beijing as they follow their jobs to China’s capital city, and both begin new relationships there. But despite their best efforts they can’t seem to keep away from each other.
The Viral Factor
Directors: Dante Lam
Actors: Jay Chou, Nicholas Tse, Peng Lin
Genre: Action
International Security Affairs agent Jon is on a dangerous mission to escort a criminal scientist to another country. En route, a member of his team, Sean, turns out to be a traitor and shoots Jon in the head while kidnapping the scientist. When Jon wakes up in the hospital, a doctor tells him that within weeks, the bullet in his brain will cause complete paralysis. Jon returns to Beijing to see his mother, who confesses that Jon has a brother in Malaysia who was raised by his father, a gambler. Jon takes a flight to Malaysia to find his brother, Yeung. On the plane he forms a bond with Dr. Kan, who promises to look into possible treatments for his condition. However, when they arrive, Yeung tries to kidnap the doctor and when Jon intervenes, he's also taken hostage. The two soon realize they're brothers, and decide to work together in order to keep the criminals behind the kidnappings from infecting the world of a disease long thought cured.
A Simple Life
Directors: Ann Hui
Actor: Andy Lau, Deannie Yip, Hailu Qin
Genre: Drama
A quiet drama from Hong Kong about a female servant who has cared for four generations of the same family all her life and now serves the only family member still in China. She has raised him from infancy, but then must rely on him for her own care when she suffers a stroke. The lead actress, Deanie Ip, won a number of best actress awards for the role.
Beginning of the Great Revival
Directors: Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Actors: John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau
Genre: Historical Drama
Beginning of the Great Revival details the historic events surrounding the Chinese Revolution - the period from 1911 to 1921 when Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty and planted the roots of what has become modern-day China's Communist government. The story charts the beginnings of the country's most influential first-generation leaders, including ambitious warlord Yuan Shikai (Chow Yun-Fat, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), who undertakes an attempt to revive the Chinese monarchy, Tsai Ao (Andy Lau, Infernal Affairs), the pro-Republic governor of Yunnan, Mao Zedong (Liu Ye, Curse of the Golden Flower) and others.
What Women Want
Directors: Daming chen
Actor: Andy Lau, Li Gong
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Chauvinistic advertising executive Zigang Sun (pop superstar Andy Lau, Infernal Affairs) is not known as a good husband, a good father or a good son. None of this bothers Zigang, since he’s focused entirely on his expected promotion to creative director. However, that opportunity disappears when his firm instead hires the female executive of a rival agency, Yilong Li (Gong Li, Miami Vice, Memoirs of a Geisha), to develop campaigns targeted toward women. When Zigang attempts to understand the opposite sex to compete with Yilong, a comic twist of fate gives him the ability to hear what women are thinking. While his new power makes him an expert on women and helps advance his career, it also leads him toward a relationship with his once-office-rival Yilong, and changes his outlook on what’s important in life and love.
A Beautiful Life
Directors: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung
Actors: Shu Qi, Liu Ye
Genre: Romance
Li Peiru (Shu Qi, The Transporter) moves to Beijing from Hong Kong to make a living as an aggressive real estate mogul. She is an opportunist alcoholic who is not looking for love, instead being content with her career and her affair with a married man. But in a romantic twist of fate, she ends up falling in love with Fang Zhendong (Liu Ye, Curse of the Golden Flower), a local policeman who is honest, rigid and a devoted caregiver to his autistic brother. Can the couple s new relationship survive the traumatic events in store for them? This contemporary romantic melodrama explores every aspect of love.
Girlfriend Boyfriend
Directors: Ya-che Yang
Actor: Bryan Shu-Hao Chang, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Gwei Lun-Me
Genre: Romance
When three rebellious students leave their hometown to pursue their lifelong dreams in the big city, their relationships start to face the pressures of real life as the 1980s Taiwanese socio-political reformation movement unfolds in the background.
Back to 1942
Directors: Xiaogang Feng
Actors: Guoli Zhang, Hanyu Zhang, Wei Fan
Genre: Drama
Back to 1942 is a 2012 Chinese historical film directed by Feng Xiaogang. It is based on Liu Zhenyun's novel Remembering 1942, and is about a major famine in Henan, China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
My Kingdom
Directors: Xiaosong Gao
Actor: Chun Wu, Geng Han, Barbie Hsu
Genre: Action
A story of honor, love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Chinese opera during its heyday in 1920s Shanghai, MY KINGDOM centers on two sworn brothers and their quest to regain their master's honor. After years spent training in martial arts, Guan Yilong (Wu Chun, 14 Blades) and Meng Erkui (Han Geng, Beginning of the Great Revival) pursue revenge and quickly succeed, establishing themselves as the newest sensations of the Shanghai opera scene. They experience fame and love with a beautiful actress, Xi Mulan (Barbie Hsu, Future X-Cops), but soon their collective pasts catch up with them and all three are tangled in a complex web of love, lust, deceit and betrayal.
The Warring States
Directors: Chen Jin
Actors: Zige Fang, Enhe Feng, Degang Guo
Genre: Action
Sun Bin (Sun Hong-Lei, Mongol), purported descendant of the Art of War author Sun Tzu, is a brilliant military strategist steadily advancing in the ranks of war during China’s Warring States Period (fifth to third centuries BC). He’s believed to have the knowledge to defeat any opponent in battle. Not to be outdone, Sun’s brother, Pang Juan (Francis Ng, Exiled), secures a powerful military general position for himself and, in a jealous twist, frames Sun for treason. Sun begins a long journey to prison and back, and again up the ranks of war, finally ending as a top strategist and peer with his brother. THE WARRING STATES follows the rivalry of these two brothers to the end, where both meet again on the battlefield, leading armies against each other in a fight to the death.
All’s Well Ends Well
Directors: Hing-Ka Chan
Actor: Gong Linna, Donnie Yen, Chi-Fung Tang
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Four men go on a heroic mission to help four women and wind up experiencing a series of mishaps.
Bangkok Revenge
Directors: Jean-Marc Minéo
Actors: Jon Foo, Caroline Ducey, Michaël Cohen
Genre: Action
After witnessing the brutal murder of his parents, a young boy is raised by a martial arts master who grooms him to be a lethal killer. Some 20 years later, it's time to take revenge on the assassins who destroyed his childhood.
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