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Invincible Shaolin (1978)
7.1/10
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Kuo Chui, Wei Pei, Lo Meng
A non-stop action Kung Fu classic of betrayal and violent retribution, this film delivers outrageous Shaw Brothers' martial arts mayhem at it's best.... Read more
The Young Master (1980)
7.3/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Wei Pei, Yuen Biao, Li Li-Li, Sheck Kin
One of Jackie Chan's first films as director/star that rocketed him to world-wide recognition. This colourful period-comedy follows Jackie as he seeks... Read more
Magnificent Butcher (1979)
7.5/10
Director: Sammo Hung, Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Hoi San Lee, Wei Pei, Tak-Hing Kwan
An action-packed martial arts spoof with Sammo Hung as a plump kung fu student of legendary master, Wong Fei Hung. Two rival schools end up in an all... Read more
The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Lei Lao Sheng, Ge Zhi Jun, Lui Pei Qi
In this beautiful and humourous film from the acclaimed director of 'Raise the Red Lantern', a peasant woman takes on the Chinese legal system when he... Read more
Dragon Swamp (1969)
6.8/10
Director: Lo Wei
Starring: Cheng Pei-Pei, Yueh Hua, Lo Lieh
Cheng Pei-Pei ('Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon') is a naive young martial artist sent to retrieve the Jade Dragon Sword and her own long lost mother i... Read more
Lust, Caution (2007)
7.6/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Wei Tang, Joan Chen
Ang Lee's sensual espionage drama is set in Japanese-occupied China in the late 1930s and concerns the transgressive affair between collaborating busi... Read more
The Shadow Whip (1971)
Director: Lo Wei
Starring: Ku Feng, Tien Feng, Yueh Hua, Cheng Pei-Pei
A famous fighter saves a young girl from a band of robbers, but is falsely accused of her family's murder. In hiding, he raises the child as his own... Read more
Warriors of Heaven and Earth ( Blu-ray ) (2003)
6.4/10
Director: He Ping
Starring: Wen Jiang, Nakai Kiichi, Zhao Wei, Wang Xueqi
After years of service to the Chinese Emperor, Japanese emissary Lai Xi longs to return home, but is bound to complete one last mission - the capture... Read more
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2003)
6.4/10
Director: He Ping
Starring: Wen Jiang, Nakai Kiichi, Zhao Wei, Wang Xueqi
After years of service to the Chinese Emperor, Japanese emissary Lai Xi longs to return home, but is bound to complete one last mission - the capture... Read more
Unknown Pleasures / Xiao Wu (2002)
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Zhao Tao, Zhou Qing Feng, Zhao Wei Wei, Wu Qiong, Wang Hong Wei
Two films from acclaimed director Jia Zhang-Ke take a look at contemporary China, its inequalities, direction and disaffected urban youth. 'Unknown Pl... Read more
Monkey: Journey to the West (1967)
8.7/10
Director: Ho Meng-hua
Starring: Angela Yu Chien, Cheng Pei-Pei, Chow Lung-Cheung
Born from an egg on a mountain top, the monkiest monkey there ever was... Brought to popularity by the 1970s television show 'Monkey', the story of th... Read more
My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011)
6.2/10
Director: Roseanne Liang
Starring: Cheng Pei-Pei, Michelle Ang, Kenneth Tsang, Matt Whelan
Romeo and Juliet story with a Kiwi - Asian twist, based on the real-life cross cultural romance of first-time feature film writer/director Roseanne Li... Read more
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)
7.8/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Sihung Lung, Kuei-Mei Yang, Yu-Wen Wang
Acclaimed comedy-drama from Ang Lee ("The Wedding Banquet") about Chu, a widowed master chef facing such problems as losing his sense of taste, his th... Read more
White Crane Chronicles ( aka Kung Fu Killer ) (2008)
Director: Philip Spink
Starring: Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Cheng Pei-Pei, Osric Chau, Kay Tong Lim, Lim Yu-B...
China, 1929. As the Republic crumbles, only the legendary Wudang monks dare to defy the ruthless warlords trafficking in the opium trade. Among them i... Read more
Not One Less (1999)
7.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike
Follow the adventures of a 13 year old girl who, despite her age, finds herself working as a substitute teacher in the school of her small Chinese vil... Read more
So Close (2002)
6.7/10
Director: Corey Yuen Kwai
Starring: Shu Qi, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok
Acclaimed action director Corey Yuen delivers maximum entertainment in this sexy, high-octane thriller that'll blow you away. Starring Karen Mok (from... Read more
The 5 Deadly Venoms (1978)
Director: Chang Cheh
Starring: Lung Wei Wang, Philip Kwok
One of the loopiest kung-fu movies ever made, a garish masterpiece of martial arts kitsch by the hard-boiled master of the genre, Chang Cheh. The five... Read more
The Master (1980)
7/10
Director: Lu Chin-ku
Starring: Chen Kuan-tai, Lung Wei Wang
Aka "3 Evil Masters". Three gangsters make a surprise attack on Chin Tien-yun (Chen Kuan-tai), a renowned and skilled martial artist of strange charac... Read more
Goldstone (2016)
6.3/10
Director: Ivan Sen
Starring: David Gulpilil, David Wenham, Cheng Pei-Pei, Jacki Weaver, Alex Russell, Aaron P...
Ivan Sen follows up the accomplished Mystery Road with yet another slice of outback noir: Goldstone. Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is back, this... Read more
Weatherwoman Returns (1996)
Director: Tomoaki Hosoyama
Starring: Kei Mizutami
More loopy action as Keiko and her workmates are under threat from rival station TV Trendy, run by the evil Megumi, who is always one step ahead of th... Read more
The Battle of Red Cliff ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.4/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Zhang Fengyi, Zhao...
Aka "The Battle of Red Cliff". An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power hungry... Read more
Shadow Magic (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Ann Hu
Starring: Jared Harris, Xia Yu, Liu Pei Qui
Peking, 1902. Travelling English showman Jared Harris teams with photographer Xia Yu to bring the amazing new art form of motion pictures to remote vi... Read more
The Scorpion King (1991)
5.5/10
Director: David Lai
Starring: Kar Lok Chin, Liu Chia-Liang, May Lo Mei-Mei, Jung Yuen
A.k.a. "Operation Scorpio". Yu Shu (Chin Kar-lok), an aspiring swordplay comic book artist, daydreams about the world portrayed in his comics. But his... Read more
The Shaolin Temple (1979)
5.9/10
Director: Xinyan Zhang
Starring: Jet Li, Yue Hai, Yue Chen Wei
This was the first Hong Kong- Kung Fu action film to be shot in mainland China, and also Jet Li's first major film, 18 year-old Jet Li brings his incr... Read more
Goldstone (Blu-ray) (2016)
6.4/10
Director: Ivan Sen
Starring: David Gulpilil, David Wenham, Cheng Pei-Pei, Jacki Weaver, Alex Russell, Aaron P...
Ivan Sen follows up the accomplished Mystery Road with yet another slice of outback noir: Goldstone. Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) is back, this... Read more
City of Life and Death (2009)
7.7/10
Director: Chuan Lu
Starring: Hideo Nakaizumi, Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Yuanyuan Gao
Director Chuan Lu pulls off a rare feat by providing a clear-eyed drama about an event in Chinese-Japanese history - the 1937 Rape of Nanking followin... Read more
Project A (1983)
7.4/10
Director: Jackie Chan
Starring: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Mars, Dick Wei
International martial arts mega-star Jackie Chan directs and performs all his own death-defying stunts in a hard-hitting and humorous action adventure... Read more
The Battle of Red Cliff (2008)
7.4/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Zhang Fengyi, Zhao...
Aka "The Battle of Red Cliff". An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power hungry... Read more
Ju Dou (1989)
7.7/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Li Wei, Li Baotian, Zhang Li
This erotic drama follows the passion as a beautiful young bride is drawn to the handsome, strong nephew of her new husband. An exquisitely photograph... Read more
Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan (1972)
7.3/10
Director: Chu Yuan
Starring: Lily Ho, Yueh Hua, Betty Pei Ti, Tung Lin
The most notorious erotic film in the history of Hong Kong cinema, this film shocked Chinese audiences and even today exerts a raw power. Lily Ho, in... Read more
Empire of Silver (2009)
6.1/10
Director: Christina Yao
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Jennifer Tilly, Tie Lin Zhang, Hao Lei, Ding Zhi Cheng, Lei Zhen Yu
China, 1899. A hedonistic young man, Third Master (Aaron Kwok), must assume the role of heir to a banking empire he cares little about. Following the... Read more
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)
7/10
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Kei Fujiwara, Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomoroh Taguchi
Compared to the work of Lynch and Cronenberg, telling the strange tale of a man's gradual metamorphosis into a synergy of flesh and metal. Tomoroh Tag... Read more
Painted Skin (2008)
6.4/10
Director: Gordon Chan
Starring: Donnie Yen, Xun Zhou, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Qi Yuwu, Sun Li
General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) rescues a beautiful young woman, Xiao Wei (Zhou Xun), from the scene of a battle and takes her into his household, littl... Read more
A Weatherwoman (1995)
Director: Tomoaki Hosoyama
Starring: Kei Mizutami, Kunihiko Ida, Eisei Amamoto
This over-the-top farce about greed, power, and Japan's national obsession with weather reports stars a gorgeous Kei Mizutami playing a very unusual w... Read more
Platform (2000)
7.4/10
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Wang Hong-wei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jing-dong, Yang Tian-yi
Aka "Zhantai". Jia Zhang-ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history, from 1979 to 1989.... Read more
Dracula - Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003)
7/10
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Zhang Wei-Qiang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni, Cindymarie Small, Johnny Wright
Cult auteur Guy Maddin ('The Saddest Music in the World') has taken on the world's most adapted horror tale and concocted his most original and ravish... Read more
The Grudge 2 (2003)
6.4/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Noriko Sakai, Chiharu Niyama, Kei Horie, Yui Ichikawa
A Tokyo house has been the site of many strange disappearances. Kyoko is a horror film actress who is invited by a film crew to investigate the 'haunt... Read more
The Killing Machine (1975)
5.2/10
Director: Norifumi Suzuki
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Kei Sato, Etsuko Shihomi
Following the end of World War II, former Japanese soldier and Shaolin martial arts master Doshin (Sonny Chiba) returns to Osaka after working as a sp... Read more
The World (2004)
7.1/10
Director: Jia Zhang-ke
Starring: Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jue Jing, Zhong-wei Jiang, Yi-qun Wang
Set in the massive theme park outside Beijing where famous world landmarks are recreated, this beautiful allegorical film (and ironic given the endles... Read more
Resurrection of Golden Wolf (1979)
Director: Toru Murakawa
Starring: Jun Fubuki, Kei Sato, Yusaku Matsuda, Sonny Chiba
This thrill-packed Japanese noir follows the exploits of misleadingly mild-mannered Asakura (Yusaku Matsuda), an accountant by day and a ruthless kill... Read more
My Young Auntie (1981)
7/10
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Hsiao Hou, Lung Wei Wang, Chia Hui Gordon Liu
A triumph of kung fu comedy with a female lead who knows how to kick butt, this Shaw Brothers classic sees Kara Hui marrying the dying patriarch of a... Read more
The Wayward Cloud (2004)
6.6/10
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Starring: Kuei-Mei Yang, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-Ching
Intoxicating, daring, and beautifully photographed, Ming-liang Tsai's latest effort is indeed one naughty adventure of a film offering plenty of food... Read more
Vive L'Amour (1994)
7.5/10
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang
Starring: Lee Kang-Sheng, Kuei-Mei Yang, Chao-jung Chen
Three city folk unknowingly share a city apartment in Taipei. May is the real estate agent using it for romantic liaisons while it's on the market, A... Read more
A Young Prisoner's Revenge (2002)
Director: Mu Deyuan
Starring: Zhao Youliang, Chen Si Cheng, Xi Mei Juan
A fifteen year old boy is charged with a robbery, in order to reduce his sentence the family offer the judge a bribe, but unbeknowns to them the lawye... Read more
Blackhat (2014)
5.4/10
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Wei Tang, Viola Davis, Ritchie Coster, Holt McCallany, Yorick v...
Michael Mann ('Heat', 'Miami Vice') co-writes and directs this action thriller starring Chris Hemsworth as a former computer hacker. When an anonymous... Read more
Master of the Flying Guillotine (1976)
7.6/10
Director: Jimmy Wang Yu
Starring: Jimmy Wang Yu, Kang Kam, Kun Yee Lung, Kar Wing Lau, Lung Wei Wang
A vengeful martial artist who has developed a deadly flying guillotine act is out to settle a score with the One-Armed Boxer. But as he's also blind,... Read more
The Element of Crime (1984)
6.9/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Michael Elphick, Esmond Knight, Me Me Lei, Gerald Wells
Lars Von Trier's stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for yo... Read more
Gohatto (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tomoroh Taguchi...
Master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) returns to the screen with this fascinatingly ambiguous tale of homoerotic desire and jeal... Read more
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Don Frye, Akira Takarada
Godzilla's 50th birthday sees him travelling the globe as evil aliens have landed with evil alien thoughts. Only Godzilla and the Earth Defence Force... Read more