China
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Following a record-breaking release in the mainland last summer, which ended with Nezha crossing US$700 million to become the second most successful film of all time at China’s domestic box… Read More
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Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, yet it can also be one of the most stressful. From the months of planning, to interfering… Read More
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Asia has not always been at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Even in Asian cinema, too often it’s the men who wrestle with world-changing events, while the… Read More
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My People, My Country, an epic seven-part anthology to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, chronicles the nation’s greatest technological and cultural achievements.… Read More
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Nick Cheung plays a pathologist station at a mortuary on Christmas Eve, when Richie Jen’s gang of masked criminals descend on the establishment in order to retrieve some incriminating evidence… Read More
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Cinema is filled with stories about journeys, and none more so than the long, slow march towards death that each of us must travel. Ageing and mortality are inevitable facts… Read More
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An interstellar hit at the Chinese box office (4 billion yuan [US$600 million] and counting), Frant Gwo’s science-fiction epic The Wandering Earth finally touches down in Hong Kong, days after… Read More
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Bi Gan’s mesmerising second film follows Chen Yongzhong’s lovesick protagonist as he returns to his hometown in search of Tang Wei’s enigmatic beauty. Featuring a fractured, kaleidoscopic first half of… Read More
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More than a decade since Zhang Yimou’s last foray into the wuxia (martial arts) genre, the celebrated filmmaker returns with Shadow, a visually ravishing tale of intrigue and deception that… Read More
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More Than Blue, the Taiwanese remake of the 2009 South Korean tear-jerker, is sending audiences reaching for the Kleenex once again. It stars Jasper Liu Yi-hao as a young man… Read More
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For his first Chinese-language film, Japanese director Shunji Iwai collaborates with producer Peter Chan Ho-sun to revisit themes from his 1995 hit Love Letter with a film that champions the… Read More
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Almost eight years after production began on Forever Young, the ambitious historical epic finally arrives on Hong Kong screens with precious little fanfare. Despite an all-star Chinese cast, writer-director Li… Read More
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Chinese actor-director Jiang Wen ( Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ) completes his Republican Era trilogy with a riotous tale of betrayal, revenge and branded backsides set in 1930s… Read More
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Jason Statham and Li Bingbing go up against a giant prehistoric shark in this high concept but ultimately rather toothless monster movie that targets a mainstream mainland audience over the… Read More
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The ugly side of China’s economic boom is explored in Walking Past the Future, which premiered as the only Chinese entrant at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. But despite the… Read More
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Vivian Qu explores the #MeToo movement in contemporary China by following the troubled misadventures of two pairs of young girls, who fall prey to the unwanted sexual exploitation of men… Read More
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For years, China has been known as a source of affordable knock-offs of everything from designer labels to, as it turns out, even paintings from the Great Masters. In particular,… Read More
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As the epilogue of Chen Sicheng’s Detective Chinatown promised two years ago, the action moves from Bangkok to New York in this high-energy, lowbrow sequel, which has already proved a… Read More
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