Monk Comes Down the Mountain
After a Taoist monk apprentice is thrown out of his temple and left to fend for himself, he meets other masters to discover life through betrayal, vengeance, forgiveness and love.
After a Taoist monk apprentice is thrown out of his temple and left to fend for himself, he meets other masters to discover life through betrayal, vengeance, forgiveness and love.
Instead of reviewing my favorite films of the past decade (2000-09) for The LAMB’s Foreign Chops: Best of the 2000s, I wanted to list them all.
After being diagnosed with advanced lymphatic cancer, beautiful hard-working Ye Lanqiu is caught in the nightmarish bus that will ruin hers and the lives of everyone that’s around her when she refuses to give her seat to an elder and is caught on camera.
Home releases for Chen Kaige’s contemporary classic, the tragic Chinese opera tale of Farewell my Concubine (霸王别姬), is a tricky buy… so does this China Bluray release do the movie justice?
The Chinese director is back on screen with his latest film Caught in the Web (搜索), set to be released on July 6th in theaters in China.
Commissioned by the British Film Institute as part of the 100 Years of Cinema celebrations, Stanley Kwan takes a look back into the history of Chinese films with a broad array of filmmakers.