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Ash Is Purest White (Chinese: 江湖儿女; 'Sons and Daughters of Jianghu') [3] is a 2018 Chinese drama written and directed by Jia Zhangke. [4] The story is loosely based on the leader of a gang from Jia Zhangke's childhood, whom he had admired as a role model.
The film takes its story from oral traditions of Shandong. [1] A bumbling villager, Niu'er (), is charged with caring for a Dutch cow, considered an object of awe to the village given its larger size and ability to produce large amounts of milk, they forced Niu'er to take care of the cow, when the village head and members of 8th Route Army members that holds out the village before retreating.
'Destiny') is a 2013 Chinese anthology thriller film written and directed by Jia Zhangke and starring Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Luo Lanshan, and Zhao Tao, Jia's wife and longtime collaborator. The film consists of four loosely interconnected tableaus set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China, based on recent ...
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Chinese: 天浴) is a 1998 Chinese drama film directed by Joan Chen in her directorial debut, who co-wrote the screenplay with Geling Yan.Based on Yan's 1981 short story "Celestial Bath", the film is set in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement in People's Republic of China. [2]
Mountains May Depart (Chinese: 山河故人) is a 2015 Mandarin-language drama and the 8th feature film directed by Jia Zhangke. [3] [4] It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. [5] [6] and was also selected to be shown in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. [7]
Yellow Earth (simplified Chinese: 黄土地; traditional Chinese: 黃土地; pinyin: Huáng tǔdì) is a 1984 Chinese drama film.This film is telling a story of a young, village girl who bravely resists old-dated customs and searches for freedom.
An Elephant Sitting Still (Chinese: 大象席地而坐; pinyin: Dà Xiàng Xídì Érzuò) is a 2018 Chinese drama film written, directed and edited by Hu Bo.The first and only feature film by the novelist-turned-director Hu, who died by suicide soon after finishing his film on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, it is based on a story with the same title from his 2017 novel Huge Crack, about ...
Happy Times (simplified Chinese: 幸福时光; traditional Chinese: 幸福時光; pinyin: Xìngfú Shíguāng) is a 2000 tragicomedy film directed by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou, starring Zhao Benshan and Dong Jie.