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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from Columbia Tri-Star Price: $11.21 Customer Review:  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is simply a masterpiece. A brilliant film with great performances by its stars, Michelle Yeoh, Chow yun fat, and especially Zhang Ziyi. Director Ang Lee along with his choreographer tell this epic story in a stunning and creative visual way that makes this film one of... |
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Chungking Express from Miramax Price: $9.99 Customer Review: Great date film.... Urban isolation, bad break ups, and quirky humor characterizes this film, with some great perfomances by Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and "the Madonna of Mandarin," pop star, Faye Wong. Bridgette Lin also has one of her best roles ever, although she's incognito in a blond whig... |
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In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $31.96 Customer Review: Wong Kar-Wai allows us to understand an old story in a new way. The characters make their way through this film bound by conventions that will not allow fruition of an affair. These characters are aware of their situation but powerless to change. We are taken to another era with the use of beautiful... |
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To Live from MGM/UA Video Price: $11.96 Customer Review: To Live takes place mid century in China just after the second world war. The story line follows the Xu family and the hardships that befalls them. It illustrates to what lengths people had to adapt and convert to in order to survive under Communist rule (especially during the cultural... |
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Shaolin Soccer from Miramax Price: $13.99 Customer Review: In the summer of 2001, this hilarious comedy-action film was released in Hong Kong, and it immediately became the biggest hit there, even beating the previous box-office record of Jackie Chan's "First Strike." The craze went on, and when it was released in Japan in May, 2002, it again became an... |
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Once Upon a Time in China Trilogy from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $14.96 Customer Review: Jet Li is the best kung fu star ever. The OUTC series are excellent movies, with lots of action, showing Li's capabilities and the films offer excellent plots, with nice photography, impressive locations and top-of-the-line production. The DVD format offers excellent picture quality, with subtitles... |
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The Road Home from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $23.96 Customer Review: Eclipsing any romantic comedy or drama from Hollywood in the last 30 years, The Road Home achieves so much by doing very little. Master filmmaker Zhang Yimou successfully captures what it's really like to fall in love for the first time through his use of cinematography (sumptuous as always),... |
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Farewell My Concubine from Miramax Home Entertainment Price: $11.24 Customer Review: "Farewell My Concubine" was released exactly 10 years ago (1993). I meant to rent it for the longest time, because I've heard nothing but rave reviews about the director, the actors, and the storyline. I finally rented the director's cut DVD this weekend. It was nearly 3 hours long and worth every... |
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Bullet in the Head from Tai Seng Video Price: $44.96 Customer Review:  Produced in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, John Woo's BULLET IN THE HEAD is both a response to the appalling violence that was taking place in mainland China at the time, and a pointed examination of the director's traditional themes of loyalty and brotherhood and the... |
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The Emperor and the Assassin from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $23.96 Customer Review: Watching the Emperor and the Assassin is like watching history come alive. Before going into anything else about this picture, just the site of the costumes and watching the Emperors soldiers, living breathing moving terra cotta warriors is simply awesome. The history of ancient China leaps at you... |
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Together from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Price: $13.46 Customer Review: A childhood memory resounded my lost youth,music,love,unfairness,passion.......even more purity that I hopefully reserved not quite well in my heart.The story of this talented boy,Xiaochun,was a miracle because of several kindness among the social warmness.He firstly had take home by a... |
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Not One Less from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $26.96 Customer Review: This film was apparently based on the true story of a 13 year old girl, Wei, who was recruited to take over a rural classroom for one month while the teacher is on family medical leave. The teacher tells her that too many kids are dropping out of school and that if no kids have dropped out when he... |
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The Storm Riders from Tai Seng Video Price: $14.36 Customer Review: Every once in a while, a film comes out of Hong Kong that reminds me of why I like Asian cinema. Storm Riders is such a movie. While less frenetically paced than many of my earlier favorites ("Swordsman II", "Fong Sai Yuk", etc.), it nonetheless has outstanding action scenes and a creative visual... |
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Chinese Ghost Story from Tai Seng Video Price: $26.96 Customer Review: I saw Chinese Ghosty Story II before Chinese Ghost Story, and there's a marked difference between the two. Unfortunately, there are several important plot points from the two movies that join them in a way that makes both better (including a song that takes on a whole new meaning when you realize... |
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Shanghai Triad from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Critics have tended to give this film the thumbs down finding it a bit to commercial. The director Zhang Yimou is better known for dramatic social realist type films, such as raise the Red Lantern. However Shaghai tried gets you in from the moment it starts. The opening scene shows Gong Li the... |
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Shower from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Shower is simply an amazing movie. It is about an old man who runs a bathhouse with his mentally retarded son, in a run-down neighborood in China. His eldest son, who has been swept up into a commercial and materialistic lifestyle, comes back to see his estranged father. Shower conveys the message... |
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Fallen Angels from Image Entertainment Customer Review: i have to admit that my concept/experience/knowledge about movies is so so little that i wouldn't dare to write a review on films like Fallen Angels. however, what's important is my feeling towards this film. whether one sees this contention as subjective or not (or even objective) is what i don't... |
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A Chinese Ghost Story II from Tai Seng Video Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Contrary to the English title, this movie isn't really about ghosts. It's about monsters, including a centipede who "studied" for thousand of years to achive human form. (Chinese mythology contains plenty of stories about animals who "study" for almost eternety to achieve human or some other... |
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Temptress Moon from Miramax Price: $13.49 Customer Review: Gorgeous, decadent, sensual, at times psychologically incoherent, Kaige Chen's "Temptress Moon" is nothing if not always fascinating to watch because at the very center of this film, at it's core, is a story about family, desire and the things we do to each other in the name of love. Set mostly... |
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Red Cherry from Fox Lorber Price: $13.48 Customer Review: I recently saw this movie, Red Cherry, and found this movie to be in one sense, powerful; in another, I found it painful. It is based on a true story about two Chinese children who are taken in to a Russian, what appears to be an orphanage. They are taken care of, educated, and assimilate into the... |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Superbit Collection) from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $25.16 Customer Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is simply a masterpiece. A brilliant film with great performances by its stars, Michelle Yeoh, Chow yun fat, and especially Zhang Ziyi. Director Ang Lee along with his choreographer tell this epic story in a stunning and creative visual way that makes this film one of... |
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Magnificent Butcher from Fox Home Entertainme Price: $9.98 Customer Review: Sammo once again shows his old school roots in this film based (sort of) on an actual historical figure known as the Magnificent Butcher (Sammo), who was a student of the real life Wong Fei-hung, the character played most recently by Jet Li in the Once Upon a Time in China Series. A comedy of errors... |
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Swordsman II from Tai Seng Video Price: $26.96 Customer Review: The excellence of this film is difficult to convey. It can be enjoyed on so many different levels. First of all, the swordfight sequences are all dazzling and handled effortlessly by the venerable Tsui Hark and company. They almost make it look easy. From start to finish, there isn't one dull... |
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Happy Together from Image Entertainment Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Happy Together, by Chinese director Wong Kar-Wai, is one of my all-time favourite movies, and - along with The Tango Lesson - one of the movies that has effected me the most. To me, HT is one of those (rare) art products that manage to combine formal beauty, intellectual sharpness and emotional... |
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The King of Masks from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $25.16 Customer Review: A wonderful movie that accurately portrays some of the issues concerning the important of being male in China, The Middle Kingdom. Following is a little synopsis I wrote concerning the inequality between males and females in China. I hope this helps shed a different perspective on the movie.... |
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