During the warring period of the three kingdoms, ancient China is in turmoil. To unify the country, general Cao Cao, the real power behind the Emperor, enlists the aid of the greatest warrior in the land, Guan Yu. However, Guan Yu is a loyal friend of Cao Cao's enemy Liu Bei so to persuade the peerless warrior to fight, Cao Cao takes his beloved Qi Lan hostage. After leading Cao Cao's forces to victory Guan Yu sets out with Qi Lan to rejoin Liu Bei. Now Cao Cao has deemed him too great a threat to live, and on the journey he must face all the forces at the Emperor's command sent to destroy him.

The Emperor's Shadow

1996

Chinese

6.9

♡ 6

80%

Xiaowen Zhou Director Yi Zhao

Yi Zhao as

Qingxiang Wang as Li Si Qing Xu

Qing Xu as Ying Yueyang

Wen Jiang as Ying Zheng

Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.

Hidden Man

2018

Chinese

6.4

♡ 20

71%

Wen Jiang Director

Alexander Sullivan as Agent's driver

Wen Jiang as Lan Qingfeng

Kenya Sawada as Nemoto Ichiro

Shanshan Yuan as Senior

A martial arts-infused spy thriller set in 1937 Beijing. A time when China was lurching between revolution, prosperity, and chaos.

Hibiscus Town

1987

Chinese

8.2

♡ 3

Action

based on novel or book

Jin Xie Director

Harrison Liu as Li, Guigui

Guangbei Zhang as Li, Mangeng

Wen Jiang as Qin, shutian

Xiaoqing Liu as Wu, Yuyin

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

2003

Chinese

6.3

♡ 3

68%

Ping He Director

Kiichi Nakai as Lai Qi

Wen Jiang as Lieutenant Li

Handong Wang as Rider B

Wei Zhao as Wen Zhu

A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.

Red Sorghum

1988

Chinese

7.3

♡ 14

85%

83%

1940s

Action

based on novel or book

distillery

Drama

History

japanese occupation of china

Yimou Zhang Director

Yimou Zhang as

Hongguang Wang as Li Gong

Li Gong as Wo Nainai

Wen Jiang as Wo Yeye

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

In the Heat of the Sun

1994

Chinese

8.0

♡ 15

96%

1970s

Action

based on novel or book

Wen Jiang Director

Nan Shang as Liu Sitian Bin Liu

Bin Liu as Liu Sitian

Wen Jiang as Ma Xiaojun Yu Xia

Yu Xia as Ma Xiaojun

Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."

Let the Bullets Fly

2010

Chinese

7.3

♡ 16

75%

Wen Jiang Director

Kun Chen as Hu Wan

Yun-Fat Chow as Master Huang

Carina Lau as Mrs. Ma

Wen Jiang as Pocky Zhang

When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Hood figure finds himself in a showdown with the local godfather.

Gone with the Bullets

2014

Chinese

5.8

♡ 4

Wen Jiang Director

Thomas Fiquet as Dancer

Stacey L. Pirozzi as Dancer

Wen Jiang as Ma Zouri Qi Shu

Qi Shu as Wanyan Ying

Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.

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The Lost Bladesman

The Emperor's Shadow

Hidden Man

Hibiscus Town

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

Red Sorghum

In the Heat of the Sun

Let the Bullets Fly

Gone with the Bullets