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7.2

♡ 24

89%

Yimou Zhang Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Feng Wanyu

Jiali Ding as Mr. Fang's wife

Bai Qing Xin as Officer Ballet School Feng Zu

Feng Zu as Officer Deng

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

2005

7.3

♡ 3

80%

81%

estranged father

father son relationship

Yimou Zhang Director

Ken Nakamoto as Electrician

Ken Takakura as Gou-ichi Takata

Kiichi Nakai as Ken-ichi Takata

Shinobu Terajima as Rie Takata

Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. Through a series of obstacles and relationships, he is brought unexpectedly closer to both an understanding of himself and of his son.

Cliff Walkers

2021

6.5

♡ 12

80%

Yimou Zhang Director Yi Zhao

Yi Zhao as Han

Ailei Yu as Ji Zhide Yi Sha

Yi Sha as Lao Fang

Hanyu Zhang as (uncredited)

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.

Under the Hawthorne Tree

2010

7.1

♡ 8

75%

Romance

Yimou Zhang Director

Jinsong Wang as Director Li

Dongyu Zhou as Jing

Shawn Dou as Sun Jianxin

Liping Lü as Wei's Mother

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.

The Road Home

1999

7.7

♡ 18

89%

Yimou Zhang Director Bo Ji

Bo Ji as Carpenter Xia Qi Liu

Qi Liu as Carpenter Xia, Old

Guifa Chang as Mayor, Old

Ziyi Zhang as Zhao Di, Young

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Snipers

2022

6.3

♡ 20

Yimou Zhang Director

Pierre Bourdaud as Andrew

Jonathan Kos-Read as John

Nathan Boyd as Nate

Kevin Lee as Russ

The story of sharpshooter Zhang Taofang, a young army recruit who at age 22 sets a record during the Korean War by reportedly killing or wounding 214 American soldiers with 435 shots in just 32 days.

Not One Less

1999

7.7

♡ 8

96%

Yimou Zhang Director Mei Bai

Mei Bai as Manager, Juxin Restaurant

Jiao Jie as Student

Mingshan Zhang as Student

Huimin Rong as Student

Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13-year-old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students.

One Second

2020

7.1

♡ 10

100%

75%

Comedy

History

Yimou Zhang Director

Shaobo Zhang as Little Boy Liu

Bing Wang as Restuarant Waiter Yang Yu

Yang Yu as Truck driver

Ziyue Tang as Young Bully

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006

7.0

♡ 31

65%

Yimou Zhang Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Empress Phoenix

Wen Zhang as Performer

Jay Chou as Prince Jai

Liam O'Brien as Prince Jai

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Red Sorghum

1988

7.3

♡ 14

85%

83%

1940s

distillery

japanese occupation of china

History

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.

House of Flying Daggers

2004

7.5

♡ 40

87%

Yimou Zhang Director

Takeshi Kaneshiro as Jin

Andy Lau as Leo Dan Ge

Dan Ge as Performer

Ziyi Zhang as Xiao Mei

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Ju Dou

1990

7.6

♡ 14

100%

Yimou Zhang Director

Xingli Niu as

Ma Chong as Li Gong

Li Gong as Ju Dou

Zhang Yi as Yang Tianbai

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

Shanghai Triad

1995

7.1

♡ 10

90%

Yimou Zhang Director

Lian Shuliang as

Shu Chen as Shi Ye

Chun Sun as Song, Tang's No. 2 Li Gong

Li Gong as Xiao Jingbao

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Shadow

2018

7.0

♡ 74

94%

Yimou Zhang Director

Ryan Zheng as Pei Liang Li Sun

Li Sun as Xiao Ai Jun Hu

Jun Hu as Yang Cang Lei Wu

Lei Wu as Yang Ping

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his enemies and the King himself. Now he must use this weapon in an intricate plan that will lead his people to victory in a war that the King does not want.

The Story of Qiu Ju

1992

7.5

♡ 7

87%

85%

Yimou Zhang Director

Luowen Cui as

Wanqing Zhu as Zi Lin

Zi Lin as Li Gong

Li Gong as Qiu Ju

When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.

Hero

2002

7.9

♡ 122

94%

Yimou Zhang Director

Tony Chiu Wai Leung as Broken Sword Jet Li

Jet Li as Nameless

Zhang Yi as Qin Guard #7

Donnie Yen as Sky

During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.

Under the Light

2023

5.9

♡ 7

53%

Yimou Zhang Director

Joan Chen as He Xiuli

Yajun Xu as Liu Bo

Zhengjun He as Wen Hui

Chu Bu Hua Jie as Yellow-haired hooligan

Officers Su Jianming and Li Huilin investigate a crime involving wealthy businessman Li Zhitian. As clues emerge, the investigation becomes more and more like a game of chess.

Full River Red

2023

6.4

♡ 10

94%

song dynasty (960-1279)

Yimou Zhang Director

Yan Huang as Hu Yong

Boyang Lin as Liu Yan

Jackson Yee as Sun Jun

Teng Shen as Zhang Da

During China's Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui's palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.

The Flowers of War

2011

7.5

♡ 120

41%

74%

atrocity

based on a true story