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Ye yan (2006)
A loose adaptation of Hamlet,
"The Night Banquet" is set in an empire in chaos. The
Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Minister and the
General all have their own enemies they would like to finish off
at a night banquet.
Memoirs
of a Geisha (2005)
In
1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing
village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and
subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha
Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of
Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of
Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo
becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and
social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her
society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth,
privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and
the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of
history.
Zu
Warriors (2005)
Set in ancient times, immortals
train for hundreds of years to perfect their martial arts and
bring themselves closer to Nature. However an evil force is
threatening their existence on the mountains of Zu and they must
band together to fight back, with the help of a mysterious mortal
woman.
2046
(2005)
2046's story picks up right by the
end of In The Mood For Love: after Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung)
leaves, Zhou Muyun (Leung Chiu-Wai) becomes a very lonely writer.
He meets a prostitute (Zhang Ziyi) and spends a night with her at
room 2046, the very same room he had an affair with Su Lizhen.
Then he starts writing a novel called 2046, in which he reunites
with Su Lizhen. Chang Chen and Lau Kar-Ling play a couple of
lovers; Wong Yaye and Kimura Takuya plays a pair of robot lovers.
They are all characters in the book, and they are all from the
future. It is sort of a sequel to In the Mood For Love.
House
of Flying Daggers (2004)
Near the end of the Tang Dynasty,
police deputies Jin (Kaneshiro) and Leo (Lau) tangle with Mei (Ziyi),
a dancer suspected of having ties to a revolutionary faction known
as the House of Flying Daggers. Enraptured by her, the deputies
concoct a plan to save her from capture, and Jin leads her north
in what becomes a perilous journey into the unknown.
Purple
Butterfly (2004)
Itami, a young Japanese man, falls
deeply in love with Cynthia, a beautiful Chinese girl. Their brief
happiness ends when he is called home for his military service and
they are forced to part. Three years later, Shanghai has been
unofficially occupied by Japan. Cynthia - now known as Ding Hui -
is working for Purple Butterfly, a resistance group planning to
assassinate Yamamoto, head of the Japanese secret service. Itami
is also in Shanghai, operating as a secret agent and reporting
directly to Yamamoto.
Hero
(2004)
In a distant war torn land, a
ruthless emperor is rising to power with an iron fist and his
massive armies. To control everything, he will stop at nothing.
International action star Jet Li is a fearless warrior with no
name on a mission of revenge for the massacre of his people.
Musa:
The Warrior (2001)
Set in 1375, this Hong Kong epic
cost $60 million to make, and stars Zhang Ziyi (CROUCHING TIGER,
HIDDEN DRAGON). A captured princess is the only chance for
survival that a group of Koryo soldiers have, and they are
prepared to risk everything for her. Set to a backdrop of
struggling beaurocrats from Koryo attempting to make peace with
China, and some epic, intense battles, this is an intense journey
into the heart of one countries struggle for independence.
Rush
Hour 2 (2001)
Crime fighting has never been so
hazardous--or funny. Chopsocky action star Jackie Chan reteams
with motormouth Chris Tucker in this RUSH HOUR sequel as the
mismatched cop duo investigate several bombings in Hong Kong
attributed to Chinese gang leader Ricky Tan (John Lone) and
assassin Zhang Ziyi, whose beautiful, balletic kick packs a
head-ringing wallop. A fish out of water in exotic Hong Kong,
Tucker talks his way into reams of trouble, saved time and again
by Chan's frantic fighting. Though the two detectives are taken
off the bombing case, unpaid debts between Chan and the criminals
lead the detectives back to the U.S. and into the middle of an
international counterfeiting racket that only Chan and Tucker can
expose.
The
Road Home (2001)
City businessman Luo Yusheng
returns to his home village in North China for the funeral of his
father, the village teacher. He finds his elderly mother insisting
that all the traditional burial customs be observed, despite the
fact that times have changed so much. Yusheng realizes that his
mother's wishes must be respected. On the day of the funural more
than one hundred of Changyu's former pupils turn up to carry the
coffin - and none of them will accept payment. Before returning to
the city, Yusheng symbolically honors his father's dearest wish:
He spends one day teaching in the village school.
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Known for making films about
familial relationships, director Ang Lee surprised everyone with
his martial arts epic CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON. Based on a
novel by Wang Du Lu, CROUCHING TIGER starts with the revenge plot
common in the wuxia stories that Lee loved as a child, then adds a
feminist twist. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun Fat) is a legendary martial
artist who has decided to pass on his sword, the Green Destiny, to
a friend. Soon afterwards, the sword is stolen by a masked female,
setting in motion events that test the bonds of family, love,
duty, and sisterhood. Chow appears with three generations of
female stars: Cheng Pei Pei, a 1960s action heroine; Michelle Yeoh,
the beauty queen turned 1980s action goddess; and newcomer Zhang
Ziyi, who smolders as the princess who wants more than domestic
tranquility. Famed action choreographer Yuen Wo Ping (THE MATRIX)
stages jaw-dropping zero-G fights across rooftops, rivers, and
bamboo trees, while Yo Yo Ma punctuates the fisticuffs with
dramatic cello solos. Described by Lee as "SENSE AND
SENSIBILITY with martial arts," CROUCHING TIGER recalls the
best wuxia films of the 1960s and pushes the genre in new
directions.