It is 1917 Yunnan and Liu Jinxi lives a quiet life with his wife Yu and their two young sons Xiaotian and Fangzheng. Liu runs a paper mill and the village prospers. One day, two fugitives arrive demanding money and after a long...
In fictional capital city Teito where aristocrats continue to thrive since the 19th century, there is
a wide gap between rich and poor. However, there are rumours of a mysterious thief who only
steals from the rich and also...
Chinese history in the 2nd and 3rd Century, during which China split into three kingdoms
following the fall of Han Dynasty, and after decades of war and peace, reunified under a new
dynasty: Jin.
During the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, General Pang barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu and Wu Yang. After fighting back attackers from a...
A movie-within-a-movie, featuring a love triangle plot that parallel between several actors' lives. Jealousy, hatred and passion ignited by memories of the past, collide and culminate through the intervention of a seasoned...
Mei is an exotic, beautiful blind dancer, associated with a dangerous revolutionary gang, known
as the House of Flying Daggers. Captured by officers of the decadent Tang Dynasty, Mei finds
herself both threatened - and...
The ever-so-smooth Killer, a gun-for-hire, resigns from his job when he starts feeling the growing pressure from
his beautiful boss, Agent, about his whereabouts. The real problem at-hand, however, is that both parties are...
Acclaimed Hong Kong New Wave director Wong Kar-Wai presents a kinetic, offbeat look at his city in these two stories. The first concerns a young woman who has been double-crossed in a heroin deal and her budding romance with a...
