The vast universe of fantasy in Chinese literature has always been a source for the film industry to make new intriguing movies. Whether it’s a daring interpretation of a old classic, like Stephen Chows Journey to the West movies, or a more traditional approach, like in the tv-series Pilgrimages to the West from 1986, Chinese […]
Making a film about Lei Feng in post-Mao times must seem like a very daring project seeing that the trivial and mundane life of the worlds most famous PLA-soldier would pale in comparison with action filled flicks such as The Taking of Tiger Mountain (Tsui Hark, 2014) and Operation Mekong (Dante Lam, 2016). A creative […]
The Ice people (冰族) and the Fire people(火族) are bitter rivals and a war between the two deity like clans (神族) is imminent. The future king of the Ice people Ka Suo (卡索) and the prince of the Fire people Xin Jue (忻绝) are the catalyst to the conflict though Ka Suo wishes nothing more […]
As the Great Leap Forward were in its inception phase the first science fiction film, now available to watch, was released in China. The Ming Tombs Reservoir (Jin Shan/金山, 十三陵水库畅想曲) seemed like a suitable movie to start off the Great Leap Forward campaign with its utopian imagining – in the last 20 minutes of the […]
Xu Zheng is lost once again and this time he’s still trying to find his way through the thick layer of preconceptions which also is a dominant theme in his latest film Lost in Hong Kong. Xu Lai (played by Xu Zheng/徐峥) is a 30-something bra designer. A decade after graduating from university Xu Lai still […]
When it was announced that Liu Cixins novel Three Body was gonna be made in to film scifi-fans around the world were excited about the news. For a short while some Chinese fans also discussed the idea of Christopher Nolan being the director of the film mostly because of Interstellar recent success in mainland China. […]
The police force is always a source for constant mockery and satire. Not only because it’s one of the few institutions in a modern society which can exercise violence as a mean for carrying out their work but also because the ambiguous nature of being a police, corrupted or not, is potential good comedy anywhere […]
Geng Yanbo (耿彦波) is a father, husband and the mayor of the city Datong (大同) located in Shanxi, northwest of China. Director Zhou Hao (周浩) got the unique opportunity to follow the industrious and tireless Geng for a long period of time and at the same time taking part of the transformation of an ancient […]
In the midst of North-east China’s snow covered trees and mountains platoon 203 is fighting against small gangs of bandits who rob and pillage rural villages. When entering the small village Leather Creek they find out about a nest of bandits living on Tiger Mountain, where bandit chieftain The Hawk (座山雕/三爷) is leading a gang […]
This week and last weeks news about Chinese film has been overshadowed by the box-office results of Wu Jings (吴京) action film Wolf Warriors 《战狼》. The movie premiered last thursday (2 april) and has already entered the list of 100 most watched film in China as number 80. Compared to other domestic films box-office results for the […]
