This article reviews 10 Top best Chinese movies you need to watch.
Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂 Hǎiyáng Tiāntáng,)
Ocean HeavenOcean Heaven is a dramatic comedy of 2010 conducted by Xue Xiaolu.
Sam Wong is a terminally ill and knows that he will die soon. Although he has already resigned, is worried about her son Dafu, an autistic boy of 21 years. Sam works in an aquarium and, since his wife died 14 years earlier, alone of his son.
The biggest fear of Sam is that once he no longer, Dafu cannot survive. Then go day and night to try to teach him the tasks of everyday life so that her son can become independent.
An important part of the story is devoted to showing the help that Sam and Dafu receive from their communities. In China there is the welfare state that we in Europe and people have learned to help each other.
This is one of the few Chinese movies that have managed to understand without the help of the English subtitles. The reason is that communication is more focused on body language and facial expressions rather than on dialogue.
Although this is a sad story, "Ocean Heaven gives us a final full of optimism and hope for the future. But to find out you'll have to watch the movie; )
The story of Qiu Ju (秋菊打官司, Qiū Jú iron gate dǎ sī)
La storia di Qiu Ju The story of Qiu Ju, a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou 1992, is based on the novel Wan's wife goes to court of Chen Yuanbin. The film tells the story of Qiu Ju, as a peasant woman played by beautiful Gong Li, moves from the countryside to the cities to obtain justice after her husband was caught a kick in the head of the village zebedei, who did not want to know to apologize. Not getting any results Qiu Ju, who is pregnant, she decides to go up to Beijing, in the most intricate bureaucracy on the planet, one of the Chinese capital.
I loved Qiu Ju and his stubbornness from the first time I saw the movie. But it is only after surviving Chinese bureaucracy – at least for now – that I fully appreciated his courage. Note the tremendous work of the artist to bring up Gong Li as a simple village!
Eat Drink Man Woman (饮食男女, Nán Nǚ Yǐn Shí)
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Eat Drink Men Women Eat Drink Man Woman () is a Taiwanese film of 1994 directed by Ang Lee.
Master chef Chu is a widower who works at the Grand Hotel of Taiwan and sumptuous banquets organised Sunday worships to his three daughters. As the film goes on, the more we realize that in fact the daughters ill endure this ceremony, judging too traditional.
The film, as suggested by the title, revolves around two topics: food and sex. Ang Lee shows us several scenes of chef Chu busy in the kitchen and, at the same time, it tells the stories of three girls. There is Jia Ning, which undertakes various romantic relationships until you get pregnant; Chen Jia, a career woman who has an affair with a colleague and aspires to become a chef in turn; and Jia Jen, the eldest daughter, a sexually repressed teacher who turns out attracted by a gym teacher upon arriving at his school.
The Eat Drink Man Woman " that I prefer is the way in which the characters of the characters change during the evolution of the story, rather as happens in American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey.
Summer Palace (颐和园, Yíhé Yuán)
palazzo d'estateThe Summer Palace, a 2006 Chinese film directed by Lou Ye, tells the story of Hao Lei who leaves his provincial town to go to study at the University of "Beiqing" (fictitious name that recalls both Beida that Tsinghua University, the two most important universities in China).
The story branches off between stormy loves, broken friendships and lovers irrelevant while the background goes crazy the Tian An Men Square.
The film Council especially to those who want to learn more about student life and to those who, like me, he lived but never had access to female dorms, dumbfounded at the boys.
The Government has decided to censor the Summer Palace and to inhibit for five years Lou Ye from film directing with the assumption that he had presented the film to Cannes without approval. The real cause is probably to be found in explicit sex scenes – at least according to Chinese standards – and in political tones, which in fact remain in the background.
Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂, hóng dēnglóng gāogāo guà)
lanterne Rosse
Raise the Red Lantern, a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou 1991, is based on the novel wives and concubines by Su Tong. The story is set a few years before the Chinese civil war will break out in 1927.
The 19-year-old Wang Songlian, played by Gong Li, she is forced to marry the wealthy Chen Zuoqian because of his father's death that reduced the family bankrupt. Thus becomes the fourth wife (or concubine, 四太太, Yes tàitai) of the Lord.
Arrived at the Palace, Wang Songlian is accepted as a Queen. But soon discovers that not all receive the same treatment as concubines: only that with which the master has decided to spend the night ...
Raise the Red Lantern is a harsh, naughty, that describes the struggle between the concubines to win the favor of the master of fake smiles, imaginary pregnancies, betrayal and heightened punishment.
There are those who see Red Lanterns in a critique of the modern Chinese society. I'm not sure whether it is true or not, what is certain is that having a "second wives" (二奶, èrnăi) is a practice still quite prevalent among the wealthy Chinese (see my article dedicated to prostitution in China for details).
The Flowers of War (金陵十三钗, Jīnlíng chāi shísān)
the flowers of warThe Flowers of War, a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou 2011, is based on the novel the thirteen Nanjing flowers of Geling Yan.
The film tells the story of a group of prostitutes who take refuge in a convent to escape from Japanese troops during "the rape of Nanjing." Coexistence with the teenagers kept in the convent proves more difficult than expected as the male protagonist, an American who was a refugee in the convent, she looks pleased by surprise.
I decided to look at The Flowers of War after an advertising campaign so extensive and widespread that it is almost shocking. Also intrigued me the story – perhaps mounted – that preceded the arrival of the film. It seems that Zhang Yimou has fifteen girls selected municipalities and has "locked" together for a month so that the feeling must agree to pose a "brothel" mates: they are "the war flowers."
After seeing The Flowers of War, I have to say the tactic has been successful.
If I have to make a criticism, it is not clear why the male lead to be an American. Will be that the Director was aiming to export the movie? To Zhang Yimou anyway you forgive this and more!
In the Mood for Love (花樣年華 Fa yeung nin wa, (cantonese))
in the mood for loveIn the Mood for Fove, a 2000 comedy film directed by Wong Kar-wai, is set in Hong Kong in 1962. Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, lives in the same building of Su Li-zhen, Secretary. The two were married with a woman and a man, respectively, that are always at work. As a result they spend most of their time alone. The Director sends us sadness by providing often protagonists while they eat alone.
By the time the two shaking friendship and soon arrive at the conclusion that their respective spouses have become lovers. Begin to fantasize about how their romance have begun ...
In the Mood for Love is one of those films where almost nothing happens but not that accomplices of the music, the scenery and the movements from the protagonist's cat, kidnaps you, forcing you to follow him to the end and always leaving you unsatisfied.
Lust, caution (色, 戒, Sè, Jiè)
Lussuria - Seduzione e TradimentoLust – Seduction and betrayal, a 2007 Chinese thriller directed by Ang Lee, was adapted from the novel Lust of Ailing Zhang.
The story takes place during the occupation of the Japanese army. Wong Chia Chi, shy student of Shanghai, arrived in Hong Kong in 1938 to study at Lingnan University. You will find soon embroiled in a partisan cell which decides to assassinate Mr. Yee, a special agent recruited by the puppet government set up by the Japanese.
Chia Chi becomes so in Lady Mai, wife of a Hong Kong trader, with the intention of creep in the circle of the wife of Mr. Yee and seduce the latter. The plan fails when Mr. Yee is invoked in Shanghai.
Three years later, she returned to Shanghai, Chia Who would later reunite with Mr. Yee ...
Up the Yangtze (向上生长, zhǎng shàng Sheng Xiàng)
Up The YangtzeUp the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Yung Chang. Tells the story of Yu Shui, a 16-year-old who left his family – who lives on the banks of the Yangtze River (Yangtze River ), – to work on a cruise that is home to wealthy Western tourists.
The other main character of the story is Chen Bo Yu, a 19-year-old who comes from a wealthy family and who is trying to build a career as a singer in cruises (Yes, like Silvio Berlusconi).
Throughout history d Yu Shui and Chen Bo Yu, the documentary tells the story of the families who have seen their land and their houses inondarsi during the construction of the three Gorges Dam, thus being forced to go to live in a land foreign to them.
The other social theme treated by Up the Yangtze for the transition, still in place in China, rural economy to mass tourism.
Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬, Bàwáng Bié Jī)
Addio mia ConcubinaFarewell My Concubine, a 1993 Chinese film directed by Chen Kaige, adapted fromthe novel by Lilian Lee is the only Chinese film to have triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film tells the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou, interpreters of tragedy "Farewell My Concubine" to Peking Opera, the background of the Chinese history of the twentieth century – the Japanese invasion, the end of World War II and the arrival of the Communists in 1949.
Dieyi and Xiaolou children meet and experience, over the years, a deep friendship and a tormented homosexual love, betray each other when, during the cultural revolution, Beijing Opera is banned.
This article is dedicated to Kent and Tia Beds that, over the years, I have forwarded their passion for Asian cinema up to make you fall in love.
What's your favorite Chinese movies?
Ocean Heaven (海洋天堂 Hǎiyáng Tiāntáng,)
Ocean HeavenOcean Heaven is a dramatic comedy of 2010 conducted by Xue Xiaolu.
Sam Wong is a terminally ill and knows that he will die soon. Although he has already resigned, is worried about her son Dafu, an autistic boy of 21 years. Sam works in an aquarium and, since his wife died 14 years earlier, alone of his son.
The biggest fear of Sam is that once he no longer, Dafu cannot survive. Then go day and night to try to teach him the tasks of everyday life so that her son can become independent.
An important part of the story is devoted to showing the help that Sam and Dafu receive from their communities. In China there is the welfare state that we in Europe and people have learned to help each other.
This is one of the few Chinese movies that have managed to understand without the help of the English subtitles. The reason is that communication is more focused on body language and facial expressions rather than on dialogue.
Although this is a sad story, "Ocean Heaven gives us a final full of optimism and hope for the future. But to find out you'll have to watch the movie; )
The story of Qiu Ju (秋菊打官司, Qiū Jú iron gate dǎ sī)
La storia di Qiu Ju The story of Qiu Ju, a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou 1992, is based on the novel Wan's wife goes to court of Chen Yuanbin. The film tells the story of Qiu Ju, as a peasant woman played by beautiful Gong Li, moves from the countryside to the cities to obtain justice after her husband was caught a kick in the head of the village zebedei, who did not want to know to apologize. Not getting any results Qiu Ju, who is pregnant, she decides to go up to Beijing, in the most intricate bureaucracy on the planet, one of the Chinese capital.
I loved Qiu Ju and his stubbornness from the first time I saw the movie. But it is only after surviving Chinese bureaucracy – at least for now – that I fully appreciated his courage. Note the tremendous work of the artist to bring up Gong Li as a simple village!
Eat Drink Man Woman (饮食男女, Nán Nǚ Yǐn Shí)
Eat Drink Men Women Eat Drink Man Woman () is a Taiwanese film of 1994 directed by Ang Lee.
Master chef Chu is a widower who works at the Grand Hotel of Taiwan and sumptuous banquets organised Sunday worships to his three daughters. As the film goes on, the more we realize that in fact the daughters ill endure this ceremony, judging too traditional.
The film, as suggested by the title, revolves around two topics: food and sex. Ang Lee shows us several scenes of chef Chu busy in the kitchen and, at the same time, it tells the stories of three girls. There is Jia Ning, which undertakes various romantic relationships until you get pregnant; Chen Jia, a career woman who has an affair with a colleague and aspires to become a chef in turn; and Jia Jen, the eldest daughter, a sexually repressed teacher who turns out attracted by a gym teacher upon arriving at his school.
The Eat Drink Man Woman " that I prefer is the way in which the characters of the characters change during the evolution of the story, rather as happens in American Beauty, starring Kevin Spacey.
Summer Palace (颐和园, Yíhé Yuán)
palazzo d'estateThe Summer Palace, a 2006 Chinese film directed by Lou Ye, tells the story of Hao Lei who leaves his provincial town to go to study at the University of "Beiqing" (fictitious name that recalls both Beida that Tsinghua University, the two most important universities in China).
The story branches off between stormy loves, broken friendships and lovers irrelevant while the background goes crazy the Tian An Men Square.
The film Council especially to those who want to learn more about student life and to those who, like me, he lived but never had access to female dorms, dumbfounded at the boys.
The Government has decided to censor the Summer Palace and to inhibit for five years Lou Ye from film directing with the assumption that he had presented the film to Cannes without approval. The real cause is probably to be found in explicit sex scenes – at least according to Chinese standards – and in political tones, which in fact remain in the background.
Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂, hóng dēnglóng gāogāo guà)
lanterne Rosse
Raise the Red Lantern, a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou 1991, is based on the novel wives and concubines by Su Tong. The story is set a few years before the Chinese civil war will break out in 1927.
The 19-year-old Wang Songlian, played by Gong Li, she is forced to marry the wealthy Chen Zuoqian because of his father's death that reduced the family bankrupt. Thus becomes the fourth wife (or concubine, 四太太, Yes tàitai) of the Lord.
Arrived at the Palace, Wang Songlian is accepted as a Queen. But soon discovers that not all receive the same treatment as concubines: only that with which the master has decided to spend the night ...
Raise the Red Lantern is a harsh, naughty, that describes the struggle between the concubines to win the favor of the master of fake smiles, imaginary pregnancies, betrayal and heightened punishment.
There are those who see Red Lanterns in a critique of the modern Chinese society. I'm not sure whether it is true or not, what is certain is that having a "second wives" (二奶, èrnăi) is a practice still quite prevalent among the wealthy Chinese (see my article dedicated to prostitution in China for details).
The Flowers of War (金陵十三钗, Jīnlíng chāi shísān)
the flowers of warThe Flowers of War, a Chinese film directed by Zhang Yimou 2011, is based on the novel the thirteen Nanjing flowers of Geling Yan.
The film tells the story of a group of prostitutes who take refuge in a convent to escape from Japanese troops during "the rape of Nanjing." Coexistence with the teenagers kept in the convent proves more difficult than expected as the male protagonist, an American who was a refugee in the convent, she looks pleased by surprise.
I decided to look at The Flowers of War after an advertising campaign so extensive and widespread that it is almost shocking. Also intrigued me the story – perhaps mounted – that preceded the arrival of the film. It seems that Zhang Yimou has fifteen girls selected municipalities and has "locked" together for a month so that the feeling must agree to pose a "brothel" mates: they are "the war flowers."
After seeing The Flowers of War, I have to say the tactic has been successful.
If I have to make a criticism, it is not clear why the male lead to be an American. Will be that the Director was aiming to export the movie? To Zhang Yimou anyway you forgive this and more!
In the Mood for Love (花樣年華 Fa yeung nin wa, (cantonese))
in the mood for loveIn the Mood for Fove, a 2000 comedy film directed by Wong Kar-wai, is set in Hong Kong in 1962. Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, lives in the same building of Su Li-zhen, Secretary. The two were married with a woman and a man, respectively, that are always at work. As a result they spend most of their time alone. The Director sends us sadness by providing often protagonists while they eat alone.
By the time the two shaking friendship and soon arrive at the conclusion that their respective spouses have become lovers. Begin to fantasize about how their romance have begun ...
In the Mood for Love is one of those films where almost nothing happens but not that accomplices of the music, the scenery and the movements from the protagonist's cat, kidnaps you, forcing you to follow him to the end and always leaving you unsatisfied.
Lust, caution (色, 戒, Sè, Jiè)
Lussuria - Seduzione e TradimentoLust – Seduction and betrayal, a 2007 Chinese thriller directed by Ang Lee, was adapted from the novel Lust of Ailing Zhang.
The story takes place during the occupation of the Japanese army. Wong Chia Chi, shy student of Shanghai, arrived in Hong Kong in 1938 to study at Lingnan University. You will find soon embroiled in a partisan cell which decides to assassinate Mr. Yee, a special agent recruited by the puppet government set up by the Japanese.
Chia Chi becomes so in Lady Mai, wife of a Hong Kong trader, with the intention of creep in the circle of the wife of Mr. Yee and seduce the latter. The plan fails when Mr. Yee is invoked in Shanghai.
Three years later, she returned to Shanghai, Chia Who would later reunite with Mr. Yee ...
Up the Yangtze (向上生长, zhǎng shàng Sheng Xiàng)
Up The YangtzeUp the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Yung Chang. Tells the story of Yu Shui, a 16-year-old who left his family – who lives on the banks of the Yangtze River (Yangtze River ), – to work on a cruise that is home to wealthy Western tourists.
The other main character of the story is Chen Bo Yu, a 19-year-old who comes from a wealthy family and who is trying to build a career as a singer in cruises (Yes, like Silvio Berlusconi).
Throughout history d Yu Shui and Chen Bo Yu, the documentary tells the story of the families who have seen their land and their houses inondarsi during the construction of the three Gorges Dam, thus being forced to go to live in a land foreign to them.
The other social theme treated by Up the Yangtze for the transition, still in place in China, rural economy to mass tourism.
Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬, Bàwáng Bié Jī)
Addio mia ConcubinaFarewell My Concubine, a 1993 Chinese film directed by Chen Kaige, adapted fromthe novel by Lilian Lee is the only Chinese film to have triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival.
The film tells the story of Dieyi and Xiaolou, interpreters of tragedy "Farewell My Concubine" to Peking Opera, the background of the Chinese history of the twentieth century – the Japanese invasion, the end of World War II and the arrival of the Communists in 1949.
Dieyi and Xiaolou children meet and experience, over the years, a deep friendship and a tormented homosexual love, betray each other when, during the cultural revolution, Beijing Opera is banned.
This article is dedicated to Kent and Tia Beds that, over the years, I have forwarded their passion for Asian cinema up to make you fall in love.
What's your favorite Chinese movies?