Chu Jing

Mandarin-era Hong Kong film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.

Pao-yu is in love with his cousin, Lin Tai-yu, but his family has other marital plans for him that will leave both broken-hearted.

Deux enfants destinés à être élevés ensemble sont séparés à la naissance après l’assassinat de leur père respectif par les troupes d’un tyran local. L’un deux est capturé avec sa mère et envoyé dans le château du potentat tandis que l’autre est recueilli par une bande de sept chevaliers. Les enfants recevront une éducation martiale dispensée par deux maîtres différents. Ceux-ci se proposent de les faire combattre dix huit ans plus tard afin de comparer la valeur de leur élève. Les années passent. Le premier des enfants, Kuo Tsing, s’avère peu doué pour les arts martiaux mais parvient à tuer accidentellement un des chefs d’un clan pratiquant le kung-fu du squelette. Il s’attire alors les foudres d’une de ses guerrières. Le second enfant a été élevé dans l’ignorance de son passé. Il vit avec sa mère, devenue princesse, auprès du tyran qui a tué son père et pratique des arts martiaux maléfiques. Tous les protagonistes vont bientôt à nouveau être confrontés les uns aux autres.

A fantastic martial artist and cat burglar puts his skills to use when he joins the Chinese resistance movement against the invading Japanese.

A great "swordfighter" learns humility after he is defeated by a master martial arts monk. But his reputation always precedes him, leading to danger, destruction, challenges, cruelty, kidnapping, and killing.

In this gossipy film, the rise of several well-known Chinese actresses to local movie prominence is recounted, although in fictional form. Their encounters with well-known Hong Kong business and film celebrities are alluded to as well.

The childhood exploits of the 4 adolescent Hsu brothers orbit around the family's love and indulgence of their spoiled youngest son.

A romantic Shaw Brothers musical.

Huangmei Opera movies like The Pearl Phoenix are unique to 1960's Hong Kong culture, a product of the Swinging Sixties but considerably more in touch with their Chinese roots. This one is complete with a gender-bending tale where the male lead is played by female and the female lead poses as a man, plus movie queen Li Ching and the singing voices of Ivy Ling Po and Jing Ting. Sit back and enjoy!

Have no other info than it was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.

Taiwan's most glamorous screen couple, Ko Chun-Hsiung and Chang Mei-Yao, co-star in "Fallen Petals", a romance with the unique setting of Taiwan during World War II, when the island was a colony of Japan. Ko is drafted into the Japanese army and forced to leave his pregnant girlfriend behind. When he is presumably killed in action, Chang becomes a cabaret girl to support their baby. Thanks to director Pan Lei's sensitive scenario, the dramatic outcome is far from predictable.

Tsu Hong Wu is a highly fictionalized fantasy retelling of the early years of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life that was obviously geared toward younger audiences. The tale actually begins in Heaven, where the various gods are busy paving the way for a new emperor. The very basic facts of Zhu Yuanzhang’s life are ostensibly correct, but it takes a rather unexpected turn into traditional giant monster territory, with a Taoist priest summoning a gigantic red-haired ogre (amusingly referred to as ‘superman’ in the subtitles) to destroy our heroes, who are in turn rescued when a golden dragon (the animal manifestation of one of the deities from earlier in the film) rises from the ocean to do battle with said ogre