The Foliage

2003
November 3, 2019

In the summer of 1974, Xing-Yu (Shu Qi) is among China’s young intellectuals that are sent to the countryside to join the construction infantry. There, she meets and falls in love with Sie-Mong. Her company leader and childhood sweetheart, Ding Guo Yuan, gets into a fight with Sie-Mong. She tries to make peace between the two jealous rivals but her attempts for truce further draw her into a forbidden and passionate relationship with Xing-Yu instead.

Lost in Beijing

2007

A look at modern-day life in China’s capital centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss’s wife. Massage girl Pingguo (Apple) (The stunning Fan Bingbing) lives in a cramped apartment with her bad-tempered window cleaner husband Kun (Tong Dawei), barely eking by on their minuscule pay. When Pingguo gets railed by her boss Lin (Tony Leung) one afternoon, Kun, who is washing the windows of the building, witnesses […]

Red Sorghum

1987

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu’er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.