Shadow
A wife falls for her husband’s surrogate.
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Crazy Sex
Shaw Brothers super director Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. The second features an elderly jeweler’s adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello.
Lost in Beijing
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 graped by her boss Lin (Tony Leung) one afternoon, Kun, who is washing the windows of the building, witnesses […]
Shanghai Triad
A triad boss’ mistress has an affair with the boss’ right-hand man. That usually doesn’t end well.
Red Sorghum
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.
Ebola Syndrome (1996)
A restaurant employee wanted for mu..er contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.
A Brighter Summer Day
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Twisted Love (aka Twisted Passion)
Director Yang Chuan airs the dirty laundry on politicians and closet gays in torrid and wicked Twisted Love aka Twisted Passion. Councilor wannabe Ma Yu-chang (Chang Kuo-chu) gives his wife everything she could possibly want – except sexual attention. The frustrated Tina falls in love with young designer Sam (Tang Chen-tsung) which drives Ma into a rage. Tina then learns why her husband is so cold towards her in bed. When Sam is found lying […]
The Foreigner (2017)
A wife is having an affair with her husband’s young nephew.
Amazing Stories
With karma as the central theme, this intriguing movie is made up of three amazing stories. In the first one, a doll fairy punishes a man for sexually abusing his wife by burying itself together with the man in a fire. The second story tells about a fox fairy that sacrifices itself to save a hunter from being sucked dry by a vampire. The third tale depicts the surprising outcome of the mu..er of a […]