Ciao Ciao
2018A wife bangs the village barber.
Archives: Movies
Shadow
2018A wife falls for her husband’s surrogate.
Crazy Sex
1976Shaw 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
2007A 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 raped by her boss Lin (Tony Leung) one afternoon, Kun, who is washing the windows of the building, witnesses […]
Shanghai Triad
1995A triad boss’ mistress has an affair with the boss’ right-hand man. That usually doesn’t end well.
Red Sorghum
1987An 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)
1996A restaurant employee wanted for murder 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
1991A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Twisted Love (aka Twisted Passion)
1985Director 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)
2017A wife is having an affair with her husband’s young nephew.