Posts Tagged ‘china’

Kung fu

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy
Actors: Chow, Stephen | Feng, Xiaogang | Yuen, Wah | Zhi Hua, Dong | Chan, Kwok Kuen | Lam, Chi Chung | Yuen, Qiu | Tin, Kai Man | Jia, Kang Xi | Fung, Stephen | Huang, Sheng Yi | Lam, Suet | Yuen, Cheung-Yan | Chiu, Chi Ling | Xing, Yu
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Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves around a hapless wannabe gangster who aspires to become a member of the notorious “Axe Gang.” Other characters include an obnoxious landlady and her apparently frail husband who exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.

4: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Actors: Gruffudd, Ioan | Alba, Jessica | Evans, Chris | Chiklis, Michael | Jones, Doug | McMahon, Julian | Washington, Kerry | Garrett, Beau | Benson, Peter | Braugher, Andre | Duffy, Graeme | Fishburne, Laurence | Grover, Fabrice | Menendez, Gonzalo | Cant, Heather
Directors: Story, Tim
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With Von Doom back in his homeland of Latveria the fantastic four have new troubles when Galactus has decided that Earth is his next target. When his henchman, The Silver Surfer, is sent to Earth he discovers that he’s getting more than he bargained for when he encounters the Fantastic Four. But that’s not all when Dr. Doom decides that after two years in the homeland he is ready to return.

Lost Empire, The

Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy
Actors: Gibson, Thomas | Bai, Ling | Wong, Russell | Young, Ric | Bedi, Kabir | Marsan, Eddie | Kim, Randall Duk | O, Henry | Beesley, Terence | Bernstein, Simon | Cheng, Cecil | Chinn, Anthony | Faulkner, James | Kong, Turbo | Kwouk, Burt
Directors: MacDonald, Peter
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American Businessman and China Scholar, Nick Orton is enlisted by the Buddhist goddess of mercy to save his world from de-evolving to the time of the Demon Master Shu and the 5 Traditional Masters who wish for no progress to ever happen. Nick is given help in the form of The Handsome Monkey king, Pigsy and Friar Sand who must do battle with dragons, demons and a heavenly legal system to assure that Earth remains as it should be.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Actors: Jolie, Angelina | Butler, Gerard | Hinds, Ciarán | Barrie, Chris | Taylor, Noah | Hounsou, Djimon | Schweiger, Til | Yam, Simon | Yin, Terence | Caltagirone, Daniel | Martell, Fabiano | Coyne, Jonathan | Cavanah, Robert | Vibert, Ronan | Juma, Lenny
Directors: Bont, Jan de
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Intrepid British archaeologist Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) has made perhaps the most important archaeological discovery in history: an orb that leads to the mythical Pandora’s Box. Unfortunately, the orb falls into the hands of Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds), an evil scientist who deals in killer viruses and hopes to sell the secrets of the box as the ultimate weapon. Recruited by British Intelligence to get the orb back from Reiss, Lara recruits Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), a British marine turned mercenary (and her former love interest) to help. The two embark on an adventure that spans continents in an attempt to regain the orb…

Mulan

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical
Actors: Ferrer, Miguel | Fierstein, Harvey | Shen, Freda Foh | Foray, June | Hong, James | Margolyes, Miriam | Morita, Pat | Murphy, Eddie | Nixon, Marni | Oh, Soon-Tek | Osmond, Donny | Salonga, Lea | Shigeta, James | Takei, George | Tondo, Jerry
Directors: Bancroft, Tony | Cook, Barry
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Mulan is a girl, the only child of her honored family. When the Huns invade China, one man from every family is called to arms. Mulan’s father, who has an old wound and cannot walk properly, decides to fight for his country and the honor of his family though it is clear that he will not survive an enemy encounter. Mulan, who just got rejected by the matchmaker because she had set her on fire, decides to prove that she is worth something and steals away to fit her father’s place in the Chinese army. She prays to her family’s ancestors for protection and luck before leaving as a man in her father’s armor with her family’s horse. The ancestors awake and decide to send Mushu, a little dishonored dragon to aid Mulan in her quest. Weeks later, Mulan and the other troopers have survived the training camp and are on the way north to stop the huns. After being spotted and pursued by the enemies, an impass situation in the mountains forces Mulan to come up with an idea. But then, her real gender will no longer be a secret. She decides to risk everything in order to save China.

Last Emperor, The

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Actors: Lone, John | Chen, Joan | O'Toole, Peter | Ying, Ruocheng | | Dun, Dennis | Sakamoto, Ryuichi | Han, Maggie | Young, Ric | Wu, Vivian | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Go, Jade | Ikeda, Fumihiko | Vuu, Richard | Tijger, Tsou
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.

Drive

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Actors: Dacascos, Mark | Hardison, Kadeem | Pyper-Ferguson, John | Murphy, Brittany | Walter, Tracey | Shigeta, James | Kato, Masaya | Magwili, Dom | Yuan, Ron | Rosengren, Clive | Michael, Christopher | Smith, Ted | Szeto, Tedd | Mihailoff, R.A. | Watts, David
Directors: Wang, Steve
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A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

Shanghai Noon

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Western
Actors: Armstrong, Curtis | Chan, Jackie | Wilson, Owen | Liu, Lucy | Merrill, Brandon | Yuan, Roger | Berkeley, Xander | Yu, Rongguang | Cui, Ya Hi | Chen, Eric | Connery, Jason | Goggins, Walton | Dorval, Adrien | Báez, Rafael | Grant, Stacy | Luyben, Kate
Directors: Tom Dey
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A 19th century Western. Chon Wang is a clumsy Imperial Guard to the Emperor of China. When Princess Pei Pei is kidnapped from the Forbidden City, Wang feels personally responsible and insists on joining the guards sent to rescue the Princess, who has been whisked away to the United States. In Nevada and hot on the trail of the kidnappers, Wang is separated from the group and soon finds himself an unlikely partner with Roy O’Bannon, a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge onto one misadventure after another.

Fist of Fury (aka Chinese Connection)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Actors: Lee, Bruce | Miao, Nora | Tien, James | Yi, Maria | Baker, Robert | Chen, Fu Ching | Chin, San | Han, Yin-Chieh | Hashimoto, Riki | Arimura, Jun | Huang, Chung-Hsin | Lee, Quin | Tien, Feng | Lee, Yin Chi | Liu, Tony
Directors: Lo, Wei
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Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher’s death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher’s murder.

Enter the Dragon

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Thriller
Actors: Lee, Bruce | Saxon, John | Shih, Kien | Capri, Ahna | Mao, Angela | Kelly, Jim | Wall, Robert | Yeung, Bolo | Chung, Betty | Weeks, Geoffrey | Archer, Peter | Yan, Ho Lee | Clark, Marlene | Kent, Allan | Keller, William
Directors: Clouse, Robert
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Hong Kong circa 1973. Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned by Han, a reclusive billionaire who was once a member of the Temple but has now become a renegade. Braithwaite believes Han uses his tournaments as cover for narcotic and prostitution activities. Lee reluctantly agrees to enter the tournament, but his reluctance to confront Han disappears when a Shaolin monk reveals that during the previous staging of this tournament, he and Lee’s sister were accosted by several toughs led by Han’s personal bodyguard, an American named O’Hara. In the ensuing confrontation the monk cut a deep scar on O’Hara’s face but Lee’s sister ultimately perished, and at her gravesite Lee vowes revenge for her death. Also attending the tournament are two American martial arts experts, John Roper and Kelly Williams, who served together in Vietnam and took differing paths toward martial arts upon their discharge - Roper is on the run from Mafia gambling debt collectors, while Williams was accosted by two racist cops whom he’d dispatched before stealing their car to escape. All three will soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his army of martial arts fighters as he protects his underground factory of narcotics and prostitution.