Eat Drink Man Woman
(1995) [PG]

In this delicously heart-warming comedy, director Ang Lee cooks up a feast of emotional twists and surprises as traditional family ties comically unravelled. Trouble is brewing for old Mr. Chu, taipei's greatest chef. He's losing his sense of taste and his patience with his three ungrateful...  More

Shanghai Triad
(1995) [M]

`Shanghai Triad" may be the last of the collaborations between the Chinese director Zhang Yimou and the gifted actress Gong Li. The story of a gang boss in 1930s Shanghai and his willful, troublesome mistress, it's seen through the eyes of a small boy from the country who loses his innocence in...  More

A Chinese Ghost Story
(1987) [MA]

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble tax collector, arrives in a small town to carry out his work. Unsurprisingly, no-one is willing to give him shelter for the night, so he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There, he meets Taoist Swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of...  More

Days Of Being Wild
(1991) [M]

Set in Hong Kong in the hot summer of 1960. A disillusioned and cruel young man is kept in luxury by a retired courtesan who provides everything except the identity of his real mother. He plays carelessly with lovers until leaving for the Philippines where the truth may ultimately destroy him.  More

Not One Less (1999)
(1999) [G]

In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for each day and promises her an extra 10 yuan if there's not one less student when he returns. Within days, poverty...  More

The Emperor And The Assassin
(1998) [MA]

From Chen Kaige, the director of Farewell, My Concubine comes The Emperor And The Assassin - a visually stunning epic exploring the devastating price one country pays for peace and one man pays for power.Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into...  More

Yi Yi (A One And A Two)
(2000) [M]

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank, his business partners make bad decisions...  More

Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress
(2002) [M]

Based on writer-director Dai Sijie's bestselling autobiographical novel of the same name, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a beguiling love story set during the 1970's Cultural Revolution. Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two bourgeois young men from the city are sent to a remote,...  More

Happy Times
(2002) [PG]

Zhao (Zhao Benshan) is an economically challenged aging bachelor who hasn't had much luck in love. So he enlists the help of a matchmaker to find a wife. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, he leads her to believe that he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his means....  More

Springtime in a Small Town
(2002) [PG]

An exquisitely constructed romantic drama, Springtime in a Small Town is the first film by Tian Zhuangzhuang since the controversial The Blue Kite in 1993. Set in a bomb-scarred Chinese town in the aftermath of World War II, the film tells the story of the passionless marriage of the ailing Liyan...  More