Drama

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  Pigs and Battleships

  Shohei Imamura plays his story of love and crime amid the shadow of occupation with verve, gallows humour and tears…

  
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  Crows and Sparrows

  An allegorical melodrama that saw two Chinas at a historic junction of modern Chinese history…

  
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  Red Sorghum

  Zhang Yimou has never bettered his astonishing debut…

  
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  The Silent Sea

  The latest blockbuster Korean series shoots for the stars but gets weighed down by sci-fi clichés…

  
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  The Wheel of Life

  King Hu headlines but doesn’t dominate a roundly adventurous, exquisite reincarnation saga…

  
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  Ripples of Life

  Wei Shujun’s sophomore feature is a sharp look into the filmmaking process and the pursuit of realism…

  
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  The Story of Southern Islet

  Chong Keat Aun’s otherworldly debut…

  
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  Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Moustache

  A slight if likeable work from filmmaker and lama Khyentse Norbu…

  
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  Chinatown Kid

  A buffet of kung fu, crime, comedy, culture clash and carnality that may not be the healthiest but sure is filling…

  
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  To Live

  The quintessential Chinese film…

  
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  In Front of Your Face

  The master of the mundane continues his current interest in female protagonists…

  
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  The Battle at Lake Changjin

  Three directors combine for three hours of patriotic warfare in the latest Chinese military propaganda blockbuster…

  
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  Drive My Car

  Could Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Murakami adaption be his best yet?

  
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  Shanghai Triad

  A less-talked-about addition to Zhang Yimou’s oeuvre, with visual elegance and playful approach to genre conventions…

  
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  Limecrime

  Making sense of their own name is but one of many challenges from school to the streets for two aspiring rappers…

  
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  Raise the Red Lantern

  Zhang Yimou’s gilded cage that holds wonders and unimaginable horrors is unleashed on Gong Li…

  
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  Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

  Too many monsters to count in this timeless rarity…