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 | Set in a Chinese opium brothel, an emotional battle is waged between a western hypocrite and an Eastern pleasure queen. Gene Tierney at her best in this film based on a racy 1925 broadway play by John Colton. It received 32 rejections from the Hays... |
 | The old master of a powerful family in 1920's China supports three wives. Each has her own house within the closed world of the family compound, where every evening a red lantern is lit in front of the door of the wife with whom the master chooses to... |
 | In one of the recurring gags of ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA, attempts to take Wong Fei Hung's picture always fail. The failure to capture the image of Wong (Jet Li) serves as an appropriate metaphor for the place of the Ching Dynasty folk hero in... |
 | In this, the first film to unite the martial arts mastery of Jackie Chan and director/choreographer Yuen Woo Ping (IRON MONKEY), action fuses with comedy to create a masterpiece of the genre. It is the end of the China Dynasty, and the 200 year-old... |
 | A pair of lifelong friends are expelled from their Shaolin temple after being accused of cheating. Tienbao becomes a powerful and oppressive military leader while the other, Junbao, (Li) joins the rebels. Only the discipline of Tai Chi can help... |
 | The most powerful swordsman in Japan travels to China to take on that country's greatest warrior, as a test of heroism. Ching Siu-Tung's directorial debut is a unique mix of philosophy and exciting swordplay. |
 | ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA 2 presents the continuing late-19th-century adventures of Chinese folk hero and doctor Wong Fei-Hong (Jet Li), who arrives in Canton with for a medical conference. Unfortunately, the city is about to start a revolution as... |
 | Director Tsui Hark remakes his own Hong Kong classic ten years later, but this time in animated form! A young man in ancient China falls in love with a ghost, and many slapstick situations ensue. |
 | Chinese security officer Darren (Aaron Kwok) and his partner Alex (Lee-Hom Wang) are members of Team 808 an elite crime-fighting force, trying to stop a huge drug cartel (and rap star Coolio) with the help of a Japanese intelligence officer. Director... |
