What was the last Chinese film you watched?

[Sarpedon]

I've watched a few recently, not sure their Chinese names:

The World: A story about a couple of lovers working in a Beijing theme park that has miniatures of various world sites. She's a dancer/performer, he's a security guard. I enjoyed the scenery and the feelings on display here, although the ending is a bit of a downer.

Not One Less: Zhang Yimou's film about a substitute teacher in a village who journeys into the city to find one of her students who has gone there to work for his family. This was an extremely emotional and touching film, I laughed, I teared up, overall an excellent feel-good tale.

Days of Being Wild: Wong Kar-Wai's film grabs me every time I watch it, especially the first shot with Leslie Cheung walking in and flirting with Maggie Cheung.

Farewell my Concubine: A outstanding performance from Leslie Cheung. Just an incredible movie all around.

[Gleaves]

This thread made me feel guilty for not watching a Chinese-origin movie in a while (I've been watching way, way too many dubs). So I watched Ip Man 2 last night. I liked it. Thank you, thread.

[jbradfor]

Thank you, thread.

And I have already added two movies to my to-watch queue.

Thank you, thread.

[rivercao]

I've watched a few recently, not sure their Chinese names:

The World: A story about a couple of lovers working in a Beijing theme park that has miniatures of various world sites. She's a dancer/performer, he's a security guard. I enjoyed the scenery and the feelings on display here, although the ending is a bit of a downer.

Not One Less: Zhang Yimou's film about a substitute teacher in a village who journeys into the city to find one of her students who has gone there to work for his family. This was an extremely emotional and touching film, I laughed, I teared up, overall an excellent feel-good tale.

Days of Being Wild: Wong Kar-Wai's film grabs me every time I watch it, especially the first shot with Leslie Cheung walking in and flirting with Maggie Cheung.

Farewell my Concubine: A outstanding performance from Leslie Cheung. Just an incredible movie all around.

The World sounds like 中南海保镖? Not sure if it is.

Not One Less:一个都不能少

Days of Being Wild:阿飞正传

Farewell my Concubine：霸王别姬

I just watched 唐山大地震 a couple weeks ago. It was very moving, honestly I did weep though.

[gougou]

The World (by Jia Zhangke) is 世界, simple enough. There's a thread about it here.

[dreamon]

Now I am watching a BBC documentary "Wild China", which is a series of six movies.

Before that I watched "The Road Home" (我的父亲母亲) and liked it very much. I would like to see more about Chinese life, history, nature etc.

[ma3zi1]

穆斯林的葬禮

(A Muslim Funeral)

[Chinadoog]

Just watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon again for the second time. So good. I must watch the rest of 李安's films.

[Chinadoog]

ok, 饮食男女 (eat drink man woman) is also awesome. i really want to eat that old guy's food

[Lu]

Monga (Taiwanese films count right?). Great tragedy. It struck me that Hollywood rarely makes movies with such a grand sad ending.

[renzhe]

Tai Chi Master.

With Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh? Yeah, that's a hidden gem, that one.

I think the last Chinese movie I've seen was One Night in Shanghai or something like that quite a while ago. I haven't been watching many movies recently.

[heifeng]

人在囧途 (http://baike.baidu.com/view/3208894.htm)

(which also has 王宝强, aka the kid from blind shaft ; http://baike.baidu.com/view/764555.htm)

[skylee]

I saw

(Au Revoir Taipei) this morning. A very enjoyable film.

PS - I like it better than 海角七號. Much better.

[rob07]

Saw 荒村公寓 yesterday. As a thriller movie it was only so-so, but I enjoyed the 射雕英雄传 references. I also think I enjoy Chinese movies more than I would equally good English language movies, since because I have to pay more attention to understand them, I get into them more.

[dreamon]

May I ask two questions about Chinese history movies:

1. The movie "Red Cliff" (赤壁), the two-part version, has or doesn't have English subtitles? How much worse is the Western version?

2. Are there other good movies about the history of / traditional life in China, fiction or documentary, that might have English subtitles?

Thank you!

[Chinadoog]

Both versions of Red Cliff should have English subs. Red Cliff isn't very good though.

Check out 'Raising the Red Lanterns,' 'Red Sorghum,' and 'To Live' with Gong Li. 'Yellow Earth' is another good one that comes to mind.

[skylee]

I saw

n today. A very good film. A really grown-up Nicholas Tse. And a very very good 張家輝.

[rob07]

I really liked 线人 as well, I thought it did something new with the informant theme. Although I have to admit, I wasn't expecting much from the trailer, I thought it was going to be another boring car chase movie.

[Clarie]

Er, I think it's Hero.

Great movie, I cried like a baby at the end of it.

[renzhe]

I felt bad about not watching more classic Chinese movies, so I watched Clan of the White Lotus. Classic Hong Kong kungfu from the 1970s/1980s, and like most Shaw Brothers movies from that time, it's in Mandarin.

Trivia: the white eyebrow Taoist (Bai Mei Dao Ren) was the model for Kill Bill's Chinese grandmaster Pai Mei. It was played by Gordon Liu, the protagonist in this movie, as Tarantino's homage to classic Hong Kong kungfu cinema.