Posts Tagged ‘chinese’

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Thewlis, David | Wong, B. D. | Mako | Denzongpa, Danny | Wong, Victor | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Wangchuk, Jamyang Jamtsho | Tsamchoe, Lhakpa | Pema, Jetsun | Dongtse, Ama Ashe
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.

Shanghai Kiss (2007)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Leung, Ken | Panettiere, Hayden | Hu, Kelly | Moore, Joel | Hong, James | Lancaster, Kathleen | Scott, Lorna | Redford, Spencer | Connell, Steve | Gardner, Brian | Bottoms, Timothy | Altice, Summer | Yan, Oliver | Mann, Byron | Li, Chen
Directors: Konwiser, Kern
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A struggling Chinese-American actor, who unwittingly finds himself involved with a high school girl, learns he has inherited his grandmother’s home in Shanghai. The American-raised character moves to China in an attempt to connect with his ancestry, leaving behind quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him.

Kung fu (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Fantasy
Countries: China | Hong Kong
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.

Legend of Zorro, The (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Reyes, Alberto | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Sanchez-Parra, Gustavo | Alonso, Adrian | Chinlund, Nick | Zacarías, Giovanna | Cobos, Carlos | Banderas, Antonio | Emerson, Michael | Hensley, Shuler | Armendáriz Jr., Pedro | Crosby, Mary | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Bonet, Mauricio | Becerril, Fernando
Directors: Campbell, Martin
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The Legendary Zorro goes off on another adventure to protect the future of California and its citizens. This time, he fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe that there’s more to Armand than meets the eye, and our hero is intent on finding out what that is. Little does he know, there are others working to uncover certain truths as well.

Norbit (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Murphy, Eddie | Newton, Thandie | Crews, Terry | Powell, Clifton | Rasta, Mighty | Gooding Jr., Cuba | Griffin, Eddie | Williams, Katt | Levine, Floyd | Russell, Anthony | Crawford Brown, Pat | Miller, Jeanette | Colyar, Michael | Wayans, Marlon | Rhee, Alexis
Directors: Robbins, Brian
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Norbit (Murphy) is a normal person, who after being adopted by Mr. Wong (Murphy), ends up being married to the very large, Rasputia (Murphy). Norbit’s childhood love, Kate Thomas (Newton) arrives back in town to buy the orphanage. Norbit sees this as his chance to get back together with Kate, until he discovers that she is in fact engaged to Deion Hughes (Gooding, Jr.). Norbit isn’t going to lay this to rest, whilst he tries to survive life with Rasputia, and it looks like Deion also has something he would like to keep secret.

Dr. No (1962)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Lee, Bernard | Ursula Andress | Joseph Wiseman | Jack Lord | Gayson, Eunice | John Kitzmiller | Margaret Le Wars | Marshall, Zena
Directors: Young, Terence
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An agent of the British Secret Service, James Bond (007), is sent out to the West Indies in order to find out why another of his number was killed. His arrival is not welcomed by everyone, but it is not long before he is on the trail of the killer. The trail leads to a secretive scientist, Dr. No, but the discovery has wider implications…

007 You Only Live Twice (1967)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Connery, Sean | Wakabayashi, Akiko | Hama, Mie | Tamba, Tetsuro | Shimada, Teru | Dor, Karin | Pleasence, Donald | Lee, Bernard | Maxwell, Lois | Llewelyn, Desmond | Gray, Charles | Chin, Tsai | Fanene Maivia, Peter | Kwouk, Burt | Chow, Michael
Directors: Gilbert, Lewis
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When an American space capsule is swallowed up by what they believe to be a Russian spaceship, World War 3 nearly breaks out. The British Government, however, suspect that other powers are at work as the space craft went down near Japan. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. is the force behind the theft, as James Bond discovers, but its motives are far from clear, and he must first find out where the captured space capsule is held before America and Russia initiate another world war.

007 Goldfinger (1964)

Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Connery, Sean | Blackman, Honor | Fröbe, Gert | Eaton, Shirley | Mallet, Tania | Sakata, Harold | Lee, Bernard | Benson, Martin | Linder, Cec | Willis, Austin | Maxwell, Lois | Nagy, Bill | Mellinger, Michael | Cranwell, Peter | Regin, Nadja
Directors: Hamilton, Guy
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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated “Operation Grand Slam,” a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there’s Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase “golden girl”; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger’s high-flying scheme.

Shanghai Noon (2000)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
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) (1972)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: Hong Kong
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.