Cry Woman (2002)

A portrait of urban anomie focusing on two bohemian artists who drift through the miasma of old Beijing in the 1980s.

The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.

Huang is a taciturn detective, hired to catch the elusive Li Chonggao in an illicit tryst. Having failed that, he placates himself by collecting evidence: taking pictures of a rumpled bed or attempting to question the locals. When he meets the stunning Yu Ran, he suspects she may be the key to capturing Li, but she has secrets of her own.

In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.

Xu Daqin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity he passed up in this place 40 years ago.

When impoverished young bride Youyou (Zhang) collapses from hunger at the door of handsome buccaneer Pan Hao (You Yong), he immediately decides to have her, much to the chagrin of his current squeeze, Widow Ma (Jiang Yanqiang).

A story of vengeance set in China’s wild Southwest, where brutality can be the norm rather than the exception.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

In this video diary, Weerasethakul documents the set of Primitive Project in Nabua, Thailand, particularly the scene when teenagers are hypnotized and sleep inside a time machine.

아름다운 여인이 있다. 네 명의 남자가 있다. 그들은 그녀를 사랑하여 모든 것을 포기하겠다 맹세하지만 그녀는 누구에게도 머물지 않는다. 아니 중국의 현대사를 살아내는 그들에게, 신구와 동서양이 혼재했던 샹하이라는 도시에게 사랑은 받아들이지 못하고 다만 바라보아야할 순수인지 모른다. 그래서 떠나는 남자들에게도 혼자된 여인에게도, 기나긴 회한만 남는다. 장한가(長恨歌)다. 1980년대 홍콩 뉴 웨이브의 한 사람으로 등장하여 홍콩 멜로드라마의 품격을 높인 관금붕과 현존하는 중국 최고의 인기작가 왕안이가 만났다. 1940년대부터 현대까지 샹하이를 배경으로 한 여인의 인생유전을 그린 소설 는 1990년대 중국 문학의 걸작으로 평가받아 왔으며, 관금붕이 연출을 맡은 영화는 성룡의 나 서극의 과 함께 올해 중국어권 영화 최고의 프로젝트였다. 홍콩 최고의 여성 뮤지션이자 배우인 정수문이 주인공 챠오를 연기하며, 양가휘를 비롯한 화려한 캐스팅이 돋보이는 대작. 원작이 가진 국제도시 샹하이와 그곳의 사람들의 삶을 그리면서 동시에 근대 홍콩의 알레고리를 창조하는 관금붕의 정제된 연출은 작품의 다층적인 의미를 음미하게 해 준다. 1940년대를 추억하는 나른한 선율과 함께 펼쳐지는, 어쩌면 세상의 모든 도시와 도시인들의 이야기.

사랑했지만 사랑을 잃어버린 세 남녀, 낯선 도시에서 만나다 [사연을 품은 채 타인의 도시에서 살아가는 세 남녀] 화려함과 퇴폐가 공존하는 L.A 다운타운에서 마사지 샵을 경영하며 혼자 살고 있는 써니. 지석은 헤어진 연인이 살고 있다는 이유만으로 뚜렷한 목적 없이 이곳에 와 써니 집 위층에 세를 든다. 한편, 지석의 옛 애인 영신이 ‘헬렌 정’이라는 가명으로 이 도시에서 심야 라디오 방송 ‘러브토크’를 진행하고 있다. 써니는 마사지 샵 청원 경찰인 랜디와, 지석은 클럽 댄서인 앨리스와, 그리고 영신은 같은 학교 유부남 선배와 각각 공허한 만남을 유지한다. 그렇게 세 사람은 낯선 도시의 어느 여름을 맞는다.

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

The film follows a family in the central Chinese city of Chongqing made up of retired policeman Li (He Xingquan), his second wife Zhang (Guan Jiangge) and their two sons from former marriages. Neither of the younger generation are doing too well, with Li’s son Jianjun (Liao Zhong) working long hours as a taxi driver, putting strain on his new marriage, and Zhang’s son Xiaolei (Xu Tao) running wild with a gang of hooligans. After Li is sent the ashes of his ex-wife, he begins the search for a new family burial plot, at the same time trying to hold their lives together.

A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.

The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Once released, he seeks out his old girlfriend Li Xin who has since begun a relationship with La La a young musician. As the two men vie for her attention, tension and violence escalate.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.