Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem is based on one of my favorite books of the last decade, so it had a lot to live up to. Sadly, it didn't. I saw it on…
Free China: The Courage to Believe
This shortish documentary (61 minutes) tells the story of two people living on opposite sides of the earth who were both persecuted for their belief in Falun Gong, a modern…
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Without doubt Ai Weiwei is the most famous Chinese artist on the planet. His art is thought provoking, but his life, even more so. The documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry…
When Ruo Ma was Seventeen
This sweet coming of age story is almost worth seeing just for the scenery alone. Shot in southern China’s Yunnan province, When Ruo Ma was Seventeen uses the beautiful landscape…
Perhaps Love 如果·愛
If you're looking for a good musical romance in Chinese, Perhaps Love is your movie. It stars Asian heart throb Takeshi Kaneshiro and Superstar singer Jacky Cheung in a love…
The Road Home 我的父亲母亲 (1989)
"The Road Home" is a fantastic chick flick, a 3 hankie love story set in a small village in north China sometime during the Cultural Revolution though you'd never know…
Ikiru 生きる & Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles 千里走单骑
I rented two films this week that coincidentally both center on older men and fractured relationships with their grown sons. Why do so many men and their fathers have such…