Roosters + Flowers 1990-1999
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards in the '90s
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- DirectorTieli XieYuan ZhaoStarsJing XiaHuimin TaoYiwei FuThe decline of the Jia clan in imperial China.
- DirectorJialin ChenStarsShaoxiong GuoQi LuTangmin TangSet in 1929, Guangxi Province. On behalf of CCP, Deng comes to Guangxi and leads a uprising of some local warlords who have friction with the central army.
- DirectorJixing WangStarsRentang LiXuejian LiZongyin ZhouJiao Yulu was the communist secretary of Lankao County, who worked tirelessly for the people and died of liver cancer at the age of 42.
- DirectorZhennian WuStarsZifeng LiuZongwan WeiMeijuan XiAn old man from Taiwan moves in with a family in China, believing the wife may be his daughter whom he left behind when he fled the mainland.
- DirectorPing HeStarsWei GaoMana ZhaoJiang ChangA teenage lad arrives at Double Flag Town to claim his betrothed bride, when he encounters a group of outlaws and kills one of them. A vendetta is expected.
- DirectorYinnan DingStarsTiecheng WangXiaojuan ZhengGeng BiStory of the highly respected Premier Zhou Enlai. During the ultra-left trend, Premier Zhou protects many revolutionary predecessors from being persecuted and keeps the country in most normalizing diplomatic relations with the world.
- DirectorJiwei CaiMukui JingJun LiStarsXu ChenYang GuangLin SuSet in 1948, the second strategic campaign in central China between CCP army and the Nationalist Party army.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiPeiqi LiuLiuchun YangA peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
- DirectorPing HeStarsJing NingGang WuXiaorui ZhaoIn 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a fireworks business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
- DirectorXiaowen ZhouStarsLiya AiPeiqi LiuZhijun GeA woman gets obsessed with buying a television for her family.
- DirectorYuan FanStarsMeng LiRentang LiHua YangAn old village chief uses his own methods in dealing with recalcitrant troublemakers. However, trouble strikes when an anonymous letter accuses him of causing the suicide of a shamed village wife who abuses her mother-in-law.
- DirectorYing NingStarsLi JianLiu Ying ShuLiangui WangTake crime out of police work, and what's left is procedures. In the western sector of Beijing, we follow the tedium of police officers. A rabid dog is loose in Guoli's beat: a gang of police officers hunts it down. Then, word comes from on high to pick up all the dogs in the sector: fear of rabies combines with the dogs' being status symbols of the nouveau riche. Occasionally a criminal is picked up: someone selling porn, someone running a three-card-monte game. Cops smoke, go to meetings, and hold trainings. They patrol on bicycles and enforce edicts. Guoli works nights. He's lazy at home, his wife wants him to do more. Is there any more to do?
- DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsXu ZhuRenying ZhouZhigang ZhaoIn a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.
- DirectorDaying YeStarsKe-Yu GuoXiao-Li XuIgor LedogorovIt is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the long march; Chuchu had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang. The youngsters fit in well and learn to speak Russian. A large group of students, including Chuchu, leave for summer camp in Byelorussia accompanied by their teacher, Miss Vera. Xiaoman remains behind. The Germans invade the Soviet Union but Moscow remains unoccupied. Xiaoman takes a job delivering condolence letters to soldiers' families. At one apartment, he finds a mother has died and her very young daughter, Nadia, has not realized it. The summer camp is occupied by Germans and Miss Vera is murdered. One of the Soviet boys, Carl, is half-German, and helps the others escape but they are quickly recaptured. Chuchu and several other students are sent by Gen. von Dietrich to work as servants at German headquarters in the Yakovliv Monastery. The general is also a medical doctor with a peculiar hobby, tattooing.
- DirectorJin XieStarsGuoan BaoLiankun LinSihung LungQing official Lin Zexu burns the opium of British traders in a bid to end the opium trade. Incensed by his actions, the British traders appeal to their government, leading to the First Opium War and the eventual cessation of Hong Kong.
- DirectorNing KangXianhe LeiStarsPeiqi LiuChunli SongXin LiuQiao and Lei Feng are the closets comrade-in-arms. He hit down a telegraph pole while parking, and it unintentionally led to Lei Feng's pass away. Qiao lived rest of his life with utmost regret and felt guilty while he recalled Lei Feng's kindness. And he decided to devote himself to serve people wholeheartedly as Lei Feng.
- DirectorBingliu HuStarsYu PanXueyun BaiMin Sun
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsRujun TengYe LiuHao ChenA father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province.
- DirectorMailisiSaifuStarsLiya AiTumenBaasanjav MijidChronicles the first half of Genghis Khan's life, from his lowly beginnings after his father is killed until he rescues his wife and becomes the first Khan of a united Mongol confederation.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsMinzhi WeiHuike ZhangZhenda Tian13-year old Wei Minzhi is the new substitute teacher of a mountain village school. She is told not to lose any of her pupils under any circumstances.