Roosters + Flowers 2000-2009
Movies to watch awarded or nominated in Golden Rooster Awards and Hundred Flowers Awards in the '00s
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- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsZiyi ZhangHonglei SunHao ZhengPrompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
- DirectorGuoxing ChenStarsXuejian LiYoubin LiJin ChenSet in 1950s and 1960s, general Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda coming back from USA lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb in the Gobi Desert of northwest China.
- DirectorBenzheng YuStarsQingxiang WangJingsheng LiaoLing ZuoLi Gaocheng is the mayor of the city of Haizhou. One day, workers at the textile factory of which he used to be chief are in uproar. Indeed, the workers accuse the new managers of the factory are stealing money allocated to the plant. Initially, Li can't believe the men he selected are corrupt, but later he finds out more and more evidence are against them. Soon after, Li discovers the most senior backer of this scheme is the person who selected him as the mayor as well as his wife is involved in this conspiracy...
- DirectorYazhou YangStarsPing NiQuan YuanHaiying SunPeasant Zhang Meili has big feet and an even bigger heart. Founding a school for young rural children, she teaches there alone until helped by Xia Yu, a young volunteer teacher from Beijing who brings in new ideas.
- DirectorYeming SongStarsYong HouLixin MuSet in 1999. Two China special force soldiers are selected to join in an international training camp located in Amazon basin in Latin America. They withstand plenty of tests and tremendous pressure, come successfully through the ordeal and win the honor.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsXiaotong GuanXiaodong GuoTeruyuki KagawaThe film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who, for the last ten years, has been living in the big city. When he returns home, he runs into his childhood love, Nuan.
- DirectorXiaolian PengStarsYuanzheng FengJosephine KooJoey Wangthe rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling. Years later, the matriarch of the family announces that she is dying. When her four grown children return, it becomes the first time the family has been under one roof in decades.
- DirectorJian ChenDong ShenLian WeiStarsWufu WangShusheng LiGuangming XuAs the Japanese troops sweep southwards from Manchuria to China proper, the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang ally to hold them back at Taihang Mountains. But their alliance proves fragile at best.
- DirectorLi YinStarsKun ChenVivian HsuBingbing LiA Taiwanese medical student defects to Mainland China due to Nationalist persecution, became an army surgeon during Korean War, and later went to Tibet as a doctor, while pining for his first love who is still in Taiwan, and being persistently pursued by another girl. Compiled from several actual events.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsHanyu ZhangChao DengWenkang YuanA soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeon LaiZiyi ZhangHonglei SunA biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsMinjie CuiYueming PanRujun TengRookie policeman Tai Lin yearned to be an artist before he failed an examination and followed in his father's footsteps. One day he interrupts an apparent suicide attempt by a woman standing on the edge of a bridge.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsYun TangPeiqi LiuHong ChenA violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.
- DirectorMailisiSaifuStarsGuersirengRenhua NaCai NingA Mongol and his ex-wife take care of a 10-year-old Chinese boy, the son of a man he met in prison.
- DirectorJian QiStarsDalong FuZifeng LiuLi ZhouA plucky guard risks life and limb battling illegal loggers.
- DirectorChi Leung 'Jacob' CheungStarsAndy LauAhn Sung-kiZhiwen WangStory centers on a battle during China's Warring States Period, a series of civil wars, which spanned from the 5th to the 3rd century B.C. Based on a popular Japanese manga, which was in turn based a Japanese novel inspired by Warring States history in China.
- DirectorBaoping CaoStarsXun ZhouChao DengWang NingWhen a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. A drug trafficking crime is unveiled, and through the twists and turns of the investigation, their stories unravel, and a bizarre connection is gradually discovered between them. THE EQUATION OF LOVE AND DEATH weaves together three different love stories, examining the different emotional struggles people go through in dealing with pain and loss, and how letting go might just be the hardest thing to do.
- DirectorGordon ChanAndy Wing-Keung ChinDanny KoStarsDonnie YenXun ZhouKun ChenAn action-thriller centered on a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers.
- DirectorNing HaoStarsHuang BoKung-Wei LuMorris Hsiang JungAssassins, scammers, gangsters, cops, a washed-up bicycle racer, and a body continually cross paths; usually with negative outcomes.
- DirectorZiniu WuStarsKun ChenHeng FuZhengjun HeOn how the national anthem of the People's Republic of China, "March of the Volunteer Army", came into existence.
- DirectorXiaoning FengStarsJing NingPaul KerseyXinjun WangThe film tells the story of a grounded American pilot during the Second World War who learns about the noble spirit of the Chinese poeple when he is rescued by the communist-led Chinese army after an emergency landing near the Great Wall. On the way to the Communist base, the pilot falls in love with a girl soldier whose lingering memory of being raped by the Japanese makes her a determined fighter. Half a century later, the American pilot returns to the Yellow River to pay his respects to the native people who rescued him.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsDonald SutherlandRosamund KwanPaul MazurskyYankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait...is Don getting better?
- DirectorHong HuangStarsSiqin GaowaLan YuLin LiHaving been an orphan himself, a philanthropic bachelor claims to the press at an orphanage endowment event that he shall be father to any orphan, and once word gets around, urchins start pouring in.
- DirectorJoe MaStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiMiriam Chin-Wah YeungChang ChenMing a marriage consultant who runs into the charming but blind Yeuk through a little help of a guardian angel. The wheel of fortune is set in motion after the lonesome Ming discovers that he is blind one day. Nobody else than York who is used to make her way through the labyrinth of the metropolis without relying on the power of sight every day becomes Ming's loyal helper. Will Ming's gift of seeing ever return and if so, will he stay together with York?
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsWei ZhaoNicholas TseYunlong LiuThe film has been made after a popular novel that is devoted to the everyday work of a drug police team. The protagonist is a courageous police woman whose relations with three men in her life make up the plot of the film. She is always faced with a difficult choice between sentiments and duty, law and her own understanding of what is just and fair.
- DirectorPing HeStarsWen JiangKiichi NakaiXueqi WangA Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
- DirectorWulan TanaStarsYang HaoQi RuyiChengren TianFamily roles and responsibilities are questioned when an elderly father welcomes a foster child into his home despite the adamant disapproval of his son and daughter-in-law.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsYou GeFan XuGuoli ZhangFollows the story of a television host who's hidden so much personal and secret information on his phone, that when it gets out, catastrophe strikes.
- DirectorBenny ChanStarsJackie ChanNicholas TseCharlie YeungA hero cop accidentally leads his team into a trap from which he is the only survivor. Drowning his guilt in booze, he is eventually assigned a new younger partner who turns out to have his own secrets.
- DirectorStephen ChowStarsStephen ChowWah YuenQiu YuenIn Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
- DirectorNing HaoStarsTao GuoTeddy LinHua LiuWhat do you get when you have a precious jewel, a group of bumbling thieves intent on getting their hands on it, the mob wanting a piece of the action, and a loyal but mischievous security guard all thrown together? Crazy Stone. It's a fast paced, wisecracking caper comedy that will have you engaged and entertained from the word go. This is China's answer to Ocean's Eleven, with many comic twists and turns thrown in for good measure.
- DirectorZhenzhi FengStarsQingyao LeiA girl named Zhi Hua lost both of her arms because of a high voltage electric shock. She could do nothing, not even going to school, because she couldn't write her homework. This sudden blow caused her mother to suffer from spasmodic schizophrenia. Through long time hard training, Zhi Hua not only learned to write with her feet and won back her opportunity to go to school, but also learned to eat, wash her face, brush her teeth and put on her clothes, among other things, with her feet. So the school finally accepted her as a boarding student. Zhi Hua passed the university entrance examination and applied for a medical school. Because she was armless, she wasn't admitted. The bad news rendered her mother insane again, who wandered away home and got lost. After hard training, Zhi Hua was qualified to participate in the National Swimming Tournament for the Disabled and won a champion. As a result of her good performance in the game, she was admitted as a student to the Provincial University of Physical Education, thus realizing her mother's dream for her. However her mother never came back.
- DirectorStanley TongStarsBing ShaoJackie ChanWeixing YaoArcheologist Jack keeps having reoccurring dreams of a past life, where he is the great general Meng Yi, who is sworn to protect a princess named Ok-Soo. Jack decides to go investigate everything with his friend William.