, 1h34 GenresDrama, Comedy ActorsGerhard Olschewski, Yang Fengliang Roles Chen Hao-xiang Rating73% Zhao Shuxin (Liu Zifeng) is a capable engineer and German interpreter in a mining company. He is single and has the unusual habit of playing Chinese chess alone. The chessboard and pieces are his intimate friends and have accompanied him for years. One day, when Zhao returns from a business trip, he finds one of his chess pieces, the black cannon, missing. Despite heavy rain, he immediately hurries to the postal office and sends a telegram to the hotel he stayed in previously, which reads, "Missing black cannon. 301. Searching. Zhao.", requesting the hotel's help to search for the piece in Room 301.
, 1h35 Directed byZhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang GenresDrama, Horror, Romance ThemesFilms about families ActorsGong Li, Li Baotian Rating75% Ju Dou takes place in the early 20th century in rural China. The story begins as Yang Tianqing (the regular Zhang collaborator Li Baotian) is returning from a trek to sell silk for his adoptive uncle, Yang Jinshan (Li Wei). Jinshan, whose trade is dyeing fabrics, is known for his cruelty. Tianqing learns that Jinshan has just recently purchased a new wife, having beaten two previous wives to death after they failed to produce a son, the cruel irony being that Jinshan is in fact impotent.
, 1h30 Directed byZhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang GenresDrama, Thriller ThemesTransport films, Aviation films ActorsGong Li, Wang Xueqi, Yu Rongguang Rating43% The film follows a commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul that is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the fictional Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Communist authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on the flight, and agree to cooperate discreetly with Taiwanese authorities to defuse an already tense situation.
, 1h35 Directed byZhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang GenresDrama, Horror, Romance ThemesFilms about families ActorsGong Li, Li Baotian Roles Co-Director Rating75% Ju Dou takes place in the early 20th century in rural China. The story begins as Yang Tianqing (the regular Zhang collaborator Li Baotian) is returning from a trek to sell silk for his adoptive uncle, Yang Jinshan (Li Wei). Jinshan, whose trade is dyeing fabrics, is known for his cruelty. Tianqing learns that Jinshan has just recently purchased a new wife, having beaten two previous wives to death after they failed to produce a son, the cruel irony being that Jinshan is in fact impotent.
, 1h31 Directed byZhang Yimou GenresDrama, War, Historical, Romance ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Musiques du monde, Musical films, Political films ActorsGong Li, Jiang Wen, Zhang Yimou Roles Assistant Director Rating72% The film takes place in a rural village in China's eastern province of Shandong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is narrated from the point of view of the protagonist’s grandson, who reminisces about his grandmother, Jiu'er (S: 九儿, T: 九兒, P: Jiǔ'ér). She was a poor girl who was sent by her parents into a pre-arranged marriage with an old man, Li Datou, who owns a distillery.