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The film's protagonist is Allan, a professional bodyguard based in Beijing whose tactical and martial arts skills and quick thinking have protected several statesmen from assassination. He is hired by James, a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, to protect his beautiful girlfriend Michelle Leung, who is the only surviving witness to a murder, after ...
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The film is set during the Battle of Peking (1900) (modern day Beijing). Starvation, widespread in China, is affecting more than 100 million peasants by the summer of 1900. Approximately a thousand foreigners from various western industrialized countries have exploited their positions inside Beijing's legations, seeking control of the weakened ...
The film can be counted as a mainland-made movie as most of the crew are from mainland China. Lan Yu received a brief mainland Chinese run during the Film Association of Beijing University-sponsored "China's First Gay Film Festival" at Peking University in December 2001. Although publicity for this film festival was mainly limited to the ...
Sword for Hire (戦国無頼, Sengoku burai) (lit. ' Vagabonds in a Country at War ' ) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The film is based on a serialized novel by Yasushi Inoue published in the Sunday Mainichi .
The film was met with critical acclaim. The film has a score of 60% from Rotten Tomatoes based on ten reviews. [1]Roger Ebert from the Chicago-Sun Times awarded the film three out of four, and wrote, "A Great Wall is a human comedy about a Chinese-American family that goes to visit relatives in Peking, and within that simple premise are so many inspirations that the movie is interesting even ...
Chris Hemsworth returns as the sad-sack, gun-for-hire Rake in “Extraction 2” and you'll thank the giant streamer for such a nifty bit of resurrection because this franchise is pure cinematic ...
Liu Cheng is a widowed cook making his living in a small southern town in China.His thirteen-year-old son, Liu Xiaochun (), is a violin prodigy.In the hope that Xiaochun might find success as a violinist, Liu Cheng and Xiaochun travel to Beijing to participate in a competition organized by the Children's Palace, an arts institution for school children.