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Category: China

The Keriya

The Keriya

The sands do not shift in Pengfei Shen and Ji Lin’s understated documentary.

Posted on 10 Dec 202510 Dec 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in China, DocumentaryTagged 2017, Ji Lin, Pengfei Shen, Review. Leave a comment

Detective Chinatown 1900

Detective Chinatown 1900

Chen Sicheng’s nationalist mystery comedy brings more of what we love about the Detective China series.

Posted on 16 Oct 20255 Nov 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in China, Comedy, Mystery, PeriodTagged 2025, AJ Donnelly, Bai Ke, Chen Sicheng, Chow Yun Fat, John Cusack, Liu Haoran, Review, Wang Baoqiang, Yin Zheng, Yue Yunpeng, Zhang Xincheng. Leave a comment

A Summer’s End Poem

A Summer’s End Poem

It’s a new year, new you in Lam Can-zhao’s slice-of-life short.

Posted on 13 May 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in China, Comedy, Drama, ShortTagged 2024, Cai Jingbo, Cai Liyu, Lam Can-zhao. Leave a comment

An Unfinished Film

An Unfinished Film

A movies lingers in production hell as the world falls apart, in Lou Ye’s docu-fiction drama.

Posted on 7 May 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in China, Documentary, DramaTagged 2024, Huang Xuan, Liang Ming, Lou Ye, Mao Xiaorui, Qi Xi, Qin Hao, Zhang Songwen. Leave a comment

Brief History of a Family

Brief History of a Family

A boy makes a friend, and regrets it almost immediately in Lin Jianjie’s dramatic thriller.

Posted on 11 Mar 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in China, Drama, ThrillerTagged 2025, Guo Keyu, Lin Jianjie, Lin Muran, Sun Xilun, Zu Feng. Leave a comment

The Monkey King and Fruit of Immortality

The Monkey King and Fruit of Immortality

Sun Wukong does what he does best and causes complete mischief, in the second part of Shanghai Animation’s trilogy.

Posted on 10 Jan 20256 Feb 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in Animated, China, FantasyTagged 1981, Journey to the West, Review, Yan Ding Xian. Leave a comment

The Four Monkeys: The Return of Sun Wukong

The Four Monkeys: The Return of Sun Wukong

We’re reaching the bottom of the Journey to the West barrel. Is this the end of Journuary?

Posted on 6 Jan 20256 Jan 2025 by siibillamlawPosted in Action, China, Period, WuxiaTagged 2021, Chai Wei, Chau Pak-ho, Du Hong Jun, Journey to the West, Kingdom Yuen, Li Shuai, Lu Chun Sheng, Lu Weiji, Review, Zina Blahusova. Leave a comment

Yangzi’s Confusion

Yangzi’s Confusion

To a young girl, your own family can sometimes be as alien as strangers, in Jue Li’s domestic drama.

Posted on 30 Sep 202430 Sep 2024 by siibillamlawPosted in China, DramaTagged 2023, Hongjia Gong, Jue Li, Review, Xiaolei Huang, Yayun Zheng, Zeng Tang. Leave a comment

A Song Sung Blue

A Song Sung Blue

A Song Sung Blue might be summer lovin’, but damn if it won’t tell you more.

Posted on 18 Apr 202418 Apr 2024 by siibillamlawPosted in China, Drama, RomanticTagged 2023, Huang Ziqi, Jing Liang, Long Liang, Lu Xin, Meijun Zhou, QEFF, Queer East, Review, Zihang Geng. Leave a comment

Detective Chinatown

Detective Chinatown

Two men prove their innocence by committing countless other crimes in Chen Sicheng’s buddy comedy.

Posted on 13 Feb 2024 by siibillamlawPosted in Action, China, Comedy, Drama, MysteryTagged 2015, Chalee Immak, Chen He, Chen Sicheng, Ekapan Bunluerit, Liu Haoran, Marc Ma, Pan Yueming, Tong Liya, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang, Xiaoshenyang, Zhang Zifeng, Zhao Yingjun. Leave a comment

The Fantastic Magic Baby

The Fantastic Magic Baby

It’s all dancing, spinning and magical centaur monsters in Chang Cheh’s stage-to-screen production.

Posted on 23 Jan 2024 by siibillamlawPosted in Action, China, Fantasy, Martial Arts, MusicalTagged 1975, Chang Cheh, Chao Li-chuan, Chen I-ho, Chiang Tao, Fung Hak-on, Journey to the West, Lau Chung-chun, Review, Tang Gok-yan, Ting Wa Chung, Tsai Hung, Woo Gam, Yeung Fui-yuk. Leave a comment

Monkey King Conquers the Demon

Monkey King Conquers the Demon

Sun Wukong dances his way to victory in Te Wei (et al)’s animated retelling of the Baigujing arc.

Posted on 17 Jan 2024 by siibillamlawPosted in Animated, China, FantasyTagged 1985, Ding Xian Yan, Hong Rong, Journey to the West, Li Yang, Lin Wen Xiao, Review, Tan Pengfei, Te Wei, Zhan Che, Zhao Bing. Leave a comment

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