Chinese Movie Database Blog

I want to praise Edinburgh’s Cinema China 07’s organisers to choose Centre Stage (a.k.a. The Actress) as the opening film. Not only this gives them a good reason to invite Maggie Cheung, of whom I am a fan, to come to the festival, but also this is a fitting opening for a festival that celebrates […]

I’m very proud of the fact that I had watched Fei Mu’s 1948 masterpiece Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) in cinema. I can’t help keeping telling my friends at every opportunity that how I watched it with excitement, how I love this film and how I fell for the leading actress instantly. My friends […]

Two Chinese films have entered official competition of 57th Berlin Film Festival which will be held the second week of Febuary 2007.
Tuya’s Marriage (图雅的婚事 tu2 ya3 de hun1 shi4), directed by Wang Quanan (王全安), is about a woman named Tuya in the northern rural China tries to find a new husband who can allow her to […]

Director Tsai Ming-Liang’s new film I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone is about to release in Taiwan. However Taiwan’s Government Information Office (GIO) censored the poster as well as classifed the movie as Restricted (only 18 and over are permitted to watch the movie), which caused objection from the director and supporters.
GIO’s ruling means the […]

There is a sudden surge of interest in the actress Zhang Yu lately. Although actress Zhang Yu (张瑜) was famous in the 80’s of China and no doubt a screen lover of many Chinese young men of the time, who subsequently came back to the screen after marriage, she’s not the person the search is […]