Xie Jin

Woman Soccer Player #9 (2002)

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The Opium War (1997)

The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportuni ...

Penitentiary Angel (1996)

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears streaming down her face, but told that it's too late to cry. The story c ...

An Old Man and His Dog (1993)

An Old Man and His Dog is a 1993 Chinese film directed by Xie Jin. ...

Morning Star (1992)

A man must take care of his terminally ill son. ...

Bell of Purity Temple (1991)

In 1945, Japan is defeated in its war of aggression against China. During a panic retreat, a baby boy is abandoned, but is adopted and grows up to become and eminent monk. Thirty years later, he visits China and meets his real mother who is now elderly and ...

The Last Aristocrats (1989)

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai. ...

Hibiscus Town (1987)

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. ...

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain (1984)

Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain is a 1984 Chinese film about the life of the soldiers in a PLA army company before, during and after the Sino-Vietnamese War. ...

Qiu Jin (1983)

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens' liberationist and martyred revolutionary. ...

The Herdsman (1982)

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble herdsma ...

Legend of Tianyun Mountain (1980)

When Song Wei's fiancee Luo Qun is denounced as a right-wing traitor by Party official Wu Yao, he is sentenced to ten years' hard labor. Song Wei breaks off her engagement, and eventually marries Wu Yao. Years later, after the Cultural Revolution, politica ...

The Cradle (1979)

In the early period of China's War of Liberation the Yan'an Nursey which housed the children of the revolutionary fighters had to be evacuated. Li Nan, an army instructor, guides the group of children to the liberated area in the Taihang Mountains and thei ...

Youth (1977)

After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her inexperience with even such simple tasks as answering a telephone lead her supervisor to conclude she is incompetent ...

Pan shi wan (1976)

Chunmiao (1975)

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic' ...

On The Docks (1972)

Adaptation of a lesser known to Western world, yet wildly popular Peking Opera developed during the Cultural Revolution under the leadership of Jiang Qing. ...

Two Stage Sisters (1964)

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges. ...

Big Li, Little Li and Old Li (1962)

Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant. ...

The Red Detachment of Women (1961)

Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers. ...

Huang Baomei (1958)

The film introduces the famous national model worker, textile worker Huang Baomei, who is played by the real Huang Baomei herself. ...

A small story in a big storm (1958)

Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957)

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflects on ...

A Wave of Unrest (1955)

The clan law of the Yang family works against the relationships of a widow and her daughter until a new marriage law is enacted after liberation. ...

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema (1998)

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explored than in any other national cinema. Utilizing both film excerpts and interviews with many leading direct ...

Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns (1983)

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; the work ...

The Herdsman (1982)

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble herdsma ...