China Blue and Burden of Dreams are both what types of films which focus on the chaotic life of a Chinese factory worker, and the chaotic production of the film Fitzcarraldo?
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China Blue China Blue is a 2005 documentary film directed by Micha Peled. It follows the life of Jasmine Li, a young seventeen-year-old worker from Sichuan province, in a Chinese jeans factory, "Lifeng Clothes Factory" (丽锋服饰制衣有限公司) in Shaxi, Guangdong producing Vigaze Jeans (a company based in Istanbul, Turkey ), hence the title. Jasmine earned about half a yuan for one hour's work (which amounted to about six US cents).
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Burden of Dreams Burden of Dreams is a 1982 "making-of" documentary film directed by Les Blank, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's 1982 film "Fitzcarraldo", and filmed on location in the jungles of South America.
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King Cat King Cat is a 1967 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Hsu Tseng Hung and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. The story is loosely based on the 19th-century Chinese novel "The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants". The title refers to a nickname of the protagonist Zhan Zhao (the nickname can also be translated as "Imperial Cat").
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The Chinese Boxer The Chinese Boxer (龙虎斗; also known by its international title The Hammer of God) is a 1970 Hong Kong action kung fu film written, directed by and starring Jimmy Wang. Tong Gaai was the action director. "The Chinese Boxer" was a box office success at the time of its release and is currently considered as a classic in the martial arts film genre.
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Perfect World Pictures Perfect World Pictures is a Chinese film production company engaging in the production, distribution and marketing of film and television content, content related advertising and merchandising business, as well as talent management business. The company produces between 600–800 hours of scripted and unscripted TV programs every year and produced numerous local language movies, in addition to being one of the marketers of foreign films in China.
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Crazy Stone (film) Crazy Stone () is a 2006 mainland Chinese black comedy film directed by Ning Hao and produced by Andy Lau. It was immensely popular, earning 6 million RMB in its first week and more than 23 million RMB (US$3 million) in total box office in Mainland China, despite its low budget (3 million HKD/US$400,000) and cast of unknowns. The movie was shot digitally on HD cameras and produced as part of Andy Lau's "FOCUS: First Cuts" series.
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Billy Chow Billy Chow (born Chow Bei-lei August 24, 1958 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada), (also credited as Billy Chau and Billy Chow Bei-lei) is a Canadian-Hong Kong film actor, kickboxer, martial artist, and entrepreneur and is also a keen Boxing and Muay thai practitioner. Chow is the former WKA world kickboxing champion. Chow is perhaps best known for his roles as General Fujita in the 1994 film "Fist of Legend", and Wong, Great Kick of the North in the 1996 film "Tai Chi Boxer".
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Prisoner of Paradise Prisoner of Paradise is a 2002 documentary film directed by Malcolm Clarke and Stuart Sender, and produced as a British-Canadian-American collaboration. The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during World War II. There he was ordered to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film. In addition to gaining positive reviews, the film was nominated for "Best Feature Documentary" in the 2003 Academy Awards. Clarke won the Directors Guild of Canada Award; he and Sender were together nominated for the 2003 Directors Guild of America Award.
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White Man's Burden (film) White Man's Burden is a 1995 American drama film about racism in an alternative America where black and white Americans have reversed cultural roles. The film was written and directed by Desmond Nakano. The film revolves around Louis Pinnock, a white factory worker (John Travolta), who kidnaps Thaddeus Thomas, a black factory owner (Harry Belafonte) who fired him over a perceived slight.
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My Voice, My Life My Voice, My Life 《爭氣》is a feature-length documentary film directed by Oscar-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Ruby Yang. It tells the poignant stories of a group of under-privileged Hong Kong youngsters who underwent six months of vigorous trainings to produce a musical on stage. Through their trials and tribulations, the students challenge parents, teachers and policy makers to reflect on our way of nurturing the next generation.
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China Cry China Cry is a 1990 biographical film set during rise of the communist state in China, based on the book by Nora Lam. It is set in the 1950s based on the true story of Sung Neng Yee. Born into a wealthy Chinese family, she is first eager to become part of Mao Zedong's "new society". But the Maoist regime brings hardship and misery to her family. She is arrested by authorities, and she believes that only Jesus Christ must have saved her when she survived a firing squad. She is taken to a labour camp while pregnant, but survives to take her children and family to freedom. The film was directed by James F. Collier, and is an example of positive Asian characters in a Christian-themed film.
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Sinful Debt Sinful Debt is a 1995 Chinese television drama directed by Huang Shuqin and produced by Shanghai Television. It was written by Ye Xin, based on his 1992 novel "Educated Youth". The series follows five innocent-eyed teens (all portrayed by first-time actors) who travel more than 2000 km from remote Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture to Shanghai searching for their unacquainted parents — former sent-down youths who in order to return home (in the late 1970s or early 1980s) abandoned them in the countryside. They teens did not expect, however, that their unannounced arrivals would create myriads of economic and relational problems for their urban parents, many of whom already remarried with new families.
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Chaos (2000 film) Chaos (カオス , Kaosu ) is a 2000 Japanese mystery-thriller film, directed by Hideo Nakata. It stars Miki Nakatani and Masato Hagiwara. It is based on Shōgo Utano's novel "Sarawaretai Onna" (さらわれたい女 , lit. "The Woman Who Wants To Be Kidnapped" ) .
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A Busy Night A Busy Night is a 2016 Chinese comedy film directed by Wang Li. It was released in China by Wuzhou Film Distribution and Huaxia Film Distribution on July 29, 2016.
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Wang Gungwu Wang Gungwu (; born 9 October 1930), {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , is an Australian historian of overseas Chinese descent. He has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, but he has objected to the use of the word "diaspora" to describe the migration of Chinese from China because both it mistakenly implies that all overseas Chinese are the same and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat", under the control of the Chinese government. An expert on the Chinese tianxia ("all under heaven") concept, he was the first to suggest its application to the contemporary world as an American Tianxia.
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Happenstance (film) Happenstance is a 2000 French film directed by Laurent Firode and starring Audrey Tautou and Faudel. The film is also known as The Beating of the Butterfly's Wings, a literal translation of its original French title, Le battement d'ailes du papillon. The title references the Butterfly effect from chaos theory which is quoted at greater length by one of the characters in the film.
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Martín Fierro (film) Martín Fierro is a 1968 film based upon José Hernández's poem "Martín Fierro", widely considered Argentina's national poem. The story centers on the life of a renegade gaucho.
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Men of Burden: Pedaling towards a Horizon Men of Burden: Pedaling towards a Horizon is a 2006 documentary film set in the city of Pondicherry in the Indian territory of Puducherry. The documentary uncovers the story of disappearing cycle rickshaw drivers living in abject poverty. Over time, the city has experienced a gradual reduction in the number of cycle rickshaws. thereby diminishing the chances of living for those who depend on them. What used to be one of the primary modes of transport in the city is now a fading memory with the few remaining ones staging a difficult survival. The film explores some of the
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Scud (filmmaker) Scud (born 1967, Guangzhou), is the working name of mainland China-born and raised Hong Kong Chinese film producer, screenwriter and now film director, Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung (云翔). He says that he chose the name 'Scud' to match his Chinese name, which translates in English as 'Scudding Clouds'. He was born in Guangzhou (Canton) in mainland China on March 20, 1967, during the country's Cultural Revolution. His films explore themes usually deemed too controversial for Hong Kong cinema, including same-sex relationships and drug-taking, and include many nude scenes of Chinese young men, whose pubic hair and genitalia are fully exposed on camera. His film-making style eschews cynicism or gritty realism, and embraces an acceptance of the life choices made by his characters, rather than a search for 'solutions'.
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Anciano Anciano (Spanish for "old man") is the debut EP by the Japanese doom metal band Corrupted. Because the Spanish phrase "Horrible: el tren lo partio en dos!" ("Horrible: the train ripped him in two" in English) appears on the cover, that phrase is often mistaken to be the title of the EP. The album was pressed four times, the last two times of which included a different color setting for the album's cover. While the first and second pressing was black and white, the third pressing was blue and the fourth pressing was brown. All editions were released on 7-inch vinyl. "The Post War Dream" is a cover of the Pink Floyd song that opens their 1983 album "The Final Cut".
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Adam Tsuei Adam Tsuei (; born October 26, 1959) is an entrepreneur, film producer, and director. He was the former president of Sony Music Entertainment in the Greater China Region. He has made and brought to the music world super idols as Jay Chou, Leehom Wang, F4 and Jolin Tsai, which made him been viewed as one of the most powerful masters behind the scene in entertainment industry. In 2011, he successfully marketed the film "You Are the Apple of My Eye", a movie featuring a love story within a group of boys and a girl, which made a great hit among all Chinese-speaking countries. Decided to dedicating to movie industry, Tsuei founded Amazing Film Studio in 2012 and served as CEO. In 2013, by putting effort into producing, marketing and distributing, he presented the film" Tiny Times" and "Tiny Times 2". Both of them quickly becomes the hottest topics among mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In 2014, with the same legend combination of Angie Chai and Giddens Ko, he presented" Café. Waiting. Love", a romantic comedy with color of fantasy inside. In the future of 2016, as a director and producer, Tsuei is going to present the film “The Tenants Downstairs”, adapted by Giddens Ko’s original novel. There will be a film with black humor, fantasy, mystery and thriller in. With the experience of being a professional manager in global enterprise for decades, Tsuei is aimed for building a total entertainment company for Greater China, including movie’s production, movie’s promotion, VFX, artist agency, music production and concert production.
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Once Upon a Time in China (film series) Once Upon a Time in China is a Hong Kong film franchise directed, written, and produced by Tsui Hark. The stories are based on the life of Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung, who is portrayed by Jet Li in the first three films and Vincent Zhao in the fourth and fifth films. The first two films in the franchise were among the most popular of the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema (usually dated from 1986 to 1993) and were known for their depiction of Chinese nationalism as well as action choreography. The "Once Upon a Time in China" films were among Jet Li's best known hits at that time.