Tag: yeliu

Chinese superstar Liu Ye anchors the cast of Baoping Cao's upcoming crime comedy Cock And Bull. And true to the title this one appears to be a fairly silly affair, the sort of dark comedy that wouldn't be entirely out...

One of China's more interesting young directors, Lu Chuan has revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that he will be collaborating with Hollywood visual effects company Prime Focus on his latest directorial venture.Prime Focus is one of the biggest VFX houses...

World history is something of a hobby of mine, and tragedy in particular.  It is a morbid pastime, I recognize this, but I think that attempting to understand not only what crimes man can commit against his fellow man, but...

Tackling a heavy subject matter, such as the rape of Nanking on film, is not an easy task. In City of Life and Death, director Lu Chuan (Mountain Patrol: Kekexili) does a skillful balancing act in this narrative treatment of...

Its about goddamned time!  Lu Chuan's 2009 drama about the Nanking Massacre, City of Life and Death has finally found a distributor in the United States.  Already released in many other countries around the world, I've been waiting for this...

As far as changing the subject goes, Alexi Tan's Color Me Love is a pretty drastic switch - from the stylish but somewhat empty action bombast of Blood Brothers to a Chinese take on The Devil Wears Prada. The bigger...

That Blood Brothers director Alexi Tan intended to continue his relationship with producers Terence Chang and John Woo via their Lion Rock Entertainment is not at all news. Tan's relationship with that duo is well established and shortly after...

Slick, polished, compelling entertainment with impeccable production values, Zhang Yang's multi-faceted character drama Driverless would make quite the advert for the new, modern China if not for the impressive collection of problems, poor decisions and psychological issues the protagonists...

Much praise has already been sung on this site about "City of Life and Death" , Chuan Lu's film about the Nanjing massacre. I'm going to add a little to that, but the biggest news I have is that the...