Chinese stuff to watch

Story of resistance, espionage, familial ties, friendship and romance in the Japanese-occupied Shanghai.

A well-respected man residing in what's left of Old Beijing attempts to exonerate his son from his wrongdoings with his own methods and beliefs.

The all-powerful Monkey King was imprisoned by the Gods for 500 years, but when a child releases him from his curse, the Monkey King must now save an innocent village from the evil Mountain Lord and his monstrous army.

In 1920s China, a bandit arrives in a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, where he faces off against a tyrannical local nobleman.

Chen Wing Yan, a policeman, successfully infiltrates a gang while Lau Kin Ming, a tried member, becomes a mole in the police force. However, things change when both of them must seek each other out.

A government department known as the Six Panels appoints their best officer to infiltrate a special force called the Divine Constabulary, to ensure their way in stopping the circulation of counterfeit coin currency in the capital.

An elite squad is out to solve the mystery of Emperor Huizong, gone missing following an attempt on his life. Cold Blood and Life Snatcher lead the investigation, while the feuding Emotionless and Iron Hands routinely drop by to help out.

In a time of war, when occupation turns to genocide, one woman choose resistance over death and takes on the empire of Japan.

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth-century China.

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens its existence.

A master monk tries to protect a naive young physician from a thousand-year-old snake demon. A contest of psychic powers results in mayhem.

Set three years after Dragon Inn, innkeeper Jade has disappeared and a new inn has risen from the ashes - one that's staffed by marauders masquerading as law-abiding citizens, who hope to unearth the fabled lost city buried in the desert.

A group of villagers must stand up to a warlord's psychopath son, who is protected by a Commander with proficient martial arts skills as well as a small army.

Based on the 16th-century Chinese novel Feng Shen Yan Yi (The Investiture of the Gods), the story tells of how King Zhou of Shang becomes a tyrant due to the wiles of Daji, a vixen spirit who is disguised as one of his concubines.

When a travelling monk is stranded in a wasteland, The Monkey King must escort him across the land to retrieve sacred scriptures and protect him from an evil demon.

A monk and his three disciples continue on their journey to battle demons.

An action-thriller centered on a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers.

Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.

Migrant workers, factory bosses and nightclub dancers try to carve out a slice of the pie in the city the dollar store built. But China is changing. Selling cheap junk isn't what it used to be.

About a young Chinese-American author's journey into the darkest reaches of humanity as she researched and wrote her best selling book "The Rape of Nanking". Iris Chang's harrowing experience and dogged determination uncovers in graphic detail the forgotten holocaust of World War II when almost 300,000 Chinese women, children and soldiers were in a matter of weeks systematically raped, tortured and murdered by the invading Japanese forces.

A story centered on a company that grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.

A middle-aged man raises his son all by himself. He works as the chairman of the labor union and acts the way of putting on airs and cocky style both at work and home. He tries to build good relations with son but it does not work.

During the Tang Dynasty's during the era of "Zhen Guan" (era name during rule of Emperor Taizong), the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and dangers, natural disasters, and sees the sufferings of the common people. Soldiers gets in his way, his disciples betrays him, he struggles through deserts, runs short of food and water, all in the quest for Buddha's teachings. He finally arrives in India, and studies Buddhism in earnest. By the time he returns to China, he is already 50 years old.

A master swordsman leaves behind a female colleague's signature, a Golden Swallow, when killing villains, in order to lure her to his side, as he's madly in love with her, but his ego won't allow him to express it properly.

A devious martial arts master targets young, talented swordsmen, and makes a wager that whoever loses should cut off their arm, then surprises them with a secret technique they cannot counter. One of his previous victims have had enough.