Stanley Kwan – MRQE

Yongxin tiao

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Shanghai, 2009. After four years of studying, a group of dance students are wished well by their teacher as they start rehearsals for their graduation performance. Meanwhile, 5 members of a 1936 Shanghai theatre troupe, lead by Master Liu, are transported into the present to broaden their horizons.

Changhen ge

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A film adaptation of Wang Anyi’s popular and influential novel “Changhen Ge”. A person’s life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive. A pretty young girl from an ordinary family, Qiyao is lucky enough to win the 2nd runner-up of the “Miss Shanghai” contest. Mr. Cheng, her admirer as well as a photographer who assists her to her success, knows the girl is going to live an extraordinary life.

Baat go leuiyan, yat toi hei

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Yuan Xiuling, a former star and has-been actress plans to return to the spotlight of the theater a year after her philandering husband died. She decides to star in Two Sisters, written and directed by transwoman An Ouyang. But, her biggest rival, He Yuwen, a rising actress, also stars in the play. Yuwen plans her theatrical debut through it. During the preparation of the play, such a drama unfolds at the backstage as much as on stage. With the opening night at Hong Kongs City Hall Theater just seven days away, tensions at rehearsal increase and tempers flare as actresses Xiuling and Yuwens buried resentments rise to the surface.

Lan Yu

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

You shi tiaowu

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A group of disparate characters find themselves trapped overnight on a island somewhere off the coast of mainland China. The circumstances force them to overlook their preconceptions of one another, and they forge a kinship that goes to the heart their identities.

Naamsaang-neuiseung

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This highly personal film essay demonstrates that Chinese cinema has dealt with questions of gender and sexuality more frankly and provocatively than any other national cinema. Yang ± Yin examines male bonding and phallic imagery in the swordplay and kung fu movies of the ’60s and ’70s; homosexuality; same-sex bonding and physical intimacy; the continuing emphasis on women’s grievances in melodramas; and the phenomenon of Yam Kim-Fai, a Hong Kong actress who spent her life portraying men on and off the screen.

Yue kuai le, yue duo luo

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing everyone on board, and leaving the friends and family of the two women to talk about what was and what could have been.

Hong mei gui bai mei gui

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.

Yuen Ling-yuk

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on the tragic true story of China’s first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.

Ren zai Niu Yue

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Three Chinese women with vastly different backgrounds get acquainted and become friends amid the social desolation of New York.