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Tóngnián wangshì / A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985)  Movies

Posted by yorkiez at May 17, 2017
Tóngnián wangshì / A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985)

Tóngnián wangshì / A Time to Live, a Time to Die (1985)
DVDRip | MKV/AVC x264 ~1283 kbps avg | 2Hr 16Mins | 23.976 fps | 672x444 | 1.47 GB
Audio: Mandarin | AC3 2 Ch 224 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Biography, Drama | Director: Hsiao-Hsien Hou

The semi-autobiographical film on director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's childhood and adolescence, when he was growing up in Taiwan, living through the deaths of his father, mother and grandmother.
A Brighter Summer Day / Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian (1991) [Criterion Collection]

A Brighter Summer Day / Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian (1991) [Criterion Collection, Spine #804]
DVD Video, 3 x DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 720x480 | ~ 3hr 56mn | 7.13 Gb + 7.28 Gb + 5.95 Gb
Chinese \ English: Dolby AC3, 1 ch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance | Director: Edward Yang

Based on a true story, primarily on a conflict between two youth gangs, a 14-year-old boy's girlfriend conflicts with the head of one gang for an unclear reason, until finally the conflict comes to a violent climax.

NHK - Sunless Days (1990)  Movies

Posted by notbanned at April 29, 2020
NHK - Sunless Days (1990)

NHK - Sunless Days (1990)
PDTV | 696x570 | .MKV/AVC @ 1863 Kbps | 1 h 25 min | 1.27 GiB
Audio: 中文 AC3 256 kbps, 2 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary

Director Shu Kei travelled to Venice, Canada, London and Hong Kong, collecting accounts of the Tiananmen impact. Among his interviewees are: award-winning Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien; Hong Kong director Alfred Cheung, a witness to the massacre; actress Deanne Ip, whose national consciousness is fired by the event; as well as his own brothers, one who soon migrates from Hong Kong, and the other, already an Australian emigre. Their personal testimonies are pieced together into a mural of the Chinese people united in their horror and outrage. This was recoreded from the Channel 4 broadcast from June 4th 1990, which marks the first anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident.

Xi meng ren sheng / The Puppetmaster (1993) [Re-Up]  Movies

Posted by fekmax at Jan. 2, 2017
Xi meng ren sheng / The Puppetmaster (1993) [Re-Up]

Xi meng ren sheng / The Puppetmaster (1993)
Mandarin | DVDRip | MKV | 708x470 | AVC @ 1645 kb/s | 1.86 GB
Audio: AC-3 @ 192 kb/s | 2 channels | 02:22:08 minutes | Subs: English (embedded)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War

This Hou Hsiao Hsien masterpiece is a portrait of the childhood and adolescence of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master and actor Li T'ien-lu, who narrates the film both off-screen and on-screen.