Li Longjun Movies
- 2003
Jiang Wen, Zhao Wei, and Fang Lijun headline this romantic urban love story about a female professor who believes she can read her romantic future in a simple cup of tea. Wu is a successful college professor who could take her pick of handsome suitors, yet she cautiously abides by Lang Lang's advice to "Predict your love with a cup of tea." Smooth operator Chen thinks Wu's method of choosing a romantic partner is hopelessly absurd, but does her really know everything about women as he so arrogantly claims? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- 2002
Director Liu Bingjian's comedy features Beijing Opera star (and first-time movie actress) Liao Qin as Guixiang, a young woman who ekes out a living by selling pirated DVD's on the streets of Beijing. Her husband, Changgeng, is a worthless gambler with a quick temper that soon gets them both into trouble. All in one extremely bad day, Guixiang is caught by the police and forced to give up her merchandise, Changgeng is arrested for blinding a gambling buddy, and their neighbor abandons her child, whom she left with Guixiang for the day. With the child in tow, Guixiang is forced to return to her native town where, thanks to a chance encounter with a local funeral arranger, she discovers her natural talent for crying. She soon becomes both his business partner and lover, hiring herself out as a professional mourner, and acquiring a very peculiar kind of fame along the way. ~ Tom Vick, Rovi
- Starring:
- Liao Qin, Wei Xingkun, (more)
Directed by Zhang Jiarui, Ruoma de Shiqi Sui (When Ruoma Was Seventeen) follows perky teen Ruoma (Li Min) as she commutes each day to town in order to sell sweet corn at a roadside market. When Ruoma becomes friends with older, poverty-stricken photographer Ming (Yang Zhigang), however, she swaps the corn-selling business for the opportunity to pose for tourists. Though Ruoma has feelings for Ming, his girlfriend, Lili (Sang Yi), temporarily squelches her ability to pursue a relationship. Eventually, Lili leaves Ming, who turns to Ruoma for comfort and promises, among other things, that he will take her to the big city someday. Predictably, the relationship grows more complicated as time goes by, and culminates when Ruoma schemes to follow him after he informed her of his plans to leave town. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi
- Starring:
- Li Min, Yang Zhigang, (more)
