He Jiesheng Movies
Sun Zhou's stylized Zhou Yu de Huoche (Zhou Yu's Train) is the story of a woman in love. Zhou Yu (Gong Li) and teacher Chen Ching (Tony Leung Kar-Fai) fall in love. After Ching gives Zhou a poem he wrote for her, she begins taking a train ride twice a week to his home in order to have sex with him. During her time on the train, she strikes up a relationship with a veterinarian (Sun Honglei), but she ends their time together when she learns that he spied on her during one of her visits with Ching. Gong Li has a second role as a another woman obsessed with Chen who is trying to ascertain the nature of his relationship with Zhou. This film was shown out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gong Li, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, (more)
- 1986
- R
Can Yue (pronounced "tsan yu-e") is a melodrama that centers on the perception and treatment of older women in China. The central woman in this story married in the traditional manner, but only after her fellow villagers turned against her first marriage to the man she loved. The prejudicial attitudes of the villagers drove the couple apart, and now many years (and five daughters) later, the woman is widowed and longs to see her former love. Since her first husband kept her first-born child, her desire to see him is not merely triggered by nostalgia for the love they knew. But the situation is made more difficult by her own children, who forbid her to remarry, believing its beneath the dignity of a woman her age. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Zheng Zhenyao, Hong Rong, (more)
