Chin Han Movies

Steven Soderbergh presents this look at what happens when an infectious disease threatens humanity through varied viewpoints from an ensemble cast, including Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, and Kate Winslet. The Informant's Scott Z. Burns provides the script. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi

Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following the prophecy stated by the ancient Mayan calendar, which says that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) joins the race to ensure that humankind is not completely wiped out. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, and Oliver Platt round out the cast of this end-of-the-world thriller co-scripted by the director and his 10,000 B.C. writer/composer, Harald Kloser. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

An unrequited love affair is played out against tumultuous events in Asian history in this epic-scale historical drama. Qiushui (Chen Kun) is a teacher living and working in Taipei in the mid-1940. Qiushui meets Biyun (Vivian Hsu), a beautiful young woman from a wealthy family, when he's hired to tutor her. Qiushui soon falls head over heels for Biyun, and she clearly has feelings for him; however, Qiushui's close friend Zilu (Steven Cheung) is also infatuated with Biyun, and her father Wang Tingwu (Chin Han) isn't sure if Qiushui is a good match for his daughter. Despite it all, Qiushui and Biyun begin making plans to marry, but their hopes are dashed when the Taiwanese government begins a pogrom against those on the political left, and Qiushui's activism forces him to leave the country. Several years later, Qiushui is a medic tending to wounded soldiers in Korea, and an attractive woman named Jindi (Li Bingbing) is assigned to assist him. Jindi is quite taken with Qiushui, but he hasn't been able to forget Biyun, and Jindi finds using her feminine charm to make him forget his old love is an uphill struggle. Later, in the present day, the events of sixty years earlier take on a new importance as aging artist (Chang Gua Ahleh) and his niece Isabella Leong set out to find out what became of his brother Xue. The first co-production between producers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Yun Shui Yao (English title: The Knot) was released simultaneously in all three nations, and became a major box-office success in China. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Anna Chi directed this drama about a middle-class Hong family during a single night. Doctor Daniel Hong (Chin Han) armors himself against the intense emotions radiating from his mother, blind Mrs. Hong (Lisa Lu), and his wife, angry Natalie (Vivian Wu). They are interrupted by the arrival of gun-toting Patrick (Joe Lando). Once Daniel's friend and Natalie's lover, Patrick has spent a decade in jail after killing his parents, and his return opens a Pandora's box of long-buried family secrets. Shown at the 1998 Hollywood Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

This love story spans many decades of modern Chinese history. In the beginning (1938), an independent-minded female writer (Lin Ching-hsia) strikes up an acquaintance and then a romance with a man who is collaborating with the Japanese (Chin Han). Despite warnings from friends that their romance can only end in catastrophe for them both, she persists, but eventually the two of them are separated during the Civil War, and their fates only become clear in 1989. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Displaying Kung Fu in a highly acrobatic guise, Sacred Knives of Vengeance has the stars Tsung Hua and Chin Han, formerly rivals, join forces to battle the bad guys who come to their village. Along the way, they battle huge groups of fighters, throw knives, tumble and fly, and eventually meet the challenge posed by a samurai-sword-wielding Japanese. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Fist of Fury director Lo Wei keeps the action flowing and the body blows flying in this epic tale of revenge and brotherly love featuring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon swordsman Cheng Pei-pei. The same killers who murdered Yen Lai's father have overrun the Teng Lung Manor, and now Lai's only hope for revenge is to reunite her five brothers. But her siblings have all been separated since childhood, and brining them back together promises to be nearly as formidable a task as defeating the nefarious Lung-Chen feng and his gang. As the fight gets underway, however, old bonds are soon strengthened through the mutual hunger for revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

In this romance, a young woman defies her father, impersonates a man, and enlists in the army. During combat she finds herself secretly falling for her handsome tent mate. He is quite pleased to discover her true identity after she is injured and he goes to the hospital to pay her a visit. He then returns to the army, but not before he promises that he will marry her upon his return. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi