Gao Xiu Movies

After being dumped by his girlfriend, Lei Haiyang (Pan Yueming) hitches a truck ride to Beijing. Also along for the ride is Yanzi (Li Min), a gaudily dressed runaway. En route to Beijing, Lei falls asleep, and when he wakes up, the truck is parked in some woods while Yanzi is apparently being raped by the truck driver and his companion. A frightened Lei hides in the underbrush where he is noticed only by Yanzi, with whom he exchanges a lingering gaze as she is dragged away. Later, in Beijing, Lei sees a report on television about a female corpse that has been discovered in the woods, and decides to tell the police what he knows. After speaking with the police, he has a chance encounter in the streets with a girl who looks exactly like Yanzi, but who denies that she is the same person. Their meeting catalyzes a friendship that eventually becomes a romance, and slowly reveals what really happened in the woods. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern) is the executive producer of this film directed by his past associate/co-director Yang Fengliang (Ju Dou). This period revenge drama, set during the early days of Republican China, begins when the wedding of Lanjuan (Taiwanese actress Wu Chienlien) is interrupted by gunfire that wipes out her family. Almost a decade later, obsessed with revenge, she engages the services of hitman Li Qingyang (You Yong) to kill the assassins, headed by Dragon Town warlord Xiong Jinbao (Huang Zhongqiu). Assuming the identity of a merchant and his wife, Li and Lanjuan begin living in the town during the New Year Festival. Unknown to Lanjuan, Xiong's rival Hu Danlong (Lam Wai) has also contracted Li to kill Xiong. In an interesting story twist, Xiong deduces the couple's identity, and becomes friendly with them, with more unique plot threads unraveling as the tale develops. The original title translates literally as "New Year in Dragon Town." ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide