Zhang Ming Movies
- 2007
The memory of a brief romance leads a man to a mysterious destination in this story of love and music. Auyeung San-tek (Tse Kwan-ho) is a struggling writer who once met a beautiful young music student, Xiaohui, during an evening in Taiwan. San-tek and Xiaohui soon fell for one another, and pledged to meet again in ten years if they lost touch. Their paths had not crossed in many years when San-tek received a postcard from Xiaohui reminding him that they still had a date. San-tek doesn't expect much from the evening, but dutifully arrives at a small hotel in Qiandeng, a town known throughout China as the birthplace of the Kunqu Opera, where Xiaohui will contact him. As San-tek waits for word from Xiaohui, he strikes up a friendship with Xiaohe (Yin Shuo), a lovely girl who sings with the opera when she isn't busy looking after the family-run hotel and caring for her elderly grandmother (Hu Lifang). San-tek receives a gift of a wooden flute from a nameless admirer, and he becomes closer to Xiaohe, whose sunny personality helps him buffer the sharp edges of his cynical nature. As San-tek learns more about both opera and Xiaohe over the course of several days, he tries to find out what became of the woman he was infatuated with ten years ago. Di Sheng Hechu (aka A Promise) was the first feature film from director Cui Yi. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tse Kwan-ho, Yin Shuo, (more)
- 2007
Filmmaker Li Ruijun keeps his subjects at arms length in this melodrama that avoids close-ups to tell the tale a failed Beijing fortune hunter on his never-ending quest for true happiness. Hu Yang thought he was on his way when sat up a business in Beijing, but when things fell through he resorted to dressing like a monk and begging on the streets. Later, after humiliating his family by entering into an intimate relationship with a close relative, Hu Yang briefly settled down with the woman and the pair had a child together. But after running away from his problems once again, the dejected father and husband discovers that happiness sometimes comes at the most unexpected of moments. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Zheng Hui, Song Jinyang, (more)
Acclaimed director Peter Chan takes the helm for this lavish, award winning musical concerning the love triangle between a handsome actor, his beautiful co-star, and a talented film director. Lin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and his ex-lover Sun (Zhou Xun) are shooting a movie for celebrated director Nie Wen (Jacky Cheung) when the flames of their former passion are gradually rekindled. A charismatic director who has poured his entire heart and soul into making a movie about a passionate love triangle, Nie finds his entire production about to collapse as Lin does everything in his power to win back the ravishing Sun. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jacky Cheung, Zhou Xun, (more)
