141. Shinjuku Incident ( San suk si gin )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tung-Shing Yee
Actors: Jackie Chan, Naoto Takenaka, Daniel Wu, Jinglei Xu, Masaya Katô, Tôru Minegishi
Plot: Steelhead is an illegal Chinese immigrant in Japan who comes to Tokyo to find his childhood sweetheart Xiu Xiu. He teams up with a group of Chinese workers who help him get a roof, some manual labor and sharing a tricks on how to survive living shadowy live. Life in Japan isn’t easy; the Chinese work at odd jobs, but have to bolt every time the cops show up for an illegal worker raid. From other side, they are constantly oppressed by Japanese yakuza gangs. Soon Steelhead discovers that Xiu Xiu has adopted a Japanese identity and married Eguchi, an ambitious up and coming yakuza chief.
142. Suzhou River ( Suzhou he )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ye Lou
Actors: Xun Zhou, Hongshen Jia, Zhongkai Hua, Anlian Yao, An Nai
Plot: This is an interesting re-imagining of Hitchcock's Vertigo. Set in modern-day Shanghai, it tells the story of a poor young man who falls in love with the daughter of a man who has hired him to transport her around the city. He pretends to kidnap her in order to get money from her father. The girl is upset by all this,and jumps from a bridge and disappears into the river.
The young man (and the audience) assume that the girl has died... but then he seems to see her. He follows a girl who looks just like her, and yet... is it her, or someone else?
143. Aftershock ( Tangshan dadizhen )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Actors: Jingchu Zhang, Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Guoqiang Zhang, Jin Chen, Fan Xu
Plot: Shows the extraordinary lengths that a family will go through in the face of tragedy when China is rocked by the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that caused the deaths of 240,000 people.
144. Brave Archer, The ( She diao ying xiong chuan )
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cheh Chang
Actors: Sheng Fu, Shen Chan, Kuan-chung Ku, Niu Tien, Danny Lee, Dick Wei
145. Enforcer, The ( Gei ba ba de xin )
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Corey Yuen
Actors: Jet Li, Anita Mui, Miu Tse, Rongguang Yu, Collin Chou, Damian Lau
146. Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain ( Xin shu shan jian ke )
Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Horror/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hark Tsui
Actors: Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng, Moon Lee, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Damian Lau
147. Summer at Grandpa's, A ( Dong dong de jia qi )
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Actors: Yen Zheng Guo, C. Chen Li, Mei-Feng, Edward Yang, Lai-Yin Yang
148. Shaolin Prince aka Iron Fingers of Death ( Shaolin chuan ren )
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chia Tang
Actors: Lung Ti, Tung-Shing Yee, Jason Pai Piao, Feng Ku, Fei Ai, Kuan-chung Ku
149. Goodbye South, Goodbye ( Nan guo zai jan, nan guo )
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou
Actors: Hsiang Hsi, Kuei-Ying Hsu, Annie Shizuka Inoh, Jack Kao, Ming Kao, Ming Lei
150. Bliss ( Fu sheng )
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zhimin Sheng
Actors: Jiang-ge Guan, Xing-quan He, Zhong Liao, Lan Wang, Tao Xu, Qin He
