FILM No.5

Shaolin Soccer

Director:Stephen Chow
Writers:Stephen Chow (writer)Kan-Cheung Tsang (writer)
Release Date:12 July 2001 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:Action Comedy Sport

Former soccer star "Golden Leg" Fung is on the outs with his boss, and former team owner "Coach Hung" when he meets down-and-out Shaolin Kung Fu expert "Mighty Steel Leg Sing". Golden Leg sees an opportunity to get even with his former coach,

the man whose corruption led a furious crowd to attack and cripple him forever; thus ending his career. The two new friends visit the former Shaolin brothers to recruit a soccer team and go for the 1 million dollar prize. They blow past the competition easily, but find an unexpected challenge- and ally, in the final round.

FILM No.4

The Duel

Director:Wai-keung Lau
Writers:Jing Wong &Manfred Wong
Release Date:3 February 2000 (Hong Kong)
Genre:Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Sci-Fi

After a long absence, a master swordsman of royal blood, Yeh Cool-son, returns to the emperor's palace to challenge Snow, a reclusive master, to a dual on new year's eve. In the days before the dual, strange things happen in the palace, seen mostly through the eyes of Dragon 9, a leader of the guard who alternates between serious pursuit of duty and joking. His girlfriend, Jade, is a prostitute; Princess Phoenix, the emperor's sister, has been his friend since childhood. There are murders in the palace, and evidence points to Snow, whom Dragon 9 believes is above suspicion. As the princess is attracted to Yeh and as the duel approaches, will Dragon 9 figure out what is going on?

FILM No.3

Penitentiary Angel

Director:Jin Xie

Produced: 1995

Release Date:6 March 1996 (China)

Genre:Crime Drama

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er (Vicki Zhao) arrives with tears streaming down her face, but told that it's too late to cry. The story continues to slowly reveal the lives of the female prisoners, and each of their struggles to have ended up where they are today. There's the mother who's husband keeps giving false promises of taking her and her child to America; the prostitute who was raped; the lesbian who was given up and betrayed by the Red Army; among others, and there's also Qing Er, who is in jail for theft after stealing costly medicine from the hospital for her dying husband. Through the lead of each other and also the kind hearted guards, they learn to form an unbreakable bond, and a way of dignity.

FILM No.2

East Palace, West Palace

Director:Yuan Zhang

Writers:Wang Xiaobo Yuan Zhang

Produced: 1996

Release Date:24 July 1998 (USA) Genre:Drama

Actors&Actresses: JunHu, Si Han, Ma Wen, Zhao wei (Bus driver)

In China, homosexuality isn't illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for "hooliganism". The film focuses on a young gay writer A-Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself interrogated for a whole night. His life-story which he tells during the interrogation reflects the general repression of the Chinese society. The policeman's attitude shifts from the initial revulsion to fascination and, finally, to attraction

In Beijing, gays have hidden sexual encounters in a park during the night and are severely repressed by the police. The writer A Lan is arrested by the policeman Xiao Shi and along the whole night, he is interrogated, disclosing his hard life-story since he was a child and his crush on Xiao Shi.