Asian Beauty Appreciation

Lost in Beijing (Ping guo) is a 2007 film directed by Yu Li about two financially opposite couples entwined in a greedy and selfish dispute over a yet-to-be-born child.

The film has been steeped in controversy due to the realistic tone and with its roots in a censor-heavy China.

Trouble started even before its premiere with Chinese censors demanding multiple cuts of the sex and gambling portrayed as well as scenes in slum-like settings. And despite the film acquiring international distribution, it still had problems being released in its own country. Read more…

Lust, Caution (Se, jie) is a 2007 film directed by Ang Lee based off a story by Eileen Chang. The setting is 1930-40s China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

It stars Wei Tang as the foolhardy young student Wong Chia Chi who poses undercover as Mak Tai Tai in a resistance effort to assassinate Mr. Yee (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), a high-ranking official of the Wang Jinwei Regime. Read more…

From Hong Kong director and co-writer Hark Tsui comes All About Women (Nu ren bu huai), a romantic comedy about the modern love of three very different women.The setting is Beijing, China.

The first of the three we meet is Ou Fanfan (Xun Zhou), an introvert scientist who has trouble attracting men. Besides that, whenever she’s touched by a man, her body stiffens comically.

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