Golden Rooster Awards
Best Cinematography
List activity
23 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
131 titles
- DirectorJin XieStarsJianlan ShiFuli WangShi Wei-JianA female Communist cadre is overcome by regret after she breaks up with her former lover attacked as a Rightist during the Anti-Rightist Campaign. Decades later, she now has the chance to rehabilitate him.
- DirectorJiwei CaiDexian GuStarsXin JinZhidi BaiGuoqiang TangHunan boy Zhu escapes from local tyrants chase, joins the Hunan troop and gets promoted soon. The superior recommends Zhu to the military school where he meets undercover CCP Cheng Kang. Zhu participates in the Northern Expedition after graduation and joins CCP later.
- DirectorYin ChengStarsAnge JinJing XinTiecheng Wang
- DirectorYan WangStarsZongxiang GuanFengxu LiWei LiSet in the end of cultural revolution period, story of love and affection in a family with nine daughters.
- DirectorChoui KhouaStarsZongxiang GuanSuying HuangZongluo HuangTwo young people fell in love and it became a tragedy after they got married, a story written by Xun Lu, which took place after the May 4th Movement.
- DirectorYigong WuStarsJie ShenMin ZhangFengyi ZhangYingzi is a young, impressionable girl living on the southern side of Beijing in the late 1920s. Encountering people in the city, she tries to understand how people are really like inside through her own eyes.
- DirectorYinnan DingStarsKaimin GuoYuhua WuXinyi LiuSet in 1980s. Liao Xingming is an ordinary shipyard fitter. Encouraged by playwright Su Ping, he relentlessly learns cultural knowledge and grows into a plastic talent. One day, Liao Xingming met a beautiful girl named Xia Yinyin and they fell in love. However, Xia Yinyin came from a cadre's family, and the relationship between the two was strongly opposed by the previous generation. Xia Yinyin and Liao Xingming were not faced with difficulties or obstacles, loyal to their love, and joined hands to enter the palace of marriage despite public opinions. Although the two of them also encountered various difficulties after marriage, they remained united as husband and wife. Liao Xiaoqin is Liao Xingming's younger sister. She abandoned her boyfriend Huang Mao for pleasure and instead fell into the embrace of the wealthy second generation, Xiao Qi. On that side, Xu Shanshan admired the ignorant electrician Jiang Wei, but was repeatedly hurt by the former. Fate led Xu Shanshan, who was scarred, to meet Huang Mao.
- DirectorFei XieStarsLijing ZhouIn 1970, China is in the Cultural Revolution, lot of urban youth was sent to countryside as labor for re-education. Xi Nan (Zhou lijin), Qi Yue (Zhang jing), Nin Yu (Lin Fanbing), Qu Lin (Lv Xiaogang) and Xiao Didi (Han Lei) were five classmates in the Beijing and together came to wild Bei DA Huang farm. Soon, the harsh reality will test them. Qi Yue 's parents into a counter-revolutionary, her inner struggle, belief in shake. Xiao Didi is a returned overseas Chinese students, he can't receive letter from his overseas parents, gradually lost the courage of life. Nin Yu can't stand wild farm's terrible hard live environment, she is want to get married with stranger for back to town. The past few years, Revolution is still continued. Everyone is looking for a way out. Nin Yu left through a marriage without love. Xiao Didi was wounded in the labor, the lame leg. Xi Nan went back to school for study, but there is no way. Qi Yue through long time thinking, strengthened the faith that stay in the farm, but in a fire, she was taken away the young life - - Film's title Our Farmland (Wo Men de Tian Ye) is their favorite sang in childhood, but The Cultural Revolution makes their youth a disaster.
- DirectorShujun ShiStarsLuo YanYa XuHongmei ChenSchool life of five fresh girl students of south-east university.
- DirectorDaolin SunStarsYongfei GuQingshu HuTongyu LiangThe eldest master in the Zhou family's mansion, Zhou Puyuan, runs a coal mining business and gave birth to his second son, Zhou Chong, with his own sequel, Fan Yi. However, Zhou Puyuan, the biological mother of his eldest son, Zhou Ping, only said that she passed away early. The young and beautiful Fan Yi couldn't bear the lethargy of Zhou Mansion and Zhou Puyuan's gloomy temper, and developed an incestuous relationship with her eldest son Zhou Ping. This taboo love ultimately died due to Zhou Ping's cowardice, and Zhou Ping turned his attention to the maid Si Feng at home. The relationship between Zhou Ping and Si Feng weakened Fan Yi's spirit, so she came to Si Feng's mother hoping to dismiss her. The attendant Shi Ping who walked into the Zhou Mansion turned out to be the biological mother of Zhou Ping, who was abandoned by Zhou Puyuan thirty years ago and finally rescued by the Zhou family's butler Lu Gui. Upon learning the truth, Shi Ping couldn't accept the fact that her daughter and son were in love without her knowledge, and the tragedy could no longer be stopped.
- DirectorLiang ZhangStarsTianxi Zhang
- DirectorZifeng LingStarsHanyuan FengDai NaHanpu LiuSet in the early republican period, a small mountain town in the west Hunan Province. An old boatman keeps a ferry boat and helps people cross the river. He sticks with his granddaughter together and helps each other in difficulties. She became a posthumous child after her parents died for love together 17 years ago. The boatman hopes the girl to find a reliable man and the two boys of the boss in town love the girl in the same time. The two boys compete for her love by singing love songs, but one day the singing stopped and grievous news comes that the elder boy was drowned. The younger boy still loves the girl but runs away angrily because of his brother's death. After the old boatman died in a stormy night, the girl realizes many things and goes on keeping the ferry for the younger boy.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsXueqi WangBai XueQuiang LiuA communist soldier travels to Shanbei to collect folk songs for propaganda while visiting a poor peasant family, giving hope to the teenage daughter in escaping an arranged marriage.
- DirectorJianzhong HuangStarsShan CongPeijie JiYan LiangThe film shows a story of struggle between the traditions of arranged marriage and love. Xingxian is a 18 year old girl who finds herself engaged to a 8 year old boy. When a young man her age comes to town, she falls in love. They eventually elope and she become the first girl from her village to break the tradition of arranged marriage.
- DirectorZeming ZhangStarsRui ChenDiqing FengXianzhu KongPessimistic saga of the betrayal and destruction of a gifted musician and composer.
- DirectorU LanFei XieStarsRenhua NaXiaoguang DengZongxiang GuanThe heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise.
- DirectorYinnan DingStarsSiwen LiuWenzhi LiuHongying MaDr. Sun Zhongshan leads a democratic revolution in China.
- DirectorZhou Sun
- DirectorHongtong LinStarsYunhui JiangQiong LiuLing ZuoAn elderly man and a young woman become friends when in the hospital with serious illnesses.
- DirectorGuangyuan YangStarsYing CaiQiaoling KouChi SujingWomen soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsYuan XieXuewen YangShaohua ChenThis film is adapted from the novel of Ah Cheng. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a young man is assigned to teach in village school.
- DirectorJunzhao ZhangStarsWeigang FanYang GaoPing Guan
- DirectorXiaowen ZhouStarsYujuan WuJing LiYuan XieA young woman is increasingly out of control with her determination to nail the man who raped her teenage sister.
- DirectorJianxin HuangStarsHongsheng JiaFuli JinHan LeiShi Ba is a self-employed profiteer, skilled in deceiving, bragging, speculating and playing. He deceives others, who fool him too
- DirectorHaowei WangStarsLin CongEnran Ma
- DirectorWenji TengStarsDahong NiBen NiuYuan XieA xiangqi (Chinese Chess) genius is discovered by a group of youths during the "Down the Countryside" movement of the Cultural Revolution.
- DirectorZiniu WuStarsChong PeipeiQi ZhaoRuolei LiuFive Eighth-Route army soldiers induce a isolated Japanese squad to capitulate.
- DirectorWenji TengStarsJingyang CaoPeng ChiXi DuanDang Gui saves a woman and her daughter running away from a bandit. When he falls in love with her, she is forced to go back with the bandit and leave her daughter. Dang Gui takes over the responsibility for raising up the girl.
- DirectorHaowei WangStarsYe TangBai XueLi Zhuang
- DirectorShujun ShiStarsJia Song
- DirectorPing HeStarsWei GaoMana ZhaoJiang ChangA teenage lad arrives at Double Flag Town to claim his betrothed bride, when he encounters a group of outlaws and kills one of them. A vendetta is expected.
- DirectorXiaoning FengStarsDalong FuYunhui JiangMengmeng NiuSet in the winter of 1942, hard days of the anti-Japanese war. Japanese army launches an operation to sweep clean resistance bases in north China. CCP sends 13 young patriots to Pingxi resistance base, but they are attacked by Japanese warplanes in the way. Everyone dies except a young nurse. The nurse leads a group of kids to walk towards the west along the Great Wall.
- DirectorMailisSaifuStarsBa'toerZhaoer GuliIn 1949, the Prince of Turhut sends his daughter with a message to the revolutionary army to hurry to Xinjiang. The princess is kidnapped by Nationalist cavalry and the prince sends 4 heroic horsemen to attempt to rescue her.
- DirectorGeng XuStarsFeng CaiYuan ChengKuo-Chung ChienThe childhood of author Lu Xun, called A Zhang in the film, and his two brothers.
- DirectorZhou SunStarsXu ZhuYumei WangZhenxiang Fei
- DirectorBenzheng YuStarsQiang GaoBaoying JiangRongsheng XiaoParty Secretary Qu Manman in the poor village of Qugong is replaced by Qin Jianjiu who starts a program of land reform.
- DirectorHaowei WangStarsXiaoyi ChenJiali DingDing LiThe life of low ranking government officials in old Beijing.
- DirectorPing HeStarsJing NingGang WuXiaorui ZhaoIn 1920s China, the wealthy heiress of a fireworks business falls in love with an impoverished painter, but her late father's will prohibits their union.
- DirectorSai FuMailisiStarsBayaertuGaowa HasiChenghui YuThe late Master Yu, villain in Jet Li's Shaolin Temple series and the Top swordsman in China stars in this brilliant swordplay film. In 1771 the oppression of Tsarist administration forced the larger part of Kalmyk's approximately 170,000-200,000 people to migrate to Dzungaria. Ubashi Khan, the great-grandson of Ayuka Khan and the last Kalmyk Khan, decided to return his people to their ancestral homeland Dzungaria, and restore the Dzungaria Khanate and Mongolian independence. Their goal is not an easy one and a lot of fighting and drama unfolds. Awards: Golden Rooster Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Music.
- DirectorXiaowen ZhouStarsLiya AiPeiqi LiuZhijun GeA woman gets obsessed with buying a television for her family.
- DirectorNuanxing ZhangStarsQian ChengJin SuTianqian Tan
- DirectorTian-Ming WuStarsXu ZhuRenying ZhouZhigang ZhaoIn a remote area of China, in the 1930s, a street performer named Wang practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. Seeking to pass his art, Wang buys what he believes to be an orphan boy, but quickly learns his new disciple's secret.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsLe GengJing NingBing ShaoA story of a crippled athlete's desire to live a normal life.
- DirectorDaying YeStarsKe-Yu GuoXiao-Li XuIgor LedogorovIt is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the long march; Chuchu had seen her father executed by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang. The youngsters fit in well and learn to speak Russian. A large group of students, including Chuchu, leave for summer camp in Byelorussia accompanied by their teacher, Miss Vera. Xiaoman remains behind. The Germans invade the Soviet Union but Moscow remains unoccupied. Xiaoman takes a job delivering condolence letters to soldiers' families. At one apartment, he finds a mother has died and her very young daughter, Nadia, has not realized it. The summer camp is occupied by Germans and Miss Vera is murdered. One of the Soviet boys, Carl, is half-German, and helps the others escape but they are quickly recaptured. Chuchu and several other students are sent by Gen. von Dietrich to work as servants at German headquarters in the Yakovliv Monastery. The general is also a medical doctor with a peculiar hobby, tattooing.
- DirectorYi Fei ChenStarsTony Ka Fai LeungEddy KoTi LuIn Shanghai in 1937, a journalist meets and falls for a woman who refuses to tell him her name, referring to herself only as "Ghost". She disappears, and his efforts to find her lead the journalist to clear up an old, unsolved murder case.
- DirectorLian WeiStarsQi LuXuecheng FuYue Gu
- DirectorXiaoning FengStarsJing NingBing ShaoZhen YingAt the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ignorant of their time-honored traditions and runs into trouble with a glamourous and proud Tibetan princess. Meanwhile, a British expedition is planning to invade the sacred mountain. Facing the country's enemy, the three set aside their disputes and jealousy, and join the militia force to protect their homeland.
- DirectorRui WangStarsKe GeBaotian LiYan ZhangHui divorced Li, but they have to live together because Li does not have a place to move and live in. Hui asks her younger sister Hong to live in the dwelling. Hong tries many ways to drive away Li, but the two fall in love during dispute.
- DirectorDaying YeStarsLeslie CheungTing MeiTodd BabcockThe film tells of Dr. Robert Payne's adventures in Shanghai 50 years ago. Payne falls in love with beautiful Qiuqiu, the consort of revolutionary hero Jin, who is a communist leader in the Shanghai underground However, he suffers from seizures caused by old head wounds and becomes Payne's patient. Hao Ming is the brutal chief of the Guomintang secret police. In his hunt for Jin, he discovers that Qiuqiu is his long lost daughter. At a lavish father-daughter reunion, Qiuqiu gets her revenge and shots Hao Ming. She's been arrested and admits her guilt. When Jin realizes how much Qiuqiu loves him, he offers to give himself up in exchange for commuting Qiuqiu's death sentence...
- DirectorMailisiSaifuStarsLiya AiTumenBaasanjav MijidChronicles the first half of Genghis Khan's life, from his lowly beginnings after his father is killed until he rescues his wife and becomes the first Khan of a united Mongol confederation.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsRujun TengYe LiuHao ChenA father, a retiring mailman, walks his son over his job in the mountainous regions of Hunan province.
- DirectorXueyang HuStarsXi ChenYuqiao Wu
- DirectorZhou SunStarsGong LiXin GaoJingming ShiGong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces.
- DirectorGuoxing ChenStarsXuejian LiYoubin LiJin ChenSet in 1950s and 1960s, general Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda coming back from USA lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb in the Gobi Desert of northwest China.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsZiyi ZhangHonglei SunHao ZhengPrompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
- DirectorZhanjun AnStarsChangyi JiangShusheng LiNing Qu
- DirectorDongtian Zheng
- DirectorMailisiSaifuStarsGuersirengRenhua NaCai NingA Mongol and his ex-wife take care of a 10-year-old Chinese boy, the son of a man he met in prison.
- DirectorYazhou YangStarsPing NiQuan YuanHaiying SunPeasant Zhang Meili has big feet and an even bigger heart. Founding a school for young rural children, she teaches there alone until helped by Xia Yu, a young volunteer teacher from Beijing who brings in new ideas.
- DirectorYeming SongStarsYong HouLixin MuSet in 1999. Two China special force soldiers are selected to join in an international training camp located in Amazon basin in Latin America. They withstand plenty of tests and tremendous pressure, come successfully through the ordeal and win the honor.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsHöng TaoZeru TaoEddie EagleThe story of a beautiful, single woman who runs a restaurant in inland China, delving into her battle to understand the rapid changes affecting society around her.
- DirectorJiarui ZhangStarsShu LinyuanLi MinZhigang Yang
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsXiaotong GuanXiaodong GuoTeruyuki KagawaThe film follows Lin Jinghe, a young man who, for the last ten years, has been living in the big city. When he returns home, he runs into his childhood love, Nuan.
- DirectorZhou SunStarsGong LiTony Ka Fai LeungHonglei SunZhou Yu, a beautiful artisan, indulges in a torrid affair with Chen Ching, her poet-lover. United by their passion, he finds in Zhou the ultimate muse, while she believes Chen to be her ideal soul mate.
- DirectorJunjie ZhaiStarsTian GaoHai-Bo HuangYoubin Li
- DirectorDongshen XieStarsJingfan HuHailu QinLong Xiao
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsYou GeFan XuGuoli ZhangFollows the story of a television host who's hidden so much personal and secret information on his phone, that when it gets out, catastrophe strikes.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsWei ZhaoYi LuMinjie CuiA love story that should not have happened. But the Great Cultural Revolution fathered it. As memorable as Romeo and Juliet, their love tied with the same intrusion from their families ¨C the hatred. Until one day, they watched Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It inspires them. It gives their juiceless love story the hope for fruit. It brings them the determination to bridge through time setting aside the hatred. The same gives them a wait of 12 years. 12 years of changing time, changing era. Friends come and go. Songs sang become old. How much longer for their love can they hold? How much longer for their love with beautiful memory and unforgettable days can they hold?
- DirectorJinglei XuStarsJue HuangWen JiangHuang JiaoPeking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.
- DirectorLi YinStarsKun ChenVivian HsuBingbing LiA Taiwanese medical student defects to Mainland China due to Nationalist persecution, became an army surgeon during Korean War, and later went to Tibet as a doctor, while pining for his first love who is still in Taiwan, and being persistently pursued by another girl. Compiled from several actual events.
- DirectorYimou ZhangStarsKen TakakuraKiichi NakaiShinobu TerajimaA Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.
- DirectorJia WangJun YangJunjie ZhaiStarsRoger MaximeZhong QiuJia WangMY LONG MARCH is the second part in the thrilling AXIS OF WAR saga, set set during the Nanchang uprising of the Chinese Civil War in 1927.
- DirectorShaohong LiStarsKun ChenMi YangJue Huang
- DirectorPing HeStarsBingbing FanJue HuangJiayi DuSet in Warring States era in China(475-221B.C), a small town, where head of town leads all male residents fighting war against another state, his newly married wife is among women residents expecting war to finish sooner.
- DirectorGordon ChanAndy Wing-Keung ChinDanny KoStarsDonnie YenXun ZhouKun ChenAn action-thriller centered on a vampire-like woman who eats the skins and hearts of her lovers.
- DirectorChristina YaoStarsAaron KwokTielin ZhangLei HaoIn 1899, a care-free young man must prepare to take over his family's Chinese banking empire.
- DirectorLi YinStarsGang WuYe LiuJing BaiA new generation of oil workers are committing their lives on the hottest oil field. The model worker Liu Sicheng worships Iron Man Wang Jinxi and is proud of his father as Wang's friend. But non-striving Zhao questions his father's conduct. Harking back, an old train brought Wang and a group of young oil workers to scratch city of Daqing, they had to work terribly tough to change the image of oil-poor country.
- DirectorJohn WooStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiTakeshi KaneshiroFengyi ZhangThe first chapter of a two-part story centered on a battle fought in China's Three Kingdoms period (220-280 A.D.).
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsJie DongShawn DouJiaming Guo
- DirectorZhanjun AnStarsZifeng GaoDongwen GuoGe Guo
- DirectorGao FengStarsZhibo FanBai Qing Xin
- DirectorCai NingStarsHaburaRenhua NaTumenbayaer
- DirectorMing LiangStarsSam ChowNifang HuoQiang Li
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsDaoming ChenChen LiYi LuThe epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.
- DirectorBo YangYazhou YangStarsNan YuZeru TaoLin HaoOn an old barge moored close to a small village inhabited by old people and children, live young Wang Wang and his grandfather. The latter is immensely fond of the local doctor, Ms. Bei, who keeps prompting him to buy her a ring as proof of his good intentions. Wang Wang attends the local school, but, in the absence of maternal authority, with great reluctance. Then, one night, a young pregnant woman is discovered hiding on the boat, ready to give birth. With the arrival of her little baby girl, the young mother, already used to her river accommodations, opts to stay with them. Life on the barge is no longer the same. Wang Wang feels the stirring of adolescence and an Oedipal attraction to the young woman; the grandfather is diagnosed with dementia and and is warned that its first signs could soon manifest themselves; and the new young mother keeps a bag whose contents will later reveal a dark secret. Three people at a crossroads in their lives.
- DirectorWei ZhaoStarsMark You-Ting ChaoGeng HanZishan YangA college freshman encounters new friends, romance, and adventure upon her arrival at campus.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsYuanyuan GaoChen YaoMark You-Ting ChaoThe story begins on a bus, when white-collar worker Ye refuses to give up her seat to a senior citizen. Her defiance is videotaped by a journalist intern and played during a news show. The video sparks intense debate on and off the Internet. Some Internet users search for Ye's personal information and post it all online. The issue soon brings tremendous changes to the families of both the journalist intern and Ye's boss.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsGuoli ZhangHanyu ZhangWei FanA deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
- DirectorBayaneruulStarsBademaBuyanhexigDugursurongDuring WWII, two injured soldiers, one Japanese and one Russian, are rescued and nursed back to health by a Mongolian goat herder. Instead of cherishing their salvaged lives, the two men seek to murder each other at every opportunity, much to the horror of their kind-hearted saviour.
- DirectorSanyuan PengStarsAndy LauBoran JingDongkai CuiA man's epic 14 year search for his son crosses paths with another man who shares a similar story.
- DirectorDongyu FuStarsLawang LopNgawang RinchenSonam Dolgar
- DirectorHark TsuiStarsHanyu ZhangTony Ka Fai LeungKenny LinA story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsXiaoming HuangZheng XuPurba RgyalDuring the Tang Dynasty's during the era of "Zhen Guan" (era name during rule of Emperor Taizong), the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and dangers, natural disasters, and sees the sufferings of the common people. Soldiers gets in his way, his disciples betrays him, he struggles through deserts, runs short of food and water, all in the quest for Buddha's teachings. He finally arrives in India, and studies Buddhism in earnest. By the time he returns to China, he is already 50 years old.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsJinpaShide NyimaTsemdo TharTharlo is an orphan who lives a simple life, but could a brief encounter with a woman in his local town change his life for ever?
- DirectorSheng DingStarsAndy LauYe LiuQianyuan WangMr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped by four unpredictable criminals disguised as police officers. Will he get rescued?