A young boy tends sheep on a hillside in Northern China goes missing. His mute father looks for him with a special way of solving problems: Fisticuffs. Official Selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**. *"A powerful and fatalistic illustration of the Chinese rural underclass and its futile fight against oppressive social forces." - Clarence Tsui, **Hollywood Reporter***

One of China's foremost directors, Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle, Shanghai Dreams) has created a moving coming-of-age tale set in the final days of China's Cultural Revolution. 11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in Guizhou province. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school in their daily gymnastics, he is told he must wear a clean, new shirt, which forces his...

The Killer Meteors: A powerful nobleman believes his own wife has poisoned him. To find the exclusive antidote in time and kill his evil wife, he hires his advisory, a rogue warrior known for his mastery of deadly explosive projectiles. Shaolin Wooden Men: An orphan traumatized into silence by the death of his father finds himself living at the Shaolin monastery...and befriending a prisoner who teaches him a secret and deadly form of kung fu. To...

Profiles the ever-changing Chinese economic landscape through the view of the sport of boxing. Filmmaker Yung Chang follows boxing coach Qi Moxiang as he travels across China's Sichuan province recruiting young fighting talent from impoverished farms and villages. Selected boys and girls are taken to national training centers in hopes of becoming Olympic heroes, but can they leave their families behind to become boxing's finest?

Willie loved to write-words gave him freedom and peace. But he also knew that he needed to earn a living, so when he grew up he went off to medical school and became a doctor-one of the busiest men in town! Yet he never stopped writing. In this picture book biography of poet William Carlos Williams, Jen Bryant's engaging prose and Melissa Sweet's stunning mixed-media illustrations celebrate the amazing man whose poems about ordinary, everyday things...

Everything here seems to have one thing in common, that they all "want to be spoken." Haruki Murakami! "The so-called death is a very special event. I often think that a large part of a person's life is the energy or the sense of loss brought about by the death of others, or something like that. But she's so defenseless about these things, that's it." Artfully selected between fact and fiction, Haruki Murakami's eight sketches. It's a lot like a carousel....

"Yi er san" takes children on an exciting journey in Mandarin Chinese. There are more than 25 traditional Chinese songs and nursery rhymes to learn and love, with key words labelled and illustrated on every page. the guide at the back of the book includes information about how the rhymes are used and translates useful phrases. with a CD that introduces the sounds and rhythms of the language, children will enjoy learning and speaking Chinese"--Back...

A young boxer enrolls in a famous martial arts institute in another town in order to improve his fighting skills.

"In an attempt to impress a portly divorcée that has caught his eye, an unemployed factory worker poses as the wealthy manager of a non-existent hotel. Hoping that his fabricated success will lead to holy matrimony, he instead finds himself the guardian of the woman's blind stepdaughter. Now, as the lies get more complicated and the deception more difficult to sustain, the sweet young blind girl and the crazy middle-aged man find themselves forming...

Illegal immigrant Tietou loses his Chinese papers and can't return home. His fellow countrymen help him find illegal work. An incident causes Tietou to save the powerful Yakuza boss Toshinari Eguchi. The mobster offers him the job of boss over the Chinese illegal immigrants. However, his non-violent methods soon make him unpopular and he begins to lose control over his men which leads to a giant gang war.