Steamy Times Come to Chinese Films
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The frank approach to sex in Zhang Yimou's "House of Flying Daggers" is part of a significant, if subtle change brewing in Chinese film.
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Nine movies are in contention for the foreign-language Academy Award.
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The Chinese can sometimes be a weird bunch. In summer, the men love pulling their T-shirts up to expose their mighty bellies and in winter, they enjoy stripping down to their swim trunks and jumping into frozen lakes. Women take the icy plunge too.
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China is getting hard on porn. Those caught pushing pornographic images either through the Internet, mobile phones or pornography through phone sex, face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
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Jet Li's Chinese martial-arts epic "Hero" relegated four new movies to the nether regions of the box office in what ended up as one of the most feeble Labor Day weekends in memory.
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It might be in Mandarin  and cover mostly Chinese movie and TV celebrities, but a local  version of Hollywood gossip show "Access Hollywood" comes with  all the glitz of the U.S. original.
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Zhang Ziyi battles with the big boys in the dazzling, devious martial-arts epic House of Flying Daggers
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A mighty wind blows through Yimou Zhang&#39;s martial arts epic &quot;Hero,&quot; filling the air with dust, ruffling the curtains, setting the candle flames asputter, and blissfully sending Maggie Cheung&#39;s raven hair afly in the sunlight.
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Once considered a symbol of the decadent West, Valentine's Day is becoming big business in newly affluent China.
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COM Zhang Yimou channels Akira Kurosawa in Hero, which is even more visually stunning than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Like Kurosawa&#39;s Ran, it features huge armies with
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&quot;Lust, Caution,&quot; a sexually explicit  spy thriller which won the best picture award at the Venice  Film Festival, has been cut by 30 minutes to allow Chinese  children to watch it, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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Hollywood used to excel at injecting romance into virtually any film, but nowadays that passion is almost nowhere to be found
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Jet Li's martial arts flick makes it big.
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Fluid motion and  glorious colors provide a visual treat in Jiang Wen&#39;s sumptuous  romantic fantasy &quot;The Sun Also Rises,&quot; which screened in  competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
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Being female and Chinese in the classical music business are helpful in getting yourself noticed, but careers are built â and this one is building fast â on substance. Xian  Zhang has it.
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While audiences half way across the  world shower Chinese arthouse cinema with adulation and awards,  finding viewers at home can seem much harder.
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Zhang Yimou&#39;s &quot;Hero&quot; is beautiful and beguiling, a martial arts extravaganza defining the styles and lives of its fighters within Chinese tradition.