https://shotonwhat.com/region/china-asia The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Thu, 16 May 2024 17:17:25 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:16:44 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-dark-knight-2008
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cinematographer: Wally Pfister
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-earth-1937 Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:04:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-good-earth-1937
Director: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 15:45:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-man-with-the-golden-gun-1974
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cinematographer: Ted Moore, Oswald Morris
James Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 Sat, 06 Jul 2024 14:56:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012
Director: Sam Mendes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/burma-road-flying-tigers-2015 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:53:20 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/burma-road-flying-tigers-2015
Director: Chris D. Nebe
Cinematographer: Josh Lim, Josh Miller, JJ Osbun
]]> https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005 Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:24:09 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/star-wars-episode-iii-revenge-of-the-sith-2005
Director: George Lucas
Cinematographer: David Tattersall
Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/geostorm-2017 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:17:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/geostorm-2017
Director: Dean Devlin
Cinematographer: Roberto Schaefer
When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate starts to attack Earth, it's a race against the clock for its creator to uncover the real threat before a worldwide Geostorm wipes out everything and everyone. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956 Tue, 14 May 2024 03:42:55 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-1956
Director: Michael Anderson, John Farrow
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/die-geschichte-vom-weinenden-kamel-2003 Sat, 16 Dec 2023 15:04:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/die-geschichte-vom-weinenden-kamel-2003
Director: Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
Cinematographer: Luigi Falorni
When a Mongolian nomadic family's newest camel colt is rejected by its mother, a musician is needed for a ritual to change her mind. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-iii-2006 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 15:21:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mission-impossible-iii-2006
Director: J.J. Abrams
Cinematographer: Dan Mindel
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancee in response. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:37:33 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-amazing-race-2001
Director: Bertram van Munster, Evan Weinstein
Cinematographer: Peter Rieveschl, Per Larsson, Tom Cunningham, Josh Gitersonke
Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-precipice-game-2016 Wed, 19 Jun 2019 12:24:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-precipice-game-2016
Director: Zao Wang
Cinematographer: Joewi Verhoeven
Liu Chenchen, a free-spirited young woman, rebels against her wealthy family and elopes with her boyfriend to join a cruise-bond treasure hunt. But what began as an innocent game with ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/lord-jim-1965 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:57:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/lord-jim-1965
Director: Richard Brooks
Cinematographer: Freddie Young
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny-2016 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:22:32 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/crouching-tiger-hidden-dragon-sword-of-destiny-2016
Director: Woo-Ping Yuen
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-red-violin-1998 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:06:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-red-violin-1998
Director: François Girard
Cinematographer: Alain Dostie
A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-blood-of-yingzhou-district-2006 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:40:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-blood-of-yingzhou-district-2006
Director: Ruby Yang
Cinematographer: Jiangtao Qu
A year in the life of children in the Province of Anhui in China, who have lost their parents to AIDS. Traditional obligations to family and village collide with terror of the disease. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chinas-unnatural-disaster-the-tears-of-sichuan-province-2009 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:11:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chinas-unnatural-disaster-the-tears-of-sichuan-province-2009
Director: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
Cinematographer: Jon Alpert, Matthew O'Neill
On May 12, 2008, a catastrophic earthquake hit Sichuan Province in rural China, killing nearly 70,000 people, including 10,000 children. In town after town, poorly constructed school ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/racing-extinction-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:56:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/racing-extinction-2015
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Cinematographer: John Behrens, Shawn Heinrichs, Sean Kirby, Petr Stepanek
A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:24:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/human-2015
Director: Yann Arthus-Bertrand
A collection of stories about and images of our world, offering an immersion to the core of what it means to be human. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-warriors-of-qiugang-2010 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:37:24 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-warriors-of-qiugang-2010
Director: Ruby Yang
Cinematographer: Xin Guan
Villagers in a remote district of central China take on a chemical company that is poisoning their water and air. For five years they fight to transform their environment and as they do, they find themselves transformed as well. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tiny-times-2-0-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:33:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tiny-times-2-0-2013
Director: Jingming Guo
Cinematographer: Randy Che
Set four years after the first movie, Lin Xiao, Lily, Nan Xiang, and Ruby, confront opportunities and challenges as their school days come to an end. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/nezha-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:23:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/nezha-2014
Director: Xiaofeng Li
Cinematographer: Joewi Verhoeven
Li Xiaolu, 16, meets the bookish student of the class, Wang Xiaobing. They become best friends. During their short period of friendship, they read Sanmao, and discover the most beautiful ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/le-dernier-loup-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:47:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/le-dernier-loup-2015
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cinematographer: Jean-Marie Dreujou
During China's Cultural Revolution, a young urban student is sent to live with Mongolian herders, where he adopts a wolf cub. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/citizenfour-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:20:29 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/citizenfour-2014
Director: Laura Poitras
Cinematographer: Kirsten Johnson, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Katy Scoggin
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/enter-the-dragon-1973 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:47:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/enter-the-dragon-1973
Director: Robert Clouse
Cinematographer: Gil Hubbs
A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/xi-you-ji-da-nao-tian-gong-2014 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:26:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/xi-you-ji-da-nao-tian-gong-2014
Director: Soi Cheang
Cinematographer: Man Po Cheung, Tao Yang
A monkey born from heavenly stone acquires supernatural powers and must battle the armies of both gods and demons to find his place in the heavens. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-grandmaster-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:21:27 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-grandmaster-2013
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Cinematographer: Philippe Le Sourd
The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/casse-tete-chinois-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:20:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/casse-tete-chinois-2013
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cinematographer: Natasha Braier
A 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can't bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/chacun-son-cinema-ou-ce-petit-coup-au-coeur-quand-la-lumiere-seteint-et-que-le-film-commence-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:55:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/chacun-son-cinema-ou-ce-petit-coup-au-coeur-quand-la-lumiere-seteint-et-que-le-film-commence-2007
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raoul Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Ming-liang Tsai, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang
Cinematographer: Marc-André Batigne, Jacques Bouquin, Inti Briones, Dirk Brüel, Nicholas de Pencier, Eric Alan Edwards, Greig Fraser, Francis Grumman, Pung-Leung Kwan, Steven Lubensky, Emmanuel Lubezki, Alain Marcoen, Ramses Marzouk, Francisco Oliveira, Alessandro Pesci, Mauro Pinheiro Jr., Andreas Sinanos, Masha Solovyova, Shinzi Suzuki, Alberto Venzago, Xiaoding Zhao, Xiaoshi Zhao
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/tian-zhu-ding-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 04:54:14 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/tian-zhu-ding-2013
Director: Zhangke Jia
Cinematographer: Nelson Lik-wai Yu
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/journey-to-the-west-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 01:27:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/journey-to-the-west-2013
Director: Stephen Chow, Chi-kin Kwok
Cinematographer: Sung Fai Choi
Tang Sanzang, an aspiring Buddhist hero tries to protect a village from three demons. He develops complex feelings for Miss Duan, the demon hunter who repeatedly helps him, and finally quests to meet the legendary Monkey King. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/iron-man-three-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:56:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/iron-man-three-2013
Director: Shane Black
Cinematographer: John Toll
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/largo-winch-ii-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 21:56:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/largo-winch-ii-2011
Director: Jérôme Salle
Cinematographer: Denis Rouden
Largo Winch, the newly appointed CEO of the W Group, is accused of crimes against humanity on the very day he announces his intention to sell his corporation and use the proceeds to create a humanitarian foundation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/hao-men-ye-yan-1991 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:53:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/hao-men-ye-yan-1991
Director: Alfred Cheung, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung, Clifton Ko, Hark Tsui
Cinematographer: David Chung, Ardy Lam, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, Kin Keung Lee, Tak-Wai Lee, Peter Pau, Chi-Wai Tam, Wing-Hang Wong
Film with a weak plot about an businessman trying to clinch a deal for the reconstruction of Kuwait after the Gulf War from a Kuwaiti prince. The climax of the movie is a banquet/dinner at ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/gong-yuan-2000-ad-2000 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:20:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/gong-yuan-2000-ad-2000
Director: Gordon Chan
Cinematographer: Arthur Wong
The Y2K Bug. Real Warfare vs Electronic Gaming. Peter Tong, a carefree Hong Kong youngster, finds himself drawn into the web of a deadly espionage conspiracy. A clandestine organization ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/baraka-1992 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:19:13 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/baraka-1992
Director: Ron Fricke
Cinematographer: Ron Fricke
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s-mcnamara-2003 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 13:43:37 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-fog-of-war-eleven-lessons-from-the-life-of-robert-s-mcnamara-2003
Director: Errol Morris
Cinematographer: Robert Chappell, Peter Donahue
The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-painted-veil-2006 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:23:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-painted-veil-2006
Director: John Curran
Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh
A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/samsara-2001 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 11:45:30 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/samsara-2001
Director: Pan Nalin
Cinematographer: Rali Raltschev
A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sai-chiu-2006 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:46:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sai-chiu-2006
Director: Kin-Lung Lam
Cinematographer: Chiu-Lam Ko
In China, Lau Sing leaves his wife and their young daughter in his province and travels to the big city with his friends to raise money in pharmacology business. Four years later, he ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/naked-weapon-2002 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:27:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/naked-weapon-2002
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
Cinematographer: Sung Fai Choi
40 13 y.o. girls are kidnapped and the next 6 years forcefully trained to be sexy assassins. The survivors go on to be top int'l assassins known as China dolls. A CIA agent's on track of them. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-first-aggregate-2012 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:02:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-first-aggregate-2012
Director: Darhad Erdenibulag, Emyr ap Richard
Cinematographer: Emyr ap Richard
A struggling Mongolian stuntman returns to the big city after suffering a serious head injury but soon finds himself thrust back into the fray when presented with an opportunity to become a serious actor. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/3-needles-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:41:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/3-needles-2005
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Cinematographer: Tom Harting
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor (Ashmore) schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun (Sevigny) makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative (Liu) posing as a goverment-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-emperor-1987 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 07:10:08 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-last-emperor-1987
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
The story of the final Emperor of China. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sing-si-lip-yan-1993 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:05:02 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sing-si-lip-yan-1993
Director: Jing Wong
A self-indulgent private investigator winds up on a cruise ship full of rich patrons, gorgeous women, murderous terrorists, and scarce food. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mongol-the-rise-of-genghis-khan-2007 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:43:07 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mongol-the-rise-of-genghis-khan-2007
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Cinematographer: Rogier Stoffers, Sergey Trofimov
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/china-strike-force-2000 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 05:10:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/china-strike-force-2000
Director: Stanley Tong
Cinematographer: Jeffrey C. Mygatt
Assassination at a charity event in Shanghai has 2 cops follow and fighting the assassin or follow a cute, Japanese woman pick-pocketing the victim. Drugs are involved. Chases with motorcycles, race-cars and helicopter follow. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/armageddon-1998 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:04:34 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/armageddon-1998
Director: Michael Bay
Cinematographer: John Schwartzman
After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cyclo-1995 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:36:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cyclo-1995
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Cinematographer: Benoît Delhomme
A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh city) gets contact to a group of criminals. They introduce him to the mafia-world ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/di-renjie-tong-tian-di-guo-2010 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:15:50 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/di-renjie-tong-tian-di-guo-2010
Director: Hark Tsui
Cinematographer: Chi-Ying Chan, Chor Keung Chan
An exiled detective is recruited to solve a series of mysterious deaths that threaten to delay the inauguration of Empress Wu. ]]>