#Li Baotian

[dear-indies]

Hi do you know of any Chinese actors and actresses in their 70s - 80s? Please and thank you 🙏🍉

Men:

Wang Deshun (1936) Chinese.

Ma Dehua (1945) Chinese.

Bao Guo'an (1946) Chinese.

Li Baotian (1946) Chinese.

Law Kar-ying (1946) Chinese.

Li Guang Fu (1946) Chinese.

Hou Tong Jiang (1946) Chinese.

Feng Enhe (1948) Chinese.

Zhang Yimou (1950) Chinese.

Tang Guoqiang (1952) Chinese.

Zhang Shuang Li (1953) Chinese.

Li Xuejian (1954) Chinese.

Women:

Tsai Chin (1933) Chinese.

Yu Miu-Lin (1937) Chinese.

Wu Yanshu (1938) Chinese.

Lü Zhong (1940) Chinese.

Zhao Shu Zhen (1942) Chinese.

Cao Cui Fen (1944) Chinese.

Li Guyi (1944) Chinese.

Wang Fuli (1946) Chinese.

Li Mingqi (1946) Chinese.

Liza Wang (1947) Chinese.

Wu Jing (1950) Chinese.

I hope this helps you out, anon!

[dare-g]

Keep Cool (1997)

[cinemaronin]

Shanghai Triad (1995)

摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥 Shanghai Triad (1995)  directed by Zhang Yimou cinematography by  Yue Lü

[moviemosaics]

Shanghai Triad

directed by Zhang Yimou, 1995

[theoryofmine]

This film is not as good as Classic Zhang Yimous, but funny and worth to watch (if you have patience for a 45 min dialog, and you understand Chinese)

[iliketigers]

[chinesemovieposter]

北京时间（2015）

[cptrs]

[filmphilics]

Recommendation of the week: Ju Dou (1990)

Dir.: Zhang Yimou & Yang Fengliang

Cast: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Cong Zhijun, Li Wei, Zhang Yi.

Genre: Romance

Plot: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy.

Filmphilics score: 8/10

[moviemosaics]

Ju Dou

directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, 1990

[iliketigers]

[chinesemovieposter]

菊豆（1990）

[thenightingalemovie]

To watch THE NIGHTINGALE go to indiemoviestore.com

[cptrs]

[mattmovieguy]

Ju Dou, screaming out for a Blu-Ray release

Ju Dou, 1990, 95 min.

I had been meaning to see Ju Dou for some time, and I finally just pushed it to the top of my Netflix queue.  As a movie, it matched all the great things I'd heard about it, and was well worthy of its Oscar nomination; but the quality of the DVD itself left a little to be desired.  The subtitles had typos, and changed fonts, sometimes coming with a black background that obscured the scene.  The film looked like a straight VHS import, grainy, as if it were shot in the 60s or 70s.  That's too bad, because the movie, beyond being compelling for it's tragic romantic tale and stirring performances, is visually stunning, with the bright, vibrant colors of a rural Chinese fabric dying shop.  Unfortunately those colors are dulled.

On the other hand, I should be happy a DVD exists of this at all, because that's not exactly a given for a foreign movie made this long ago-- for instance, of the other four nominated for best foreign language film that year, only Cyrano de Begerac is available to rent on DVD from Netflix, and then Resise der Hoffnung is available on Watch Instantly.  Okay, so yes, this version is better than nothing, but I can only imagine how much more beautiful it would've looked on Blu-Ray...