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• PK.COM.CN (DVD) (English Subtitled) (China Version) DVD Region 6 Jaycee Chan (Actor) | Wilson Chen (Actor) | Niu Meng Meng (Actor) | Xiao Jiang (Director)

  Helmed by Electric Shadows director Xiao Jiang, PK.COM.CN tunes in to the mind and mode of China's contemporary urban youth with visual panache, black humor, and Fight Club spirit. Adapted from an immensely popular award-winning internet novel, PK.COM.CN has been touted as China's first "interactive" film as the final screenplay was determined through internet voting, but what really sets it apart from other works is the visual and narrative freshness. A reflective piece punctuated with punk sounds, slick art direction, and nonsensical humor, PK.COM.CN convincingly portrays the dreams, conflicts, and language of the post-80s urban generation, lost somewhere between dream and reality. Teaming up again after Twins Effect 2, Hong Kong actor Jaycee Chan (Invisible Target) and Taiwan heartthrob Wilson Chen (Blue Gate Crossing) are the stars of choice to play the film's pair of doting, battling college buddies who go through the rites of chaotic youth and post-modern self-searching with unexpected results. No matter how much time has passed, doctor Zhang Wenfeng (Jaycee Chan) can't forget about his college buddy Yinchuan (Wilson Chen). During his college years, Yinchuan was always by his side, there to support him through the novel adventures and the lowest moments. After graduation, however, Yinchuan disappeared. Wenfeng hopes to see him again at the latest reunion, but Yinchuan again doesn't show up, leaving Wenfeng with only memories of the past. It is only when Yinchuan's ex-girlfriend (Niu Mengmeng) shows up that Wenfeng discovers the shocking truth about Yinchuan and himself.
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• Assembly (DVD) (China Version) DVD Region All Zhang Han Yu (Actor) | Deng Chao (Actor) | Yuan Wen Kang (Actor) | Wang Bao Qiang (Actor)

  China's foremost commercial filmmaker Feng Xiaogang lives up to his name with the blockbuster war film Assembly. Pulling in over 23 millian yuan at the domestic box office, Assembly outgunned even The Warlords which was screening concurrently. After years of satirical comedies, Feng's films have gotten progressively bigger in recent years, starting with 2004's A World Without Thieves to 2006's star-studded period piece The Banquet. Based on a novel by Yang Jinyuan, Assembly continues this trend in scale and production, but where The Banquet is glossy, Assembly is gritty, pulling in audiences not with star power, but the magnitude of the war experience. Assembly's realistic battle scenes and brilliant camerawork have earned the film comparisons to Saving Private Ryan, but equally powerful is the human drama that follows the war. Assembly opens on the battlefield in 1948 during China's Civil War. The Ninth Company of the People's Liberation Army led by brash Captain Gu Zidi (Zhang Hanyu) are sent out to defend a mine from the advancing Kuomintang troops. Given an essentially impossible task, the vastly outnumbered Ninth Company are ordered to hold their positions until they hear the bugle assembly call. But that call never comes, or at least not to the injured ears of Gu, as casualties pile and hope run dries. Of the 48 members of the Ninth Company, Gu alone survives the devastating defeat, only to find that he has become a forgotten man, written off as missing in action, just like his fallen comrades. Drifting from regiment to regiment, war to war, Gu struggles to keep alive the legacy of the Ninth Company. Zhang Hanyu from A World Without Thieves gives a commanding performance as a military man whose battle scars follow him on his long, restless search for honor and closure. The faces who make up the Ninth Company include popular Mainland stars Deng Chao and Ren Quan, Blind Shaft lead Wang Baoqiang, and television actor Yuan Wenkang, who gives a notable performance as a timid political officer thrown into war. Acclaimed actor Hu Jun (Lan Yu, Infernal Affairs II) also makes a cameo appearance in Assembly.
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• Red Sorghum (DVD) (English Subtitled) (China Version) DVD Region All Gong Li (Actor) | Jiang Wen (Actor) | Zhang Yimou (Director) | Teng Ru Jun (Actor)

  Celebrated Mainland filmmaker Zhang Yimou brings his inimitable touch to Red Sorghum, a sumptuous drama set during 1930s China, just prior to the Japanese occupation. Jiu'er (Gong Li) is a young bride arranged to marry the leprous owner of a sorghum winery. But the leper dies, and Jiu'er takes over the winery, along with her lover (Jiang Wen), a burly rogue with a natural, rough charisma. Their rural lives are filled with struggle and even joy, but the invasion of the Japanese brings tragedy and blood to their doorsteps. Told in glorious shades of red, Red Sorghum is quintessential Zhang Yimou, and uses setting, cinematography, and stunning imagery to create characters and mood that are both iconic and recognizable. Gong Li and Jiang Wen both turn in revelatory performances. As both an anti-war film and a portrait of pre-Communist Chinese life, Red Sorghum is a compelling, powerful achievement from a true master of cinema.
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