Direction: Xie Jin

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Xie Jin. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Red Detachment of Women

1961 · Movie · 120 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Chen Qiang · Tie Niu · Wang Xingang · Xiang Mei

6.6

46 votes

6.6

46 votes

Two Stage Sisters

1964 · Movie · 112 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Xie Fang · Cao Yindi · Deng Nan · Dong Lin

Synopsis In 1935 a runaway daughter-in-law, Zhu Chunhua, takes refuge at an itinerant Yue Opera troupe performing at a Shaoxing village. The head of the troupe, A’Xin, intends to send the girl away, but Yue Opera teacher Xing, seeing her potential,...

6.1

29 votes

6.1

29 votes

The Opium War

1997 · Movie · 106 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Bao Guoan · Lin Liankun · Su Min · Sihung Lung

Synopsis Historical Drama starting in 1839 in Guangzhou where British merchants dealing with opium are to be executed because the opium is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of opium by the Chinese England declares war, because the...

5.8

526 votes

5.8

526 votes

Penitentiary Angel

1995 · Movie · 105 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Zhao Wei · Chiu La-La · Lee Tsui-Wan · Liu Tung Yin

Synopsis This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears streaming down her face, but told that it's...

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Woman Basketball Player No. 5

1957 · Movie · 84 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Qin Yi · Cui Chaoming

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Woman Soccer Player #9

2001 · Movie · 88 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Lin Liankun · Wu Yujuan · Lijing Zhou · Rina Sa

Synopsis Soccer coach Gao Bo is coaching a women's team in Japan, which brings back memories of a similar job he had in China. He decides to return to China to reorganize his old team. This appears to be a quasi-remake...

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The Last Aristocrats

1989 · Movie · 112 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Pan Hong · Pu Cunxin · Kechun Li · Xiao Xiong

Synopsis Four Chinese women students in the USA are stranded when the Communists take over Shanghai in 1948.

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Youth

1977 · Movie · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Zhang Yu · Joan Chen · Yue Yuan · Xiyan Wang

Synopsis After her senses are surgically restored, a formerly deaf mute teenager enlists in the army and is assigned to communications work. But her inexperience with even such simple tasks as answering a telephone lead her supervisor to conclude she is...

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Chunmiao

1975 · Movie · China

Direction Xie Jin · Tingduo Liang · Bili Yan

Cast Xiuming Li · Qi Feng · Da Shichang · Gao Baocheng

Synopsis During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic's...

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The Herdsman

1982 · Movie · 106 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin · Huang Shuqin

Cast Zhu Shimao · Cong Shan · Niu Ben · Zhao Ziyue

Synopsis When Xu Jingyou (Liu Qiong) an American businessman goes to China in 1980, he wants to bring his son Lingjun (Zhu Shimao) back to the U.S. so he can have an easier life. They have been separated for 30 years,...

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A, yao lan

1979 · Movie · 72 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Cun Li · Ma Xiaoqing · Ni Yilan · La Yang

Synopsis In 1947 Li Nan is assigned to escort small children to a safe area.

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Qiu Jin: A Revolutionary

1984 · Movie · 136 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Wang Fuli · Meiying Huang · Cong Shan · Xiuming Li

Synopsis Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese feminist and martyred revolutionary.

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Bell of Purity Temple

1992 · Movie · 116 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Yi Ding · Komaki Kurihara · Pu Cunxin · You Yong

Synopsis In 1945, Japan is defeated in its war of aggression against China. During a panic retreat, a baby boy is abandoned, but is adopted and grows up to become and eminent monk. Thirty years later, he visits China and meets...

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Hibiscus Town

1987 · Movie · 164 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Jiang Wen · Linian Liu · Liu Xiaoqing · Ning Xu

Synopsis Kindhearted and pretty Hu Yuyin sells a local variety of bean curd made from rice. She works hard and lives frugally together with her husband Guigui. As a result, they save some money and finally manage to build a new...

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Legend of Tianyun Mountain

1980 · Movie · 126 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Jianlan Shi · Wang Fuli · Weijian Shi · Xuemin Hong

Synopsis The film describes the frustrated experience and love of Pan Laowu, who makes his living by draining off waste water. It reflects the suffering brought about in the Cultural Revolution, the kindness of common working people, their firm belief and...

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Big Li, Young Li and Old Li

1962 · Movie · 82 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Fan Haha · Guan Hongda · Liu Xiasheng · Xiaoman Shi

Synopsis Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant.

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Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain

1985 · Movie · 139 min. · China

Direction Xie Jin

Cast Ke Gai · Guan Zhongxiang · Hiu Wing · Siqin Gaowa

Synopsis Follows a Red Army company from training through to combat in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 and the aftermath of war, focusing on the anger created by corruption among the Party elite.

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Harbour

1972 · Movie · China

Direction Xie Jin · Tieli Xie

Cast Li Lifang · Zhao Wenkui

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An Old Man and His Dog

1993 · Movie · 90 min. · China

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