Direction: Xie Jin
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Xie Jin. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 19
The Red Detachment of Women
1961 · Movie · 120 min. · China
Direction Xie Jin
Cast Chen Qiang · Tie Niu · Wang Xingang · Xiang Mei
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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,...
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29 votes
6.1
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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...
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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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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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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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An Old Man and His Dog
1993 · Movie · 90 min. · China
Direction Xie Jin
Cast Enhe Feng · Gao Baocheng · Siqin Gaowa · Xie Tian
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