Qiu Jiongjiong Movies

  • 1970
    Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

    Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

    Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters

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    The film continues to blend myths, legends, literature and folktales to further expand his narrative of history and weird tales. The story, set in...

    Sichuan Culinary Chronicles: In Four Chapters
  • 2022
    A New Old Play

    A New Old Play

    A New Old Play

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    On a 1980s evening, the topmost clown-actor of the 20th century Sichuan opera, Qiu Fu passes away in an accident and half-unwillingly sets off for...

    A New Old Play
  • 2010
    Madame

    Madame

    Madame

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    Qiu Jiongjiong's stark black-and-white series of interviews with transsexual cabaret singer Madame Bi Langda. Madame Bi's recollections of past...

    Madame
  • 2015
    Mr. Zhang Believes

    Mr. Zhang Believes

    Mr. Zhang Believes

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    Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage, plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its...

    Mr. Zhang Believes
  • 2011
    My Mother's Rhapsody

    My Mother's Rhapsody

    My Mother's Rhapsody

    82011HD

    The mother is in her eightieth, the son is in his sixtieth, they talking about their past.

    My Mother's Rhapsody
  • 2017
    Inmates

    Inmates

    Inmates

    7.72017HD

    In a confined section of a psychiatric ward in Northeast China, patients of schizophrenia, mania, depression, compulsive sexual behaviour and alcohol...

    Inmates
  • 2009
    A Portrait of Mr. Huang

    A Portrait of Mr. Huang

    A Portrait of Mr. Huang

    72009HD

    Part of Qiu Jiongjiong’s 'chatterbox' oral history trilogy, this short documentary focuses on current storyteller and ex-cop Huang Songnian....

    A Portrait of Mr. Huang
  • 2008
    Ode to Joy

    Ode to Joy

    Ode to Joy

    82008HD

    An essential background for Qiu Jiongjiong’s recent A New Old Play, this dazzlingly playful short documentary remixes a Sichuan opera...

    Ode to Joy
  • 2007
    The Moon Palace

    The Moon Palace

    The Moon Palace

    72007HD

    First film by director Qiu Jiongjiong -- about a restauranteur, his patrons, and the culture of art, poetry, and performance that surrounds them.

    The Moon Palace