LibGuides: LTCH 101A Readings/Contemporary Chinese Literature, Topic: Ghostly Matters in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Beyond: Films

Online Films

Asian Film Online
Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity

Kanopy Online Video
Online movies and documentaries. More than 800 titles under "Asian Studies" and 40 titles in Mandarin under "Foreign Language Films".

Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online
Documentary films and newsreels were two of the major mass media and communication channels in China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. They covered all aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on developments in the building of a socialist country. The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

Docuseek 2
70+ titles on the subject of "China". Docuseek2 is the internet site where one can discover, access, license, stream and share over 1500 documentary and social issues films and videos. This database provides educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, MediaStorm, the National Film Board of Canada, Scorpion TV, Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films. Topics covered include business and economics, health care, humanities, performing arts, and social sciences. Docuseek2 supports the ability to create clips, playlists, and save searches of the films and videos available through this website

Films on Demand
Contains outstanding educational programs. Many programs from the History Channel, Biography Channel, BBC, PBS and other news channels are included in this collection.

Folk Memory Documentary Project (民间记忆影像计划)
46 independent films produced by Caochangdi Workstation (草场地工作室), curated by Wu Wenguang (吴文光) who is commonly recognized as the founder of Chinese independent documentary, also known as China’s New Documentary Movement. He is a Beijing-based independent documentary maker, freelance writer, creator and producer of dance and theater since 1988.

Socialism on Film
Socialism on Film is collection of documentaries, newsreels and features that reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s and examines the themes of War & Revolution, News & Current Affairs plus Culture & Society. The whole spectrum of socialist life is here on film.
Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute (BFI), this resource makes available the superb ETV-Plato Films collection amassed by British communist Stanley Forman in the years following the Second World War. The collection consists of films produced almost exclusively in the communist world and later versioned into English for distribution in the West. All the films included in this resource have been digitized from the original 16mm and 35mm film reels.

Select Films at UCSD Library

A Chinese ghost story by Tsui Hark
Publication Date: 1987
A supernatural fantasy set in older China. A tax collector, Ling Choi Sin (Cheung), is forced to stay at the haunted Lan Ro Temple when a heavy rainstorm whips up. There he meets and mutually falls in love with a beautiful lady ghost, Lit Siu Seen (Wang), who is under the control of a vampire tree spirit who depends on Seen to bring her victims. With the help of a Taoist monk (Ma), Seen must fight to free his love from evil
Made in Hong Kong by Fruit Chan
Publication Date: 1997
Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent thug living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence
Mr. Vampire by Liu Guanwei
Publication Date: 1985
"A ghost sucks the life-force out of a one of Uncle Nine's student. The other is slowly turned into a vampire. They halt his transformation by filing down his teeth! The female ghost throws her head around like a boomerang to protect herself. Can Mr. Vampire chase away the Succubus and the hopping ghost and save his two students?"--IMDB
Rouge by Stanley Kwan
Publication Date: 1987
"Fleur is the blue angel in one of Hong Kong's 'flower houses' - bordellos and night clubs of the 1930's. A detached and beautiful performer, she falls in love with Twelfth Master Chan, heir to a chain of pharmacies. They agree to a suicide pact. Jump ahead 50 years to modern Hong Kong: Fleur's ghost appears in Yuen's newspaper office, wanting to place an ad to find Chan, who never arrived in the afterlife. Yuen, and his equally bewildered girl friend, An Chor, are captivated by Fleur and her story."--IMDB
Song of the exile by Ann Hui
Publication Date: 1990
A young woman returns to Hong Kong after finishing her education at a university in England and finds herself at social and emotional odds with her Japanese mother
A Touch of Zen by King Hu
Publication Date: 1971
Directed by King Hu. An artist, Ku, lives with his mother near an abandoned fort, reputed to be haunted. One night, investigating strange noises, he meets the beautiful Yang who is living there. She is being pursued by agents of an Imperial noble who have murdered her family. Ku finds himself caught up in her struggle to survive, and many fierce battles take place before all is resolved. Action adventure with a lyrical feel, this is a kung fu film with a strong spiritual element Featuring Hsu Feng, Shi Chun, Pai Ying, Tien Peng. Country of production: Taiwan. (With English subtitles.) Some World Cinema titles may contain mature themes or content. Viewer discretion is advised
黑眼圈 [videorecording = I don't want to sleep alone / Homegreen Films, Soudaine Compagnie present ; a film by Tsai Ming-Liang
Publication Date: 2008
"Forest fires burn in Sumatra; a smoke covers Kuala Lumpur. Grifters beat an immigrant day laborer and leave him on the streets. Rawang, a young man, finds him, carries him home, cares for him, and sleeps next to him. In a loft above lives a waitress. She sometimes provides care and attention. More violence seems a constant possibility. They find another man abandoned on the street, paralyzed. They carry him. While no one speaks to each other, sounds dominate: coughing, cooking, coupling, opening bags; music and news reports on a radio, the rattle and buzz of a restaurant. It's dark in the city at night. We see down hallways, through doors, down alleys. Who sleeps with whom?"--IMDB
Gin gwai = The eye / Applause Pictures and Raintree Pictures present a Pang Brothers film ; directed by Oxide and Danny Pang ; produced by Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Lawrence Cheng ; story by Jojo Hui and Pang Brothers
Publication Date: 2002
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant enabling her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her implant allows her to see ghosts
世界 = The world / 上海电影集团公司, 上海电影制片厂 ; 星汇有限公司, 香港 ; 出品人任仲伦, 周强 ; 监制许朋乐, 汪天云, 宋靖 ; 编剧导演贾樟柯
Publication Date: 2004
Friends and lovers live in an international Beijing amusement park, and work as performers in a tourist extravaganza there

LTCH 101A Readings/Contemporary Chinese Literature, Topic: Ghostly Matters in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Beyond: Films

Online Films

Select Films at UCSD Library

East Asian Film Collections at UCSD Library