I'm Seducible

Summary In the mid-1980s, thousands came from China to the United States to study. San Francisco is aglow with chance for a young artist from China, and Shi-Wei recasts her life in the new openness she finds in the West. She surrenders herself to sensual curiosity with a white acquaintance. But what about her longing for her boyfriend in China, who impulsively decides to join her in America "to be with you, to struggle next to you side-by-side"? As she embraces one intimate tie and resumes another, Shi-Wei is entwined in the clutter of love and need. The film's director notes, "I'm Seducible is a story of self-seduction, a woman's haunted search for herself in others: life moving one way, mind floating another." View more details

I'm Seducible

Directed : Xiao-Yen Wang

Written : Xiao-Yen Wang

Stars : Ying Qu Michael Oosterom Hongjia Zhu

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Genres : Drama

Release date : Oct 5, 2006

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English Mandarin

Filming locations : Beijing, China

Production companies : The Beijing-San Francisco Film Group

Summary In the mid-1980s, thousands came from China to the United States to study. San Francisco is aglow with chance for a young artist from China, and Shi-Wei recasts her life in the new openness she finds in the West. She surrenders herself to sensual curiosity with a white acquaintance. But what about her longing for her boyfriend in China, who impulsively decides to join her in America "to be with you, to struggle next to you side-by-side"? As she embraces one intimate tie and resumes another, Shi-Wei is entwined in the clutter of love and need. The film's director notes, "I'm Seducible is a story of self-seduction, a woman's haunted search for herself in others: life moving one way, mind floating another." View more details

Details

Genres : Drama

Release date : Oct 5, 2006

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English Mandarin

Filming locations : Beijing, China

Production companies : The Beijing-San Francisco Film Group

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Fujian Blue

Fujian Blue

In the wake of China's open-door policy in the early 1980's, Fujian was one of the first Chinese coastal provinces to be opened to the outside world. Many of the male residents opted to go abroad for work, leaving behind their wives and families. Two decades later, Fujian is a microcosm of Chinese modernity: there are palatial suburbs populated by lonely "remittance widows"; neon-lit discotheques frequented by karaoke kids; coastal villages inhabited by impoverished fishermen and city centers dominated by gangs, snakeheads and language schools acting as fronts for organized human trafficking. The Neon Knights-Amerika, Roppongi and their friends, so nicknamed because of the places their emigrÄ- fathers live-use their imported digital video-cameras to film wealthy remittance widows in trysts with their local lovers. They then proceed to blackmail the women, and use the proceeds to finance a night-life of drink, drugs, girls and karaoke. Amerika is the mastermind of the scheme, Roppongi (a.k.a. "The Playa") is the seducer and Dragon and the others act as bag-men. But when Amerika discovers that his own mother has taken a lover and decides to blackmail her, the gang is forced to take a stand... Dragon, a young man from a poor fishing village, is an exception to the rule. He participates in the blackmail in hopes of earning some money to help pay off his brother's emigration debt, send his younger sister to private school and provide his parents with a better life. After he runs into some trouble and decides to hide out in his hometown, the gang entrusts him with a precious cargo. The fate of this mysterious cargo may well determine Dragon's future...

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