In the light, everybody needs the light

UNDER THE LIGHT

Jianrupanshi (Solid As a Rock)

2023

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Chen Yu

Spoilers: moderate

Have you tried a little discretion, prosecutor?

ARTICLE 20

Di er shi tao

2024

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Li Meng and Wang Tianyi

Spoilers: moderate

Every movie really is at least one person's favorite

ONE SECOND

Yimiaozhong

2020

Written and directed by Zhang Yimou (based on the novel by Geling Yan)

Spoilers: moderate

What in the world could make a river red turn blue?

FULL RIVER RED

2023

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Chen Yu and Zhang Yimou

Spoilers: moderate

Well, if you don't like it, maybe you shouldn't have "volunteered"

SNIPERS

2022

Directed by Zhang Yimou and Zhang Mo

Written by Chen Yu

Spoilers: moderate

Kick me in the jimmy

THE STORY OF QIU JU

1992

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Liu Heng (based on the novella "The Wan Family's Lawsuit" by Chen Yuabin)

Spoilers: mild

The fifth famous dan (er, not Zhang Junqiu)

FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE

1993

Directed by Chen Kaige

Written by Lu Wei and Lilian Lee (based on the novel by Lilian Lee)

Spoilers: moderate, maybe high

In fabric

JU DOU

1990

Directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fenglian

Written by nobody, apparently? (based on the novel Fuxi Fuxi by Liu Heng)

Spoilers: moderate

Red, red wine

RED SORGHUM

1987

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Chen Jianyu and Zhu Wei (based on the stories "Red Sorghum" and "Sorghum Wine" by Mo Yan)

Spoilers: moderate

City of spies

CLIFF WALKERS

2021

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Quan Yongxian and Zhang Yimou

Spoilers: mild

The chrysanthemums are all ready—they deserve to bloom once

THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

2006

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Zhihong Bian and Zhang Yimou (based, loosely, on the play Thunderstorm by Cao Yu)

Spoiler alert: moderate

A rare beauty in the north

HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS

2004

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Li Feng, Peter Wu, Wang Bin, and Zhang Yimou

Spoiler alert: moderate verging on high

A man walks down the street, it's a street in a strange world, maybe it's the third world, maybe it's his first time around

RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES

2005 PRC/2006 USA

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Zou Jingzhi and Zhang Yimou

Spoiler alert: moderate

All under heaven

HERO

2002 PRC/2004 USA

Directed by Zhang Yimou

Written by Feng Li, Bin Wang, and Zhang Yimou

Spoiler alert: the plot's about an attempted assassination of Qin Shi Huang, so maybe it's not the biggest spoiler to say that no, it doesn't come off; otherwise, moderate

Farewell my concubine

LEGEND OF THE DEMON CAT

2017 PRC/2019 USA

Directed by Chen Kaige

Written by Hui-Ling Wang and Chen Kaige (based on the novel Sramana Kukai by Baku Yumenakura)

Spoiler alert: mild

Moon blinked

OVER THE MOON

2020

Directed by Glen Keane and co-directed by John Kahrs

Written by Audrey Wells

Spoiler alert: moderate

The night is short, walk on boy

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

80 minutes of some of the more artful, emotionally-intuitive filmmaking that 2019 had to offer versus 60 minutes of pure clunking ego.

2018 PRC/2019 USA

Written and directed by Bi Gan

Spoiler alert: moderate