Dai Sijie

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Zhou Xun  •  Chen Kun  •  Liu Ye  •  Wang Shuangbao

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Zhou Xun  •  Chen Kun  •  Liu Ye  •  Wang Shuangbao

The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006)

At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Mylène Jampanoï  •  Li Xiaoran  •  Lin Dongfu  •  Wei-chang Wang

At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Mylène Jampanoï  •  Li Xiaoran  •  Lin Dongfu  •  Wei-chang Wang

China, My Sorrow (1989)

In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Liang Yi Guo  •  Quan Nghieu Tieu  •  Han Lai Vuong  •  Sam Chi-Vy

In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Liang Yi Guo  •  Quan Nghieu Tieu  •  Han Lai Vuong  •  Sam Chi-Vy

Le mangeur de lune (1994)

A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Chick Ortega  •  Mohamed Camara  •  Catherine Hiegel  •  Rufus

A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Chick Ortega  •  Mohamed Camara  •  Catherine Hiegel  •  Rufus

Night Peacock (2016)

Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with the life goal of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Liu Yifei  •  Leon Lai  •  Liu Ye  •  Yu Shaoqun

Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with the life goal of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Liu Yifei  •  Leon Lai  •  Liu Ye  •  Yu Shaoqun

The Eleventh Child (1998)

Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Akihiro Nishida  •  Tapa Sudana  •  Nguyen Thi My Chau

Restaurant owner Tang the 11th, learning his older brother, Tang the First is ill, returns to the his remote native village, long plagued by leprosy. Superstition holds that a cure can be obtained when a family of five sons and five daughters makes possible the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dai Sijie
CAST:  Akihiro Nishida  •  Tapa Sudana  •  Nguyen Thi My Chau