Family Chinese Movies

rarefruit
October 10, 2008, 05:37 AM posted in General Discussion

I am looking for Chinese movies suitable for family viewing. My 7 year old son and I are a newbies trying to learn Chinese on our own, and are wondering if anyone knows of any good family Chinese movies we could watch. We have found a few and it really helps us by hearing the language from native speakers and would like to watch more, especially if they also have Mandarin sub-titles. The problem is I have found very few movies available in the USA, and even fewer that are family friendly. Maybe I am looking in the wrong places, but I am thinking if I had some movie titles names that could help narrow my search.

We have watched Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, Postmen of the Mountains, Road Home. We like adventure, history, documentaries, kids, comedy, basically anything without a lot of gore, violence, or adult content. Anybody have any suggestions?

I have Farewell My Cocubine, Hero, Zhou Yus Train, House of Flying daggers, Raise the Red Lantern but those we really can't watch together, so I would be very appreciated if anybody can recommend anything else. I heard the "Up the Yangtze" is going to be released to DVD in the USA in November so we hope to see that. 

Appreciate any help or ideas

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azerdocmom
October 10, 2008, 12:24 PM

Just a quicknote, try searching the CPod database. There've been plenty of discussions on Chinese movies.

I have 2 recommendations: Not One Less (story about a rural classroom and teacher), and The Way Home (with a young Zhang Zi Yi, of Crouching Tiger fame.)

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changye
October 10, 2008, 12:51 PM

漂亮妈妈 (starring 巩俐)
Beautiful Mother (piaoliang mama)
http://so.tudou.com/isearch.do?kw=%C6%AF%C1%C1%C2%E8%C2%E8

一个都不能少 (Not One Less, docmom mentioned)
http://so.tudou.com/isearch.do?kw=%D2%BB%B8%F6%B6%BC%B2%BB%C4%DC%C9%D9

长江七号 (changjiang qihao) SF-comedy
 
http://so.tudou.com/isearch.do?kw=%B3%A4%BD%AD%C6%DF%BA%C5

Good or bad, you can find almost most of Chinese movies, and foreign ones, on this website.

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tvan
October 10, 2008, 12:54 PM

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sushan
October 10, 2008, 01:29 PM

变脸, I think King of Masks is the English name.

和你在一起,  English name is Together.

Both shows have kids as protagonists.

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lechuan
October 14, 2008, 07:26 PM

Another very good family-friendly movie is:

Secret (不能說的秘密) (Bùnéng shuō de mìmì)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_(2007_film)