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Chongqing Hot Pot (Yang Qing, 2016)

Chongqing Hot Pot (Yang Qing, 2016)

The latest Chinese import to grace Seattle Screens is an absurdist thriller about trio of friends who own a failing underground (literally) restaurant and who accidentally tunnel into a nearby bank vault. After a tense prologue that recalls any number of Hong Kong gangster thrillers, men in black wearing Journey

Monster Hunt (Raman Hui, 2015)

Monster Hunt (Raman Hui, 2015)

An effects-based comic wuxia directed by Raman Hui, a Hong Kong native who has spent most of his career working on animated Hollywood films, most notably on some Shrek and Kung Fu Panda shorts and as co-director on Shrek the Third. This appears to be Hui’s first Chinese film

Go Away, Mr. Tumor (Han Yan, 2015)

Go Away, Mr. Tumor (Han Yan, 2015)

The goofy, cutsy, CGI-driven, Chinese fantasy cancer melodrama we didn’t know we needed. The clash of tones in Go Away, Mr. Tumor I imagine would be unbearable for most, especially audiences trained on Hollywood rules about tonal and generic consistency, but it was a smash hit in China and