For fans of Zhang Yimou: what to watch, read & play next

A brilliant, beautiful courtesan navigates desire and social constraint in a story of wit, longing, and impossible choices.

A privileged young woman's idealism is crushed by the brutal realities of revolutionary China's new order.

A celebrated singer's beauty draws dangerous attention from a ruthless warlord who will stop at nothing to possess her.

Love blooms in wartime China between a spy and a widow, as revolution tears the country apart around them.

A prominent family in wartime China confronts tradition, communism, and Western thinking — with love as the ultimate battleground.

A lone patriot races against a corrupt government that has secretly colluded with a foreign power.

A revered statesman's wisdom reshapes a kingdom during one of China's most storied and turbulent historical eras.

The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong fractures friendships and tests loyalties in this sweeping wartime drama.

A Ming Dynasty investigation into missing state funds mixes palace intrigue, mystery, and sharp comic timing.

A young escort master's honour and future are upended by the political violence of the Xinhai Revolution era.

Ordinary Chinese workers navigate love and economic survival as an era of rapid, disorienting change begins.

A woman framed by her own family forges an unlikely alliance to outmanoeuvre political rivals and reclaim her fate.

A scholar's daughter seeking escape from expectations meets a man who upends every careful plan she had.

Imperial concubines wage a silent, deadly war for power and survival inside the Qing court's gilded walls.

A son infiltrates the world that murdered his father, rising through violence and shifting loyalties in 1920s China.

A Tang Dynasty textile family's fourth son is forced into an unexpected marriage as duty and circumstance collide.

An immersive strategy epic set in China's Three Kingdoms era — grand ambitions, fractured alliances, and hard choices.

Love and war become inseparable as a warlord wages an impossible campaign to rescue the woman he cannot forget.

A casual life sim rooted in Chinese authenticity, capturing the pressures of growing up as an average kid.

A sleepy rural village harbours something deeply wrong — a slow-burn mystery wrapped in heat, cicadas, and dread.

A small village in rural Japan harbours dark secrets in this layered, unsettling mystery set in early summer.

A noir detective unravels a string of bizarre murders in 1950s Tokyo — obsession, secrets, and a city on edge.

Hong Kong cinema-inspired martial arts fantasy where one warrior battles through a post-apocalyptic Asian world.

Hinamizawa's small community conceals something terrible — a tense, atmospheric mystery returning to the same fateful summer.

Peasant farmers in rural China watch their livelihood rot as market forces overwhelm a way of life unchanged for generations.

Tiananmen Square, 1989: a young journalist's photograph and the decades of consequence it sets in motion.

One woman's unflinching memoir of surviving the Cultural Revolution's terror — imprisonment, ideology, and endurance.

A doctor caught between a traditional wife and a modern lover waits seventeen years for a country to change.

Two worlds — East and West, privilege and hardship — collide in a sweeping romance set against China's past.

A courtesan and a nobleman investigate a deadly mystery, drawn together across an unbridgeable social divide.

An epic, darkly comic portrait of modern China's convulsions — two brothers, chaos, and a society unravelling.

A young man torn between revolutionary ideas and tradition must choose who he is as China transforms around him.