Zhu Wei’s Typical Vibe
2 films — measured, wistful, intense, layered, styled

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Zhu Wei has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Jiang Wen, Teng Rujun

Qiao Feng is the respected leader of a roving band of martial artists. After he is wrongfully accused of murder and subsequently exiled, Qiao Feng goes on the run in search of answers about his own mysterious origin story—and the unknown enemies working to destroy him from the shadows.
Dir. Donnie Yen, Kam Ka-wai · With Donnie Yen, Chen Yuqi, Liu Yase