`Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker” explodes out of a long and venerable film tradition that I like to call “Seething Women Cinema.” You know the setup: A young woman is forced to suppress her ...

Sweeping saga, set in turn-of-the-century China, about the heir to a fireworks dynasty and her rebellious lover, whose affair sparks outrage and contempt. Ning Jing, Wu Gang. Mann: Zhao Xiaorui. He ...

A woman inherits her father's fireworks factory, as he had no son. The business does well and everything works in an orderly fashion until one day, an itinerant painter is hired to decorate the doors ...