"The Road Home" (1999)

Beautifully filmed, China's most renowned director Zhang Yimou's "The Road Home" is a simple, touching, tender and old-fashioned love story in its purest form. Prompted by his father's death and his mother's grief, their son recalls how they met and shows their magical chemistry in flashbacks. It is simply a celebration of the power of love with a magical, delicate quality.

Through the film, Zhang showed again that he has sharp eyes for talent. For example, there was something so exceptionally pure and wholly captivating about actress Zhang Ziyi whenever she was on the big screen. She later skyrocketed to fame with Ang Lee's Oscar-winning "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in 2000.