Free Online Chinese Movies

[Jack MacKelly]

and it's perfectly legal

Movie companies Lionsgate, Fox and Universal have launched a new website which allows you to watch full-length feature films like

Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story

http://www.hulu.com/watch/12160/dragon---the-bruce-lee-story

or Girl Next Door or Ice Age or whatever you choose

check hulu.com.

[roddy]

Not available from China, and I'm not sure one Bruce Lee movie makes this a Chinese Film and TV topic, hence moving. . .

[skylee]

Movie companies Lionsgate, Fox and Universal have launched a new website which allows you to watch full-length feature films

But why?

And I am in HK and those movies are unfortunately not available in this country or region. hahahaha.

[roddy]

It'll be advertising-supported - maybe not now, but in the future at least. Same principal as free commercial TV. I also doubt that you'll get the latest blockbusters - films will only turn up there once they've got the cinema, DVD and TV revenues.

[skylee]

So for the time being we have to stick to youku and tudou I guess.

[Prase]

Unfortunately this video is not currently available in your country or region. We apologize for the inconvenience.

So where it is available?

[imcgraw]

I think it's in the US only... or at least it was initially. I've been using the private beta release for quite some time now... and I have to admit, I've been pretty impressed. I will miss it while I'm in China for the summer.

... but yeah... hard to see what this has to do with Chinese.

[imron]

Just set up a server in the US to act as a proxy, and the problem is solved

[roddy]

If you've got the speeds - I tried it through a VPN on my 2M connection and it was still very choppy. Also it didn't seem to be possible to let it buffer in the background and then watch later.

[BLCUP]

www.youku.com

you can see online movies

[Luobot]

Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story

Definitely popcorn worthy. Thanks for posting.

[jamesfoster]

Hulu: US-only.

Youku: Mainland China-only.

I'm in Australia. Is there anything for countries outside US & China?

[fanglu]

PPLive has movies and works in Australia (or did last time I checked). You do need to download the application, rather than just going to a website though.

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[icebear]

There is an incredible wealth of Chinese movies/TV in great quality on YouTube, all you need to do is search in Chinese. You'll keep coming across a few users that have great collections, such as:

http://www.youtube.com/user/sky99996666/videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/slzNO1/videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/MyChineseDrama/videos

My assumption is that none of the studios producing this content either a) care about free streaming which will primarily be viewed by overseas Chinese, or b) are even aware of it. Much of the content was uploaded some time ago and still persists...

[imron]

http://tv.sohu.com is my favourite. TV shows, movies and more.

[rob07]

There is an incredible wealth of Chinese movies/TV in great quality on YouTube ... My assumption is that none of the studios producing this content either a) care about free streaming which will primarily be viewed by overseas Chinese, or b) are even aware of it.

Some of the best stuff is posted by Sina (新浪) itself - check out the sinapremium channel. It must be a deliberate strategy to promote the content overseas. YouTube is blocked in China so content posted there would not be available to the domestic market (without a VPN).