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After last month's record-shattering 15+2 foreign films showing in mainland China, we're back to a more manageable seven for April. Did anyone happen to watch all of them in March? If so, we envy your reigning (or raining) pocketbooks.

This month, we have a few interesting cartoons including an animé from Japan, a couple big Hollywood blockbusters, another Bollywood hit, and a couple flicks from Russia. What's most obvious is what's NOT showing: the new Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy crossover. Looks like we have to wait until May for that one...

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Two leftovers from the end of March

that were not on our previous list:

Friday, March 30, 2018

The Commuter

《通勤营救》

tōng qín yíng jiù

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Actors: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill

China Release Date: Friday, March 30, 2018

导演: 佐米·希尔拉

主演: 连姆·尼森 / 维拉·法米加 / 帕特里克·威尔森 / 乔纳森·班克斯 / 山姆·尼尔

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-03-30（周五）

Now a hard-working life insurance salesman and a caring family man, the former police officer, Michael MacCauley (Neeson), has taken the commuter rail to New York for the past ten years.

But, unexpectedly, things will take a turn for the worse, when on one of his daily journeys, the cryptic passenger, Joanna, makes Michael a generous and tempting offer to locate a single commuter or face grave consequences. Is this a sick joke, or is this indeed a serious situation?

As Michael races against the clock to solve this wicked conundrum, everyone aboard is a suspect, in a deal where there's definitely more than meets the eye. Can he decide in time who's the one? I'm sure he will.

影片将故事设定在一列通勤列车上，一位十年如一日乘坐列车上下班的商界人士麦考利（连姆·尼森 饰），偶遇一位主动搭讪的“神秘乘客”乔安娜（维拉·法米加 饰）。乔安娜为麦考利提供了一个极具诱惑性的任务——找出车上的一位乘客，即可获得一笔巨额现金作为回报。但在寻找的过程中，麦考利逐渐发现自己卷入到一场致命的危险处境中。 

他是否能够从这辆“恐怖列车”中成功逃脱，背后又隐藏着怎样的惊天阴谋。随着列车不断加速，真相逐一揭开......

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Friday, March 30, 2018

Lyod

《花滑女王》

huā huá nǚ wáng

aka Лёд

Director: Oleg Trofim

Actors: Mariya Aronova, Vilen Babichev, Maksim Belborodov

China Release Date: Friday, March 30, 2018

导演: 奥列格·特罗费姆

主演: 阿格拉娅·塔拉索娃 / 亚历山大·佩特罗夫 / 米洛斯·比柯维奇 / 玛丽亚·阿龙诺娃 / 瑟妮娅·拉芙洛娃-格林卡

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-03-30（周五）

Note: this movie is in Russian with Chinese subtitles

Contemporary Russia. Nadya gives up her dream of becoming a champion figure skater when she is hospitalized with an injury. But then she meets Sasha, a hockey player, who decides to teach her to believe in herself and her dream again.

If it feels like this movie's plot is a rehash, you're not wrong. But this one is from Russia! Time to practice your "nyets"...

花样滑冰新人娜佳虽然家境贫寒、天赋不足，却凭借母亲的鼓励和自身的不懈努力崭露头角，成为了世界顶级花滑男选手里奥纳夫的搭档，两人屡获佳绩，并坠入爱河成为备受瞩目的金童玉女。花滑世界杯前夕，娜佳意外受重伤，人生跌至谷底，里奥纳夫也选择了离开。

心灰意冷之际，冰球运动员萨沙出现在娜迪亚的身边，二人由互相嫌弃发展出一段暖心的爱情。娜佳也在萨沙的鼓励下重塑信心再次出发，靠着执着与坚持度过了漫长的恢复期。当她终于可以重返赛场时，她的伤势再犯，人生面临再次选择......

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

Hindi Medium

《起跑线》

qǐ pǎo xiàn

Director: Saket Chaudhary

Actors: Irrfan Khan, Neha Dhupia, Saba Qamar

China Release Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2018

导演: 萨基特·乔杜里

主演: 伊尔凡·可汗 / 萨巴·卡玛尔 / 内哈·迪胡皮阿 / 迪帕克·迪布里亚尔 / 蒂希塔·塞加尔

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-04（周三）

Note: this movie is in Hindi with Chinese subtitles

Seems like Bollywood has cracked the code for sending successful films to China... make it about family and/or about education. Bam. Instant success. 

Here's the story: A couple from Chandni Chowk aspire to give their daughter the best education and thus be a part of and accepted by the elite of Delhi.

Expect to see this one all over your Moments feeds.

一对印度的中产阶级夫妇:服装店老板拉吉（伊尔凡·可汗 Irrfan Khan 饰）与太太米塔（萨巴·卡玛尔 Saba Qamar 饰）为了让女儿皮娅（蒂希塔·塞加尔 Dishita Sehgal 饰）接受更好的教育想尽了各种办法。而当他们费劲心思终于要将女儿送进名校时,事情却又发生了意想不到的变化……

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Thursday, April 5, 2018

The Snow Queen 3:

Fire and Ice

《冰雪女王3：火与冰》

bīng xuě nǚ wáng sān：huǒ yǔ bīng

Director: Aleksey Tsitsilin

Actors: Dee Bradley Baker, Lori Gardner, Devin Bailey Griffin

China Release Date: Thursday, April 5, 2018

导演: 阿列克谢·特斯蒂斯林

主演: 迪·布拉雷·贝克尔 / 杰森·格里菲斯

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-05（周四）

Yes, this movie first came out in 2016. And yes, it's another from Russia but we're assured it'll be in English. That still doesn't stop us from being skeptical.

Here's what the summary says: The rare gift of getting into all kinds of trouble is their family trait. What else can you expect from the ones raised among trolls in snowy lands? But now Kai and Gerda have grown up and entered a new stage - this time they are going to cause a global disaster...

It's not copying Frozen. At all.

不断遇到麻烦可算是凯与格尔达这对姐弟的特点了，毕竟他们是在冰雪的国度被矮人们养大的。随着他们长大成人，等待他们的麻烦也升级了。这一次，格尔达与新认识的小伙伴罗兰去寻找传说中的许愿球，不想却召唤出封印在许愿球中的邪恶力量，这对姐弟是否能够逢凶化吉，还世界一个和平？

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Friday, April 13, 2018

Annihilation

《湮灭》

yān miè

Director: Alex Garland

Actors: Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Oscar Isaac, Benedict Wong

China Release Date: Friday, April 13, 2018

导演: 亚历克斯·嘉兰

主演: 娜塔莉·波特曼 / 詹妮弗·杰森·李 / 吉娜·罗德里格兹 / 泰莎·汤普森 / 奥斯卡·伊萨克

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-13（周五）

Ooooh, an action thriller mystery movie from Netflix starring Natalie Portman! What could go wrong?

A biologist's husband disappears. She puts her name forward for an expedition into an environmental disaster zone, but does not find what she's expecting. The expedition team is made up of the biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a linguist.

莉娜（娜塔莉·波特曼 Natalie Portman 饰）是一名生物学家，一年前，她的丈夫凯恩（奥斯卡·伊萨克 Oscar Isaac 饰）在参加一项秘密任务后神秘失踪，这一年间，莉娜一直生活在悲伤之中。某天，失忆的凯恩忽然出现在了莉娜的面前，之后晕倒被送入了医院。在那里，莉娜遇见了文崔斯博士（詹妮弗·杰森·李 Jennifer Jason Leigh 饰）。 

博士告诉莉娜，凯恩被派往了一块被“闪光”笼罩的未知区域，三年间，无数的队伍被派往区域内进行勘探，只有凯恩一人活着回来了。不仅如此，“闪光”正在不断的扩大。为了查明事情的真相，莉娜自愿加入了下一批被派遣的队伍之中，和她一同前往的，除了文崔斯博士外，还有安雅（吉娜·罗德里格兹 Gina Rodriguez 饰）和乔茜（泰莎·汤普森 Tessa Thompson 饰）。

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Friday, April 13, 2018

Rampage

《狂暴巨兽》

kuáng bào jù shòu

Director: Brad Peyton

Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Will Yun Lee

China Release Date: Friday, April 13, 2018

导演: 布拉德·佩顿

主演: 道恩·强森 / 娜奥米·哈里斯 / 杰弗里·迪恩·摩根 / 玛琳·阿克曼 / 乔·曼根尼罗

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-13（周五）

For anyone who says it's OK to make a movie from a video game, we have 3 words for you: Super Mario Brothers.

Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry transforms this gentle ape into a raging monster.

As these newly created monsters tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

巨石强森饰演的灵长类动物学家一直与人类保持距离, 却跟极为聪明的银背大猩猩乔治有着深厚的感情。但是一次基因实验出错, 让这只温驯的大猩猩变成狂怒难驯的庞然巨兽。

更可怕的是, 其他动物也发生了同样基因异变。他必须阻止这场全球性的灾难, 更重要是要拯救他的好友乔治。

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Friday, April 13, 2018

Cell

《夺命来电》

duó mìng lái diàn

Director: Tod Williams

Actors: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman

China Release Date: Friday, April 13, 2018

导演: 托德·威廉姆斯

主演: 塞缪尔·杰克逊 / 约翰·库萨克 / 伊莎贝拉·弗尔曼 / 斯泰西·基齐 / 洛伊德·考夫曼

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-13（周五）

Yep, another film that first came out two years ago in the USA. We don't really know what China's game is on this one. So I guess if you haven't torrented it yet, you can go to the cinema to see Cusack and Jackson in action on the big screen.

When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

"Mobile phone zombies" if you will... no, we can't relate.

故事中每个人都被手机所控制，开始恶意攻击任何靠近他们的人，而这些“手机僵尸”并未死去，而是可以互相通信结成团伙…

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Friday, April 20, 2018

Isle of Dogs

《犬之岛》

quǎn zhī dǎo

Director: Wes Anderson

Actors: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum

China Release Date: Friday, April 20, 2018

导演: 韦斯·安德森

主演: 布莱恩·科兰斯顿 / 爱德华·诺顿 / 科宇·兰金 / 斯嘉丽·约翰逊 / 比尔·默瑞

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-20（周五）

Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayishi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.

There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.

This might be the only Wes Anderson movie ever allowed to come to China. 😂 Don't miss it.

影片讲述20年后的未来城市中，由于“犬流感”肆虐，政府颁布行政令流放全部狗狗，远离城市的这座垃圾岛就此成为狗狗维系生存的“犬之岛”。 

当所有人抛弃这些狗狗的时候，一个12岁男孩为寻找自己的爱犬只身闯入“犬之岛”。小男孩与五只狗狗在“犬之岛”上经历了种种磨难和奇妙邂逅，最 终用他的赤子之心打动了君主（布莱恩·科兰斯顿 Bryan Cranston 配音），得到了狗狗们的忠诚和帮助，上演了一段温情有趣、治愈感人的童话故事。

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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Mary and the
Witch's Flower

《玛丽与魔女之花》

mǎ lì yǔ mó nǚ zhī huā

Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Actors: Hana Sugisaki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami

China Release Date: Saturday, April 28, 2018

导演: 米林宏昌

主演: 杉咲花 / 神木隆之介 / 天海祐希 / 小日向文世 / 满岛光

中国大陆上映日期: 2018-04-28（周六）

Note: this movie is in Japanese with Chinese subtitles

Mary is an ordinary young girl stuck in the country with her Great-Aunt Charlotte and seemingly no adventures or friends in sight. She follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest, where she discovers an old broomstick and the strange Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms only once every seven years and only in that forest.

Together the flower and the broomstick whisk Mary above the clouds and far away to Endor College - a school of magic run by headmistress Madam Mumblechook and the brilliant Doctor Dee. But there are terrible things happening at the school, and, when Mary tells a lie, she must risk her life to try to set things right.

Based on Mary Stewart's 1971 classic children's book "The Little Broomstick", "Mary and The Witch's Flower" is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative worlds, ingenious characters, and the stirring, heartfelt story of a young girl trying to find a place in the world.

改编自玛丽·斯图尔特英国儿童文学小说，玛丽被送到乡下阿姨家过暑假，在一只小黑猫的带领下，她进入森林找到一束紫色魔法花，打扫院落时她用沾有花粉的手碰了扫帚，扫帚突然腾空而起，竟然把她送到森林深处的魔法学校，在这里她学习各种神奇有趣的魔法，但玛丽也发现了这所学校不可告人的秘密。

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