Before liberation, Zhang Genbao came to a small town in eastern Zhejiang with his mother to learn art from the old tailor Liu Jinfa. Liu Jinfa had a daughter named Fengying, who lived a peaceful life together as a teacher and apprentice. After a few years, both Genbao and Fengying had grown up, and the old tailor decided to betroth his daughter to Zhang Genbao. Unexpectedly, the bully landlord Mr. Zhao wanted to take Fengying as his concubine.
Before liberation, Zhang Genbao came to a small town in eastern Zhejiang with his mother to learn art from the old tailor Liu Jinfa. Liu Jinfa had a daughter named Fengying, who lived a peaceful life together as a teacher and apprentice. After a few years, both Genbao and Fengying had grown up, and the old tailor decided to betroth his daughter to Zhang Genbao. Unexpectedly, the bully landlord Mr. Zhao wanted to take Fengying as his concubine.
Cheng is a young Chinese mainlander who moves in with his expatriate cousins to work at an ice factory in Thailand. He does this with a family promise never to get involved in any fights. However, when members of his family begin disappearing after meeting the management of the factory, the resulting mystery and pressures force him to break that vow and take on the villainy of the Big Boss.
A Taipei family faces personal and moral uncertainty as everyday events test their relationships and sense of purpose.
A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor who killed his father.
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
In the twilight of the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial court is plagued by corruption as tyrants rule over the land. With the Manchurians preying on a weakened empire, war is imminent. To save the victims from their suffering, sorceress Jade Raksha fights the soldiers that oppress people for their own gain. As payback, local government officials decide to pin the murder of Governor Zhuo Zhonglian on Jade, turning her and the members of her cult into wanted fugitives for a crime they didn't commit.
For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When Tu’an Gu learns of the baby’s escape he seizes every infant in the city, vowing to kill them all unless the Zhao baby is surrendered. As the tyrant’s soldiers arrive at Cheng Ying’s home the frantic doctor hides his wife with their own baby whilst surrendering the Zhao child as his own. But his family is discovered; his baby is presumed to be the Zhao heir and murdered along with his wife for harboring the infant. Now set on revenge Cheng Ying enrolls the Zhao orphan into the service of the Tu’an Gu household, plotting to use him as an instrument of vengeance when he comes of age.
During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai.