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A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.
During the Southern Song Dynasty, the ghost of Li Huiniang returns to the world of the living to seek revenge against her murderer.
Tells the story of a corrupt emperor, his bigoted philosophies, and the princess who convinces him to change his evil ways.
Realistic portraits of Chinese youth embracing western culture
The thousand-year-old White Snake and Green Snake in Mount Emei, Sichuan, got bored, turned into charming girls, Bai Suzhen (Li Bingshu) and Xiaoqing (Fang Xiaoya), and traveled to Hangzhou's West Lake. Bai Suzhen catches a glimpse of Scholar Xu Xian (Lu Boping), who's suave and good-looking, and falls in love instantly.
A young aristocrat is seduced by a young man who appeared to her in a dream one spring afternoon. Captive of this impossible love, the young girl is dying of melancholy. But the constancy of her love is stronger than death; she wins the pity of the judge of the underworld, manages to find her lover and come back to life. The opera "The Peony Pavilion" was composed in 1598 by the poet Tang Xianzu (1550-1617), one of the greatest playwrights of the Ming period. Of all the forms of Chinese opera that have followed one another since the 12th century, the kunqu is the one that best preserves the image of a classical art highly appreciated in educated circles for its musical, literary and gestural refinement.
The work consists of 6 large-scale dances, 4 sing and dance performances and a chorus. The music and dance epic also gathers colorful dances of China's nations.
Iconic performances that portray love with profound passion. Meng Jiangnu, found as a baby in a gourd, was cherished by the Meng family. Emperor Qin Shi Huang unified China but ruled with tyranny, conscripting millions for labor, including Fan Qiliang, whom Meng Jiangnu married after he saved her life. Fan was later conscripted again, leading to Meng Jiangnu’s legendary weeping at the Great Wall.
During the Ming Jiajing era, Deputy General Du Shiqing journeys to Baoding to expose the crimes of Madam Yan, sister of the treacherous minister Yan Song. He rescues Lin Xiuying from Yan’s son Cheng Xiniu, whose death in the struggle forces Du to help Xiuying pursue justice. When Madam Yan’s retainers avenge her by murdering Xiuying’s father, the upright magistrate Tang Cheng bravely hears the case despite political pressure. Through clear evidence and fearless judgment, Tang Cheng exposes Madam Yan’s abuses and sends her to the capital for imperial review.
The Chinese opera film "Bao Qingtian" -- co-produced by Henan Film Company and Hong Kong Golden Horse Film Company -- was filmed in 1980, but not released until 1985. It bears the unique cultural characteristics of the Central Plains, well-known in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and features Henan opera stars Zhang Baoying and Wu Xinping.
A story derived from the famous Dunhuang Murals.
Suzhou Pingtan artist Guo Yueting lives a poor but harmonious life with his wife Meiyu and twin daughters Baimei and Hongmei. Unexpectedly, misfortune falls from the sky, as the bully Qiu Long seizes Meiyu and tears the "plum blossom scarf" embroidered by Meiyu during their fight. In a rage, Guo Yueting slashes Qiu Long with a knife, and must flee overseas. Meiyu and her daughters flee to Shanghai with her husband's brother, Xia Yueqing. [partial synopsis excerpted from Douban.]
The 1987 Vienna New Year's Concert was the first and only New Year's Concert conducted by Mr. Herbert von Karajan, the "Emperor of Conducting" and the "General Director of Music in Europe", and of course, the only New Year's Concert ever held.
The lives and loves of 5 young people of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang set in a musical that reflects the upsurge of disco and breakdancing in late 80s China.
Monkey King and his companions travel to the West and come to the Huoyan Mountain to borrow Princess Iron Fan 's banana fan.
