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The owner of Linglong Villa, Thirteen Yan, had already withdrawn from the world, but Li Shaobai and Di Bafang found evidence of the murder in his room. However, Thirteen Yan had been poisoned for many years and had become a cripple. Shaobai found out that Qu Fang, Thirteen Yan's friend, was the real culprit. Qu Fang obeyed the Yaksha organization, poisoned, robbed and then framed Thirteen Yans.

Overworked and unlucky in love and career, Chen Xiaokui sees hope when his family's home is set for demolition, promising instant wealth. However, after drunkenly burning the vital land deed as an offering to his late father, he must journey to the underworld to retrieve it, sparking a thrilling and comedic adventure.

Lee suffers from Time Perception Disorder (TPD), a rare psychological illness that makes one unable to judge the length of time. Lee holds a boring job and his biggest interest is to play video games. That is a hobby inspired by Lee’s uncle, who left Lee a mysterious video game disc. His uncle claims that anyone who beats the game would open the door of time travel. Lee’s life dramatically changed when Wang Qian steps into his life. Wang Qian also suffers from TPD so she understands Lee more than anyone else does. Their romance blooms and the two decide to be together. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes and the happy days end abruptly. Wang Qian is killed in a traffic accident after Lee quarrelled with her. Lee’s world collapses. Feeling extremely guilty and desperate, he suddenly comes up with a crazy idea: Beat the video game his uncle left, open the door to time travel and save his girl. From that point on Lee embarks on an amazing journey.

This film tells the story of 9 intangible cultural heritages, including Weifang kites, Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings, Zhucheng style guqin, Maoqiang, and shuttlecock, as well as the warm stories behind the inheritors. The movie is narrated by Liu Lin and consists of 9 stories. Based on the essence of real life, it breaks the creative framework of documentary and drama films, combines the popularization of intangible cultural heritage with the stories of inheritors through poetic shots, explores the boundary between reality and fiction, and uses reality as the needle and philosophy as the line to outline a life picture where recording and narrative are both external and internal.

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Set in Shanghai during the Xinhai Revolution, the film follows foreign powers exploiting underground boxing matches to steal secrets of Chinese martial arts. Master Huo Zhenshan defends national pride by defeating a foreign fighter, but mysteriously dies afterward. A young man named Shitou, seeking revenge for his father’s death, infiltrates the Huo martial arts school and falls in love with Huo’s daughter, Xiaoyu. As tensions rise, he becomes entangled with Huang Jinpeng, who is secretly pursuing his own vendetta. Together, they uncover the truth and join forces to thwart the foreigners' conspiracy.

Young office employees and a gay delivery boy who wants to be a dancer, all desirous of leaving their day jobs, pitch in money and number selection on a lottery ticket. Bing, who has a severe stutter, is sent to get the ticket, and refuses to supply it. His co-workers, all staying late at night to finish a proposal for their manager, Gloria, torture him in order to make him supply the ticket, even attempting to get him to sign an insurance policy before they kill him. All the while, they try to avoid getting caught by Gloria, who expects them to be working.

The ghost of a woman who died after an avalanche returns to live with her husband, who has not been able to overcome her death.

River water surging

Video installation (1 overhead projector, 24 small black and white TV sets, 6 big TV sets). expressionless men in suits amuse themselves by playing around in boats, swimming, and hiding behind trees in scenes set in a garden. The scenes appear to be daydreams. Yang says that he choose to create this affect after noticing the way people playing in gardens tend to give free rein to their imagination and enter their own fantasy world. The arched gateway represents the border between the real world and the other, enchanted land beyond. In the actual installation, a number of small monitors are embedded in a large screen onto which an image of the garden is projected, each depicting men swimming naked.

The film is based on true events, about the imminent execution of the death row inmates Zheng Ligun in the escort on the way to a sudden earthquake, the guardhouse collapsed into rubble, escaped from death, Zheng Ligun seems to have gained a sudden "freedom", but in fact, has been plunged into another purgatory...... Meanwhile, police officer Wei Chixiao decides to temporarily organize a "different" rescue team. In the face of a natural disaster, with only 24 hours left to live, will the death row inmate escape or save others? What should the police officers in charge of guarding him do? Everyone stands at the fork in the road of destiny......

Multi-channel video, 35mm, B&W, 8-11 mins...She rises gently, her hair tousled by the wind; gracefully, she picks up a handkerchief and wipes her brow; sunlight catches the wall across from her and lingers there for a while.

Dongdong reluctantly follows in his father Song's footsteps, learning to be a fisherman. On Christmas Eve, he asks his father for a new pair of sneakers, but Song denies him, as they can barely survive on their fishing business. Disappointed by the harsh reality, Dongdong disappears.

The police have to recapture an escaped killer who is traveling on a train to Beijing.

He Man awakes from a coma thinking that she’s still on her honeymoon with her husband Xie Yu, but she gets a rude shock: there’s a five-year gap in her memory, and during that time the couple has divorced. Confused and desperate to figure out how their marriage crumbled, He Man seeks out her ex-husband and her ex-best-friend for answers.

Old Boys: The Way of the Dragon is a bittersweet, sentimental tale of a hapless pair of amateur Chinese musicians called the Chopsticks Brothers trying, and for many years failing, to make it as musicians.

After a destructive dust storm engulfs a mining camp in an isolated island, power in the industrial facilities went down. Raven, a blind technician, is now stranded on the island with his fellow crew members. To make matters worse, they find themselves fighting for their lives when their camp comes under attack from a mysterious creature whose gaze could turn a living being into a decaying corpse.

A bumbling martial arts teacher has the skills but lacks the confidence to use them. Run out of town by some ne'er-do-wells, he sets out on some comic adventures as he travels the countryside. Taking up some companions that are as bumbling as he is, the group seems to stumble into one misadventure after another. Will our hearty band eventually prove their worth with their skills and bring their enemies to justice?

Movie recap version of the 2024 documentary series on panda.

This sound film remake of The Goddess (1934) was headlined by Hu Die, who found stardom at the same time as Ruan Lingyu. Henry Lai Hang and Zhang Zhizhi reprised their roles from the earlier film. The first half of the story follows The Goddness but the second half references Bu Wanchang’s Love and Duty (1931) and King Vidor’s American film Stella Dallas (1937) with additional plots of the heroine’s post-prison story. After years of separation, she hesitates whether to reunite with her son. This new version poses a bigger challenge to a mother’s love and pushes towards the completion of her fate. The characters use dialogue to express their pain and connection, which strengthens the dramatic dilemma and makes the film more straightforward than its predecessor. Hu Die possesses a sort of allure that shows the sadness, shame, and will of a common woman from middle age to old age.

A penniless Beijing man's envy of his tycoon classmate leads him to Macau seeking aid, where an accidental clash with a Korean syndicate teaches him life's true value after resolving chaos and delivering justice.

The film tells three stories about young people during different periods of Chinese history: the development of the Great Northern Wilderness, the Large-scale Development of Western Chinese, and the new era of socialism. Countless young people, filled with passion, integrated their personal ideals into the current of the times and composed a song of youth. Through the ordinary stories of young people, the film depicts the great development of the times and showcases the patriotic spirit of generations of young people.

Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.

800 Chinese soldiers guard the important warehouse district against the invading Japanese Army. Re-imagination of a famous (bordering on legendary) episode from the battle of Shanghai: 800 soldiers of the 88th regiment against what feels like the whole of Japan’s Imperial Army - think Thermopylae, Chinese version. A splendid, visually amazing gem which, in its own way, is also a last stand: of silent cinema, Shanghai style. (iffr)

The daily life of ordinary people of Shanghai apartment building: an unemployed person who tries not to lose face by concealing the loss of his job, a singer without an audience, a driver, a teacher, but also the owner of the building and his prodigal son.

Winter is coming. With business failing, a restaurant owner feels too ashamed to go home for the New Year. To save food, he plans to abandon a stray dog he had been feeding. But after a car accident, he changed his mind and cared for the dog instead. When the dog was later hit and killed by a car, he demands compensation from the driver. The next day, he packs his bags and go home.

During the Japanese occupation, a group of communists are publishing a newspaper

The 1971/72 released film adaptation of China's famous revolutionary ballet, The White-Haired Girl (白毛女).

A banana tree was uprooted by the storm and washed to the shore by flash floods. When the tortoise found out, he called the monkey to help him carry the tree back. The monkey saw the banana and wanted to eat it very much, so he proposed to the tortoise to divide the tree, and the tortoise advised the monkey to wait for the tree to grow before dividing it. The monkey refused, and cut the tree in half with an axe, and carried away the part with the bananas. The tortoise had no choice but to move the section with the roots back and plant it. After careful management, the roots regrown the trunk soon, and a tree full of bananas was formed.

Based upon an urban legend of 2 rivalling bak kwa shops, "Hao Han Bak Kwa" and "Mei Mei Bak Kwa". The founders of these two stores however, Zeng Mei Mei (Irene Ang) and Chen Hao (Ha Yu), used to be lovers, yet, turned against each other for their own personal, selfish reasons. While the two engage in a battle to win a bak kwa competition, their children get engulfed in a complex relationship with one another... And there begins the story of the bak kwa war!

Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A Chinese road movie, Walking on the Wild Side charts a young gang’s continuous flights from one kind of trouble to the next. Mirroring the stark and barren landscape, the film relays the grim story of these delinquents’ dreams of liberty and easy money. Played by nonprofessional actors who are real life troublemakers, the film offers a realism that is at once oppressive, cruel, and sympathetic.

The story revolves around a "surprise" kidnapping case. Liu Xiaojun (Dapeng), the owner of the car dealership, was involved in a kidnapping case for the accident of reselling a black car. He was surrounded by the kidnapped little girl Kiki (Ulanto Yaduo), the dereliant brother Xia Xi (Ou Hao) Several seemingly irrelevant people, such as Xia Tao (Sha Baoliang), dancers (Li Meng ), and second-hand car dealers (Cao Bingyu), have also fallen into the abyss of eternal annihilation.

Eleven, which played at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, is the first short film of director Zhang Lu. He is a forty-year-old writer whose works engage with issues of cultural difference stemming from his own background as a member of the Korean cultural minority in China. Eleven is a fourteen-minute long vignette, virtually silent, of an eleven-year-old boy's encounter with a group of soccer players his own age.

Five popular screenidols star in this sequel to the original "Feel 100%." Finding their relationship on the rocks, Marco (Noodle) and Yen(Sammi) take a trip to Japan, hoping to rekindle their love. But things get worse, and they break up. Any chance at reconciliation is shattered when Marco starts hanging out with sexy model Gobby (Chingmy Yau). Meanwhile, Gigi is being chased by a Cheung Tat Ming, who has an inferiority complex. Siu Man(Cheung Tat-Ming), due to his own inferiority complex, leaves his lover (Gigi Leung Wing-Kay), who he has been in love with for a long time. Each couple must now work even harder to regain what they have lost, or move forward and live with their new choices.

Sora and Umi (both played by Lee Tae-kyung) who were born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother and raised in South Korea. Sora now lives in Shanghai and works as an illustrator. When she meets a Japanese guy named Mochizuki, they become close. This is when her sibling Umi visits. Umi was born inter-sex and had undergone gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. Umi encourages Sora and Mochizuki to fall in love, but Sora becomes mentally unstable.

In the Haibei People's Hospital, Qinghai province, China, the present-day on the night of a full moon, a patient is murdered by a syringe through her chest. This adds stress to the hospital's heart surgeon Gu Zhen Sheng who had recently lost his wife Xia Xue to an illness. Since his wife's death, Gu has been suffering from nightmares that have affected his work, and Xia Xue's younger sister, Nurse Xia Xiao Yu also is emotionally disturbed.

Twenty years after Professor Yu’s tragic death while trying to stop the new drug MG32, traces of the drug resurface in an overseas murder case, indicating the return of drug lord Sha Kun. Now, Yu’s son, undercover officer Yu Fei, teams up with law enforcement in a high-stakes operation to take down the powerful international drug syndicate.