The legendary Black Butterfly travels in the Qing Dynasty doing good.
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The legendary Black Butterfly travels in the Qing Dynasty doing good.
A swordsman uses a specialized weapon made from a deformed sword, the lethal hook, to fight an underworld clan to clear his family name and save the girl he loves in ancient China.
A group of losers trying to kidnap the famous conductor Herbert von Karajan.
Reporter Gao Liyan writes an article critical of the Jiankang pharmaceutical plant even though the manager is the father of Gao's girlfriend.
Sam Lee has just been crowned Miss Hong Kong 1986, and she meets rich playboy George on a plane. They seem to take an immediate dislike to each other. Then, in the next scene and completely without explanation, they are in bed together. They remain lovestruck and as close to inseparable as circumstances allow for the remainder of the story. There are some hurdles, the most significant being George's long-term girlfriend Doris, who is also George's boss's daughter. Initially, Doris takes Sam's arrival calmly. But she chooses to bribe Sam's agent, which results in Sam being charged and taken to court.
A high school teacher finds a substantial sum of money and tries to find the rightful owner.
In the 1920s, bandits and gangsters gather at a hotel in South China seeking a treasure supposedly buried on the hotel grounds.
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.
A former KMT general returns to China and find his mother after years of separation.
In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.
The country is in uproar as the Chinese are forced to combat the Vietnamese.
The tragic romance of Prince Kaisal and Mariyam from Uigur folklore.
KMT agents murder famous CCP general Li Zhao-Lin after the endorsement of armistice agreement.
The police investigate the death of a clothing store owner.
Hong Kong comedy.
In the winter of 1948, two high-ranking Nationalist officers plan to defect to the Communist side.
A coming of age story about a group of friends who grow up, depicting some tragic events in their adulthoods.
Directed by Gang Xia.
The fictional life and career of a famous actress in Chinese opera, a woman who goes against tradition by specializing in playing male roles, especially that of Zhang Kui, a benevolent ghost who appears in several Chinese operas. Although the actress's career brings wealth and fame, it is attained only through considerable struggle against an anti-female system and an unhappy personal life.
Mission to Kill (1983)
Chen is a dedicated social worker who has allowed her job to dominate her personal life. Inadvertently, she neglects her devoted husband Lo-Wei and their young son. Although he dislikes his wife's patients ("they're just street trash"), Lo-Wei is tolerant of his wife's workaholic situation and he takes the opportunity to develop a strong unity with his son, Chia-Pu. Then, Lo-Wei's sister offers to babysit the child while the parents respond to an emergency case. While they're gone, one of Chen's "delinquents" breaks into the house and rapes the sister. During the assault, baby Chia-Pu climbs out of the window and falls to his death. Lo-Wei is over-the-edge with grief. His brain snaps. He withdraws into himself, except at night when he stalks the "street trash," gruesomly killing them...
In the 90s, Kuomintang troups rejected by Chiang Kai-shek live in the forest on the border of China
An art professor find a piece of stitch work made by his long-missing lover who suffered a lot of hardships.
A gangster turns over a new leaf working as a gardner in a remote island off of Hong Kong. There he falls in love, but is haunted by a past that would not allow him to forget.
School life of a group of junior high school students, studying, sporting, performing, community serving.
Photographer Ouyang loves the Three Gorges and wins the love of Li Lan, a teacher from college of fine arts. After marriage, they have divergence on how the life should be. Ouyang shows that a wonderful life comes from dedication to career.
Three strangers, two men and a woman, end up sharing a compartment on a train leaving Beijing for Shanghai -- the lone woman is quiet while one of the young men is gregarious and funny, and the other is more reserved, but compassionate. Eventually, the men cannot help but note the woman's silence -- it turns out she is running away from her employers who felt she was pretty much a derelict, and from some friends who were of questionable ethics, though she is not about to say anything to the two men. When she gets off the train in Nanjing, one of the young men from the train -- somewhat worried about his silent travel partner -- decides to follow her to make sure she will be okay. And it is a good thing he did so because she is menacingly approached by some obvious thugs and the young man gets her out of the potentially hazardous encounter.
Businessman Cedric Chan hires ninja Richard Ling (Yasuaki Kurata) to steal a valuable jade horse that he's insured for a large amount of money. On the case is cop Don (Don Wong) who loses his wife when he makes an enemy in the ninja as well as an asskicking insurance agent (Yin Su-Li).
Swan song with a chapter like structure, spans many years from the onset of the Cultural Revolution to the 'open door' policies of the late seventies and eighties. The focus is on how off screen national events impact on individual lives, here, those of an elderly composer with an opium habit who is in constant political trouble with the authorities and his son who dissociates himself from his father.