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In this documentary film, Lina Yang gives the viewer a look into the often sad and frustrating lives of the elderly in modern China. Their sense of uselessness, and loss of hope, is vividly portrayed.

1991 Chinese Film

Great modern day actioner from Hong Kong

A young couple has recently purchased their dream house and are expecting a baby. One day, while his wife is out, an ex-girlfriend arrives at the door drenched from rain. She had heard of his wife's pregnancy and had only come to sell the couple insurance. The husband allows her to take a shower in his home. Suddenly, his in-laws arrive at the home unexpectedly, and he must find a way to get his ex-girlfriend out of the home without his in-laws noticing and before his wife comes home.

A middle-aged couple's comfortable life changes forever when the wife, driving home alone in the rain while slightly intoxicated, runs down a pedestrian and flees in panic. Her guilt over the hit-and-run, compounded by her husband's suspicions of what happened, begins to affect their once loving and happy relationship.

Wan Renle, a man in his sixties in Taipei, becomes eccentric after buying an old record, leading to hallucinations about reuniting with a former lover. His daughter, Wan Jinjin, admits him to a hospital, where she learns of his secret romance with Tong Shuizhu, a Beijing drum singer. Renle goes missing, and Jinjin finds him in Tianjin, discovering he was searching for Shuizhu, who is her biological mother and has passed away. Jinjin arranges a meeting with a woman posing as Shuizhu, but Renle recalls Shuizhu’s suicide. Back in Taipei, Renle is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, and Jinjin continues to help him regain his memories.

The Kong family is restrained by tradition because families named Kong are thought to be direct descendants of Confucius.

A couple working in a chemical factory inexplicably die after the birth of their son. Then, the baby appears to cause the death of the pets of his adoptive family. When he is isolated for study, he is shown to be aging and growing rapidly, and to have highly toxic saliva.

A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything, which was the most compelling feeling while they were still living in Beijing, has meanwhile faded and they are now confronted with the dynamics of emigration. Wu asks what it means to feels deserted by one's own country and how it is when one reacts by deserting it in turn.

During the final months before Hong Kong's return to China, an ambitious young female reporter stumbles upon a murder scene.

The story of two siblings' education on the remote loess plateau.

This telemovie, with Zoe Tay and Alan Ka-Lun Yu in the leads, is a comedy about two enemies who become lovers after strange twists of events.

Early short film by Yang Fudong.

The story of a part-time opera troupe in coastal Fujian province of China and their struggles.

On her honeymoon, Yūki discovers that her new husband Tarō is not inspired to perform sexually in bed, but prefers the restroom.

Three-part TV film co-directed by Zheng Xiaolong and Feng Xiaogang.

One day, Fan Xiaoxin, who works as a tour guide, receives a request from Li Li's boyfriend and decides to take care of Li Li for 10 days. Lili lost her sight in her accident and was disappointed in her awaiting her surgery. Her boyfriend is burdened with such Lili, so she entrusts her Lili to her Pansha Oshin and returns to Japan. To appease her depressed Li-Li while waiting for her boyfriend to contact her, Pan Xiao Xin helps her Li-Li by traveling with her to her favorite attractions.

One of four documentary films made by Jiang Yue in Tibet during his trips in 1991 and 1992. "In between Southeastern Tibet, Sichuan Province, and Yunnan Province lies Tibet's only surviving Catholic Church and its congregation of over 400 people."

Chinese film directed by Wenji Teng.

Ye Ling is left to raise her son alone after her husband divorces her and leaves for Singapore.