Discoveries from China World Cinema

Eight years ago, Liu Zhenguo was a homeless orphan that Liu Baohong "picked up" from the town's garbage dump and brought home. Liu Baohong registered him and paid for his education. His wife Xie Ronglan was complaining that their already tight family had one more pair of chopsticks. Liu Baohong adopted orphans one after another and built an orphanage in his own home. Xie Ronglan was finally mad and ran away. She went to Beijing and picked up garbage for several years. Whenever she saved up 1,000 yuan, she would send it to that special home. The indelible childhood shadow of young Zhenguo, coupled with his usual wandering life, made him unsociable. His only friend was

A Yong is a student at the elementary school of his village.

In 1958, during Chiang Kai-shek’s threats to retake the mainland, the Kuomintang navy attacked Fujian Province’s coast. The landing ship “Dacheng” was sunk by our torpedo boats, and Captain Wu John led troops to an unnamed island. Naval political instructor Wang Yongzhi and others, who fell into the water after a collision, also drifted there. They launched a political offensive against the enemy, who, unaware of our capabilities, awaited rescue. Prisoner Sun Gui swam back to his comrades, witnessed the cook’s beating, and returned to our side. Wang Yongzhi, seeing the enemy’s wait for rescue, forced them to reveal themselves. The enemy tried a fake negotiation to delay time. At night, Cai Dage brought reinforcements, eliminating the enemy on the island and their rescue ship.

Unfortunate events beset a poor Chinese girl as she escapes from invading Japanese forces, narrowly avoids being raped, and seeks solace in a neighboring village.

The first post-1949 Mainland production to shoot on location in Hong Kong, this seagoing drama has a dual timeframe connecting pre– and post–Cultural Revolution China, along with introducing one of the era’s most popular movie theme songs. It was a milestone in the career of Mainland film icon Yu Yang (who also directed the film) and provided Paul Fonoroff with what proved to be his largest screen role: a liuxuesheng (foreign exchange student) majoring in oceanography and serving his apprenticeship on a ship helmed by Yu, marking the captain’s return to the sea after the tumultuous Cultural Revolution.

A fishing boy fell in love with a conch girl living on the fairy island. He passed numerous tests and lived with the girl happily ever after.

Mao and Chiang Kai-shek during some decisive moments in the battle over the fate of China.

Under the sun, the heavenly beauty of grasslands will soon be covered by the raging dust of mines. Facing the ashes and noises caused by heavy mining , the herdsmen have no choice but to leave as the meadow areas dwindle. In the moonlight, iron mines are brightly lit throughout the night. Workers who operate the drilling machines must stay awake. The fight is tortuous, against the machine and against themselves. Meanwhile, coal miners are busy filling trucks with coals. Wearing a coal-dust mask, they become ghostlike creatures. An endless line of trucks will transport all the coals and iron ores to the iron works. There traps another crowd of souls, being baked in hell. In the hospital, time hangs heavy on miners' hands. After decades of breathing coal dust, death is just around the corner. They are living the reality of purgatory, but there will be no paradise.

The evil Black Dragon Jie Hook feeds on emotions such as bitterness, fear and sorrow. He creates a plague on earth and sends the demon dragon Fish Bu Confusion (Roy Cheng) and the tree demon Pu Kwai (Zhang Chuxuan) to capture his nemesis Li Xin Yuan (Chen Haomin) in his dreams. In the course of the assassination, Pu Kui is impressed by Li Xin Yuan's kindness and integrity in saving the people and gradually swayed. The assassination mission is delayed again and again, and the suffering on earth makes the evil dragon accumulate enough strength to come to earth to kill his destined enemy Li Xin Yuan himself.

The fate of a Chinese worker who devoted his life to the revolutionary struggle, about his family, who gave many years to their native factory, about the victory of people's power in the country.

The story follows a child bride turned widow, Dou E, who is wrongly convicted of crimes by a corrupt court official for actions perpetrated by a rejected suitor, Mule Zhang. After her execution, three prophesied phenomena occur to prove her innocence, including blood raining from the sky, snow in June and a three-year drought. After a visit from the ghost of Dou E, her father eventually brings the corrupt court official, a doctor and Mule Zhang to justice, thereby vindicating his daughter.

The fantasy story of the descendants of Ghost Valley and all kinds of people looking for the "Giant Soldier".

A love story that should not have happened. But the Great Cultural Revolution fathered it. As memorable as Romeo and Juliet, their love tied with the same intrusion from their families ¨C the hatred. Until one day, they watched Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It inspires them. It gives their juiceless love story the hope for fruit. It brings them the determination to bridge through time setting aside the hatred. The same gives them a wait of 12 years. 12 years of changing time, changing era. Friends come and go. Songs sang become old. How much longer for their love can they hold? How much longer for their love with beautiful memory and unforgettable days can they hold?

Qiao Fan can't control her power. After she is attacked by an unknown assassin, she is forced to avenge her father. She transforms into a "red clad woman". Faced with a more mysterious evil force, Qiao Fan is about to challenge an incredible journey of revenge.

Authentic and subtly-written coming-of-age story set against the end of the dark 1970s. A dominant mother, a taciturn father, an elder brother who won’t shape up and the little brother who won’t take sides. Then a beautiful girl comes to live across the road from distant Beijing. (IFFR.com)

Li Jian is an expert on cave exploration. Because of a drunk driving accident, his son Xiaoyu suffered a lifelong disability on his left foot. His wife Liu Yun could not forgive Li Jian for filing for divorce, and Li Jian was deeply guilty and self-blame for this. In order to realize Xiaoyu's birthday wish to reunite with his father, Liu Yun took Xiaoyu to the place where Li Jian worked. The sudden vortex in the lake sucked Li Jian's family into the mysterious cave deep in the earth. Deep in the heart of the earth, there are dangers, bloodthirsty humanoid monsters, and dangerous alien behemoths. In order to protect his wife and children from escape, Li Jian began the most difficult and dangerous geocentric adventure in his life.

Tthe meeting between 2 straight boys from different social circles, and their story from a fantasy point of view. The story is pieced together with a few short chapters of stories.

If there is no one in a house, do they close the door? Just like that because there are no villagers The village was renamed "closed village". The gated village was previously called "Letha village". As the name suggests, it is a peaceful village with many villagers. That village is now silent with the promise of drought. The Hutonghai road and bridge repair group started to make plans to pass through the gated village because of a project.

The Magic Brush is a Chinese animated stop-motion film produced by the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. A young and kind peasant boy named Ma Liang helped a rich man to tend cattle. He liked drawing and drew pictures everywhere and had the greatest dream to be an artist. He works very hard to achieve this dream even though he doesn't own a paintbrush.

Sex is a taboo topic in China, even though China is a large importer of the Japanese Adult Video (AV) industry. What happens when a Japanese adult video star such as Yui Hatano comes to China? This film shows the China's sexual liberation in a comedic way.

A heart-wrenching story of a child searching for asylum in China in 1941 after an attack by Japan leaves his city in ruins.

The film is about a woman from a rural area and works in a small restaurant as a cleaner with very low pay. As she has to support her family (mother and daughter), she has no money for herself for better makeup or dress up. She has low esteem. She later was fired by the boss. Because of no money and no home, she goes to the massage parlor and works there a sex worker. It happens that the first customer is the chef of previous restaurant. She has admired him for a while. In this first sex exchange, she is well satisfied both emotionally as well as economically. She starts sex work this way and becomes more confident.

During the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping was sacked and sent to Jiangxi. Despite facing multiple high-pressure crises, he always remained firm, optimistic, and never changed his original aspiration. For his safety, the master of the factory arranged a special road for him. For three years and four months, Deng Xiaoping went to work along this trail every day. Later generations called it "Deng XIaoping trail".

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In the ocean, there are four magical crystals. The dark corps led by sea monster Limo Ansen tried to get the crystals by all means and dominate the ocean. The deep-sea ranger-led by Xiaoronglong waged fierce battles with them in order to maintain the security of the ocean. In this period, two octopus siblings were involved in the struggles. With the help of Octopus siblings and in reliance on their courage and wisdom, Xiaoronglong and his friends resolved the crises time and time again and eventually defeated the dark forces and maintained the peace of the ocean.

The Cabin is a modern-day film about spiritual warfare telling the story of how one man courageously waged war against his personal demons. This suspenseful thriller shows the spiritual battlefield we all face each and every day.

Amid King Heng’s oppressive rule, rebels vow to overthrow him with a secret edict. When carefree heir Xie Changsheng disguises himself as an official to woo the beautiful Bai Shanshui, he accidentally entangles himself in a deadly web of assassins, conspiracies, and hidden agendas at a tense inn showdown.

In 1990s Ha City, Xu Tie, a recently released ex-con and Bailing, a dancer, hiding her pain find love against social prejudice, family pressure, and danger, and must risk everything to protect each other and earn a future together.

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Turning into a vampire was never the plan. Falling for the one who bit him? Even worse, especially when the past comes calling.

In the past 40 years Foshan City was frontier of government reform. The story describes the different experiences, encounters and life choices of the people who live in Foshan from beginning of this time. The character and temperament of the Foshan people are “dare to be first, chongwen is pragmatic, and economically harmonious”.