Discoveries from China World Cinema

Lu Jingsheng, a young analyst from the China Securities Regulatory Commission, who was going to study in the United States was sent to Lankao to help the poor. He didn't want to become an "enemy" with Fan Zhongzhou, the deputy secretary of the county party committee. The young man, who is determined to find a way out of China's rural areas in academia, runs into a "dirtbag" top boss who came from the grassroots step by step, and who accompanied the old secretary to Beijing 12 years ago to wear the "poor county" hat. Lu Jingsheng volunteered to go to Bazhuang, the poorest village in the county, as the first secretary. The emotional crisis between him and his girlfriend also broke out, and Lu Jingsheng was on the verge of collapse.

In Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, Qian Xiao Fei, who graduated from university two years ago, has been out of work for two months and can't pay her rent. She finally gets a job in the client service department of Charm, a beauty products company run by Cao Jun, whose product development head is ambitious Professor Chen Jia Rong. Xiao Fei discovers her boss is Gao Sha Sha, an old friend from high school who is now a high-powered executive. Much to the chagrin of Lei Xiao Zhi, who likes her, Sha Sha falls for Professor Chen. Meanwhile, Xiao Fei develops a close relationship with Lei Zhen Gyu, a photographer who is renting a room with the same landlady as her. Then one day, Sha Sha is kidnapped.

Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo.

1988 film

Cantopop legend Alan Tam commemorated his 40th anniversary with a series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum starting on February 13, 2015. Principal Tam put on a magnificent show filled with classic hits that define a generation, from "Late Spring" and "Love Trap" to "Half Dream, Half Awake" and "Silent Gratitude," not to mention his most recent 40th anniversary theme song "Galaxy Years." Jacky Cheung, Eason Chan, Priscilla Chan, Hacken Lee, Kelly Chen and, of course, the other members of Wynners appeared as special guests for different nights of the concert tour.

As Chinese New Year nears, a community doctor’s planned marriage to a neighbor unravels when a new arrival stirs up trouble; the three work through their issues and reconcile before the holiday.

The Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou) staged the Chinese debut of "The Vagina Monologues" in December 2003. Since then, this feminist play, which came from the US and has been committed to the elimination of gender-based violence, has incited a vagina hurricane that blew all over mainland China.

The movie is about a group of ‘floaters’ in Beijing ?people who live and work in Beijing but are not native residents. It is rare for a Beijing floater to have a fixed home, as they move from place to place according to their job requirements. Many Beijing floaters do not feel a sense of belonging. The movie tells the story of Yu Xiaobao, a floater who is trying to hide the reality of his struggling life from his daughter who still lives in their hometown. As a result, he tells her that he has become a film director. When his daughter suddenly decides to visit him, he enlists the help of his other floater friends to put on a show so that she does not find out the truth.

Chinese movie

Kopitiam Ada Bukit Ada Air is very famous for its white coffee. But after the founder suffers from Alzheimer's disease, the white coffee's secret recipe has since lost. Now his son Bao Li Jin and wife try hard to maintain the kopitiam business and declining customers. But things got worse when an arrogant developer, Tao wants to acquire the kopitiam lot. Bao is forced to sell the shop, but he refuses. Bao ends up accepting a boxing match challenge by Tao. Now Bao will have to fight and win Tao in the match to keep the shop, can he win the match? Can their traditional kopitiam business return to its glory?

Living in a traditional “four-sided courtyard” house, where historically multiple generations would live together in one complex, Wei Daxue slowly finds her few friends in the world slipping away — an artist living in the guesthouse leaves, a neighbor dies, and her dog runs away. Her daughter is physically distant, and a cross-generational tension between tradition and the expediencies of modern life keep their conversations short.

The new emperor ascended the throne, and the DPRK was unstable. The border general Han Zhong and his son Han Chao returned to the DPRK to maintain stability. At this time, the six princes who held the military talisman at the border died tragically. In order to prevent the military talisman from leaving the city, the emperor ordered the gate to be closed for three days. At the same time, for the sake of peace of mind, Han Chao and others were sent to investigate the murder of the Six Princes, within three days. With the in-depth investigation of the case, a tragedy of 17 years ago has surfaced, and rumors of "Red Clothes and Shadows" resounded throughout the capital. The real identity of the murderer is fascinating, and the case becomes more secretive and bizarre...

The film follows the lives of a family living in the Taklamakan village of Kokchol — seen through the eyes of the boy Senet (whose name means “art”) — in order to construct a spiritual history of the local village music.

An undercover CCP helps peaceful liberation of Peking.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, wars continued, and the evil person Wang Liniang was killing people. The crazy Jianghu warlock Mao Bupo and his apprentices Bai Qi and Bai Yuan chased the evil spirits to Heling City. Bai Qi defeated Wang Liniang and the two-headed snake. Wang Liniang’s dying last words and The logo made Mao Bupo feel puzzled, thinking of the many years of massacres.

Li Mei is a little-known screenwriter, with no famous works, no successful cases, only her so-called "screenwriter's perseverance" and a husband who loves to cheat. Hao Jinjun, this love-hearted husband, is ready to divorce Li Mei, because he feels that he really loves and looks forward to it. However, he was wrong. When he saw his old classmate Bai Hua, he was attracted by Bai Hua's beauty. When Hao Jinjun was about to pursue Bai Hua, Bai Hua died. Hao Jinjun did not call the police because he believed that it was Li Mei and Qi Panpan who killed Bai Hua, and they were also his loved ones. A few days later, the police discovered Bai Hua's body, and it was Hao Jinjun's son, Hao Jiangang, who was in charge of the investigation of this case. Will he find out the truth of the incident, and what choice he will make in the face of family affection and justice.

Crew member Lei Menghan, unable to repay his debts and with nowhere else to turn, reluctantly agrees to his ex-wife's request to take care of her current husband, Hua Chengzhi, a primary school principal who is paraplegic. In return, she promises to lend him the money needed to settle his debts. Throughout their time together, Lei Menghan and Hua Chengzhi face numerous challenges but gradually earn each other's trust through genuine efforts. Ultimately, after a series of events that bring them closer, they support and help each other grow. Together, they rekindle hope in their lives during their lowest points.

Last year, my mother used her mobile phone to read the news every day to earn gold coins. The gold coins earned at the end of the day could be withdrawn for a few cents. She started to get pain in her wrists from using her cell phone too much. I made a deal with her, asking her to shoot videos for me, and I would give her 1 yuan for each video. Starting from June 30, she would send me videos every week. Until today, she has sent 165 videos, and The materials I shot were edited together to form a book from two places... About the Author Dai Xu, male, born in 1995, is from Yunnan. Graduated from Hebei University, worked in documentary media and short video companies, and now is a bookstore clerk. In 2021, I will film my own life with my mother. The new film "A Book from Two Places" comes from the material shot by myself and my mother.

Fierce battle between a hungry heron and a crafty clam.

2005 film

Battle at Liu-hua Bridge

A montage of scenes from vintage Chinese films—most of which were considered lost until some nitrate prints were discovered in a California warehouse in the 1990s—set to the song "Hua yang de nian hua" ("Age of Bloom") by Zhou Xuan.

The story follows ten-year-old Huo Xiaoman, who spends his summer vacation at his grandfather Huo Da’s home in Yulin, Shaanxi. There, he befriends several local children from the countryside. Together, they form deep bonds of friendship and embark on adventures exploring air-raid shelters.

Chinese movie

A satire about the conflict between two women over an assigned apartment they both want.

The movie tells the story of the scientist Chen Jing who learned that the fiancé was attacked by a giant crocodile and resolutely joined the expedition. However, the initiator of all this is the boss of the fiance. In the position of protecting the environment and ethics, Chen Jing fought against the evil forces and eventually won the victory. The film mainly shows the choice between scientists in the face of illegal scientific research and personal ethics. The protagonist Chen Jing has always stood firm and determined to draw a clear line with illegal behavior, to protect the environment and fight against evil forces, and ultimately to defeat. The villain protected the experimental results.

Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, and language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network.

Being able to see in the dark is a bless, but in Beijing, it's a curse....

Eighteen-year-old girl Li Qi failed the college entrance examinations. She disobeyed her mother, refusing to return to school to be a returning student. The relationship between Li Qi and her mother worsened. At classmate Xiaowei’s birthday party, Li Qi and Xiaowei had a quarrel. Li Qi smashed Xiaowei’s newly-bought iPhone in a rage. Unexpectedly, her originally peaceful summer life was changed after the quarrel. Facing the crisis of claiming compensation by her classmate, Li Qi chose to hide it from her mother, determined to keep it as her secret and solve the problem alone. And this secret was like a fishbone stuck in her throat, gradually becoming an unspeakable discomfort for her. The bitterness and pains of growing-up come one after another. She began to rethink her relationship with her mother, and her relationship with the world.

Zhao Li manages a Sichuan Opera troupe that lives and performs together in a rundown theatre in the outskirts of Chengdu. When she receives an order of demolition, she hides the news, fearing that this could spell their end. Secretly, she wouldn’t mind stopping since their life has become harder over the years. But what else can she do? She also worries that her niece Dan Dan, their star, will leave them for a better future in the city. To keep her troupe “family” together, Zhao Li begins a search for a new theatre for them to both sing and live in. As she struggles with bureaucracy, the characters from the opera world that she uses to escape her troubles begin to seep into her real life…

"Old Cow Vs Tender Grass" tells the story of Moo (played by Henry Thia), a taxi-driver in his late 40s, and how his routine life changes when he gets acquainted with an attractive but eccentric lady, Moon (played by Crystal Lin). Meanwhile, Jack Lim plays a rugged taxi-driver who falls for a lady from China (played by Siau Jiahui). The movie attempts to explore the seemingly improbable romantic relationships in today's society, through a simple yet hilarious storyline.

Over the course of 45 days, a relationship begins to break apart as confinement tests its bonds.

In Republican Shanghai a handsome monster hunter Yu Wen seeks for another beast in the Grand Hotel. When the monster attacks Gu Qing, Yu Wen surrenders from the sky and interrupts the public confession of a wealthy detective, Tian Ming. The three of them are involved in a series of supernatural cases. All the clues point to a legend - the beast has returned to earth and a mysterious manipulator has surfaced....

Yu Xiuhua was raised to hope for little from her life in the rural Chinese province of Hubei. At 19, Xiuhua’s mother encouraged her to marry a man nearly twice her age, fearful no one else would accept a wife with Xiuhua’s condition — cerebral palsy. But as her 20th anniversary approaches, Xiuhua’s poetry goes viral, and she becomes the voice of a rising feminist movement throughout China.