Discoveries from China World Cinema

Set in the 1940s, City without Night follows the fortunes of Zhang Bohan who returns from studies in England to put his father-in-law’s textile factory back on track.

The film uses Chinese actors to play the Japanese protagonist, uses Chinese perspectives to criticize Yamato’s militarism, and is filmed by a Taiwanese director born after the war. The story of the Japanese imperial army during World War II is a prominent feature in the history of Chinese cinema. Try. Although the creative ambition of the director Zhou Teng affected the overall performance of the film because of his wishful thinking on the theme and handling, his efforts in exploring new themes and the rigorous production attitude are still worthy of recognition.

A couple with baby try to re-unite after illegally seeking refuge in Hong Kong.

Cuicui is raised by her 70-year-old grandfather. 17 years ago, Her mother was pregnant before marriage and she committed suicide after giving birth to Cuicui by drinking cold water in the river. When Cuicui grows up, her grandfather begins to worry about her marriage, because he doesn’t want Cuicui to have the miserable life like her mother.

"Homecoming" is about three stories of three different individuals going home for Chinese New Year. A major highlight of the movie is that Jack Neo, who will be cross-dressing on the big screen again after eleven years since "Liang Po Po The Movie" back in 1999. He will be playing mother to Ah Niu's character. It is said that he was told to lose at least 5kg for his role. Jack Neo long time collaborator Mark Lee and Malaysian multi-talented writer-director-comedian Afdlin Shauki are among the cast.

This film uses the important process of "pattern making" in Chinese cheongsam craftsmanship as a medium to tell the story of a father and son living in a Beijing hutong. Their relationship is shaped by the inheritance of their craft, leading to many heartwarming and touching moments. Despite numerous challenges, the father and son ultimately unite their hearts to bring Chinese cheongsam to the world stage.

Biography of Red Army commander Luo Xiao, known as Xiao Luo when a slave, who joined the Chinese army in 1915.

The unemployed Yin Yin, in the unintentional pit of the good brothers and the crazy chasing of the black road dragon brother, accidentally sneaked into the Ruyi Jiazheng company, but he just got out of the wolf and into the tiger's mouth, and the housekeeping boss helped Yin Yin escape. As a result of the pursuit of killing Yin Yin to do his own free labor, Yin Yu began his male career as an extraordinary and hilarious family life career... Love the vain single mother Wang Lei, naughty Tao Tao, Mei Ling’s mother-in-law, Xiao San The intent of the intrigue is related to the mystery of Yin Hao’s being chased by Long Ge, and it also detonated the final battle between Yin Yi’s unaccompanied person and the gangster’s dragon brother.... ..

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When Gu Dai, a soon-to-be graduate of Ningcheng University of Public Security, is first taken on an internship with the Criminal Investigation Police, he is involved in a series of kidnappings of writers in the name of "games" - eight suspense novelists are kidnapped overnight and disappear. When Gu Dai thinks he has deduced the mastermind behind the case, all the clues are thrown at him and he becomes the first suspect in the kidnapping case.

Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.

An aftershock caused by an earthquake twelve years ago made a time-space connection between the young Xiao Li and his childhood. At a class reunion many years later, Xiao Li met Song Qian, a girl who had a crush on him. The secret of his father's disappearance and the memory of an accident caused by a game of hide-and-seek were gradually evoked. In the flowing river, Xiao Li gradually approached the truth in his heart and resisted the oblivion from the present.

The story tells that in 1944, Qingdao’s underground organization “Beidou” launched a fierce life-and-death confrontation with the Japanese gendarmerie, the Black Dragon Club and the military to protect a small girl who took the Soviet Union’s secret attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Directed by Jixing Wang.

A group of five people plans to hijack a plane while the police are desperate to find leads to stop this act.

Five hundred years ago the goddess of Nuwa Palace was demoted into the mortal world and save a small white snake, who transformed into a doctor named Bai Jingyao

An agent infiltrating the Nationalist Party in wartime Shanghai finds himself under threat.

Embarrassed by her un-American look, a young girl betrays her younger sister during their first Sunday at a Chinese-American church.

An exploration of aspects of love: a married couple constantly meeting for rendezvous; a middle-aged man who insists on his dates wearing something from his deceased wife wardrobe; and a poor foreign girl who dreams of settling down with “the right man”.

Little white panda and his friends in the panda family defeat the evil red fox.

Mr. Deng, a distressed officer of Northeast army, comes to Shanghai to look for his trafficked wife. And he kills all bad guys after his wife's suicide.

Ryuji Otsuka and Huang Ji are the ‘main characters' in this very personal homemade documentary that's funny, angry, scary and stirring all at once. He's the Japanese director of the film; she's his wife and a prizewinning filmmaker in her own right. For independent artists and filmmakers, finding an affordable place to live with their young daughter is a never-ending struggle. A side effect of China's astonishing prosperity is sky-high property prices – about $10,000 per square metre in Beijing. The landlords, movers and neighbours they encounter seem bent on driving them nuts. But never underestimate the resilience, determination and lung power of enraged, protective young Chinese parents. Otsuka's sometimes concealed camera reveals intimately how life feels, from ground level, in urban China today.

Fu Hong female in the "Red Detachment of Women" ballet plays a small female soldier, due to the qualifications are not yet shallow, the performance is always in a corner of the stage as an accompaniment, it is difficult to have the opportunity to show themselves. In an accident, she fell off the stage and fell into a coma. When she woke up, she found that the situation had become very bad .

Qing Chan and his brother are orphans. His brother had a car accident, and Qing Chan always felt that his brother's car accident was man-made. Finally, Qing Chan was in the same place where his brother Xiaoyong had a car accident.

Back To You revolves around a mother, Xiu Min, who had to give one of her twins away due to financial constraints and her husband’s insistence.

An army officer has a chance encounter with a young soldier, the son of an old comrade in arms. The soldier tells the officer he has a sister who is also in the army. When the young soldier is killed in action, the officer visits her to pay his respects, and recognizes her as his own child, given up for adoption 18 years earlier. This presents him with a dilemma, wanting to reconnect with the only child he ever had, yet reluctant to tell her the truth about her parentage ...

In the spring of 1938, Japanese forces occupied the Jiaodong region of China. The village of Tiandao, located deep in the Kunyu Mountains, was chosen by the Japanese as a central stronghold. Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe Taro was dispatched with a unit to eliminate resistance in Tiandao Village. The village, whose inhabitants had lived as hunters for generations, faced the sudden invasion with fierce resistance, creating a heroic and fiery epic of youth amidst blood and fire.

A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.

It is a story about the Chinese police who intelligently and bravely fight with the cooperation of the factory's Party Committee and the masses, against the spies, who steal the navy's equipment "Hunting No.99".

Believing that he killed his daughter instead of saving her from kidnappers, Zhang Li is dismantled. He finds himself lured to China seeking solace in pain and blood at Paradise Hotel where every carnal and beastly desire is satiated. With a savage boss, the terrifying Burnt Man at the helm of the underground brothel, no perversion is turned away.

A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.

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Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi through abandoned parking lots.

As the new year approaches, Li Yubao is embarrassed when his three-year-old grandson is going back to the village for the holidays. The child wants a Peppa, but what is Peppa?

Dramatization of the life of blind musician ABing (Huà Yànjūn).

When her seven-year-old son dies in a tragic road accident, a grieving mother, Jia En, seeks the help of her former caregiver, Mdm Seetoh, to bring back his soul so he can be always 'by her side.' However, after several strange and deadly occurrences in the house, Jia En begins to suspect that there is something amiss with the soul she has brought back. In discovering what has really happened, she unravels the horrific truth ... a truth which may cost her her life and the lives of those around her.

As a marine biologist, Guan Zixuan, during a research on Brachycephalus salamander, Brachycephalus mutated and escaped. Before that, Guan Zixuan's father also disappeared because of researching the giant salamander. In order to find this mutant giant salamander and find his father, Guan Zixuan decided to set off to the deep sea and go to the deserted island.