Discoveries from China World Cinema

A man falls for a beautiful con artist.

Chinese movie

A biographical documentary about Stephon Marbury and his time playing for the Chinese Basketball Association.

On February 20, 2022, the closing ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

The water level of the Yangtze River rises sharply after days of heavy rain, and soon exceeds the warning line. In this life-threatening moment, the commander Zhou Shangwu, the chief engineer Han, and others come together to fight against the floods.

The story took place in the spring of 2003. The young and beautiful stewardess returned after a small month flight and called a takeaway at home. The postgraduate student of the history department, Zhao Xiaotian, went to work and sent a takeaway. When he came to Xiaoyue’s home, Xiaoyue was shampooing and would not go downstairs, let him send the takeaway. At this time, just happened to encounter the suspected patient of SARS in the building where Xiaoyue lived, so the entire community was quarantined and Xiaotian could not go. A youthful and beautiful, a fascinating, two people who have never met each other suddenly become a room, isolated, a romantic and witty love story, so in this extraordinary period, very place can not be self-explanatory...

During the reign of Emperor Jia Jing of the Ming Dynasty, the evil court official Yan Song relies on the emperor favoritism towards him, becoming overbearing and domineering. An honest official Zhang Ying Long impeaches Yan Song with a Ten Cimes Five Deceits against him. But instead he gets flogged 30 times, and banished to a far off frontier Guizhou.

At midnight, the head of the criminal department who was watching the night near Xinwang Mansion arrested Bai Moyu, and suddenly saw a thief carrying a box and escaping from the Wang Mansion. Bai Moyu fought with the thief. During the process, Bai Moyu cut off a handful of hair of the thief, the thief fled in a hurry, and lost a treasure jar. Bai Mozhen opened the letter to the gate of the Wangfu Palace to understand the situation, but was met with sarcasm by Huangfu, the general manager of the palace. The next day the Emperor suddenly stated that he would let the Lord Wang Xin bring the wooden kite to see him three days later. The King Xin went to the storeroom to find out that the wooden kite was lost. He urgently invited Bai Moyu and Yang Yuanzhun to come to the investigation. If they could not find it, a disaster would come.

Four participants playtest a virtual reality game that is still under development. The game uses AI simulated NPCs and system dynamics to generate a world with features not created by the developers, and perhaps beyond human understanding.

A red headed villain (with a blue headed son), a witch and the warriors and monk that fight the two badguys.

Three interwoven stories of contemporary China. In the snowy forests of northern China, a lonely man herds reindeer and busies himself with his daily tasks, looking forward to visits from his wife and son. In Shanghai, a young restaurant worker becomes drawn to a troubled young woman and tries to care for her. In Paris, a young Chinese student is robbed of his passport. He receives unexpected help from an elderly compatriot who knows the ins and outs of their new city.

In the southern Jiangxi region in the 1930s, in this place known as the "red cradle" of the Chinese revolution, there was a mother who sent her eight sons to the Red Army and rushed to the front lines of the battlefield. But the war was ruthless, and six of the brothers died one after another, leaving only the eldest brother Yang Daniu and the youngest child full of cubs.

A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.

In 1921, Jiang Yunfei and his wife leads a group of people in search for their missing son on a ghost ship, but they were all attacked and killed soon, leaving Yunfei the only survivor. Many years later, Wang Dayan, whose sister's disappearance is also linked to the ship, teams up with Yunfei for an investigation and adventure on the sea.

A volcano wreaks havoc in Sun Wukong's world, sapping the magic banana leaf fan of its power. He must travel five centuries into the past to coax tears from the dry eyes of Princess Iron Fan, but he arrives with no memory of who he is.

San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy struggling with life in Shanghai.

Xiao Sa was in debt because of his mother's severe illness for ten years. In desperation, he sold his mother's cemetery to collect the surgery fee. Unexpectedly, the price of this cemetery had doubled ten times and he made a small profit.

A young woman receives a mysterious letter and a train ticket. She boards the train with the ticket and meets a woman who claims to be her mother.

To develop a potent anti-cancer drug, a research team ventures to a secluded island in search of an ancient plant known as "Fire Prison Vine Lotus". On the island, they encounter attacks from prehistoric creatures and uncover Jurassic-era ruins. After numerous challenges and securing the plant's stamen, the team faces relentless pursuit by velociraptors, leading to their separation, with only three members surviving the ordeal.

Zoe Tay, Martin Yan and Christopher Ming-Shun Lee star in this telemovie about a resolute divorcee who loses her financial assets after the divorce. She works hard in a restaurant business and later becomes successful.

The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are declining in Chinese society.

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yan Zhiyang. It tells the story of Shen Tuo (Liu Lincheng), a descendant of Mohist's official technique, who enters the Promise Prison alone in order to rescue his beloved wife, Jiang Ren (Liu Jingyi).

Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.

A marine science fiction that follows Xiaohai, a 12 year old boy who exchanges souls with the aquarium's star sea lion—Candy.

This film focuses on three important characters from the famous Chinese classic novel "The water Margin "-The three brothers, Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoer Ruan Xiaoqi were brothers of the original Northern Song Dynasty Shandong Prefecture of Jeju Shijie village of fishermen, all blessed with outstanding courage and martial art skills, The three brothers helped fight the oppression by the evil Minister Kao Chu and robbed his wealthy cohorts and donated their plundering’s to the cause being fought by Lin Chung and the other heroes from, “The Water Margin”. Brilliant action from both Iron monkey stars Chen Kwan Tai & Yu Rong-Guang.

This story is about Snake King's descendants teaming up with animal protection experts to fight against a black market snake hunting gang bought by real estate developers on Snake King Island.

In the autumn of 1942, a secret convoy was ambushed by the Japanese army in the field. At that moment, Zuo Yingjie and Ling Feng, who composed the hunter squad of the Eighth Route Army, were hiding in the nearby mountain. They sniped at the Japanese soldiers killing them all, and saved the only survivor of the convoy and brought him to their base. They discovered that the survivor’s name is Qin Weizhou, an expert in deciphering coded telegrams who works in the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Council for the Kuomintang government. In the past the man did huge damage to the underground organization of the communist party, was now shouldering the responsibility of deciphering the coded telegrams of the Japanese army. Despite this, the organization decided Zuo Yingjie to lead an elite squad to get through the battlefield and escort him to a safe place. At the same time, Japanese snipers and a large force of the Japanese army received message to stop them.

All the way, Cao Li has come alone. From Fuyang to Shenzhen. From Shenzhen to Shanghai. From Shanghai to home? Leaving hometown is her choice, the choice out of no choice. Returning home is her dream, the dream getting blinded by the neon lights in the city.--

Emperor Yu dominated the world and divided it into nine continents, after which he soon passed away. Since then, the cultivation levels of martial artists in the world have been classified into three realms: "Post-Heaven, Pre-Heaven, and Illusory Realm." A thousand years later, chaos erupted in the nine continents. The nine major sects openly and secretly contested for the treasures left by Emperor Yu, seeking to dominate the world. Teng Qingshan, blessed with exceptional talent, reached the Pre-Heaven realm at a young age. However, after accidentally obtaining the key, the Nine Cauldrons Pendant, which opens the treasure, he is hunted by Qinghu Island, leading to the tragic extermination of his own sect. Amidst the storms within the martial world, the nine sects gather to seek revenge, protect the treasure, and Teng Qingshan faces numerous challenges and life-and-death battles against the forces of evil.

The Sweet and Sour Cops is a Hong Kong Crime-Comedy starring Kent Cheng.

A mystery about a gourmet in love with two different women who winds up poisoned.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Ding Wu and Jiang Huang were a pair of brothers in the Jingyiwei. One had a pregnant wife and was trapped in the tea, rice, oil and salt; the other fell in love with a woman in a youth house and was waiting for a chance to rise to the top in the ordinary workplace. The two are ordered to investigate a serial murder mystery case, leading to a major corruption case.

1949. Just before the most important and brutal battle of Chinese civil war, an elite small group of PLA commandos infiltrated across the Yang-tze river into the heart of KMT regime. Other than fighting behind enemy lines, the captain of the group had one special task: turning an official who served loyally in KMT army - his own brother.

The male lead private armor Han Yu was ordered to protect and bring back the mysterious client "Aries", but found that "Aries" turned out to be his ex-wife Xu Bing. The two experienced hardships and returned to the good, and they prevented the crime under the joint efforts of the two. The group’s shocking conspiracy.

A man and his wife get themselves a huge gambling debt, and then accidentally get involved in a race with gangsters to obtain a magic mirror.

Wu Dalang discovered that Pan and Ximen Qing had committed adultery and were poisoned by two people. Wu Song revenge for the brother, taking Pan’s first level. Heavy rain at night, Wu Song blood splashed the whole body, went straight to the Lion House to fight Ximen Qing to take his head. Wu Song murdered to the servant to surrender and was sent to Mengzhou. After Wu Song arrived in Mengzhou, he met Shi En, and later avenged the vengeance of Shi En, robbed Jiang Hushen of the Happy Forest Tavern, Zhang Dujian of Mengzhou City, sent Wu Song to the Fuzhong, and arranged the Fuyang Mausoleum in Fuzhong. Give Wusong a curse.

In the late 1930s, the Japanese army occupies Shanghai. Barber Lu Ping kills a Japanese officer by accident and then escapes from Shanghai to the residence of his master's brother, Song Fengnian. When he arrives at the small town, he falls in love with Song's daughter Jiayi at the first sight. However, Jiayi has had the engagement with an officer for a decent life in the wartime, even as concubine. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu is sentenced to death as a traitor because Song, his boss, has worked for the Japanese. When he closes his eyes and waits for the sound of shot, Jiayi rescues him. Arranged by her husband, Lu becomes an officer. However, he can never forget Jiayi and his barber life. After the end of the Civil War, Lu is sent to work on a farm in the northwest. There he learns that Jiayi doesn't leave with her husband and has been waiting for him at the small town where they meet for the first time. Lu decides to look for Jiayu.