Discoveries from China World Cinema

Chang Chen Ghost Stories (Chinese: 张震讲故事之鬼迷心窍) is a 2015 Chinese suspense thriller film directed by Zhengchao Xu. It was released on July 3, 2015.

Bai Le De and Hu Lun tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away. Later, Bae Le De is also appointed to a post at the same place. Hu Lun Ting falls in love with Luo Hua, daughter of the local commander.

2013 Chinese horror film directed by Qiu Chuji. After being kidnapped, a young woman awakens three months later on the side of a road with no memory of her abduction. Subsequently, she begins to experience psychological episodes that mirror her abductor's persona.

The Baolian Lantern guarding the world was stolen. Yang Jian entered the mortal world to find the light and fell in love with a mortal woman. The two join forces to fight against the Chaos Demon who tried to subvert the six realms, and finally prevented the destruction of the Baolian Lantern.

In the early days of the Republic of China many people were forced to leave their homes and search for a stable life in order to survive.Liang Weng was once a highly decorated military leader, but later retired to the jianghu. He is a highly skilled martial artist and a low-profile man who never shows mercy to the evil-doers. Carrying his secret with his grandson to the town of Guanyang, already ruled by the bully Master Hong Wu,he seemed to be an ordinary passerby and was at ease, but under the intentional or unintentional actions of his grandson, Liang Weng helped the people around him get lost.

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Single mother Zhang Keyi opened a small noodle restaurant with her six-year-old daughter Mi Li. The mother and daughter had a worry-free life. By chance, Xiao Mi Li participated in the TV singing program and performed well. After the news broke, the music company signed a contract. Rice grains, advertising brands kept coming to the door, Zhang Keyi also reaped love, when everything was going well, the appearance of Ran Jianlin broke Zhang Keyi's normal life trajectory

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At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the elder of Kunwu Pavilion in Kunlun Mountain, Huangfu Beng, felt that the demons were destroying the dragon veins and led his disciples to fight with a thousand-year-old tree demon. He did not want the tree demon to absorb the demon pearl and increase its strength. In order to save the strength and turn the situation around, Huangfu Beng uses up all his magic power to start the Flying Stream Formation and sends his eldest disciple Xuntan and his female disciple Chu Ling'er back to Panshizhen three days ago, hoping to destroy the tree demon before it gets the Xuan Yin Pearl.

In the later stage of the Liberation War, with the victory of the three major battles over, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Chairman Mao Zedong made strategic decisions, ordering Liu Bocheng (played by Fu Xuecheng) and Deng Xiaoping (played by Lu Qi) to lead a group of the Second Field and Fourth Field to advance towards Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and annihilate the remaining enemies in the southwest. On his way south, Deng Xiaoping asked railway experts he met about the construction of the Chengdu Chongqing Railway and gave political education classes to the troops heading south in a timely manner, implementing Chairman Mao's great teachings of "carrying out the revolution to the end"...

Otaku and his roommate Mr. Cheap as known as the ultimate geeks of their university. However, like any normal guy, their goal is to fall in love with their girls of their dreams. To get close to his goddess Mei, Mr. Cheap pretends to be a spoiled rich kid, appearing everywhere she goes. Meanwhile, the introverted Otaku tries to create a chance to talk to class beauty Ling by running into her in the hallway, only to have his plan fall awkwardly.

Zhang Daoling received a letter of help from his friend Wen, an adult, and took his disciple Wang Chang to Bashu. However, he found his friend was dead and was involved in a terrifying conspiracy. Zhang Daoling insisted on his own heart and was not fooled by foreign objects. Eventually, he stopped the evil sacrificial activities of the local evil organizations to ruin the people and educated the local people.

This film is a rural inspirational comedy, telling the story of retired athlete Xiao Li, led by his father, to lead the village girl football team to win the game and save the school. The film shows people's affection, love, teacher-student relationship and other moving friendships in the common struggle for a better life, and expresses the ideological connotation of working hard to get a good life.

Wanyu (Yuan Quan) has married into a wealthy family but is irresistibly drawn into the world of the movies and famous actor Ah Chuan.

Singapore’s first crime thriller follows Serious Crimes Unit Inspector Chen Shaoqiang as he tries to figure out a series of daring armed heists and seemingly unrelated murders. Shaoqiang must revisit his troubled past as a member of the elite Special Tactics Unit, after a botched raid seven years earlier that shattered the unity of his team, taking the life of his mentor Wu Tianle. The resulting cover up destroys his relationship with Tianle’s sister Wu Qizhen.Shaoqiang’s past collides with the present, as heists are targeted at financial firm BWB Capital, where Qizhen and another former team mate, Wang Zhengming, now work. Shaoqiang, and his new partner Yan Yongcheng, must race against the clock to the catch the perpetrators as the heists escalate into a tense hostage situation, where the stakes not only involve the nation’s security, but also the lives of his friends.

It is a story of an underdog that hopes to win an esports tournament and gain his son’s trust. Main character is a middle-aged game streamer and not a successful one: his audience is constantly making fun of him. He’s behind his rent, ex-wife is taking a full custody over his son. The only hope is an FPS tournament with a prize pool of 5,000,000 RMB that will change his life for the better.

The Deadly Strands is a 2013 Chinese horror film directed by Zhao Xiaoxi. It stars Leon Dai, Zak Zhai and Kong Qianqian. The film is released in China on 5th July. A radio talk show host and his family fall on troubled and terror-filled times when the ghost of his suicidal ex-wife finds a mysterious way to seek revenge on her cheating husband and find vindication with the children from his previous marriage. One by one strange accidents begin to occur, and bodies begin to pile up. The only common denominator between the deaths? The talk show host, his daughter, and a long beautiful wig.

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As a child, Li Xiu Yuan witnessed a demon plaguing the world, and deeply felt the pain the demon brought to people. On the day of his marriage, he was enlightened by a mysterious monk, who said he was the descending dragon and could save the world from suffering. However, he was unable to merge into the golden body and awaken as the Dragon Warrior. On his way to find his destiny, he meets his fiancée, Mirror Mirror, who tries to tie him up to marry her.

Based on the hit Korean television series “I’m Sorry I Love You”, Larry Yang’s Chinese film remake “Sorry I Love You” displays the skills of an upcoming director and actors, including model Vivian Dawson stepping up to earnestly play the male leading character. With only six months to live, due to a bullet in his head which could not have been surgically taken out, Walker decided to leave Vancouver, where he grew up, and go back to China to look for his biological parents and twin sister(Jule). Walker knew that he probably did not have enough time to find any one of them, but everything changed when he ran into the girl(Encai) who he'd saved from a few street thugs several months back in Vancouver. When Walker finally found out the identity of his birth mother(Hui) and stood in front of her giant luxurious mansion, he suddenly felt that his whole life had been a punch line of a practical joke......

A group of youngsters visit a deserted island which turns out to be filled with carnivorous ivy

Huo San Niang as the successor of Huo Jia's head in his tomb was buried with a murderous curse that is accidentally released when encountering an artifact. The film tells the story of how Huo Saniang found the killer who may be the possessor of his beloved companions within the temple cruel and even mysterious to themselves.

Fantasy adventure as the fairies face a new foe.

As a young Chinese filmmaker returns to his hometown in search for himself, a long due conversation with his mother dives the two of them into a quest for acceptance and love.

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.

During the tumultuous period at the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wu led the Zhou forces to attack the Shang Dynasty. After several clashes, the Shang Dynasty found themselves retreating as they faced the relentless assaults of the Zhou military commander Yang Jian. King Zhou of Shang was furious and sought a way to counter Yang Jian's influence, offering substantial rewards. However, the strategist Shen Gongbao advised against it and suggested recruiting skilled leaders. The plan was to bring the Meishan Seven Heroes into the fold.

By order of the warlord Yan Liben, the father and daughter of Yang clan are forced to set a foot to Shennongjia dense forest. In the forest they are attacked by various creatures and are rescued by the wildlings at the moment of danger.

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In an instant their lives were changed forever. Now on an adventure half way across the world, four friends search for answers that will lead them to the Great Wall of China - pushing their friendships to the limits. To survive a journey that will save or destroy their lives will take the Heart of a Dragon.

When the Prince of China rebels, the people are in desperate need of help. The female general, Gu Cailan, sacrifices her life to protect the young prince and escape the siege. The only son of the richest man in the town, Liu Chunfeng, is handsome, good at kung fu and good at music, but he is a loose cannon and has nothing to do all day. He has heard that the Whirlwind Academy is in a state of decline and its discipline is lax, so he insists on attending the Academy in order to relax.

Qin Xiaoyue discovered that her shared roommate Xiao Yun disappeared suddenly, but because of insufficient evidence, she did not attract the attention of the criminal policeman Wen Sheng. She decided to find Xiao Yun's whereabouts by herself, but was obstructed by her friend Li Zhongping. Yun was once the lover of Ma Zheng, the boss of Marriott Real Estate Company, and she holds the video evidence of Ma Zheng's shady dealings, which is hidden beside Qin Xiaoyue, but no one can find it.

Working in Beijing, Mengzi and Yaoyao are in a relationship. One day, when Mengzi found out that Yaoyao was missing, he caused a disturbance at a hair salon where Yaoyao used to work. The boss of the salon gathered a group of gang members and hunted him down. Mengzi realized that his right hand could be a gun and decided to take vengeance and look for Yaoyao…

This film is adapted from the original novel "The Winds Rise" by Hu Xuewen. Middle-aged man Kong Lingxue is a Chinese language teacher at the Shuangquan Wushu School in a city in Northeast China. In one class, he confiscates a girl named Liu Meng's phone, and later intervenes in a fight between Liu Meng and a young man named Axiang, who is pursuing her. This action leads to trouble for Kong Lingxue.

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges.

Igami would have wanted to be a manga artist, but he become an exorcist. And in this, he excels. When a yakuza boss asks for his help in dealing with a grave curse, he realizes that a supernatural insect master is active behind the scenes. Furthermore, a great master of the supernatural is putting Tokyo in danger. Igami decides to delve into his arsenal of tricks and spells to thwart these plans.

Police officer Wu Weijie was discovered by He Biao, the head of the gang, during an undercover operation, and was injected with drugs to lose his memory. Policewoman Lin Simin, her former lover, traces Wu Weijie’s whereabouts and helps him restore his memory. The two work together to destroy He Biao’s lair in a mysterious overseas port, and capture He Biao and his men, so that the light of justice can be revealed.

It tells the story of the free and undisciplined ranger Yun Zhan and his master who are implicated in a bizarre case. They are accidentally suspected by the princess Shi Qiutong and the guard An Xuewu as the murderer. In the process of proving his innocence, Yun Zhan gradually finds the direction of his life and meets Shi Qiutong. They joined forces to solve the strange case, and since then they have shouldered their own missions and responsibilities to protect the safety of the people in the imperial city.

Detective Di Renjie investigates strange incidents caused by a spell summoning the dead, only to discover the terrifying reality that ghosts truly exist.

The police bomb squad and SWAT teams face off against an embittered serial bomber out to get revenge for his daughter against the gangster who caused her death.

In the world of post-apocalypse, the Еarth is barren desert. The killer called Thunder betrayed his own evil organization "Sirik Boat" and decided to fight for justice.

Cui, a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society, has a husband in jail and a son to support. She barely makes a living selling kimchi to workers along the side of a bleak, industrial road. A love affair with a fellow Chinese-Korean leads to tragic consequences as Cui struggles against the vulnerability of her position.

SWAT captain Shen Ao joins an anti-narcotics team on a remote island, uncovering a drug ring using drones. When his daughter is kidnapped, he undertakes a solo mission to rescue her and dismantle the operation.