Discoveries from China World Cinema

Based on Pu Songling's stories. King Lu longed for the Black Armor of Immortality that belonged to the Gong Clan. Because of this thirst, Gong Rong was the last to survive from his clan and had to take revenge. By coincidence, he met Langqin, Prince Lu's childhood sweetheart princess, and they were secretly affectionate. A year later, the princess Langqin was forced to marry King Lu and was about to become a princess. At the birthday banquet organized by King Lu for Langqin, a occultist with excellent tricks appeared. Langqin was shocked. It turned out that this person was Gong Rong who had disappeared for a year. The wind is surging, and a bloody storm strikes again

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.

When Gu Tingting, a young worker in a silk factory in Suzhou, is suddenly notified by a court in Shanghai that she will inherit a large sum of money from her aunt as her adopted daughter, her cousin Feng files a lawsuit against her backed by a forgery. Judge Ping senses foul play, and meets with Tingting, who begins recounting her past.

A man falls for a beautiful con artist.

Story of a young girl Niu Niu, who was abducted by members of Jiang San's crime syndicate and describes the difficult experience of Niu Niu's mother and father in their search for their daughter

In 2020 Chinese auxiliary police were reformed and become regular. New movie from Liu Zhi is about recruitment to auxillary police team, an indispensable force in traffic management.

The protagonists are mainly Huirong, Zhaobai, and Jikan, who have studied business management in the USA and have returned to their hometown, Shanghai. Huirong and Zhaobai are engaged, and although three of them are close friends, problems arise when they find out that their opinions clash on the matter of what the objective for building a new China should be and what direction it should take.

A romantic comedy about an obscure screenwriter nearing her thirties and a frustrated musician who accidentally end up in a situation where they have to live together.

Based on the novel Poison Genius Consort.

With his directorial debut actor Chen Jianbin walks in the footsteps of A Touch of Sin, No Man’s Land, and Black Coal, Thin Ice and offers a hard-edged mainland noir where kindness and cruelty, madness and reason, greed and humanity all struggle for dominance and the fool might not be who you think . The hook here is Chen’s amazing performance as the simple, slightly crude Latioazi, a goat farmer who has a son in jail. When a young mentally handicapped man follows him home one day and enters his life, it sets off a blaze and a chain of events follows, which bares China’s class divide raw. His random act of reluctant kindness invites a parade of strangers and grifters all intent on draining Latioazi of what little he has.

At sunset, in Shanghai, a timid young man is trembling, having accidentally killed his friend. He goes to the police to turn himself in, but they ignore him. As night falls, the man is in despair and is drawn to the soft voice of a radio DJ, to whom he confesses, adding that he will commit suicide tomorrow at 6pm. Unaware that his confession has become a hot topic, the man wanders the streets at night in search of the girlfriend he loved in middle school. He calls the DJ to inform him that he does not intend to die, but the DJ asks him to come to the place where he promised to commit suicide. This film is part of the low-budget digital experimental film project Super City. Born in Shanghai, but raised in Urumqi, the main character is unable to adapt to life in a big city. The sound design, filled with radio noise, and the canted angles, reveal the psychology of a person trapped in the huge but closed-off city. —Jeonju Film Festival

The film tells the story of Ye Zhuo, a chivalrous man who travels across the ocean to dismantle the Black Dragon Gang

This is to be the last winter for Grandpa Ge. Instead of pining away in hospital, he feverishly shapes his life; an eccentric individualist who is becoming demented, but persists when youths try to sway him. Grandpa wants to survive until spring when the fields are ploughed.

A servant-turned-assassin/bodyguard and a dispossessed heiress seize control of the latter's freedom (and if at first you don't succeed, try again in your next life).

A retired gangster - Brother Zheng divorced his wife and left behind a young daughter - Ya Shi depends on him for life. However, Ya Shi has a rebellious nature and there is a generation gap between him and his father. Brother Zheng works as a minibus driver for his sake and neglects his supervision. Shi ran away from home and got acquainted with a pimp, You Liang, and started a bad relationship. You Liang had a romantic nature and was surrounded by female companions. After the two got married, You Liang still did not change his nature. He was very unfaithful to Shi's friend, Land's sister . It was even discovered by Shi that she was having an affair with someone. At this time, Shi found out that she was pregnant. She was so heartbroken that she fell downstairs and committed suicide. After learning about the incident, Brother Zheng teamed up with his former brother Yafa to teach You Liang to avenge his daughter.

Tycoon, Tang Shih Hai, rules most of the businesses in Hong Kong. Many of his officials have been assassinated. Since Tang's only son, Champ, is lazy, Tang appoints Cheng as his general manager, not knowing that he's a member of the feared ICG (International Criminal Group).

Qing Yao is a botanist. She bumps into Zhang Gaixiu, a taxi driver. First they hate each other and gradually they understand each other and later help each other.

Prequel to Mojin films. It tells the story of young Hu Bayi's first journey into a tomb to find gold. Hu Ba Yi and his friend Fatty Wang are hired by a mysterious boss to go to Old Black Mountain to look for the gold-detecting penannular jade

Wang Wenyuan, Xia Fan and their Black Fox commandoes are not afraid of the heavy defense of the Imperial Japanese army after knowing that the rescue of Ma Long Chuan by the Chinese army failed. They must risk their lives to save Soviet military expert Luo Fei from Japanese captivity.

In the Nick of Time is a Hong Kong Crime movie starring Stanley Fung.

The film mainly tells the Kashin-Beck disease prevention and control team, represented by Yin Peipu, an orthopedic expert at Xi’an Jiaotong University, has taken root in the ward for more than half a century. Through long-term investigations and research with the same team, they put forward the disease prevention concept of “eating miscellaneous food, improving water, and stressing hygiene”. It also established a disease prevention school to combine prevention and treatment, with the local people to eliminate Kashin-Beck disease, and through a series of high-quality medical resources, services and contributions, to help Kashin-Beck disease patients get rid of the legendary story of disease and poverty

A young girl comes of age -- while also coming to terms with her destiny, pre-determined by the Communist Party -- in this beautiful, sweeping Chinese drama.

In order to find out why his wife was killed, Chen Zheng, the general of Zhenhai, has been tracing a mermaid, but while doing so, he accidentally discovered a conspiracy in North Korea. With the help of the mermaid, he punishes rapists and eliminates evil, tearing apart the wicked conspiracies...

Raised in inland China, the protagonist Yangqing Lamu meets Baima, a young local guide, during an accidental trip to the plateau. The two travel deep into pastoral grasslands, embarking on a spiritual exploration of marriage, life and death, and morality amid the conflicts between dreams and reality, tradition and individuality. In the end, she achieves a profound reconciliation with both her homeland and her inner self in the vast wilderness.

Chronicles a lounge-singer's rise to fame.

With the vassal kings at the gates of the city, the young emperor Zhou Suwen relies on the "soul transfer technique" to change his appearance and live in disgrace. In his life in the village, Zhou Suwen's sense of responsibility and justice as a king is awakened, and he finally chooses to stand up and prevent the catastrophe of chaos from happening.

Lin Xiaonan becomes trapped in a mysterious room by a madman. As she attempts to escape, she uncovers the truth about her sister Xiaowen's death. Through a soul exchange, she experiences Xiaowen's life, realizing that everyone around her harbors deadly intentions. The two sisters embark on a perilous journey to escape the confines of the room.

A Korean TV anchor comes to China to unveil the myth of an ancient stela. In a car accident, she meets the stela's owner, whose grandfather passed it down to him. The owner and the anchor fall in love, but she dreads telling him that she has been diagnosed with a deadly disease.

A couple whose kid has a brain tumor in a terminal state is coaxed into donating his organs after his death in exchange for treatment in a bigger hospital and his name on a memorial.

An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin's home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and nephew. Like most contemporary teenagers, these youths want to enjoy their last day of holiday and simply hang out in this place where nothing ever seems likely to happen. Their conversations are desultory and they sometimes seem to argue for argument's sake. One of them, Laowu, talks frankly with his girlfriend about how teenage love might affect their studies, while Laobao questions school's value and relevance to real life.

Tang Daxing, paroled after seven years in jail for brawling over his high school sweetheart Xiaohui, hopes to find legitimate work so they can finally marry -- but the reappearance of an old classmate who has struck it rich poses a temptation: can they withstand the lure of easy money in a fast-changing China?

It tells the story of a man named Erbao who broke into Kuangsha Town, which caused a series of disasters-bandits repeatedly harassed and ransacked, the unbearable people of Kuangsha Town fought a decisive battle with the bandits and finally won the victory

Beijing is happening these days, but not everyone is living the golden life. Dumped, fired, evicted and abandoned by everyone (including his dog), a down-on-his-luck man finds solace with a circle of equally ill-fated friends, in this touching and lighthearted drama from independent Chinese auteur Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards). (TIFF.)

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.

The exploits of General Feng, who defeated the Zhili faction and evicted Pu Yi from the Forbidden City.

Tomb-Keeper of the Yellow River

From September 13 to October 16, 1949, the soldiers of the Fourth Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ushered in the founding of the People's Republic of China with their lives and blood in the Battle of Hengbao, which spanned the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China.

Based on Pu Songling's fairy tale. Beijing official Chang Zaitian has not been to his native Luzhi Village for seven years. After an unexpected return, Chang is horrified to learn that his beloved girlfriend was killed by robbers shortly after his departure for capital exams. Suffering from a broken heart Chang meets the next day a girl named Ah Yu who looks the same as Miss Cao in his old house. During the short time they spend together Chang Zaitian feels that she is the shadow of Miss Cao. At the same time, strange things keep happening in the village, and the sorcerer, Taoist Sang, keeps saying that the village is haunted by evil spirits.

Zhou Lu is a female inmate convicted of murder. At first glance, her file looks like an open and shut case of a woman so fed up with her marriage that she resorts to killing her husband. Officer Hao Ruping, however, feels that here is more than meets the eye with Zhou Lu, so she takes on the investigation. What she uncovers is Zhou Lu's dark past, unfolding a thrilling tale of lies, delusions and family secrets.