Discoveries from China World Cinema

Adapted from novels by celebrated Chinese writer Su Tong. Zuo Lin, a poor bow-legged boy, has a small dream - to ride a zebra across the busiest part of the city. Zuo Lin’s transition from an unhappy rider of a rocking-horse, through a happy zebra-rider and a sorrowful hussar officer, to a beaming paper horse rider makes for an absorbing film with a grand narrative. Yet, on the surface, it’s a popular story - girlfriend of a trust fund kid tries to help her boyfriend trick Zuo Lin, but ends up falling in love with him.

Empress Yao Moxin accidentally fell off a cliff and drifted to Yanchi County on the other side of the Phoenix River, where she was rescued by the High Priest's bodyguards Qi Canglan. Yao Moxin wanted to retrieve his previous memories, but in the process of getting along with Qi Canglan, he had a deep affection with him. But behind Qi Canglan there is an amazing secret..

Due to profit-driven commercial scientific research by humans, it led to the emergence of retaliatory actions from a giant squid in the depths of the Antarctic against the Antarctic international scientific research station. Han Lian, a member of the Antarctic transportation team, gets involved in this disaster. In order to rescue Rosa and his teammate Qiangzi, he engages in a life-and-death struggle with the giant squid and ultimately manages to escape.

A celebration of love and marriage between two women.

In the early 1990s, "Public Order Defence Squads" in China — usually made up of discharged military personnel, unemployed young adults and local hooligans — were supposed to maintain public order in villages and towns. Most of the time, however, they ended up dealing with all sorts of mundane matters in their towns. The story begins with a mysterious case of serial dog killings. LI Lizhong, leader of the local defence squad, starts an investigation into the case, following a set of strange clues and studying them using piecemeal knowledge of primitive criminology and ichnology. After a string of hijinks, the squad catches the dog killer. However, the evidence also shows that the case is closely related to the accidental death of Lizhong’s father.

On a night of heavy rain, seven people of all shapes stayed in a remote inn. Little did they know that danger came quietly after the night fell. At first, a running cook died mysteriously, and then people kept dying! The door of the strange inn in the middle of the night was closed by heavy rain, and it turned into a killing game full of suspicion. The people with ghosts searched for the real culprit in the continuous death threats, and the situation was reversed again and again!

A teenage boy’s prank love letter to his teacher spirals out of control, forcing a clever classmate to step in and turn the awkward mess into a heartwarming resolution.

It mainly tells the story of the great monk Ji Gong/Dao Ji of Lingyin Temple and the monk Guang Ming who traveled around the world during the Great Song Dynasty. They were invited to go to Taiping Town to do things and pray for the people on the way. But it is a story of constant adventures, punishing evil and promoting good and eliminating harm for the people.

Jin Gang returns to his hometown to find it transformed, and when a child goes missing in a trafficking case, he steps in as an outsider—facing the search for the girl while confronting the painful memories he’s long tried to escape.

A businessman gets tricked and buys a haunted house. He is deceived by a Taoist into committing murders to keep his wife's spirit alive in the house.

In the early days of Republic of China, Buddhist monks from Shanhua Temple of Shanxi Province escort an important Buddhist relic to the Shaolin Temple. On the journey, the treasure is heisted. Wide spread rumors implicates the famous bandit Jing. Jing is a Robin Hood figure roaming the grasslands. To clear his name, Jing with the help of friend “Divine Hand” Zhang start a fierce battle against the real culprit - Captain Mai of the security team.

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Two men and women with unknown identities, a live online trial in a confined space, and an extreme escape between death and truth

Follow the lives of the elderly survivors who were forced into sex slavery as “Comfort Women” by the Japanese during World War II. At the time of filming, only 22 of these women were still alive to tell their story. Through their own personal histories and perspectives, they tell a tale that should never be forgotten to generations unaware of the brutalization that occurred.

The story follows a child bride turned widow, Dou E, who is wrongly convicted of crimes by a corrupt court official for actions perpetrated by a rejected suitor, Mule Zhang. After her execution, three prophesied phenomena occur to prove her innocence, including blood raining from the sky, snow in June and a three-year drought. After a visit from the ghost of Dou E, her father eventually brings the corrupt court official, a doctor and Mule Zhang to justice, thereby vindicating his daughter.

As the party’s 19th National Gifts Film, he actively responded to the call of “There is no comprehensive well-being without the health of the whole people”. With full of sincerity, he tells the story of the “White Angel” sowing love, Pan Feng (Bao Jianfeng), chief physician of the emergency department, The appearance is rigorous and unsmiling, but the heart is warm and there is a fiery "healer's benevolence." "As long as there is one percent of hope, we have to pay 100% of the effort." This is the longest words of the warmhearted doctor Pan Feng.

Archive footage from 2006 - 2010 of a young girl growing up during the ages of four to eight. Only fragments of what is remembered exists. Words from a transgender man float to the surface as fleeting memories go on.

In the Tang Dynasty there existed a special institution - the Undesirables (Bu Liang Ren) - who served as magistrates but were criminals. A case of a dwarf puppet master manipulating a parasite to kill a man leads Pei Mou, the undesirable marshal, and others into a maze of dilemmas.

Legend of the Sea tells the story of a prince, Little Dragon, who loses a king’s treasure and source of power, the Luminous Pearl, as well as his father’s trust. In seeking the Pearl, he fights evil Ocho the octopus to save the kingdom and redeem himself.

To fight against the Hong Kong triads and their drugs, police officers are investigating a women drug rehabilitation center.

The two clans battle for dominance of the Hanging Bones. Qian Xun, the leader of the Dragon Clan, signed the "Xuan Bone Book" for the Bao clan to end the thousand-year fight with the Spirit Clan. However, the two races have been in peace for hundreds of years, but they have been fighting again.

Lin and her brother Lai stepped into no man's land again - they want to search for their missing father. When heavy sandstorm attacks them, Lai is wounded. He persuaded Lin to walk alone, with limited food and water. Lin needs to find a way to save her brother, and also herself...

The two monkeys are like brothers in the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits, and Six Ears meets Long Ruyi and gets a string of Buddha beads.

Tianshige must be eliminated every demon. The half-jug of wine went to drop the demon, but never returned. It is rumored that when the elites of Tianshige hunted down the ancient beasts, the whole army was annihilated. Tianshi Pavilion has since fallen, and the exile of the people has become the only descendant of Tianshi. In ten years, he and Ruo Ling, who had lost the memory of the cat demon, also grew up in joy. The two started to run Yuyaofang, relying on helping people to catch some little monsters and mobs, and reluctantly. If Ling Ling's affection for Tian Fang is getting stronger, Tian Fang knows that the monster is different, and he never cares.There were monster wounds in the city and the palace in succession. Tian Fang and Ruo Ling suspected that the rat demon they had encountered. Prince Huai Chong set a heavy reward for catching monsters. Tian Fang accidentally found clues about Master's disappearance from Huai Chong, so the two joined Huai Chong's team of monsters.

During spring break, Qizhe’s double life unravels as a secret online connection clashes with his role as the “perfect” son at home.

A group of friends on a holiday getaway that turns into a nightmare when they check into the luxurious Neverland Hotel and discover it hides a deadly secret.

Swordsman Xu Tianxiong gets a message from dying gold miner Tao Jin Wang, then leads the confrontation against the treacherous gold store owner Ba Zhangui.

According to legend, one of the colorful gods in the virgins of the virgins is in the foothills of a mountain in the southern part of the Zhoushan Mountains. The genus of the genie under the virgin scorpion is sent to the lower guardian stone. The ancestors of Fox Fairy exchanged their own eternal life and the heavens to exchange the guardian enchantment of the sacred fox of the sacred fox in the millennium.

Slapstick humor and over the top martial arts action highlight this madcap adventure tale of a simpleton who fights for the people.

Wei uncle from the off with her daughter Shirley flee from famine came in the northeast, under the rule of the puppet work in the coalmine. Wei uncle married the daughter of Shirley Wang young miners, on their wedding day, coal mine gas explosion, Wang kille. Then, after a period of time, Shirley and miners He Zhenggang marriage, the two gave birth to a daughter, named Shu-Fang. Soon, He Zhenggang mine gas explosion has died, Shirley was the second blow. Good hard-working miners Luwan Chun in Shirley, a time of extreme difficulty, hand to help her, the two gradually built up a strong feelings, Luwan Chun's adopted son, and Shu-Fang Jiang Ming also became good friends. However, Shirley does not want Luwan Chun for their hardship, and her daughter returned to Shandong to visit his Shu-Fang. After the liberation, Shirley has her daughter Shu-Fang to the northeast, to find long-lost father, uncle and met Wei has become a model of labor, Luwan Chun.

Qi Bai has been seeing someone in her dreams recently. They keep going back to the past and they keep falling in love. In reality, Qi Bai is also wavering between one relationship and another. Dreams connect her past, present and future.

Mouth, Monkey, and Jason are your average teenagers with a love for the game of basketball. On the last day of school, they get on the wrong side of Li Wei, the captain of the high school basketball team. Li Wei & his entourage swear to make the boys' summer break a living hell. The conflict reaches a high point in the finals of the Adidas annual 3-on-3 street basketball tournament. Will the boys win back their pride against the biggest bullies on the court?

Five years ago, Su Can’s family was killed, and Su Can was lucky to escape. Five years later, when he returned to Guangzhou with his disciples, Guangzhou had an ups and downs. The smokehouse is full of streets, and the spirits are smeared. The newly appointed Governor Zhong Rong and the Guangzhou prefecture Xu You have a face and heart.

It tells the thrilling story of Bai Xia, a master of the Central Plains, went to Fusang, and worked hand in hand with the great onmyoji Abe Haruaki to find the list of consecrated gods, and cast down demons and eliminate demons. The list of the gods is hidden in the Fusang court, and the demons and evil spirits are also waiting for the opportunity. Scenes of hilarious and thrilling stories unfold.

At the wedding of a tycoon in Shanghai, the bride is kidnapped. Inspector Zhong Lang discovered that the kidnappers were the notorious "gravediggers". Gravediggers routinely lock their victims in an enclosed space with enough oxygen to breathe for 24 hours.

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