Discoveries from China World Cinema

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.

Nu Wa takes the sky fire to make up the sky, the essence of the heaven and earth turns the lotus lamp, and grants the Three Virgin Mary as a body protection magic weapon. After the three virgins love mortal Liu Xi, they were suppressed by the court of Yang Jian and Huashan. The son of the three virgins, Shen Xiang, grew up and followed the teacher Sun Wukong. The Three Saints died in the land, and Agarwood killed Heaven to try to change the rules of the heavens, but suffered the destruction of the three realms of Buddha, Dao, and God. The Baolian lantern was originally the original force.

Tells the story of the disappearance of a female college student that was traced back to the source of a kidnapping case years ago. It seems to be foggy, but in reality it is intertwined. The police compete with criminals in a treacherous storm that is difficult to distinguish between false and true. Launch the 10-hour limit "Death Hunt" mission.

Xuan is a young man working in the film industry in Beijing. To make a documentary film that he wants to present at international festivals, he decides to take advantage of the holidays of the Day of the Dead to return to Chengdu, his hometown located at the other end of the country. The documentary he is about to make is about his relationship with his own lover. He leaves for Chengdu, accompanied by another man, Bo, the cameraman of the film. The two men take the train to Chengdu where Hong, Xuan's lover, is waiting for them. From the first moment of their arrival at the station, Xuan and Bo begin to turn with their camera, Xuan having already explained to Bo what he wanted to film and that Hong would always be "playing", Bo then trusting in Xuan. But Hong is more and more opposed to this camera and the presence of Bo.

Lunar Eclipse is an urban drama following the wife of a newlywed couple who becomes mesmerized by an amateur photographer who claims to have once been in love with a woman who looked just like her.

Between 1405 and 1433, Admiral Zheng He of China led seven epic voyages to more than 30 countries, including Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Kenya and Tanzania. The admiral and his crew gathered knowledge and wealth from Indochina to Africa for China's Ming empire. These voyages were the biggest naval expeditions mounted at the time. Zheng He was bigger than life and could have changed the course of history. But after the seven voyages, he and his Treasure Fleet were forgotten by China, and the world, for six hundred years. National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita sets sail to discover why. To celebrate the 600th anniversary of Zheng He's maiden exploration voyage, Michael Yamashita traveled over 10,000 miles from Yunnan in China to Africa's Swahili coast taking over 40,000 pictures for the feature story on this great explorer, published in the July 2005 edition of National Geographic.

Li Xinxin, a freshman who wanted to become a speech therapist, came to the university and found that her classmates were very unfriendly to her. She hears strange sounds in the dormitory and one day man in black attacks her

Chinese puppet fable.

As Chinese New Year nears, a community doctor’s planned marriage to a neighbor unravels when a new arrival stirs up trouble; the three work through their issues and reconcile before the holiday.

The story spans from 1965 to the early 1970s. Heavily pregnant Zhao Di, the unwanted second wife of an older man, was chased out by her husband's family and forced to return to her own family. She gave birth to a pair of twins, Shun Fatt and Su-mei. As Su-mei had two moles on her face, which was said to be bad luck, she decided to give her up due to the pressure of wanting to build a better life for the rest of her family.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Kuomintang negotiated cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party while also asking their Ministry of Defense to secretly formulate a plan for attacking the Communist army, codenamed "A-14". Unexpectedly, Japanese spies stole this plan in a vain attempt to blackmail the Kuomintang into defecting to Japan. The Ministry of National Defense immediately organized a "Black Phoenix" operation to recapture the "A-14" plan, and sent officers under the pseudonym "Black Eagle" to carry it out.

During WWII, Taiwan was occupied by Japan. Hai Sheng, a young man from Taiwan, was deeply influenced by Japanese militarism. He enthusiastically joined the Japanese vanguard and went to the mainland China to participate in the war together with his foster-brother, Yamamoto Ichiro. However, when he witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army killing Chinese civilians, he only wanted to escape back to his hometown. On the way back home, Hai Sheng met four girls including Ning Yu. Forced by desperation, Hai Sheng agreed to send them to the occupied Nanjing city. Along the way, Hai Sheng not only had to protect the four girls, but also avoided the pursuit of Yamamoto Ichiro, the captain of the vanguard team. In the end, among the four girls, only Sakurako (Ying Zi), who was of Japanese descent, survived. When Ying Zi also saw the true face of the Japanese soldiers, Hai Sheng decided to work hard to cover Ying Zi to break out of the Japanese army camp.

Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.

Racer Lin Chuang admired his rival Liang Zi, a pungent and hearty beauty, and followed her in the desert off-road race. At night on the track, the supply station where everyone rested was attacked by a mysterious monster at night. After Lin Chuang and his companions escaped by chance, they determined to retrieve Liang Zi who had driven away alone. A group of people chased to an abandoned factory nearby and found that the wealthy businessman Xiong Kun and his men were exploring rare minerals here. The two forces gathered in the desert forbidden area and started a death expedition. The frenzied attack by unidentified creatures officially kicked off. The two teams suffered heavy casualties and were trapped in the factory. Finally, it was discovered that the giant monster that revealed its true face under the dust was the sand python that failed to be transformed by the underground laboratory.

A police station is in an uproar over a stubborn old man who is desperately trying to get rehired. Despite the lawyer's gentle mediation efforts, the situation spirals out of control.

After school, Xinhua Primary School was quiet until Principal Lin Zheng heard arguing between fifth-graders Hua Xiaochuan and Fang Mingzhu. Fang was supervising Hua, who was late, as he did chores. Hua’s friend Zhang Chen wanted to help, but Fang refused, causing an argument. Principal Lin believed labour as punishment was ineffective and should be replaced with work-study programs, as instructed by the municipal party committee. He assigned Hong Dawei to lead the program, but Teacher Jiang opposed it, emphasising classroom education. Despite initial resistance, students participated in tire-moving labour, training teachers, parents, and students. Three students took sick leave, fueling Teacher Jiang’s objections. Principal Lin and the academic director found some parents were overly indulgent. Secretary Liu commended their efforts and encouraged them to continue.

Brace yourself for a spine-tingling thrill ride through Any Other Side! In his feature film debut, China's new-generation filmmaker Fang Yaxi has crafted a scarefest that multiplies the fear factor by offering a trio of stylistically different tales of horror and suspense under an overarching storyline. To appeal to its core audience of genre fans, the movie features an attractive group of screen talents, including Cape No. 7 star Van Fan, Hong Kong model/actress Chrissie Chau, Mainland starlet Deng Jiajia, Taiwan singer/actress Jill Hsu, Singaporean actor Qi Yuwu and singer Yida Huang. Five friends meet at a bar on the night of Halloween. They take turns to tell spooky stories to each other. In "Vanished", a crippled woman finds herself terrorized by a mysterious killer.... In "One Way Only", a journalist and his little daughter are lost in the twilight zone of time.... In "Night Shift", a doctor must escape from an isolated hospital overrun by zombies....

Train policeman He hopes that a autopsy of the body can help to find the real culprit and the true cause of his Death. Can the rising morning sun bring also light in the darkness of the case?

A three-part film by Cao Fei. Part one, 'Imagination of Product', shows workers and machines at the OSRAM lightbulb factory in China's Pearl River Delta. In the second part, 'Factory Fairytale', dancers and musicians appear in the factory, as work continues around them. Finally, 'My Future is Not a Dream' consists of portraits of the factory workers facing Fei's camera.

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After the slaughter of the daughter country, the souls full of grievances are unwilling to reincarnate. Under the conspiracy of the old Beiming Kun, they are trapped among the villains. Only by absorbing the masculine soul can the body be maintained. At this time, Tang Seng and his apprentice were arriving here. After understanding the true situation of the daughter country, Tang Seng succeeded in transcending the story of the souls of the daughter country in order to understand and save them, despite the opposition of the disciples.

The girl Jiang Yifei and rich boyfriend Du Chen inadvertently broke into the spider island to play, but was attacked by giant spiders. The two fought to escape and work together to resist the rampaging giant spiders.

In Kaifeng City, many children mysteriously disappeared, and the case was suspected to be related to Daxing Casino. Li Shaobai went to the casino to investigate and found that Han Xinger, the only son of the owner of the casino, Han Tianyou, was also kidnapped. Han Tianyou is a well-known martial arts master who has shocked the folk, and his biggest enemy is the gambling king Yumian Raksha Zhugeqing who was defeated by him twenty years ago...

A film loosely based on 4 of the 10 interviews in an 1988 article called Women Speak by Xiang Ya. It focuses on the romantic relationships of 4 fashionable urban women in the same office, 3 of whom are involved in an extramarital relationship.

Qin Yangming, leader of a mortal kingdom, faces imminent destruction from evil deities and monsters threatening to break through from the spiritual world. Unbeknownst to him, he will be reborn 800 years later as Ning Caichen, a timid scholar who initially resists but later falls in love with Nie Xiaoqian, a female spirit. Driven by love, Nie Xiao Qian travels back in time to help Qin Yang Ming, hoping to protect him from the impending doom.

The story is about a delivery man Li An Quan struggling to live in Beijing meanwhile his daughter is ill and needs 20 million for surgical fees. Li works hard to earn money, but accidents occurre one after another.

On the eve of New York City’s controversial “No Dancing” Law getting repealed, the lives of several strangers are forever changed by a shooting at a historic jazz bar in Harlem.