Also Directed by Guan Hu
Run for Love is a Chinese romance anthology film featuring five love stories respectively in Japan, United States, Norway, Turkey and Saipan.
On one day in September 1992, a driver (Xie Dong) goes to pick up his girlfriend, who is working the night shift. He happens to meet a cellist, Yingzi (Kong Lin), who missed her bus. After he drops off Yingzi, he finds her pager in his car.
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
In the 1980s, when middle-aged Hu Ba Yi packs his belongings for one of his adventures, he finds an old photo, which brings his memory back to his college days in the 1960s. He then reminiscence about his first adventure that led him to become a tomb-expert.
Many years ago Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. That was back when there was still such a thing as honour among thieves, when criminals earned respect and maintained principles. These days Mr. Six is all but forgotten, a living relic residing in a narrow alley. One day Six's son, Xiaobo, is abducted by some spoiled punks after he scratches their precious Ferrari. Mr. Six realizes that he must do whatever it takes to get his son back — even if that means returning to the life he thought he had left behind.
Set in 1998. Two young men, Liu and Gao, come to Beijing from Shandong Province. The cousin who is leaving for Hainan Province entrusts the minibus he contracted to the two men. They run the minibus and compete in the competitive suburban transport market.
From 1948 to 1949, on the eve of the peaceful liberation of Peking, a story that happened in an elementary school for the children of workers under the Kuomintang gun repair shop. A group of innocent children, with their hope and yearning for the new life system in their lives, went from a pure love of guns and stealing guns impulsively, to being inspired and led by a young progressive female teacher — and slowly embark on a Revolutionary Road.
