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Run for Love
Run for Love is a Chinese romance anthology film featuring five love stories respectively in Japan, United States, Norway, Turkey and Saipan.
Zhang Yibai
Gao Qun-Shu
Gao Qun-Shu
Zhang Meng
Guan Hu
Guan Hu
Teng Hua-Tao
Jing-jing Bao
Gu Xiao-Bai
Ya Liu
Tristan Jian
Casts & Crew
Zhang Ziyi
Eddie Peng
Tetsu Watanabe
Kumi Nakamura
Tong Li Ya
Zhou Dongyu
Michelle Chen
Zhang Yi
Liang Jing
Wang Qian-Yuan
Sebastian Stigar
Espen Edvartsen
Trond Halbo
Sondre Krogtoft Larsen
Geir Tangen
Also Directed by Zhang Yibai
Eternal Moment (将爱) is a Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yibai and starring Xu Jinglei, Li Yapeng and Chapman To. The film is a sequel to the television drama, Cherish Our Love Forever (1998), which was also directed by Zhang.[1] The film follows the two leads from that earlier drama (played by Xu Jinglei and Li Yapeng) reuniting after being apart for 12 years.
A stylish urban romance about the silent suffering of a modern Chinese couple.
This story takes place in a city by the Yangzi River where skyscrapers stand around falling slums... In a luxurious apartment an enchanting story of modern China unfolds... As the Chinese economy blooms so does the gap between rich and poor... These events unite an unlikely cast of a lady of noble decency, her power- hungry husband, a manicure store owner, a security guard, and a countryside girl and series of mysterious events haunted them... What happens in this luxurious apartment building? Are you curious? Well, curiosity kills the cat..
A successful Japanese make-up artist collides with a tough-talking Shanghai taxi driver in this romantic dramedy that twists traditional roles by making the beauty expert a male and the cab driver a feisty female. Although he works in a glamorous industry, Naoki Mizushima (Masahiro Motoki) can't help but notice that his life is anything but beautiful. Can the uncouth Lin Xi (Wei Zhao) help him make over his life for the better?
Based on the best selling novel series by Jiu Yehui, the film follows the lives of five close students growing up in China in the 1980’s. Starring Eddie Peng and Ni Ni and directed by Zhang Yibai, this inspiring romantic drama covers fifteen years of friendships, youth and memories.
Based on the bestselling series of short stories by renowned Chinese writer Zhang Jiajia, I Belonged To You is a touching romantic tale revolving around two radio disc jockeys and the world they inhabit. They find the audience they reach reflects their own love and heartbreak, and forces them to deal with issues larger than just their own lives.
The young man, who has come to Hainan alone to repeat his studies, meets a group of "salty boys" with similar taste and a group of "weed girls" with different backgrounds.
Sun Xiangcheng, a self-styled professional fan organiser, is called from his home village of West Well Valley by his mother Yuanfang. Thinking he's highly connected with celebrities, she asks him to help organise the village's New Year celebrations
After a car accident which kills him, the wife and son of a taxi driver take in the injured prostitute he was driving.
Also Directed by Gao Qun-Shu
A resourceful veteran cop surrounded by inexperienced youngsters is called upon to defuse a series of explosive devices across Harbin.
Three generations of family butt heads during Chinese New Year celebrations.
It tells the story of a policewoman named Lv Yueyue who investigates a stolen national treasure and eventually ends up in a fight with gangsters. At the same time, she is trying to deal with a complicated romantic relationship and family conflict.
Inspired from a true story, Hitman Zhang Ning gets more than he bargained for when he is hired to kill a gangster, and is soon running from bounty hunters.
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.
The unique feature of his film is the actors - they are not professional but celebrities on micro-blogs. Among micro-bloggers in the cast are publisher Zhang Lixian, folk singer Zhou Yunpeng and screenwriter Shi Hang. The film is based on the true story of a Beijing plainclothes policeman named Zhang Huiling, who has been working for more than 10 years in Shuangyushu, a community of Haidian District, Beijing. It depicts the stories of ordinary Chinese people struggling in the metropolis.
This film was directed by Gao Qunshu and is about the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after Japan's surrender in World War II. The movie presents the trial from the point of view of the Chinese judge Mei Ju-ao. The director and his crew spent more than a year doing research to finish the script, which is based on historical data. It cost 18 million yuan (2.25 million U.S. dollars). This film hired actors from 11 countries, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan and other places, including actors such as Kenneth Tsang and Damian Lau. They recreated court scenes from the trial in Chinese, English and Japanese. It was shown in cinemas and around 100 universities across mainland China to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of Japan's invasion of China.
Also Directed by Zhang Meng
From acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Meng (The Piano in a Factory), this Chinese remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s (Cinema Paradiso) Everybody's Fine and its American version starring Robert De Niro is an emotionally stirring drama. The story follows a widower’s visits to his four adult children, who lead distinctly different lives in four rapidly changing Chinese cities. It offers an intimate look at struggles of the young generation in a society transitioning from a collective past to a materialist present.
Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a loss. He doesn't mind divorcing a woman who has become a stranger, but he can't bear to part with his daughter. Chen has worked hard to give her a respectable life and has taught her his love of music. When asked if she'd rather stay with her father or go with her mother, the girl gives a practical, devastating answer: she'll go with whomever can provide her with a piano. Chen cannot afford such a luxury item, but the piano becomes his last hope to save what little is left of his family. With the help of his loyal friends and the support of his lover - the singer in his band - Chen concocts several plans to fulfill his daughter's wish...
Twenty years ago, Chang Sun’s family was defeated by eight masters. After long-term Sun Ying and Chang Sunqing escaped from the secret path with their family martial arts, they followed the worship of the Lord Dong Bin, respectively, and they were renamed Sun Ying and Wang Taibai, and they decided to kill the eight masters. Duan Xiaofeng and Wang Feiyan continued to investigate the case and witnessed the death of Cai, and received the death of Changchun. Duan Xiaofeng, who was discouraged, returned to Sun Ying, who was pretending to be sold to Shahong, and brought him back to Yejia. When Sun Ying decided to give up killing Ye Wuji, he was about to leave, but he was discovered by Ye Wuji. Identity. The two men decided to break the battle and lost both after the war. Ye Wuji, who was seriously injured, was murdered by Wang Taibai on his way home.
In that cold northern city, the young and reckless Haibo (played by Huang Haibo) and the beautiful and elegant Xiaoqing (played by Tan Zhuo) met on campus. Just like those silly boys who are desperate for love, Hai Bo clumsily but persistently pursues love with the help of his friends. He stood on the roof and made a loud confession, and his friends saw that the Christmas tree invited Xiaoqing to dance. Youth is beautiful but fleeting. When they finally come together, they gradually find that the romance of the past is slowly disappearing, and the cold reality makes each other appreciate the hardships and bitterness of life. Hai Bo recalled the dream wolf and impulse in his youth again and again and unconsciously split into a self who ran rampant in the underworld and dared to think and act, and a self who succumbed to reality and made compromises. Under Xiaoqing's cold gaze, the two Haibo started to fight for the long-awaited good life.
Zhang Yingxiong’s father died due to a fight with demolition worker Lu Zhiqiang, so Zhang Yingxiong decided to revenge for his father. But during the “revenge”, he gradually start to have a special feeling for Lu Shanshan, Lu Zhiqiang’s daughter.
A man discovers a habited industrial neighbourhood in the wastelands while on the run from creditors. When a foreign film crew inquires about the area for filming, the residents look forward to the business that the new film could bring into the area. However, complications arrive when an old demolition project revives and creditors close in on their chase.
A middle-aged man sets out to find a new career when he learns he's picked the wrong time to retire in this gentle comedy-drama from China. Wang Kangmei (Fan Wei) is a good-humored working stuff who after four decades as an engineer for the Chinese railway has taken early retirement. Wang's timing was less than ideal, as his wife (Cheng Shubo) falls ill and ends up in the hospital shortly after Wang's leaves his job. But Wang is a cheerful and quietly patriotic man who believes that the government will do the right thing for him and that he'll be able to find work if he tries. Wang's father (Cheng Shubo) isn't so confident, but that doesn't stop Wang from spending the day pursuing various sorts of employment, from operating a bicycle-cab to auditioning for an opera company.
Twenty years ago, when the aliens invaded, there was a long-lasting bloody battle in the Central Plains martial arts. In the end, there were only eight people left. Since then, the "eight masters" have become the Taishan Beidou of the entire Central Plains martial arts. The peace of the rivers and lakes has lasted for 20 years. One of the eight masters, "Giant God of War", has been retired to the pastoral, but died in farmland. Then, another monk in the Eighth High School, Zhao Chengfeng, died at home. Six doors were ordered to investigate the case. The six gates are always one of the top eight masters. Ye Wufeng’s disciple, Duan Xiaofeng, boldly inferred that both of them died under their own fame and stunts. In the rivers and lakes, a long-term grandson like the one who was able to cure his people by his own way. Master. The young and energetic Duan Xiaofeng decided to go to Yangzhou alone to investigate the case.
Chen Shengli, 40, is a dapper ex-con with a spine of steel, who used to hang out with some very bad people. But he’s determined to reform. He returns to the old theatre he owns, where he discovers that a kindergarten now ensconced there can’t pay the rent. The local cops suggest he should run it himself. Which he undertakes to do, with the assistance of Sun Xiaomei, a gorgeous, tough-as-nails nurse who moonlights as a dancer in a seedy local ballroom, which is where they first met. Kindergarten seems to soften Shengli (who still harbours a scarily violent streak), and something like a romance with Xiaomei kindles. But those shady former associates have long-held grudges and won’t let Shengli go…
Also Directed by Guan Hu
The violent death of an unpopular village resident is initially blamed on an infectious disease, but an investigation shows that everybody in the village had a reason to murder him.
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.
Also Directed by Teng Hua-Tao
Xiaoxian’s life is right on track. She has a steady job at an upscale wedding planning company, a cute apartment, and most importantly, a loving boyfriend of 7 years. Any day now, Xiaoxian is sure that he’ll pop the question. But everything comes crashing down when she discovers that he’s actually cheating on her— with her best friend. How could things go so wrong? Dumped and heartbroken, Xiaoxian is a total mess. It doesn’t help that she has to face perky brides every day. Things go from bad to worse until her sassy, but jaded, co-worker Jian intervenes. It’s not that Jian really cares. It’s more that he’s sick of witnessing her pathetic decline. Xiaoxian seriously needs to get a grip. 33 days into her breakup, Jian’s brand of tough love is working, but Xiaoxian still can’t help wondering: will she ever get a chance at love again?
Dwelling Narrowness (Chinese: 蜗居; pinyin: Wōjū), also known literally as Snail House, was a 2009 television series broadcast in Mainland China, based on a 2007 novel of the same name. It depicts two sisters struggling with life in Jiangzhou, a fictional city that strongly resembles present-day Shanghai. The Chinese name is a figure of speech meaning "humble abode".
A young woman (Gigi Leung) begins a romance via ham radio with someone (Ken Zhu) who exists in another time.
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai battle to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.
Liu Yi Yang and Tong Jia Qian, two long-time love birds from very different family backgrounds, enter into a "naked marriage" after Jia Qian discovers that she's pregnant, exchanging "no frills" nuptials without the material basis for matrimony - that is, no house or car of their own, or even a real wedding ceremony. After much debate, it's finally decided that the newlywed couple would live with Liu Yi Yang's parents, but conflicts continue to arise with 3 generations living under the same roof and differing viewpoints on issues such as financial management and pregnancy habits. Slowly, cracks begin to develop in the couple's once rock-solid relationship, as they fully experience the bitterness of a "naked marriage."
A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
A Shanghai journalist finds spiritual comfort on assignment for a posh magazine in Nepal in Teng Huatao's gorgeously shot feature - part travelogue, part quest tale.