The Piano in a Factory
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...
Zhang Meng
Zhang Meng
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Also Directed by Zhang Meng
Run for Love is a Chinese romance anthology film featuring five love stories respectively in Japan, United States, Norway, Turkey and Saipan.
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.
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…