Zhi Cheng
Love story of a young calligrapher and the daughter of a supreme government official in ancient China.
Set in the period just after ten years of chaos, several love stories associated with the tourists on a bus indicate more meanings of love.
The film depicts the conflicting and queasy state of those who are left behind while many others go overseas. Nai Qing is one of them left behind. Her husband goes to San Francisco. She meets Jia Dong, a taxi driver whose wife is in Japan. They feel lonely and fall in love with each other...Nai Qing is pregnant, she in eager to let Jia Dong know this and call him.
A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.
In 1949, as the country celebrates liberation, KMT agents are ploting.
A magician comes back to Shanghai to find his son separated twenty-five years ago.
This biography film is based on the life of the real historical figure Li Shizhen.The story focuses on the social injustices suffered by Li as well as the difficulties he overcame in writing the famous Encyclopedia of Herbs.
Based on the famous novel of the same name by well-known author Ba Jin, this movie traces the decline of a large, wealthy family in the early part of the twentieth century. The story focuses on three brothers and how they respond to the expectation that they will each marry women whom their grandfather has selected for them. The lure of family money on the one hand and modern individualism on the other plays out differently among the young men. Critics consider this movie an indictment against feudal ideas.
Based on a story by famed Chinese author Lu Xun, and adapted from the works of Russian writer Panteleev. Homeless country boy Calf lives on the streets of Shanghai with his friends Big Cat and Little Mouse. One day, he steals an expensive watch from an elderly street vendor, a theft which leads to a physical confrontation with his friends and his subsequent arrest.
Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.
