Our Field depicts the lives of five sent-down youths during the Cultural Revolution and follows their continuous search for meaning during the subsequent years.
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
Shunzo is a popular greengrocer in a town near Tokyo. His life, and the lives of his wife Michi, and their two children, undergoes a dramatic change when he encounters Li, a poor college student from China.
Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. By a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate who is first dismissed from teaching post and then enrolled as a journalist in the city and finally dismissed from the post and become a farmer again, this movie presents the young man as a serious issue of how to deal with their life.
An unhappy love story under the Cultural Revolution in China seen from the son who was born from that romance - who is now a Chinese rock star
To celebrate his newborn baby girl, an old wine brewer made a bottle of Maiden Rose for her future marriage. Eighteen years later, the girl was already a beautiful woman and fall in love with a youngster. However, her father was unhappy with their romance, though she had been pregnant. Fifty years passed by, three women of three generations finally had a chance to drink that bottle of Maiden Rose.
Little Fanzi, a waitress in a restaurant, is a girl who is not at ease with her job and is full of fantasies. She fantasizes that one day she will be able to take off her "unprofitable waitress uniform" and become a singer and a medical worker.However, reality shatters her fantasy again and again, and Fanzi becomes depressed, hating her job even more and venting her frustration on the customers. Zhang Zhi, a university student who grew up as a childhood friend of Fanzi, is unwilling to watch Fanzi's depression, so he often comes to comfort her, telling her that all work is to serve the people...
A poet working in a mine and his doting wife dream of a better future, but on a visit to the mine, a famed poet exerts a subtle effect on the couple. This drama eloquently depicts the love-hate relationship between people in changing times.
Zhou's husband died in the Cultural Revolution. She lived arduously with her only son. Lo, a kind postman, helped her during her hardest time.
Two police officers investigate the case of an actress, who was shot dead by a prop gun on the set of a movie.
After Shi Ba -- a privileged youth turned con artist -- meets a fetching dancer named Yu Jing, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. But his checkered past will come back to haunt Shi Ba when a blackmailer comes calling.
A bunch of girls join the Chinese military force in order to improve their martial arts skills and to protect the Chinese population again arms dealers and drug barons.
A man is murdered on a bus for trying to stop a pickpocket; no one lifts a finger to help him. He returns as a ghost and questions the empathy of the onlookers.
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
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