Shao Dan

Movies

Coward Hero
Director
A terminally ill gangster becomes a police insider to cash in on the life insurance but ends up a department hero in this Chinese action comedy.
The Hidden Sword
Director of Photography
The widow of a famed general teams up with an impostor posing as her late husband and schemes to steal the secrets of an elderly master swordsman. Their plans are complicated by the master's grandson, who is himself torn between his filial duty and the affections of his adopted sister.
Bangzi Melody
Director of Photography
Life on a small village in China during the last years of the Cultural Revolution takes a different course when the people is asked to prepare and perform a classic opera for government officials, entangling past, present and fiction.
The Promised Land
Director of Photography
Ling Ai and He Jiang are young, ambitious, and in pursuit of careers imported from the West, but romantic longings and career ambitions are inevitably shaped by larger social forces.
Switch
Director of Photography
To recover and ancient scroll, a Chinese agent battles the Japanese yakuza and British mercenaries.
Mother
Director of Photography
In the 1960s, about 3,000 Chinese orphans were sent to Inner Mongolia. In the Xilingol grassland, Qiqigema Erji adopted Chen Chen and Yu Sheng even though her husband disapproved. The children grew up as Mongolian nomads. But 20 years later, upon hearing the news that biological parents were looking for their children, Chen Chen left for Shanghai in the hope of meeting his parents. Yu Sheng finally did meet his parents and faced a choice as to where he wanted to live.
Criminal
Cinematography
Cheng Er’s graduation film for Beijing Film Academy. Hu Tian, a photography shop owner, is in need of money for his mother’s treatment. One day, he found a suitcase full of money…