Lü Liping

Biographical film based on the life of Luo Yusheng, the master of modern Chinese folk art, the master of drum music, and the founder of Luo Pai Jingyun drum section.

Adaptación de la novela de Aimi Zhu basada en el guión del también director Yin Lichuan. El film, al igual que la novela, se centra en el inocente pero represivo romance entre una chica que vive en un cerrado entorno político-familiar y un joven campesino.

Shenzhen, China, the present day. Nineteen-year-old Wang Baihe is a migrant worker from a village in Shaanxi province. She has a baby son from a one-night stand with a man from Hong Kong and a small income from making Chinese decorative knots at home. Her dream is to open a noodle restaurant and “make lots of money and become a city person” but she finds it difficult to find regular employment because of her baby boy. Her story emerges through interviews with journalist Liu Nan, who is writing a book about her. When Baihe discovers her son has congenital heart disease, she tries desperate ways to raise the RMB80,000 (US$12,000) for the operation, helped by her friend and fellow migrant worker Hu Jinling.

24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

After Women’s Story, Peng returns to the most straightforward representation of women’s issues in Shanghai Women, a film about three rural women. As the first work in Peng’s Shanghai Trilogy, Shanghai Women describes the problem that women encounter trying to secure urban (residential) space through the story of women from three generations.

The wife of a prominent psychiatrist can't find her marriage certificate one day. This "jiehunzheng" is all important. Without it, the family officially has never existed, including the daughter. The couple go on a wild goose chase through the Chinese bureaucracy, meeting catch-22 all the way....they need a certificate to get a new one, etc. They even journey back to the People's Commune where they met, now the site of modern private enterprises where nobody even recalls the former occupants.

Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?

Una madre soltera que lucha por criar a su hijo sordo y levarlo a la escuela a pesar de que las autoridades chinas se niegan.

Hong Kong, finales de los 90. El film sigue a varios personajes marginales, llegados a la gran ciudad procedentes de la China continental. El dueño de un negocio de vídeos porno, su esposa ascensorista con una prótesis en el pie, la joven venida del campo que ha terminado ejerciendo de prostituta, el joven timorato incapaz de tratar con chicas... Con ritmo lento, Nelson Yu Lik-wai nos pinta la penosa y triste vida de estos personajes sin rumbo ni ilusiones dignas de este nombre, y que nunca se plantean la bondad o maldad de lo que hacen

First film directed by Lu Xuechang.

Six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy.

Viaje de aire intimista por los acontecimientos más tumultuosos de China. Una película que tuvo problemas en el rodaje, y que le impidió a su director, merced a una prohibición por parte de las autoridades chinas, el poder realizar más películas durante una década. (FILMAFFINITY)

Zheng Jianong, a bulldozer driver, has been suffering from illness for years and his wife leaves him

A couple (Zhang Jingsheng & Lu Liping) robbed the money train for money, causing a canister truck carrying highly toxic drugs to leak gas and eventually burn through the ozone layer. At the same time, the boy (Zhang Ning) who was resting at home due to his illness suddenly found that he could understand the language of his good friend, Big White Cat. The big white cat told him that this serious accident, if not stopped in time, the living things on the earth will eventually perish. However, adults are so busy running for money that they do not believe what boys and animals say.

A husband is called back to emergency duty from his honeymoon and his bride investigates the sudden death of a couple also on their honeymoon.

A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.

During the ten years of Chaos, the young lady from businessman Zhang's family takes care of the whole family and keeps everyone together.

An adaptation of Weng Meng's 1953 novel.