Zhu Xu

In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten years. She is raised by her grandfather. He introduces her to gymnastics where she does her best to fit in with the others.

1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Tras una serie de intentos de asesinato contra oficiales del Gobierno controlado por Japón, el jefe de inteligencia nipón reúne a un grupo de sospechosos en una mansión para ser interrogados. Ahí comienza un juego tenso “entre el gato y el ratón” para descubrir quién está filtrando información.

The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese guasha/scraping treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates on cultral prejudice and false philanthropy.

This family tale spans three generations of Chinese trying to understand and come to terms with life's changes. Middlesome relatives stir up a storm. The old and the young find themselves and their values developing and evolving, and new relationships come and go. The eldest family member, Guan, the son of a royal physician of the former Qing Dynasty, has also become a great physician who is able to predict the exact time of a patient's death. His ex-daughter-in-law, Yu, trained by him to be a physician, still stays with the family as his assistant. Her ex-husband, Jin, comes back from the USA with his new girlfriend, Jenny, a beautiful American who is doing a research on the death of Guangxu, the second last Emperor of Qing Dynasty who is Guan's father's patient. Jenny speaks fluent Mandarin, but she has a long way to go before understanding and getting accustomed to the Chinese tradition and mindset. On the other hand, Yu falls in love with her old friend who is a married man.

Abandonado por su hijo mayor Daming, que se ha ido de Pekín en busca de fortuna, el señor Liu continúa aferrado a su trabajo como propietario de unos baños públicos, su vocación de toda la vida. Además ha de cuidar de su otro hijo Erming, que sufre un retraso mental. Daming creyendo que su padre ha muerto, regresa a Pekín para descubrir la magia de los baños públicos.

A young boy named Chen Xiang uses a magical lotus lantern to search for and rescue his mother, a goddess, from the cruel punishment she received from her brother, the king of the gods, for falling in love with a mortal man.

A un viejo artista de la calle, maestro en el arte de cambiar de máscara, le es dada la oportunidad de practicar su arte en la opera de Pekín. Pero él rechaza la oferta, solamente quiere pasar sus conocimientos a un heredero masculino. Una noche le es vendido un niño, Pichón, por sus padres, hundidos en la pobreza

The film illustrates classical Beijing Opera in different generations and the boy’s process of growing-up.

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.

Based on Lao She’s novel, a story about a street player set in the wartime Chongqing.

Sixteen-year-old An-ran gets into repeated trouble because she refuses blind obedience to authority, openly challenging and correcting a teacher who makes a mistake in class. She is different.

An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic.