Green Hat (2004)

After Xiao Yu's mother died in an accident, she moved back to live with her birth father who she knows little about. Gradually, they grew to know each other and to accept each other for who they are.

Loneliness, saving face, and public mores. In 1983 in China, Yun is a bright schoolgirl who gets pregnant. She's expelled, her boyfriend leaves town, and her mother arranges the baby's adoption, telling Yun the child died at birth. Ten years later, Yun sings pop songs in a dive, takes the occasional married lover, and lives with her mother, a teacher. The mother tutors a student, Xiao-yong, a lad of ten, who becomes attached to Yun. Yun's mother discovers who the boy's really is and a struggle begins. Should he be told; should Yun reclaim him; does her mother's opinion matter; what about the woman who's raised him? Is there room in a Chinese town for a woman to breathe?

A grandmother is looking for her grandson, a teenager for his grandfather.

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.

Two women are bound for the same plane, one of whom makes the flight while the other does not. In a cruel twist of fate, the plane crashes, killing everyone on board, and leaving the friends and family of the two women to talk about what was and what could have been.

Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....

Honoring his father's dying words, a young man comes to the dusty desert village of Double Flag Town to claim his bride. Everyone looks down upon him because he looks inept and ignorant. When he kills a man who is attempting to rape his bride, he provokes the wrath of the Lethal Swordsman who is the rapist's brother and also a famous killer. Will our hero choose to escape with his bride or face the Lethal Swordsman? A highly stylized martial-arts film, in the style of Sergio Leone meets Hiroshi Teshigahara.

A turbulent love affair between a punk and a youthful waitress.

A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.

After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

When impoverished young bride Youyou (Zhang) collapses from hunger at the door of handsome buccaneer Pan Hao (You Yong), he immediately decides to have her, much to the chagrin of his current squeeze, Widow Ma (Jiang Yanqiang).

A small-time triad must make a fateful decision to discover who he is. With that decision, his life can diverge in two paths, each leading to an ultimate fate.

A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.

地方都市の銀行に勤める松谷静雄は、土地の有力者・橋本伝蔵の娘・ゆみ子と婚約する。静雄の美しい母・静香は、父・高雄が若くして亡くなった後、1人で静雄を育てたのだが、若かりし母の周辺には絶えず橋本伝蔵の影が漂っていた。その記憶に苦しむ静雄は、ゆみ子との結婚が迫るなか、2人が異母兄弟ではないかと疑う・・・。地方都市の銀行に勤める松谷静雄は、土地の有力者・橋本伝蔵の娘・ゆみ子と婚約する。静雄の美しい母・静香は、父・高雄が若くして亡くなった後、1人で静雄を育てたのだが、若かりし母の周辺には絶えず橋本伝蔵の影が漂っていた。その記憶に苦しむ静雄は、ゆみ子との結婚が迫るなか、2人が異母兄弟ではないかと疑う・・・。

Xu Daqin, a retired Chinese factory worker, returns to the remote Yunnan province, where he hopes to reconcile himself with the life and opportunity he passed up in this place 40 years ago.

The film follows a family in the central Chinese city of Chongqing made up of retired policeman Li (He Xingquan), his second wife Zhang (Guan Jiangge) and their two sons from former marriages. Neither of the younger generation are doing too well, with Li’s son Jianjun (Liao Zhong) working long hours as a taxi driver, putting strain on his new marriage, and Zhang’s son Xiaolei (Xu Tao) running wild with a gang of hooligans. After Li is sent the ashes of his ex-wife, he begins the search for a new family burial plot, at the same time trying to hold their lives together.

スン・リーインは男の子を持つ母親。しかしその息子ジョン・ダーは聴覚に障害を持っており、夫はそのことが原因で彼女のもとを去って行った。残されたスン・リーインは、改めて息子ジョン・ダーを立派に育てると決意するのだった。彼女はそれまでの安定した収入を諦めてでも、子どもとの時間をより多く持てる仕事をと、新聞配達を始める。そして、ジョン・ダーに対して言葉を教え、世界中のあらゆる音を彼に伝えようと心に誓う。だが、スン・リーインの思いとは裏腹に、聴覚障害を持つ子どもに対して、世間の風は決して温かいものではなかった。

A film adaptation of Wang Anyi's popular and influential novel "Changhen Ge". A person's life is destined to be shorter than that of a city. Having spent her whole life in Shanghai, Qiyao has her moments of prosperity and her fair share of loneliness. She finally fades and disappears but Shanghai remains a metropolitan city. Shanghai in the 1930s is glamorous and seductive. A pretty young girl from an ordinary family, Qiyao is lucky enough to win the 2nd runner-up of the "Miss Shanghai" contest. Mr. Cheng, her admirer as well as a photographer who assists her to her success, knows the girl is going to live an extraordinary life.

Taiwan's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.