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.

文化大革命下の中国。都会育ちの女子高生ジンチュウ（チョウ・ドンユイ）は、再教育のために送られた農村でスン（ショーン・ドウ）という青年に出会う。エリートでありながら明るく誠実な彼に惹（ひ）かれるジンチュウだったが、それは身分違いの許されない愛だった。その後、2人は愛を交わし合う関係にまで至るが……。

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.

大地震が起きる前の中国四川省・成都、巨大国営工場「420工場」が新興住宅地として再開発するため閉鎖された。かつて420工場で働いていた労働者たちが語る家族や初恋の人、一緒に働いた仲間との思い出……。閉鎖されていく工場の様子と彼らのインタビューを映し出しながら、現在に至る中国の変遷を浮き彫りにしていく。

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?

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。

The film gets under the skin of a very marginalized group: recent immigrants to Hong Kong from Mainland China. Belying the expectation that they will belong in a territory now returned to China's sovereignty, they find themselves lonely, frustrated, poor, and employable only in the most menial jobs, from elevator service staff to prostitution.

First film directed by Lu Xuechang.

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

The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

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.