A reckless female detective, Xingmin, when investigating a murder case, finds the victim dead naked, hung upside down in the basement bathroom. Old detective Laozhou assures that this is one of the prostitute serial murder cases that he has been after for 15 years. As Xingmin tracks down the murderer, she has to deal with her inner prejudice against prostitutes caused by her traumatizing childhood memory, while irresistibly resonate to the murderer herself. To breakthrough the case, she needs to conquer her nightmare and risk herself to uncover the truth.
In the late 70s, an impotent policeman tries to catch a rapist with the help of a traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Northeast China.
Mrs. Li
The residents of a nursing home sneak past security guards to compete in a nationally televised talent contest.
Bai Shuzhen
Qiu's Mother
清朝崩壊後の中国。政府の元高官・邱如白 の後押しを受け、伝統に縛られない京劇の新たな女形役者として売り出した梅蘭芳。伝統墨守派の師匠・十三燕 との演技対決に勝利した彼は、大きく飛躍する。だが成功の一方、彼は、如白や妻からの口出しに反発を覚えるようになっていた。そんな中、彼は男形の人気女優・孟小冬 との愛をひそかに育む。
Te-Ming
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Mrs. Zhao
A man convinced he murdered his wife is haunted by her ghost. Marketed as Mainland China's first horror movie.
Lao Er's mother
The humdrum existence of a Beijing factory worker and his family is disrupted when their beloved dog is confiscated by the police for being unlicensed. The worker has but 24 hours to raise the sizable sum required to pay the license fee.
Empress Ci Xi
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?
Grandmother
都会からやってきた若い教師ルオ・チャンユーに恋して、その想いを伝えようとする18歳の少女チャオ・ディ。文盲のディは手作りの料理の数々にその想いを込めて彼の弁当を作った。やがてその気持ちに彼も気づき、いつしか二人の心は通じ合う。しかし、時代の波「文革」が押し寄せ二人は離れ離れに。少女は町へと続く一本道で愛する人を待ち続けるが……。「紅いコーリャン」のチャン・イーモウ監督、「グリーン・デスティニー」のチャン・ツィイー主演のラブ・ストーリー。
Aunt Qi
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
Potion selling granny
Six different episodes about different generations' relationships. Love can be sweet, sour, or spicy.
Granny
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.
街道干部
For anyone with tricky personal troubles — marital, professional and otherwise — Yu Guan and his buddies have a new business that will provide the solution, from taking the abuse of a man’s nagging wife to showering an obscure writer with awards.
