In Ruoxi Ho's time, evil forces are rampant on the island of Palm Wild, where tens of thousands of Tian clansmen live. When Lin Yu (Liu Yanchen), a ranger, learns of this, he decides to return to the island to quell the turmoil and save the Tian clan, to whom he owes a debt of gratitude. On the way, Lin Yu meets a mysterious woman named Yu Lu (Shen Yu), whose identity is unknown.
When Zhao Xiaoyi passes the entrance exam to enroll as an art student, it’s more to her than a chance to pursue her creative dreams. After years of close supervision at home, it also means freedom and independence. Away at school at last, a lonelier Zhao finds there may be more to miss at home than there is to discover on her own. Meanwhile, things are not all well with her mom, as career troubles and domestic problems collide to overwhelm her.
A policewoman named Lu Yueyue investigates a stolen national treasure and eventually ends up in a fight with gangsters. At the same time, she is trying to deal with a complicated romantic relationship and family conflict. The film is based on a 1995 television series that made mainland actress-director Xu Jinglei well-known throughout China.
1930년 군수공장으로 그 지역사회 경제를 이끌어 가는 한 도시에서 의문의 사건이 발생한다. 군수 공장에서 총알을 빼돌렸다는 이유로 한 젊은 여직공이 억울한 죽음을 당한 것 이다. 그곳에선 '유령 총알이 모두를 죽일 것 이다'라는 글씨와 함께 총알이 발견되지 않은 총상을 입은 의문의 죽음들이 계속해서 발견이 된다. 사건의 배후를 과학적으로 추적하는 의정관 "송동로"와 사격의 달인 열혈형사 "곽추"가 이를 조사하기 위해 그곳에 파견이 된다. 과연, '유령총알'의 정체는 도대체 무엇이며, 또 범인은 어떤 이유로 이런 일을 저질렀을까?
Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals. Cinematographic portrait of modern life in the mega-city of Shanghai is made up of three separate stories about dreams and loves of twentysomethings.
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
