Jin Xie

In the era of cultural revolution, a persecuted intellectual was sent into exile in the remote mountainous region. His girlfriend, who also suffered in the turmoil, could not handle the pressure and use the opportunity she had to fled back to urban life, where living standard was considerably higher. (imdb)

Hibiscus Town is about victimization, humiliation, and salvation in a small Chinese village before, during, and after the Cultural Revolution. (imdb)

A sent down youth finds love and happiness in the inner Mongolia countryside. The father who abandoned the family years earlier returns from abroad, now a wealthy capitalist, and summons his son to meet him in Beijing. Our protagonist is compelled choose between joining his father in the USA and claiming his inheritance, or returning to adoring wife and cuddly son and the idyllic life as a herdsman. (imdb)

How team members of Chinese women's basketball team struggle to overcome difficulties, personal or technical, to achieve crownation in competition. This was the goal at the time for the real team. (imdb)

Chronicles the fortunes of two actresses in pre-revolutionary China, who are separated by money and politics. (imdb)

In 1930s, Wu Qionghua was a housemaid of Nan-ba-tian, a cruel warlord of a village in Hainan Island, China. Often abused by her master, Qionghua was finally rescued by Hong Changqing, leader of the Red Detachment of Women - a troop of women soldiers. She joined the troop and became the Detachment leader after the death of Hong. They captivated and executed the warlord and liberated Qionghua's home village. (imdb)

During the Cultural Revolution, the director of a farm collective studies medicine on her own in order to provide a more effective alternative to the collective's "capitalist" health care clinic, then investigates and exposes a sinister plot by the clinic's staff. (imdb)

Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese feminist and martyred revolutionary. (imdb)

British merchants in China are to be executed because the opium they're selling is destroying the Empire. After the burning of 20,000 boxes of opium by the Chinese, England declares war, because the burned opium was the property of the British commercial attache who had bought it from the British merchants. (imdb)

Description of Chinese characters (mostly in People's Liberation Army) in the 1979 Sino-Vietnam Border Clash. Based on the novel of the same name, which was also produced as a play, radio and TV show. (KG)

Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant. (imdb)

One of Jin Xie's model operas made during the Cultural Revolution.

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears streaming down her face, but told that it's too late to cry. The story continues to slowly reveal the lives of the female prisoners, and each of their struggles to have ended up where they are today. (imdb)

In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, come to America for college. The Communist takeover strands them in the States and one of them, unable to cope with her parents' death while fleeing China, drifts into a life of prostitution. (imdb)