Taishen Cheng

Acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhangke casts a compassionate eye on the daily loves, friendships and desperate dreams of the twenty-somethings from China's remote Provinces who come to live and work at Beijing's World Park. (Zeitgeist Films)

Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern Finland... (imdb)

A divorced couple learns that the way to possibly save daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. Problem is: They're both already remarried. (imdb)

Composed as parallel narratives on the status of women in the capitalist-fueled, rapidly expanding economy of contemporary China - one, a fictional account of Li Yueying (Yao Qianyu), a working class young woman and her search for a better life; the other, a documentary on Jenny, a middle-class housewife and mother undergoing a divorce - Emily Tang's A Perfect Life follows in the vein of Wang Bing and Jia Zhangke in presenting a cultural portrait of the "other" China. (strictly film school)

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

It is a subtle study of the way two couples are tragically connected through the death of a child: Yonggui, a construction foreman and his wife, Yun Zhen; Yonggui's former driver Heman who runs a tiny grocery with his wife, Qiaoyu. Convinced that a life is "owed" to him, Yonggui feels entitled to take what he wants. Qiaoyu believes it is her duty to "pay" for her husband's mistake. (ucla.edu)

A counterfeit currency case is causing a heated rivalry between the law-enforcing bureau in the imperial capital, the Six Doors, and the Emperor's secret service, the Divine Constabulary. The Six Doors sends constable Cold Blood to infiltrate the Divine Constabulary, where he meets disciples Merciless, Iron Fist, and Lightfoot. Entangled romantically between Merciless and the mysterious beauty Ji Yaohua, Cold Blood discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the empire... (YesAsia)

Taiwanese actress Ivy Chen stars as the heroine-Zhang Xiaowen, a modern woman who accidentally time travels back to the Qing Dynasty and becomes Maertai Ruo Xi. (mydramatea.com)

Following in the footsteps of blockbuster MOJIN: THE LOST LEGEND and based on the bestselling novel series, MOJIN: THE WORM VALLEY once again finds legendary tomb explorer Hu Bayi on a dangerous mission as he seeks out the Tomb of Emperor Xian, located on an island of monstrous creatures in this mystical action-adventure.