Xiaolu Li

Presented by three gifted auteurs and featuring the combined talents of six fabulous young artists from Japan, Mainland China, and Taiwan, we invite you to experience these unforgettable stories, each revealing a tale between an ordinary young man and young woman, amidst different cultural and language backgrounds. (hkflix.com)

Actress Joan Chen makes her directorial debut with this bleak tale -- adapted from the award-winning novella "Tian Yu" by Shanghai writer Yan Geling -- about the loss of innocence during Mao Zedong's brutal Cultural Revolution, surrounding its precocious title character, Wen Xiu (played by 16-year-old Lu Lu), who finds herself one of millions of Chinese teenagers sent to the hinterlands to receive specialized training during the early 1970s. (AMG)

Set in Shanghai during the 1930s, the story is inspired by John Woo's classic work Bullet in the Head, released in 1990. (imdb)

A story centered on a company that grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.

Having witnessed all his students died for conflicts among warlords and handicapped during a battle, a painter leaves his troop behind, settles down at a small utopia-like village and becomes a kite maker. This is early 1930's. He marries a local girl who never speaks. A young music student comes and takes the girl's heart away. Suddenly, Japan's war machine rolls into the quite village and everything beautiful is doomed. (imdb)

A women's prison in the Northern China in 1932, Prisoner FU Yuan (JIANG Yiyan) digs a tunnel in her prison cell with a silver spoon and escapes. Inspector SONG Donglu (LAU Ching-wan) is summoned to investigate FU's escape. By tracking down the letters sent to him by FU, it sets SONG off to Hong City to unravel FU's disappearance. (The Movie Database)

A supermarket employees plots revenge against his bosses who refused to pay out a winning lottery ticket. (imdb)