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- Qing official Lin Zexu burns the opium of British traders in a bid to end the opium trade. Incensed by his actions, the British traders appeal to their government, leading to the First Opium War and the eventual cessation of Hong Kong.
- The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.
- Four short films from four different directors, spanning from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- Three vignettes from three different directors that tell stories of ordinary people during Taiwan's Cold War period.
- A battalion of Chinese soldiers defend the Sihang (4 Bank) warehouse from the invading Japanese army in 1937 at the end of the Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. There are only 452 defenders, but to mislead the Japanese they tell the outside world that they are 800 in number. Their heroism leads to them becoming known as the 800 Heroes.
- Patriotic extravaganza concerning early 20th century political events in Taiwan.
- Grace Chang seduces as Hong Kong's most sensual Carmen ever. The torrid passions of Bizet's famous opera gets a postmodern reading when it is transposed to the noir-like setting of Hong Kong's Wanchai district. One of the most exhilarating and energetic musicals in the Chinese language.
- An anthology film of four stories that feature far more swindlers and swindling than lovers or love.
- Joon-pil is the toughest guy in school, but also a idiot. So when the innocent, yet delightfully feisty, Min-he throws him a hormonal curve-ball, he is ill-prepared to face life's nastiest test question of all - For love or lunch money?
- Set in the 1950s, the emerging period of new occupations --air hostess. Three beautiful young girls pass the interview of air hostess and start their new life and career. There are so many stories between the three new air hostesses and two airplane captains.
- The happy lives of animals in the forest are stirred by the sudden attack of a pack of wolves. The Father Deer comes to the rescue, and asks Birdy to notify his son, the Deer. When the Deer rushes to his father's side and before he dies he asks his son to seek revenge.
- In this melodrama, set in a tiny Chinese fishing village, two rival fishermen compete for a young woman's love. She does love one of them, but as she is obligated to the other, she cannot marry him. Tragedy is averted when the one she is obliged to falls in love with another. Happiness briefly ensues as the men, with their respective mates, resume their friendship. Unfortunately, they set out to sea and disappear.
- A woman goes undercover as a governess to investigate the mysterious death of her sister while repairing her relationship with her niece.
- A kung fu knight walks the road to vengeance after the evil Ghost Gang kills his wife and son. The swordsman known as "Twin Blades" must take on a quartet of color-coded cutthroats to set things right.
- The story of a small group of Chinese flying aces in 1937 at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
- A swordsman uses a specialized weapon made from a deformed sword, the lethal hook, to fight an underworld clan to clear his family name and save the girl he loves in ancient China.
- A woman finds out that she's adopted and sets out to find her long-lost biological mother.
- Slow Coach and Luck Boy are two knockabout scheming orphans who were saved from a life of begging by Granny- a fierce kung fu mistress. The Leopard Fist dispatches Granny iand now Slow Coach and Lucky Boy have to step up to the plate and avenge the Granny and fight for the survival of the Xin Yi clan.
- A rich girl and her boyfriend run off to Singapore after her father objects to their relationship.
- A talented but reckless young longshoreman Sun Chi-Chiang from the wrong side of the docks gets a chance to achieve showbiz stardom as the Krupka-esque 'Thunder King Drummer' with a tip from his mild mannered but equally talented composer brother Yi-Chuan, both to the dismay of his bitter working class mother who disapproves of her sons leading their lives as struggling musicians. Chi-Chiang gets his fifteen minutes of fame with the patronage of the beautiful well-heeled promoter Li-Chen seeking a replacement for the drummer and lover who was tempted away by a rival promoter. Chi-Chiang wins a televised jazz drumming contest against his rival and achieves new-found fame but not without further obstacles including his mother's disapproval, his rival's jealously, his rival's vamp girlfriend's advances and a chorus of shady denizens who inhabit the nightclub scene plotting for King Drummer's demise.
- Ye graduates and returns home. She loves singing but annoys the tutor Jin who teaches across the street. They get on well when getting acquainted. One day, naughty Ye hides in rich boy Gao's trunk, enters Gao's house accidentally, and then makes a lot of misapprehensions.
- Luo Jingchen is a wealthy young master born with a golden spoon in his mouth. After graduating from school, his father, who runs a clothing company, hopes that he can inherit the family business. However, Luo Jingchen has no interest in the clothing industry and is eager to become a writer. One day, while collecting folk, Luo Jingchen met a woman named Zhang Xiaohong. Xiaohong's beauty and gentleness deeply attracted Jingchen's attention, and the latter couldn't forget her. After unremitting efforts, Jingchen finally found the trace of Xiaohong again, and the two of them came together as they fell in love. However, when Jingchen brought Xiaohong home and introduced her to his parents, she faced strong opposition from both parents. Angry Jingchen chose to run away from home to resist the pressure of the family, and joined hands with Xiaohong into the palace of marriage in a penniless situation.
- Tells the story of "Bao sheng da di" - a marvelous man who wanted to become a doctor so that he could save his mother's life.
- A young boy witnesses his mother's cheating ways and, after the death of his sick father, grows to despise her. When he's adopted by another family, the road to reconciliation proves achingly difficult.
- After the cession of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 by the Manchu government, people on the island staged a series of anti-Japanese revolts to oppose the tyrannical rule of the Japanese militarists.
- Gen. Cheng Tsu-chung, the "Mars of China", is held in high esteem by his Japanese counterpart, General Itagaki during Sino-Japanese war.
- Bandits trying to survive at the end of the Tang Dynasty.
- A story that depicts the relationship between a filthy rich dying old man and his three sons; the youngest being a fiery, stubborn and opinionated illegitimate son. The two elderly sons were vying for the man's legacy, but the youngest was concerned for his health.