100 Films to Watch to Help You Understand China - Opening Up
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- DirectorJianxin HuangStarsZifeng LiuHong MuFeihu SunEngineer Zhao Shuxin has been promoted and clones a robot in his image to attend his meetings, resulting in comic situations.
- DirectorJianxin HuangYazhou YangStarsZhenhua NiuKesheng LeiQiang LiWang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director. At home, Wang has problems because his father wants Wang to have a son to carry on the family name. However, because of the one-child policy, Wang cannot have any more children unless his young daughter is certified infirm.
- DirectorHu GuanStarsLin KongXie KunJiali DingThe children who grow up together in a Beijing courtyard pursue various careers.
- DirectorXiaowen ZhouStarsLiya AiPeiqi LiuZhijun GeA woman gets obsessed with buying a television for her family.
- DirectorYing NingStarsLi JianLiu Ying ShuLiangui WangTake crime out of police work, and what's left is procedures. In the western sector of Beijing, we follow the tedium of police officers. A rabid dog is loose in Guoli's beat: a gang of police officers hunts it down. Then, word comes from on high to pick up all the dogs in the sector: fear of rabies combines with the dogs' being status symbols of the nouveau riche. Occasionally a criminal is picked up: someone selling porn, someone running a three-card-monte game. Cops smoke, go to meetings, and hold trainings. They patrol on bicycles and enforce edicts. Guoli works nights. He's lazy at home, his wife wants him to do more. Is there any more to do?
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsHongsheng JiaXiaoqing MaYu BaiA young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." Based on a true story.
- DirectorZhangke JiaStarsHongwei WangHongjian HaoBaitao ZuoA small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
- DirectorYang LiStarsYixiang LiBaoqiang WangShuangbao WangTwo coal miners and conmen looking for their next murder victim decide on a naïve country boy desperately looking for a job.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsLocheyDrolma KyabTamdrin TsoA family on the Himalayan plains discovers their dog is worth a fortune, but selling it comes at a terrible price.
- DirectorYu LiStarsGeng HanBingbing FanXi QiEver Since We Loved, a story of a group of students in medical college in the 1990s, is an adapted screenplay based on Feng Tang's novel, Everything Goes.