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Academy Awards best screenplay nominee Hui-Ling Wang's first television screenplay after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon....
This series traces the rise of a famous Naxi Chieftain and his beloved wife in 16th century southwest China. The highlight of this drama is the battle between hate and love. In sum, this is a classic Cinderella story mixed with Romeo and Juliet elements, except with some very different outcomes. Set in the Ming Dynasty, the Mu clan is the administrative and governing authority of Lijiang Prefecture. Its family members used blood and violence to reach the pinnacle of power. A casualty of this blo...
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Moment in Peking is a 2005 Chinese television series produced by CCTV. It is adapted from Lin Yutang's Nobel Prize nominee novel Moment in Peking....
Shen Ruo Xin is a thirty-something professional who decides to take a stand against unfair societal expectations At her workplace she finds herself drawn to two different men - one her trusted, younger assistant, the other her bachelor boss. Knowing she is considered a 'leftover woman' weighs heavily on her. Will she opt to marry the man society deems appropriate, or will she listen to her heart and screw up the courage to pursue a romance with the younger man?...
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In the early years of the Republic of China, there was Xiangmu Town. The Geng Family, who is famous for their dusters, is the head of the town on the west side of the Xiangxi River. The duster is made of chicken feathers, an ordinary handicraft, which has become famous through the hands of the Geng family. During the Guangxu period, the Geng family's red light duster cost the palace 200,000 taels of silver. The reputation of the duster has not diminished, and dignitaries outside the mountains h...
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Luo Qian Qian may be spoiled, but that all comes to an end when her mother Bi Sheng discovers academic competition is fierce in elementary school. Determined to make up for lost time, Bi Sheng transforms into a fierce "tiger mom" hell bent on excellence at all costs. In contrast, Qian Qian's father Luo Su believes their daughter's happiness ranks higher than her academic performance. Meanwhile, both sets of grandparents weigh in, while Luo Su's gentle ex resurfaces....
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Li Yu Zhe is a Western cuisine chef who is obsessed with gourmet food. When he participates in a TV cooking program, he meets the playwright-director Song Jia Ming who has an amazing sense of taste. The two quarrel a lot at first, but soon they’re attracted to each other....
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For My Love tells the story of a family of three generations. Retired Grandma Qi spends most of her time doting on her granddaughter Ting Ting. However, drastic changes in their lives are forthcoming when her daughter and son-in-law announce their divorce and moreover, Ting Ting loses her hearing due to an accident....
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This is a story of a scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and People's Republic of China....
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Chung, whose parents were murdered when he was ten, is now the adopted son of a Taiwanese Billionaire. Years later, Chung returns to Hong Kong to try and find his remaining family, but he soon discovers that his brother Chak is taken in by a triad member. The triad sends Chak to kidnap Chung to blackmail his family....
In a small pharmaceutical factory in southern Yangtze River, Xu Lisa, a college graduate, works as a bottle washer due to her bourgeois origin. The new section chief, Zhu Shiyi, falls in love with her and pursues her. Lisa, seeking warmth and happiness, accepts his advances. However, life after marriage is not as idyllic. Zhu Shiyi, a commoner, is calculating, and his bitter mother, a market vendor, traps Lisa in a dreary existence....
For anyone with tricky personal troubles — marital, professional and otherwise — Yu Guan and his buddies have a new business that will provide the solution, from taking the abuse of a man’s nagging wife to showering an obscure writer with awards....
An Feng and psychologist intern Fang Xiao Yu, who meet and fall in love in Chengdu. The two lonely souls heal and accompany each other....
A middle aged woman oculist has a heart attack. Recalling her past, she feels sorry for not having been a dutiful wife and mother, but she consoles herself with the thought that she has saved many people from blindness....
A wife yearns for complete independence from a narrow, restricting life in this slow-paced, undistinguished melodrama from mainland China, set in 1944-'45, in the midst of fighting. The young woman works at a good job, nurses her terminally ill husband, cares for her small child, and puts up with a difficult mother-in-law. Her desire to chuck it all is tempered by the need to take care of her family, and as China slowly heads toward the communist takeover in 1949, the chaos of the war around her...
In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai's elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai....
Qing Yao is a botanist. She bumps into Zhang Gaixiu, a taxi driver. First they hate each other and gradually they understand each other and later help each other....
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Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped....
Pan Hung is Lily, a humble bus conductor hired by Hong Kong commodities trader Sean Lau to be his connection to the Shanghai stock market. Lily finds the job surprisingly easy, and the duo begins to make big money. But at what price? With wealth and prosperity a driving daily goal for Lily, will her own family come to bear the cost? Director Lee Lok See uses his Shanghai focus to great effect, finding many avenues and opportunities for his satirical observations and cultural clashes. With capita...
A divorced woman takes twin daughters to Beijing for living opportunities. She meets a widowed labor contractor. The two both have same nickname 'Loach'. They help each other for their adrift lives....
Set in the chaotic years. A writer and a doctor fall in love. The writer is going to be arrested because of honesty and faith in truth....
A portrait of a woman, more intelligent and more ambitious than her husband, who must fight to break with village morality by choosing to have an abortion....
A young man from Dalian pursues his studies in Melbourne, where he undergoes love, loss and self-discovery in this coming-of-age tale....
For the thirtysomething Sheng Ruxi, whose surname unmistakably echoes the slang term "sheng nu" (leftover women), the wait for a perfect partner is growing more despairing by the day. With an ultra-anxious mother who would rather die than see her daughter stay single, Ruxi is further annoyed by the doctor she’s fixed up with. Could her new colleague, the dashing 25-year-old Ma Sai, offer last-minute salvation?...
The film follows Xu Lai, a former artist whose dreams were dashed when the responsibilities of life set in. With his life now revolving around his wife Cai Bo who is obsessed with having children, the quirks of his eccentric family and his mediocre, ordinary existence, Xu Lai hopes to reconnect with his first love Yang YIi on an upcoming vacation. However, his hopes are dashed when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder investigation that proves truth is often stranger than fiction....
The story tells that in 1944, Qingdao’s underground organization “Beidou” launched a fierce life-and-death confrontation with the Japanese gendarmerie, the Black Dragon Club and the military to protect a small girl who took the Soviet Union’s secret attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army....
After the death of her policeman father, Xiaomai begins to look over his old journals filled with notes about the cases he investigated over the years. The mention of a purple scarf in the notes particularly catches her attention, prompting her to purchase a similar scarf from a mysterious website that claims to sell everything, as long as one can pay the price. Soon after, Xiaomai's close friend is found dead, strangled by a purple scarf. All of this awakens Xiaomai's memories of her childhood ...
During the Cultural Revolution a powerless newspaper writer struggles with his conscience at the pervasive dishonesty and immorality from the top on down. The ethical and professional conflicts eventually threaten both his work and family relationships,...
There were three women lived with Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, during 1922 and 1924. Wan-jung, the Queen, ended up with being insane. Tan Yuling died. Wenxiu, a concubine, was eliminated from the Royal family. This is the story of the fate of three women, including the wife and cousin of who have a lesbian relationship...
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Based on the old tale of Du Shiniang, a courtesan who falls in love with a student....
The film Threads of Love tells the story of an Italian fashion designer, Amelie (played by Tara Clance [Ke Tianrou]), who travels to the multi-ethnic region of Guangxi, China, in search of design inspiration. There, she meets her soulmate and falls in love with music teacher Li Sihai (played by Gao Haicheng). The two accidentally fall into a valley, leading to a humorous and heartwarming cross-cultural romance....