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Set in the 1930s, “Fortress Besieged” follows the misadventures of Fang Hung-chien, a bumbling everyman who wastes his time studying abroad, and secures a fake degree when learning he has run out of money and must return home to China. Fang was the son of a country gentleman. A marriage had been arranged for him while at university, but the intended wife died before he could see her....
An ancient curse falls on a young ginseng-gatherer in the remote mountains....
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Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of....
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A boy is kidnapped but it is a case of mistaken identity....
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A taxi driver is ready to raise an infant abandoned in his cab in Beijing....
Gu Yan and Lin Zhouyun become involved when their spouses are abroad....
Wei takes the girl he slept with for his long missing daughter and kills her to keep the scandal in secret. But finally Wei dies because of his crime....
On his way to Mecca for his pilgrimage, a young Orphan goes to Beijing, where is starts to learn about the art of jade crafting....
During the Chinese-Japanese war, an archaelogist finds the treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, attracting the attention of the Kuomintang, the Japanese and the Green Dragon gang....
Taxi driver Xian Feng asks her husband Da Ming for a divorce. A legal technicality forces them to remain together....