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China, 1997. An unhappy marriage, a love affair and a child who holds all the secrets.
Amid political turmoil in 1927, the Chinese Communist Party launches uprisings and forms the Red Army, establishing a revolutionary base in Jinggangshan. As they endure fierce battles and hardships during the Long March, a turning point comes with the 1935 Zunyi Conference—marking the rise of new leadership.
Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.
Zhao Yali meets Shanzhuang Gao through the app, who invites him to a gathering at a villa. The place exudes a strange atmosphere, and Zhao mysteriously disappears after receiving a message from Gao. Inside, Zhao’s friends—Ding Li, the villa’s owner, and Zhang Huaqiang, a hired troublemaker—fall victim to bizarre accidents. As the truth unravels, it’s revealed that the terror isn’t from ghosts, but from humanity twisted by hatred. (Source: MyDramaList)
A mainland Chinese filmmaker, exiled to Hong Kong for her politically-charged work, reunites with her mother on a trip to Taiwan.
Xiaoma, a young woman who has recently moved to Beijing, finds an apartment in an old courtyard apartment complex owned by Grandma, an elderly woman. Xiaoma and Grandma’s relationship almost immediately becomes strained. After trying to tidy up the courtyard, Grandma insists that Xiaoma turn over her share of the profits. Tightfisted, the elderly landlady resists even allowing Xiaoma to install a telephone. At the same time the older woman becomes increasingly interested in Xiaoma’s personal (and romantic) life. Grandma, for example, tries to pass off her grandson to the younger woman. Annoyed, Xiaoma nevertheless is flattered at the older woman’s concern. Over the course of four seasons, Xiaoma begins to learn from her landlady of the old world that the modern city of Beijing has left behind, while Grandma begins to enjoy the youth and vitality of her tenant. The two women become closer and eventually develop a deep friendship.
Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border for 32 years.
The Chinese police visit head-teacher Chen at home. Her daughter, a dissident filmmaker living in Hong Kong, plans yet another critical film about China's colonization of the small autonomous territory. The authorities demand that Chen travel to her daughter to stop the film project. What they do not take into account is that Chen and her daughter lost contact long ago.
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The film describes the magnificent life story of Fan Jinshi, the "Daughter of Dunhuang" and winner of the national honorary title, who sticks to the desert and protects the world's treasure Mogao Grottoes. Taking root in Dunhuang for more than 50 years, Fan Jinshi (played by Chen Jin) and her colleagues from the Dunhuang Academy have been fighting alone against the wind and sand in the northwest to rescue and protect every cultural relic in the Mogao Grottoes; "Mogao must never be allowed to The grottoes have disappeared in our generation!" As time entered the millennium, facing the mighty wave of marketization and tourists from all directions, Fan Jinshi suddenly discovered that the biggest threat to the national treasures in the Mogao Grottoes had never been It's not just the natural environment, but the unpredictable human heart... After reaching her sixtieth year, she must get out of the "hole" where she has worked hard all her life...
Minghao, who came to him in a sad childhood, grew up step by step with his only sister and his dream of singing. On the way to pursue his dream of music, he met a woman who loved him for a lifetime, and had a short period of happiness and joy. When the beauty collapsed, Ming Hao concealed that his sister Hongmei chose to live a flamboyant life. At the moment when he was about to fall into the abyss, he suddenly realized that his free life finally settled in the harbor of family affection and love. (Source: Douban
This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With “Journey” as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. “The Sea” is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child’s trip to the sea from Beijing. “Hekishu,” a film by Daishi Matsunaga (Japan), tells about the journey of a Japanese businessman involved in infrastructure development in Yangon. The film depicts the entrepreneur’s emotional feelings in the face of Yangon residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the new infrastructure. The last is a film titled “Variable No. 3” by Edwin (Indonesia), which tells the story of a couple’s journey to Tokyo. There they meet a mysterious man. The man who works as a tour guide and rents out the inn, gives a strange advice to the husband and wife.
