Zhao Dan

Red Crag

A taut wartime thriller, Red Crag: Life in Eternal Flame anticipates the paranoia and violence of the imminent...

The Winter of Three Hairs

San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into t...

The Opium Wars

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and e...

Street Angel

In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help...

Crows and Sparrows

A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the ori...

春节大联欢

Li Shizhen

This biography film is based on the life of the real historical figure Li Shizhen.The story focuses on the soci...

Twin Sisters

Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of...

Crossroads

Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but hi...

The Life of Wu Xun

The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.

Soul of the Sea

The sailors on a Kuomintang warship revolt, arrest their officers and defect to the Chinese People's Liberation...

关不住的春光

Far Away Love

After a break-up, a college professor, Xiao, molds his maidservant, Yu, into an independent, modern woman, then...

Two Versus One

For Peace

A professor of East China University and his family become supporters of the Communists after America supports...

The Classic for Girls

A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, wi...

Nie Er

Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the l...

Husband and Wife

An absorbing example of genre filmmaking in the People’s Republic of China, Husband and Wife could at first gla...

Rhapsody of Happiness

Wang, a bankrupt farmer joins his cousin, Wu, in Shanghai, but finds that he is poor too. One day, Wu stops a w...

Three Girls

Shanghai Over 24 Hours

中华儿女