Dahong Ni

Directed and written by Lu Wei, with Chen Kaige (director of "Farewell, My Concubine") credited as "art adviser," this film tells of a band of soldiers sent out by the Xia emperor to collect a "blood tax" -- that is, male babies who can be raised in the emperor's service -- from a remote village.

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. (imdb)

1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity. (AsianMediaWiki)

The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.

Cold blooded killer Zhang Ning sneaks back into China to blend in. He is quickly pursued by two fierce and brutal bounty hunters. A grisly battle ensues between the killer, bounty hunters and cops. (Amazon.com)

As the drug trafficking raged on the Sino-Burmese border, an anti-drug officer accidentally uncovers a major drug trade through a cold-blooded assassin. The trade involves the head of a Yunnan criminal gang named 350, who wants to go into retirement with his young wife Xiao An afterwards. In flashbacks, we learn that Xiao An was actually kidnapped by 350 as hostage, but slowly develops Stockholm syndrome and voluntarily lives with him in Burma. (rotten tomatoes)

A Chinese special force soldier with extraordinary marksmanship is confronted by a group of deadly foreign mercenaries who are hired to assassinate him by a vicious drug lord. (imdb)

Three Kingdoms is a Chinese television series based on the events in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. The plot is based on Luo Guanzhong's classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, the historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms, and other related stories. (imdb)

As Spring Festival draws near, a group of villagers come back to their hometown from different big cities, trying to put together their own festival show. (imdb)

In a small northern Chinese city in 1997, Judge Tian privately struggles with the loss of his daughter, killed by a stolen car in a hit-and-run accident. On the bench he encounters Qiuwu, a mechanic accused of stealing two cars. Perhaps influenced by his emotional state, the outwardly impassive judge imposes an almost-obsolete criminal law on Qiuwu that sentences him to death for his crime. (Letterboxd)

The story of power, desire, lust and love among people of different kingdoms in ancient China. No matter who you are, you have to rise from the mud to become The Great Phoenix.

The story of two lonely and impoverished elderly lovers at the end of their lives.