Xiaotong Guan

For no apparent reason, a mute young woman assaults a youth who delivers water on his bicycle, injuring him and ruining his bike. Surprisingly, she asks him to feed her fish while she is in custody. Her tiny apartment, he discovers, is a shrine to his favorite escape, the movies. He finds her diary - a screenplay of her life built around scenes from favorite films - and it sets off his imagination. Maybe they have more in common than a love of the movies.

An ancient fox spirit embarks on a diabolical quest to become human after escaping an icy prison, and becomes bound to a disfigured princess who seeks the love of a noble guard as her kingdom crumbles in this lavish supernatural epic. Confined to a frozen cell for centuries, malevolent fox spirit Xiaowei (Xun Zhou) regains her freedom and seeks to preserve her beauty by seducing men and consuming their hearts.

Her singular mission is to overthrow the emperor. When Liu Zi Ye (Zhang Yi Jie) ascends the throne in AD 464, he proves himself to be a tyrannical emperor, capable of great cruelty and violence. (imdb)

In a kingdom engaged in a political and martial struggle, a gravely injured military Commander devises a complex, treasonous plan involving his wife and a peasant look-alike known only as "The Shadow." Trained from a young age to deceive the court, the Shadow must now impersonate the Commander to challenge a rival general to a duel, setting the stage for a spectacular battle in the pouring rain that conceals a deadly power struggle for control of the kingdom.