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- When an assassin loses his memory, an unsuccessful actor exchanges identities with him.
- This simple romance story does not mean much to westerners, and in fact, does not even mean anything to Chinese today, but it was a big thing when it was made, not long after the end of Cultural Revolution in which even the personal romance was restricted. This movie is one of the pioneers of personal liberalization in advocating people seeking out their love following their own hearts, not from other people.
- Just over 40 years ago, marriage in China was arranged by the state. Romantic love was seen as a capitalist concept and was not allowed during this period. Wedding photography (if any at all) consisted of one black and white passport photo of the couple (dressed in Mao- style outfits) as proof of the marriage. Now, China has fallen in love with love and its exploding wedding industry is worth 80 billion dollars, and it is on an upward curve. Pre-wedding photography is one of the most significant and curious parts of the industry. Every couple marrying in China will take part in a pre-wedding shoot. It involves several costume and backdrop changes where you can become a character in any fantasy you choose. For the most exotic lo- cations couples pay up to $250,000 AUD. Pre-wedding photo shoots have become an important national ritual. They are proof of the marriage but now also of love, romance, freedom, status, money and the new China Dream. As an expat living in Shanghai with a long history of coming to China, Sinophile photographer Olivia Mar- tin-McGuire was captivated by the construction of dreams through this booming photographic world. Once she started to delve deeper into this new traditional she found a unique window into China. One that revealed a country dreaming, a country rapidly booming and a country reconstructing its recent past trauma all through their own lens. China Love takes us on a wild journey into the warmth of the family web in China into the hearts of our characters and into their personal dreams with an understanding of why and where these aspirations come from. The project explores China's new position as a globalised country from its restrictive and highly traditional past - through the window of its booming wedding industry and asks what is the new China Dream when it comes to love.
- An Ordinary meaningless existence can suddenly change by life and death
- A country woman who turns to be a widow and a single mother is forced to choose between life and death by poverty, gender inequality and ignorance of the society.
- A Xi's secret date with the young girl Li Xin is made public, so he commits manslaughter with anger and is jailed. Their relationship then changes due to the emergence of another young man.
- The true story of a band of laid-off workers from state-owned companies who set out to risk their own fortunes in the private sector and then find out that success ain't what it used to be. After getting laid-off from a state-owned shipbuilder, a middle-aged worker uses all of his savings, borrows some money, and then convinces a group of friends who are in similar circumstances, to join him in an apartment decoration/construction business in Shanghai. After the initial difficulties of starting a business, they begin to show a profit. Then, disaster strikes when they are cheated out of all their money in a construction project scam. They are devastated, but there is nothing that they can do. The money and the thieves have all disappeared. After counting their losses, they borrow money from everyone they can find including loan sharks and start-up the company again from zero. Soon, their hard work pays off and once again they find themselves along the path to success.
- Country boy San-Mao comes to metropolis Shanghai to learn living skills.
- In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up a mountainside, make bricks, saw logs, and sing daily to Chairman Mao of his faults. There's camaraderie among the five youths, especially with a young pickpocket named Baimao, and Tian is also drawn to a silent monk who cares for him when he falls ill and the others expect him to die. The camp is remote, so there are no fences or walls. Tian longs to escape.
- Sports gain acceptance among workers at a meat processing plant.
- Thirty years after graduating high school in Shanghai, filmmaker Luo Tong reconnects with her former classmates for a deeply personal look at what it means to be a middle-aged woman in modern China.
- Wu Jia-qian (played by Kelly Lin) opened a marketing company which is struggling to survive in Shanghai. Once she had deals with a upstart entrepreneur Mr Zeng Tian-gao, Mr Zeng employed Miss Wu to re-package and design his personal image to produce results a change of himself in pursuit of a female model Fang-na (Hong Xiao-ling) who dislike his vulgar. Miss Wu made a full upgrade for Mr Zeng not only improves the taste of his dress, but also changed his artistic accomplishment. Miss Wu take full advantage of her marketing strategy, making Mr Zeng famous one night after long-time training and Fang-na fell into love with Zeng when they met again. But this time Mr Zeng felt his real love is Miss Wu.
- The film depicts sidely the social events from 1950s to the end of the twentieth century based on the two characters' story, let us look into the youth relics of the last generations. Starting from observing the aging problem of China, the director excavate the two characters based on the story of looking for bailment, trying to achieve the goal of touching audience's inside with universal emotions -- love. Cheng ZhengMing and Wang Lele, the retired empty nesters in Shanghai, met at the elderly university, soon became good friends because of their common traits and interest, most importantly, the same difficulty they have been encountering for many years- failure in VISA application. Wang Lele always wants to take a visit to her son who immigrated to Canada long time ago. Cheng ZhengMing always wants to visit his special friend Mr Konno since teenage hood. Mr Konno is 93 years old and worried that two would never meet again. The failure of getting VISA become the biggest worry in the hearts of Sheng and Wang, and getting more and more intense as time goes by. Not only their dreams are being consumed, but also they lost control of the body gradually due to the age. But they still stay hopeful and have full respect for life, flowing in their blood.
- Set in 1920s, Yang Guiying comes to Shanghai with her son after her husband died. The life in Shanghai is also miserable, so she participates in the labor movement.
- Three members of a Shanghai family, father, mother, and son, encounter different problems in their lives, but all related to some kind of examination. Lu Min is soon facing high school entrance exam. But he will almost throw up whenever he sees mathematical symbols and numbers. Lu's father Dayi, recently laid off, wants to pass a driving test in order to become a taxi driver. But when the examiner poses the question, he comes up with a wrong answer. Lu's mother Fangfang is obsessed with all kinds of intelligence test, regarding them as a way to become rich. Everyday, she is busy with newspaper clipping, information collecting, and TV watching.