Gu Changwei

The Hedgehog (2024)

How does a "mental patient" live in a normal world? Wang Zhantuan (Ge You) is a strange man in the world, occasionally crazy and eccentric, but uniquely sane. Zhou Zheng (Wang Junkai), a sensitive and silent teenager who is self-absorbed due to his stutte ...

Nice to Meet You (2018)

Love stories of students in a re-preparing school for college entrance exams. ...

Love On The Cloud (2014)

Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing. ...

Longtou (2012)

Beautiful 2012 (2012)

A collection of shorts by four East Asian directors: Ann Hui on a male-to-female sex change, Kim Tae-yong on an emotional imposture, Gu Changwei on pregnancy in China and Tsai Ming-Liang on time and the city of Hong Kong. ...

Love for Life (2011)

Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find love wi ...

And the Spring Comes (2007)

In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career. ...

All the Invisible Children (2006)

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist. ...

Peacock (2005)

Brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal. ...

Devils on the Doorstep (2001)

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate ...

Autumn in New York (2000)

Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to reevaluate what they want out of life, even as ...

Hurlyburly (1998)

A group of actors and their casting agents try to find a direction in their lives whilst coming to terms with their personal problems and relationship conflicts. ...

The Gingerbread Man (1998)

A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets. ...

In the Heat of the Sun (1994)

Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls. ...

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades. ...

Life on a String (1991)

A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string. ...

Ju Dou (1990)

Tianqing falls in love with Ju Dou, his uncle's wife who is tortured for being childless. However, after they have an affair, they discover that his uncle is impotent and try to conceal the truth. ...

Codename Cougar (1989)

A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, ...

Red Sorghum (1988)

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the J ...

King of the Children (1987)

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write ...

The Magic Braid (1986)

Magic Braid filmed the novel by Feng Tszitsaya (1942). The film tells about a rustic merchant soy bad Second owning family style battle scythe, which, due to circumstances became embroiled in a conflict with the underworld Tianjin. ...

At the Beach (1984)

"At he beach" - A hidden masterpiece: one part rural elegy, one part urban romance, forged together in an editing tour de force. Rarely screened in China or outside, this story of a fisherman's daughter caught between factory work and feudal forced marriag ...

Fate Express (2018)

A loser deep in debt tries to use his girlfriend to seduce a rich boss for money. ...

Nice to Meet You (2018)

Love stories of students in a re-preparing school for college entrance exams. ...

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and dari ...

Together (2010)

Zhao Liang's film portrays AIDS sufferers of both genders; they are all people with very different biographies. As if it wasn't bad enough being infected by HIV, their suffering is compounded by the fact that in the People's Republic of China the disease i ...

Crazy English (1999)

A documentary about Li Yang, who tries to teach large numbers of Chinese to speak English, using unusual methods. He holds motivational rallies, where he gets the crowd to shout out English phrases, in order to instill confidence, and tells them not to be ...

King of the Children (1987)

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write ...