Lü Yulai

The Darker the Lake (2022)

When strange, supernatural murders suddenly become the talk a peaceful town, two detectives must solve a deadly game, but will the myth of this game reveal secrets too close to home. ...

Fire on the Plain (2021)

A series of murders strikes the city of Fentun. The crimes mysteriously stop without the authorities having been able to find the perpetrator. Eight years later, a young police officer, close to one of the victims, decides to reopen the investigation. ...

Complicity (2020)

A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles. ...

Begin, Again (2019)

The story tells about a 35-year old woman who has been struggling in the city for over 10 years. She meets a younger woman who dreams of a life in the city and a 7-years younger colleague and with the help of the two, her family and friends, she gradually ...

Blue Amber (2018)

When a traffic accident claims the life of He Jie's husband, a substantial life insurance payment does little to heal the wound. One day, a museum tour guide's joke of a rare piece of blue ... ...

Iceman: The Time Traveler (2018)

The imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later pass and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind. ...

Signature (2017)

A naive young man from China is anxiously memorizing "his hope" in the middle of the noisy crowd in Shibuya. ...

Inside: A Chinese Horror Story (2017)

Cui Kai is a has-been writer and lives in his distressed apartment, unemployed. One day he receives an exciting job offer from an editor-to create a horror series. Kai has finally completed the horror series. The book becomes an immediate hit. However, fam ...

Thailand's Love (2016)

Thai beauty Xing Xiao searches for her missing twin sister Xing Hui. In her search, she is helped by psychiatrist Chen Yonglin. ...

Tomb Mystery (2015)

TGu Ye was born in a family of intellectuals, from small to generate a strong interest in history, especially during the Tang Dynasty princess Gao Yang is particularly obsessed with the legend. Because of his father's paranoia, he has entered the Universit ...

Tales of Mystery (2015)

A university swimmer's sudden death sparks suspicions among classmates, leading her friend and rival to uncover chilling secrets lurking beneath the surface; A young man's infatuation with a nearby sculptor takes a sinister turn as he delves deeper into he ...

Boss I Love You! (2014)

This short film explores same-sex attraction within the context of power relationships in contemporary China where oppression stems from the socio-economic inequality that leaves the disenfranchised pining for what they cannot have, as a young chauffeur fi ...

Forever Young (2014)

"Forever Young" tells the story of a middle aged man who finds life boring. All his youthful dreams seem to have amounted to nothing. That is until he decides one day that it's still not too late and he starts to pursue them once again. The film won the G ...

A Poet in Exile (2013)

The dark night has given me dark eyes, yet I use them to search for light. A documentary about the controversial poet Gu Cheng. ...

Trap Street (2013)

While surveying city streets for a digital-mapping company, engineer Qiuming catches sight of Lifen, a beautiful young woman. Immediately smitten, he follows her to a street that doesn't appear on any map or even a GPS. ...

Beijing Flickers (2012)

Beijing is happening these days, but not everyone is living the golden life. Dumped, fired, evicted and abandoned by everyone (including his dog), a down-on-his-luck man finds solace with a circle of equally ill-fated friends, in this touching and lighthea ...

The Last Supper (2012)

The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty. ...

Ten Years from Now (2011)

Two lifelong friends jeopardize their relationship when one insists they sleep with each other. ...

Here, There (2011)

Three interwoven stories of contemporary China. In the snowy forests of northern China, a lonely man herds reindeer and busies himself with his daily tasks, looking forward to visits from his wife and son. In Shanghai, a young restaurant worker becomes dra ...

Merry-Go-Round (2010)

The story of two women, two generations apart, who coincidentally return to Hong Kong from San Francisco where they had their first, fleeting encounter on the streets as strangers. ...

11度青春之夕花朝拾 (2010)

At That Summer (2010)

No Matter What (2009)

One day young countryside girl Han Bing decides that she had enough. She packs her bag and takes the train to Shanghai to pursue her dream of becoming a pop star. She moves in with her uncle who is not at all happy with his niece getting into the competiti ...

Soundless Wind Chime (2009)

Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion. ...

Shanghai Trance (2008)

Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals. Cinematographic portrait of modern life in the mega-city of Shanghai is made up of three separa ...

Knitting (2008)

Daiping hates Haili. Haili came out of nowhere into her apartment, her life, and her romising relationship with Chen Jin and she bullies Daiping mercilessly. Then one day, Chen Jin disappears, leaving Daiping pregnant again. Haili has also experienced many ...

The Red Awn (2007)

A father and son meet after five years of the father's absence and they go on a trip to rebuild their relationship. ...

To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state ...

Courthouse on Horseback (2006)

The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have ...

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. ...

Break Through the Darkness (2021)

Film tells about Song Yirui, the leader of a certain anti-criminal task force, who led the team to conduct an in-depth investigation of a land acquisition case. ...

Life of Zhang Chu (2019)

Zhang Chu lives a simple, charmed life in the small town of Tao Yuan. His ex-wife, Cao Shujuan, left him behind to pursue greater dreams in Beijing, while his girlfriend, Li Hong, is back to town from Beijing to pursue a stable relationship with him but en ...