Wu Tianming

Song of the Phoenix (2016)

The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are declining in Chinese society. ...

Something About Kids (2010)

Out of Control (2008)

The film mainly tells the story of a couple of urban men and women who embarked on a road of escape due to an accident. ...

Mr. Cinema (2007)

Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, including r ...

C.E.O. (2002)

Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted. ...

An Unusual Love (2000)

The day before his wedding, Tian gets into a serious accident, and falls into a coma. He will probably be a vegetable for the rest of his life. His fiancee, Shu, dedicates her life to caring for him, but after many years begins to be swayed and tempted by ...

The King of Masks (1995)

Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner achi ...

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 ...

Old Well (1986)

A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them. ...

The Horse Thief (1986)

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their ...

The Black Cannon Incident (1985)

A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed ...

Life (1984)

Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. By a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate who is first dismissed from teaching post and then enrolled as a journalist ...

The River Without Buoys (1984)

Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Thirty years ago, he was in love with a girl. He talks about memory of this love affair with regret. ...

The Kinship (1980)

Chen Yunxuan and his daughter Xiujuan escape from China to Taiwan in 1949 but leave Chen's pregnant wife behind. 30 years later Xiujuan meets her mother and a brother she never knew. ...

The Thrill of Life (1979)

Full Circle (2012)

The residents of a nursing home sneak past security guards to compete in a nationally televised talent contest. ...

The Joy Luck Club (1993)

Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts. ...

Shoot for the Contents (1992)

Reflecting on Mao's famous saying, "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend," Trinh T. Minh-ha's film — whose title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game — is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and ...

A Terra-Cotta Warrior (1989)

An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old. ...

New Chinese Cinema (1989)

Tony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China. ...

Red Tide on Ba Mountains (1961)