Topic: Chinese Cultural Revolution

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Synopsis Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's wife abandons him, and he finds himself working as a...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi

Synopsis Farewell My Concubine (1993) follows the tumultuous lives of two Peking Opera performers, Douzi (later known as Cheng Dieyi) and Shitou (later known as Duan Xiaolou), spanning decades of political and personal upheaval in 20th-century China. Bound by their art...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhou Dongyu · Shawn Dou · Chen Taisheng · Rina Sa

Synopsis Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Chen Daoming · Zhang Huiwen · Guo Tao

Synopsis Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days...

Direction Jiang Wen

Cast Xia Yu · Ning Jing · Geng Le · Tao Hong

Direction Dai Sijie

Cast Zhou Xun · Chen Kun · Ye Liu · Wang Shuangbao

Synopsis Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Cast Joan Chen · Lü Liping · Chen Jianbin · Zhao Tao

Synopsis Chengdu nowadays. The state owned factory 420 shuts down to give way to a complex of luxury apartments called "24 CITY". Three generations, eight characters : old workers, factory executives and yuppies, their stories melt into the History of China.

Direction Tian Zhuangzhuang

Cast Lü Liping · Li Xuejian · Yi Tian · Zhang Wenyao

Synopsis On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), is born. The Party is everywhere: Mao's photograph, loud-speaker announcements, visits from the neighborhood committee. Shaolong dies...

Direction Zhang Yang

Cast Joan Chen · Sun Haiying · Zifeng Liu · Ge Gao

Synopsis The story of a family set against thirty years of Chinese history. It starts in the last year of the Cultural Revolution (1976), when the little 9-year-old Xiangyang re-encounters the father he can't remember - a father who has spent...

Direction Joan Chen

Cast Li Xiaolu · Lopsang · Qian Zheng · Gao Jie

Synopsis Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to the country side was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later she's...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Xie Yuan · Yang Xuewen · Chen Shaohua · Zhang Caimei

Synopsis In "King of the Children," the tale of a young man, exiled during the Cultural Revolution to Yunnan and chosen (despite his own minimal education) to teach a class of semi-literate peasant children who are accustomed to learning by memory...

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Gao Yuanyuan · Li Bin · Yao Anlian · Wang Xueyang

Synopsis In the 1960's, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country, in order to develop local industry. The film's main character is a 19 years old girl...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Yi Zhang · Fan Wei · Li Xiaochuan · Yu Ailei

Synopsis A prisoner is sent to a labour camp in China’s desolate northwest during the country’s Cultural Revolution. Using his wit, and with the sole purpose of seeing a newsreel containing a glimpse of his daughter, he escapes and heads for...

Direction Jia Zhangke

Synopsis Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Liu Wenqing · Wang Jingchun · Yan Ni · Wang Ziyi

Synopsis The latest film by the director of Beijing Bicycle is set during the years just before Mao’s died. Wang Han, an 11-year-old boy from the province of Ghizou, comes face to face with a murderer on the run. Hidden in...

Direction René Viénet · Francis Deron · Jean-Paul Tchang

Direction Zhang Nuanxing

Cast Li Fengxu · Feng Yuanzheng

Direction Wang Xiaoshuai

Cast Tong Wang · Shi Yu · Guo Tao

Synopsis Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids. Written by...

Direction Xie Jin · Huang Shuqin

Cast Zhu Shimao · Cong Shan · Niu Ben · Zhao Ziyue

Synopsis When Xu Jingyou (Liu Qiong) an American businessman goes to China in 1980, he wants to bring his son Lingjun (Zhu Shimao) back to the U.S. so he can have an easier life. They have been separated for 30 years,...

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast John Lone · Koichi Sato · Sammi Davis · Vivian Wu

Synopsis During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, idealistic anticommunist Henry Wong fled mainland China as a political refugee with his then girlfriend, Moo-Ling. He built himself a new life in Hong Kong and eventually became a slick rich banker with political ambitions....