Xun Zhou

"After the establishment of People's Republic of China, the People's Liberation Army, set up an intelligence agency called 701 to fight against them. 701 keeps tapping their foes' secret redio channels to monitor their moves and collect intelligence. One day, all of a sudden, all the secret radio channels seem to disappear without a trace. Xuening is sent to Shanghai to seek for worthy who gets superb aural comprehension..." -- Container.

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In 1971 China, in the lingering grip of the cultural revolution, two university students, Luo and Ma, are sent to a mountain mining village as part of their reeducation duty to purge them of their classical western oriented education. Amid the backbreaking work and stifling ignorance of the community, the two boys find that music, and the presence of the beautiful local young women are the only pleasant things in their miserable life. However, none...

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1941. Hong Kong is under Japanese occupation. During the three-year-and -eight-month occupation, the Japanese military pillages homes and arrests cultural figures living in Hong Kong. The anti-Japanese Dongjiang guerilla unit is tasked with rescuing these cultural figures and extracting them from the besieged city. Primary school teacher Fang Lan (Zhou Xun) and her mother (Deanie Ip) are trying to live out this difficult period in a small run-down...

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Just as Guei, a bicycle messenger, makes his final payment for the silver mountain bike loaned by his company, he finds it stolen. After endless searching Guai discovers his bicycle is now in the hands of Jian, who bought the bicycle with stolen money. The bicycle represents an escape for both from the competitive pressures of their lives. For Guei, it means access to a job, an income, and survival. For Jian, it is the pathway to being "cool" and...

Along the banks of the Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, Mardar falls in love with a dramatically beautiful young woman named Moudan. When he tries to kidnap her to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping into the river, and disappearing forever. Mardar serves a three-year jail sentence for his attempted crime. Upon his release, he meets a woman that looks exactly like Moudan, named MeiMei.