Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, walks into a café, places a call, and then sits and waits. She remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China. She is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi. With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min. Kuang has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe’s new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee. Each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will gain Yees’ trust by befriending his wife and then draw the man into an affair. Wong transforms herself utterly inside and out, and the scenario proceeds as scripted until an unexpectedly fatal twist spurs her to flee. Shanghai, 1941. With no end in sight for the occupation, Wong having emigrated from Hong Kong goes through the motions of her existence. Much to her surprise, Kuang re-enters her life. Now part of the organized resistance, he enlists her to again become Mrs. Mak in a revival of the plot to kill Yee, who as head of the collaborationist secret service has become even more a key part of the puppet government. As Wong reprises her earlier role, and is drawn ever closer to her dangerous prey, she finds her very identity being pushed to the limit…

Confucius (Chinese: 孔子) is a Chinese biographical film first released in Beijing on 14 January 2010. Directed by Hu Mei, the film stars Chow Yun-fat as the titular philosopher.
Production on the film began in March 2009 with shooting on location in China’s Hebei province and in Hengdian World Studios in Zhejiang.[2]
The film was scheduled to screen later in 2009 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, as well as the 2,560th birthday of Confucius himself.[2] However, the release date was later moved to January 2010.

Directed by Hu Mei
Produced by Han Sanping
Hu Mei
Starring Chow Yun-fat
Zhou Xun
Music by Su Cong
Cinematography Peter Pau
Studio Dadi Film
China Film Group
Release date(s) China:
28 January 2010

AKA pinyin: láng zāi jì
Historical action film directed by veteran filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang. The film tells the story of the battle between two ancient warriors. It is Tian’s latest directorial effort since 2006’s The Go Master.

Directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang
Produced by William Kong
Written by Tian Zhuangzhuang
Novella:
Inoue Yasushi
Starring Maggie Q
Tou Chung-hua
Joe Odagiri
Cinematography Wang Yu
Editing by Wenders Li
Distributed by Worldwide:
EDKO Film
Release date(s) Toronto:
September 13, 2009
China:
October 2, 2009
Running time 100 min

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Inspired by the novel Survival by You Fengwei, Devils on the Doorstep is set in the last years of the Second Sino-Japanese War during World War II and tells the story of a Chinese villager who is forced by a mysterious figure to take custody of two prisoners from the Japanese Army (Yuan). Fearing both the mystery man and the Japanese, the village falls into a dilemma over what to do with the two prisoners.

Directed by	Jiang Wen
Produced by	Jiang Wen
Written by	Shi Ping Shi Jianquan Jiang Wen You Fengwei Inspired by a novella by You Fengwei
Starring	Jiang Wen Kagawa Teruyuki Yuan Ding Jiang Hongbo
Music by	Cui Jian Liu Xing Li Haiying
Cinematography	Wang Min Zhao Xiaoshi
Editing by	Zhang Yifan Folmer Wiesinger
Release date(s)	12 May 2000
Running time	139 min.
Country	China
Language	Chinese Japanese

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