Ma Xiaoqing

Seahorse Dance Hall

Stories of an Editorial Board

Located somewhere in Beijing, the editorial department of "Guide to the Human World" brings together six intellectuals with distinct personalities. These colleagues encounter all kinds of people amid Reform and Opening-up, with many situations unfolding around them.

警坛风云

A Native of Beijing in New York

A Chinese cello artist who grew up under the educational background of Mao era came to New York to make a living. During doing business in New York, his career, love, and family had both gains and losses.

爱的品格

Good Morning Beijing

A Beijing bus driver is in love with a ticket-taker, but she becomes pregnant by a Singapore student.

The Law of Romance

Weekend Lover

The film follows a young man, A Xi who is recently released from prison. Once released, he seeks out his old girlfriend Li Xin who has since begun a relationship with La La a young musician. As the two men vie for her attention, tension and violence escalate.

The Cradle

In the early period of China's War of Liberation the Yan'an Nursey which housed the children of the revolutionary fighters had to be evacuated. Li Nan, an army instructor, guides the group of children to the liberated area in the Taihang Mountains and their parents. Made to mark International Children's Year.

A Letter Without Any Words

Jin Hua learns the story of a coin with a hole in it and his summer camp team in a model airplane competition is inspired.

理想万岁

Women from the Lake of Scented Souls

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.

家乡浪漫曲

Ku Guo

Public Security officers investigate the robbery of a post office and the injury of a young woman.

Apart Together

Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family's approval to take her away with him.