The best Li Jiuxiao’s movies

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

In 1953, the Korean War is entering the final stage. The People's Volunteer Army of China has launched the last major battle in Kumsong. In order to arrive at the battleground on time and deliver enough force to the Kumsong front line, the soldiers have to defend themselves against the never ending bombing of enemy bombers and race with time to repair bridges, all under the circumstance of supply shortages and inferior equipment. The rarely told history slowly unfolds.

When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. While deciding to take the easy money or go to the police, they find out one of the bank’s employees is a former classmate and look to enlist her in deciding their future.

A man must attempt to clear his name after a theatre puts on a play that accuses him of committing a 30-year-old murder.

Diagnosed with ovarian cancer, iron-willed journalist Sheng Nan (“Surpass Men” in Chinese) is pressured to make a quick fortune and find mind-blowing sex before the costly surgery numbs her senses. Taking on a businessman’s biography writing job, she hikes into the misty mountains, where a chain of outbursts with her dysfunctional family, grumpy client, misogynistic co-worker and dreamlike romantic interest hilariously unfold. As deeply moving as it is luminously witty, writer-director Teng Congcong’s debut waltzes across the bitterness swallowed by her generation of women born under China’s One Child Policy, unprecedentedly burdened to “surpass men” while trying not to be “leftover women” at the same time. Saluting the 18th-century Chinese literature classic Dream of the Red Chamber in its title, the enchanting gem refreshes the novel's transcendent contemplation on desire, death and womanhood from a modern cinematic perspective.

The story of Li Dazhao's revolutionary deeds from 1912 to 1927, and the story of the benevolent and revolutionary pioneers who were led by him to devote themselves to the great cause of Marxism

The story follows a small-town youth who becomes the henchman to a debt-collector. His life is complicated by a cold and estranged parent-child relationship, and an ambiguous relationship with a young woman.

Somewhere in a southern county of China, summer has just begun and it’s already greeted by a series of indecent assault, victims are identical: Girl in one-piece dress. Captain Hu along with Officer Tsai are assigned to crack the case, meanwhile Tsai is suffering from hemorrhoids that makes his life more complicated. Little did Tsai know that he’d reunite with a nurse named Fen whom he first met in the hospital again at a matchup afterwards. Meanwhile, Papa Hu has other issues to deal with; he realizes his teenage daughter has grown up into a young woman overnight, he must now learn to reconnect with an adolescent. Elsewhere, his semi-paralyzed father-in-law has been awfully picky on choosing a desirable nanny. Obviously the old man is seeking for someone young, to make things worse, Hu’s wife, slippery like an eel, has gradually isolated herself from the family.

Suffering from a terminal illness, a mother finds renewed determination to catch the perpetrator who abducted and killed her daughter ten years ago.