Asian Drama

In the birch forest of a small town at this time, Wang Xiang, a taxi driver, could never expect to meet the person that he most wants or fears to meet in his entire life. Is he an enemy or a friend? Since he has met him, he has to get closure, not just for him but also for his son.

In the birch forest of a small town at that time, Wang Xiang, a train driver, was full of vigour and vitality, for he was driving a steel monster with twenty carriages. But on the one hand, he failed to run a small family of three filled with trivial matters. On the other hand, he was trapped in a faltering factory with a crisis looming up from every corner.

A pack of unidentified body parts was dropped in the birch forest, just like a stone into the calm water. For the past twenty years, Wang Xiang could never stop thinking about that pack, not even when the leaves in the fall turned yellow. A lost father, a dead lover and old friends meeting up again were trapped in three different eras because of an unsolved mystery. All they want is to find a truth that travels through the past, the present and the future. When the mystery is revealed, only the elegy of fate and the era is left in the long season with time and space intertwined together.

Walking out of the Peking University Hospital, a middle-aged man borrows a cigarette from a stranger and says, "The diagnosis came out. It’s cancer. Stage four." Upon meeting his older brother Li Chun, Li Dong suggests a trip to Yanagawa, where the brother’s first love, Liu Chuan, lives. In Yoko Ono’s hometown of Yanagawa, Liu Chuan works as a bar singer, often singing John Lennon’s "Oh My Love." On reuniting with Liu Chuan, the brothers approach her in their own ways, as they had 20 years ago.

Aired frist on (Pingyao International Film Festival/Busan Film Festival) at 12.10.2021

Gu Xi struggles with keeping her maid job at a hotel because of undocumented citizenship status. Her brother, Gu Liang, is a fisherman and the breadwinner in the family, their parents died in the indeterminately distant past. When an oil leak contaminates the shore and kills all the fish of the season, the siblings lose their main source of income. They accidentally meet and make friends with Qing Chang, the daughter of Gu Xi's boss. Her father is willing to give Gu Liang, now a friend of the family, a job, but the legality of some of the tasks he is given is pretty suspicious. Emotions between the three young protagonists are running high when Qing Chang and Gu Liang become a couple, and Gu Xi starts having serious doubts about her origins.

Set in Shanghai in the 1930s / 1940s, the drama follows the story of a dance hostess, Chin Zhao Li, and the 3 important men in her life.

Due to family poverty, Chin Zhao Li was forced to become a dance hostess at the infamous Paramount dance hall in Shanghai when she was 18 years old. The story is about how she met her first love, Sheng Yue Ru, a young man from Shanghai's high society, who studied abroad, loves painting and theater, and someone who is single-minded and dedicated to love. They fell deeply in love and became lovers. But their relationship faced strong resistance and objections from both families, especially Yue Ru's father, a rich banker.

Adapted from the short story by Bai Xian Yong titled The Last Night of Madam Chin.