This story is adapted from real events. The defending team in the story is the main member of an African bodyguard company composed of Chinese. They not only face the separation of flesh and blood from their relatives far away, but also face the test of life and death when performing tasks. So Captain Yang Dong decided to take the defending team on a long journey home. Back to the embrace of their home country, China. On the way home, the defending team encountered armed bandits slaughtering civilians. Captain Yang Dong led everyone to rescue the innocent refugee and girl Nata. After that, the defending team fought bloody battles with the bandits, but they still failed to get rid of the bandits' pursuit and interception. At a critical moment, the captain Yang Dong replied strongly when facing the vicious threat of the bandit leader: We will not bow to evil.

Director Daisuke Tengan, son of acclaimed Japanese writer and filmmaker Shohei Imamura (The Eel, Vengeance is Mine), weaves this fanciful tale of a small seaside village with the highest birthrate in all of Japan. Set in the early 1990s, the ambitious rural epic follows a collection of small town eccentrics from Kaname as they eagerly await the arrival of the Prime Minister. In recent years, fewer married couples have been having children and women are waiting until they are much older to marry. Since the town of Kaname has such an impressive birthrate, the Prime Minster is planning to personally bestow its citizens a special award for excellence in procreation. The post-bubble economy in Japan is booming, everyone seems to have a cell phone and it isn't unusual to find vending machines that are fully stocked with schoolgirls' underwear. Newspaper reporter Kazuya Mizuno (Tomorrow Taguchi) has been exiled to Kaname following a high profile sex scandal. Kaname is the kind of town where little of note ever really happened, and as Mizuno gradually gets to know the locals he forms a growing fixation on widowed bar owner Teruko. Teruko is still in her thirties, and the spell she casts over Mizuno is absolutely undeniable. Before long, the entranced journalist is bearing witness to a virtual sexual revolution. As reality begins to distort and the bizarre story comes to an orgiastic climax, the power of the orgasm becomes plain for all to see.

A month later. Genji Takiya has graduated. New fights begin to see who will climb to the top at Suzuran High School. Meanwhile, a battle against nearby Kurosaki Industrial High School begins.

The lonely and silent rider Tae-suk breaks in empty houses and lives a normal life while the owners are traveling. He does not steal anything and moves from house to house without any loss other than food, and he cleans the houses, provides small repairs or washes some clothes to pay for the hospitality. When he enters in the house of Sun-hwa, he does not see the woman that is wounded in her room after being beaten up on by her abusive husband Min-gyu Lee. Tae-suk helps the hurt woman and when Min-gyu returns, he hits the husband with golf balls and Sun-hwa leaves her husband with Tae-suk on his motorcycle. When they break in the house of an old man, they find that the man is dead and Tae-suk provides funeral service for him. However, his son returns and Tae-suk and Sun-hwa are arrested by two abusive police detectives. He is sent to prison and Sun-hwa is forced to return home. But she never forgets him.

Tells the story of the Japanese, puppet, and Communist Party infiltrating each other during the Anti-Japanese War in 1940, and Nanjing folded into an adult hell. CCP ace agents Jin Shen Shui and Lin Ying Ying and a group of dedicated agents.

In Nanjing in 1940, various forces were intertwined and internal fighting continued. With family sorrows, Jin Shen Shui and Lin Ying Ying join forces for survival. In the process of self-protection, they discovered the brutal "Spring Thunder Plan" of the Japanese army. In order to protect their homes and defend the country, the two of them walked on the tip of a knife with a mortal heart.

(Source: douban and IGN china)

Duration: 2 hr. 1 min.

The Hairpin of the Rogue (2023)

Chang Chen Ghost Stories – original title: 张震讲故事之合租屋 – is a 2016 Chinese romantic horror film directed by Zan Yue. The film is also known as Chang Chen Ghost Stories 2. The film was released in China on July 8, 2016.

'Hommage' means respect in French and is a movie about a middle-aged woman who struggled with her dreams and her daily life as a film director as she unfolds her journey of restoring a film of a female director from the 60s. It is a movie that raises the question of what a film is.

Release dates: Oct 30, 2021 (Tokyo International Film Festival) || May 2022 (Cinema).