Wang Chao

安阳婴儿

Wang Chao

Sun Guilin, Yue Sengyi

An unemployed factory worker adopts the child of a desperate prostitute in exchange for 200 yuan a month in child support. When the woman's pimp, a local gangster, not only finds out that he may have fathered the child, but also that he is dying of cancer, he decides that he must adopt the baby - and is willing to resort to violence if necessary.

Jiang cheng xia ri

Wang Chao

Tian Yuan, Youcai Wu

A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son.

重来

Wang Chao

Yan Bingyan, Jiao Gang

A woman, He Sizhu, and her lover, Chen Mo, are in a car accident. When she wakes up at the hospital where her husband is a surgeon, she has forgotten everything. Her lover has become a stranger, but he wants her back.

日日夜夜

Wang Chao

Lei Liu

Set against the background of unregulated coalmining in northern China, the protagonist Guansheng must deal with an unquiet conscience when his mentor, Zhongmin, dies in a mine explosion. Zhongmin's ghost returns with a request which motivates Guansheng out of his lethargy but which will try him to the depths of his soul. (Adelaide Film Festival)

幻想曲

Wang Chao

Hu Ruijie, Su Su

Father got leukaemia. Mother was laid off long ago. She had to borrow money for her husband everywhere. Sister went to a night club to be a waitress secretly and soon became a “call girl”. Lin was cold-shouldered at school because of father’s illness. He became disgusted of school. One day, at the riverside, he found a dilapidated ship and knew the strange “father and daughter”. Lin made friends with that girl and helped them to steal iron stone. Because of Lin’s frequent absences the teacher came to see mother. He was sympathy for her. One day, Lin discovered his teacher was at his home with mother together…Lin went to see father. He could not help emerging out such a fantasy: He pinched father’s transfusion tube…Lin came to the riverside once again, but that ship disappeared…

Looking for Rohmer

Wang Chao

Renaud Cohen, Alice de Lencquesaing

The first homosexual love story themed movie to receive approval for theatrical release in China. The film follows the initial meeting of, and the subsequent secret relationship between Zhao Jie and Rohmer. They decide to travel to Tibet together. During their travels they are involved in an incident which leads to the death of a child. Although they are not responsible, they feel a lot of guilt. They quarrel about it and end up going separate ways. Later Zhao Jie learns that Rohmer has been in an accident on a glacier and, torn with remorse for not having helped him enough after the earlier incident, Zhao Jie goes to find him.

飞行员呆呆鸟

Jiaxing An

Wang Chao, Liu Xuetao

In the film, 槑舄 (pronunciation: no drama) is a smug pilot. He lives in distress, but he will make fun of it. It reflects the lifestyle of men and women in modern cities. Although the appearance is beautiful, the hardship is only oneself. Understand, and all efforts are to live up to their own. In the world of illusory papers, people can easily lose themselves, and those who are really down-to-earth and work hard will understand the true meaning of life.

父子情

Wang Chao

A search in a poor, remote village by a wealthy out-of-towner, a Beijing businessman, for the body of his son who’s died in a river-boat accident, turns by film’s end into bearing witness to a rural China that, while placid on the surface, is in fact roiled by powerful socioeconomic currents from afar. That breathtaking terrain-shifting, accomplished with the gentlest of touch by Wang, seeps through every aspect of „River’s Edge“.

Quan wang

Gao Fang, Dun Hai

During World War II two brothers raise a dog who mates with a wolf. After the dog is killed protecting the brothers from the Japanese, they give the puppies to be trained by guerrillas to fight the Japanese.