Chinese Cinema in 2012
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- DirectorDante LamStarsJay ChouNicholas TsePeng LinInternational Security Affairs agent Jon is on a dangerous mission to escort a criminal scientist to another country. En route, a member of his team, Sean, turns out to be a traitor and shoots Jon in the head while kidnapping the scientist. When Jon wakes up in the hospital, a doctor tells him that within weeks, the bullet in his brain will cause complete paralysis. Jon returns to Beijing to see his mother, who confesses that Jon has a brother in Malaysia who was raised by his father, a gambler. Jon takes a flight to Malaysia to find his brother, Yeung. On the plane he forms a bond with Dr. Kan, who promises to look into possible treatments for his condition. However, when they arrive, Yeung tries to kidnap the doctor and when Jon intervenes, he's also taken hostage. The two soon realize they're brothers, and decide to work together in order to keep the criminals behind the kidnappings from reinfecting the world of a disease long thought cured.
- DirectorGiddens KoStarsKai KoMichelle ChenShao-Wen HaoA group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Jiayi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ke Jingteng, but he ends up loving her as well.
- DirectorXiaoshuai WangStarsJingchun WangWenqing LiuGuo Liuxing Zhong11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school's daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great sacrifice. Soon after, Wang encounters a wounded man on the run and their fates are intertwined.
- DirectorEric KhooStarsFrancis BoscoJathisweranKeng Yew SeetA single dad looks to give up drinking and his bartender job in order to impress his son and find work as a magician.
- DirectorVincent KokStarsRonald ChengRaymond LamTeresa MoC.T. Yu aka Spring (Teresa Mo) and her daughter, Karena (Karena Ng), work respectively as a Designer and Steward Manager in a Multinational Enterprise of Mens Underwear founded by their brother and uncle, Hugo (Raymond Wong). For the sake of winning back his ex-girlfriend, Muse (Hai Qing), who is now a World Class Fashion Designer; Hugo pretends his business to be at a brink of bankruptcy and therefore hoping to recruit her for help. Muse reckons and seizes the opportunity to take revenge on Hugo for his past insulting remarks of women as inferiors. As a prerequisite, she demands him to establish a New Fashion Line name under Mini Men and achieve positive results before she will accept the offer. With no room for mistakes, Hugo employs Top Model Jojo (Lynn Xiong) for a healthy competition against Spring; having each side designing a Collection Set in which the winner will take charge of the New Fashion Line. Seeing Spring under deep stress, her desperate daughter fatefully runs into Stand-in Actor, Fei (Ronald Cheng), who offers his job experience as an inspiration to her mother. However, what worries Spring more seems to be the blooming relationship between Karena and Fei. In order to turn the table around, Fei calls upon his dear cousin, Owen (Raymond Lam), who happens to be an ex-Fashion Photographer for reinforcement. Fact is that little does anyone know Owen and Jojo had crossed path before. This journey composed of multiple rivalry battles will surely take a hilarious route towards a meaningful outcome.
- DirectorHing-Ka ChanStarsGong LinnaDonnie YenChi-Fung TangFour men go on a heroic mission to help four women and wind up experiencing a series of mishaps.
- DirectorQunshu GaoStarsQianqian KongLixian ZhangBeijing police officer Zhang Hui Ling, who patrols Haidian District's Shuangyushu neighborhood in Beijing, has a job to do. Every day, he has to go out in the street with his cohort of security guards who speak a bewildering array of accents from all over China, and track down and arrest thieves, hucksters, and con artists. And he's good at it; after more than 10 years on the force, Zhang Hui Ling has an uncanny ability to sniff out criminals from the throngs of people passing through his district. He needs those skills in Shuangyushu, a migrant neighborhood where criminals congregate. Like the car thief who steal BMW's and Mercedes with interface gadgets he buys on the Internet, or the family gang who crash cars into passing automobiles and demand settlement on the spot, or the currency counterfeiters, con artists who dress as monks to defraud religious old women in crisis, or the former thief who was injured during his last arrest and now hounds his unemployed younger brother for cash, or the retired master thief who is looking for a way to reclaim his former glory. These thieves, con artists, and criminals, and the bottomless pain and bitterness buried in their hearts, are the underworld in this society. And these people, criminals of every sort, are the type of people Zhang Hui Ling has to deal with every day. There's no outlet for the humiliation and misery he endures as part of it. His job is to face it and deal with it, to stop crimes from happening. But he can't help feeling like it's partly his fault that he's failing, somehow, because the crime and misery doesn't stop. In the depths of his spirit, the positive and negative forces in his life grapple, every day, every crime, every arrest, every bit of mercy and understanding renewing the endless battle for his soul.
- DirectorPin-Chuan KaoStarsHan Dian ChenMichelle ChenYing-Chieh ChenGao-bing works in a bakery in a small town. The owner, Mr Chiu, is so into his Rock 'n 'Roll band, and the apprentice Di doesn't seem enthusiastic about learning baking at all. The business of the bakery is getting down and Gao-bing doesn't know what to do with the situation. All he can do is work harder and makes more bread. Ping, the daughter of Mr Chiu, grew up together with Gao-bing and is Gao-bing's girlfriend. She often complains that Gao-bing only follows the traditions and doesn't take any dramatic actions to save the bakery. In order to develop revolutionary new flavors, Ping takes baking courses in the city where she meets Bread. Bread, born in America, is charming and humorous. He falls for Ping at the very first sight. Even though Ping is with Gao-bing, she finds Bread's bread has a special magic. She thinks Bread might be the one that saves the bakery... With Ping's arrangement, Bread moves in to Mr Chiu's houses and becomes Gao-bing's roommate. Bread never hides his feelings toward Ping and always says, "We must put our passing into the bread". Gao-bing disagrees with Bread's western style and thinks of him merely a dumbass from America.
- DirectorAnn HuiStarsAndy LauDeannie IpHailu QinAfter suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home.
- DirectorZheng XuStarsZheng XuBaoqiang WangHuang BoOn a wild road trip, three men find inner peace in the city that never sleeps.
- DirectorRoy Hin Yeung ChowStarsNick CheungSimon YamJanice ManAn old but serious miscarriage of justice clouds a current police investigation looking into the death of a mutilated corpse.
- DirectorJianqi HuoStarsChen Bo-linYao TongYo YangA kind and cheerful young man helps a singer from the mainland who has lost her voice settle into his rural Taiwan village.
- DirectorDayyan EngStarsKevin SpaceyDaniel WuBeibi GongA troubled young man, Li faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. Chuck, rescues Li from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor. But who is Chuck really?
- DirectorChi-Leung LawStarsNicholas TseChing Wan LauMi YangSon Donglu, a newly promoted detective teams up with Guo Zhui, fastest gunman in Tiancheng and Xiaowu, a novice policeman to investigate the mystery deaths in a bullet factory.
- DirectorYung ChangStarsMoxiang QiYunfei MiaoZongli HeA documentary on rural teenagers in southwestern China who are recruited as their country's next Olympic hopefuls, with a focus on the coach Qi Moxiang.
- DirectorSoi CheangStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongShawn YueXiaodong GuoA rookie cop takes on a veteran escape driver in a death defying final showdown on the streets of Hong Kong.
- DirectorJing WongStarsChapman ToFiona SitKar-Ying LawManfred and Flora are compulsive gamblers who can gamble on anything 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They meet at a casino in Macau, where they both suffer heavy losses and are held hostage by loan sharks. During their hostage ordeal, they start to have passion for each other. When they meet in Hong Kong again, they finally fall in love and decided to get married. After they married, their luck turned, making great progress in both their career and relationship. They soon gave birth to their daughter. With assistance of a charming producer, Michelle, Manfred got the chance to take a leading role in a new movie. The Casino Boss, Sam, invited Flora to work for him to chase away the con men. In fact, Michelle and Sam are ex-lovers. Both of them are now attracted by Manfred and Floras unique characters and go for them in full strength. Manfred and Flora cannot resist the temptation and decided to get divorced. However, both of them would like to obtain their daughters custody rights.
- DirectorStephen FungStarsHark-On FungXiaochao YuanStephen FungYang travels to Chen Village to learn a powerful form of Tai Chi. Though villagers are forbidden from teaching outsiders, Yang becomes their best hope for survival when a man arrives with a plan to build a railroad through the village.
- DirectorMiu-Suet LaiStarsShu QiShu ChenShawn YueHui Bao is an actress rehearsing for a performance in a theater play alongside her boyfriend Nan. Falling sick and being unable to perform in the play, her twin sister Hui Xiang replace her as an act of kindness. However, Hui Xiang performs outstandingly eventhough having no drama training. Hui Bao starts to suspect that her twin sister has a romantic interest in her boyfriend, and it drives a wedge between the them.
- DirectorShangjun CaiStarsJianbin ChenHong TaoXiubo WuA man is tracking down the murderer of his brother and this journey in many places made him facing his own troubles.
- DirectorXiaogang FengStarsGuoli ZhangHanyu ZhangWei FanA deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China's Henan province during the war against Japan.
- DirectorHo YimStarsAaron KwokJosie HoAnnie LiuIn 1940s Hong Kong, an orphaned boy (Aaron Kwok) rises above oppressive circumstances to become an esteemed engineer for the British colonies, but still struggles to learn where he came from.
- DirectorEr ChengStarsLu JinDahong NiHonglei SunThe story revolves around a drug dealer who falls in love with his hostage and decides to quit the business following one final deal.
- DirectorKwok-Leung KamStarsJanice ManChang ChenSimon YamPassion Island - a place where individuals with different goals met, weaving colorful stories as their paths intertwined...Simon and Johanna divorced years ago, citing different values and goals in life.