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Weiqi, often referred to as "Go" in English, is arguably the most important game in East Asia, with an estimated thirty million to fifty million players throughout the world. Weiqi is a board game but it is more. It is immersed in more vivid and often contradictory cultural metaphors than any other game in the world. As Chinese politics have changed over the last two millennia, so too has the imagery of the game—from a tool to seek religious enlightenment to military metaphors, one of the noble four arts, one of the condemned “four olds”, nationalism, transnationalism, historical elitism, and futuristic hyper rationality.

A deceptively simple stop-motion exercise that draws on the principles of Chinese chess, the world’s oldest extant boardgame.

In the 1990s, when Go gambling fever swept Korea, Gui-su loses everything because his father gambled obsessively until there was nothing left. Left all alone in the world, Gui-su meets a mentor and Go teacher, Il-do, and goes through vicious training to become the grandmaster of Go. He sets out for revenge on the world that destroyed his life, but soon finds himself chased by an unknown loner pursuing his own vendetta.

A professional GO player gathers a team to help him carry out his revenge against the man who killed his brother.

The life of Go master Wu Qingyuan from his meteoric rise as a child prodigy to fame and fortune as a revolutionary strategic thinker, as well as the tumultuous conflicts between his homeland of China and his adopted nation of Japan.

A young Chinese Go board game player arrives in Japan for training. He doesn't speak Japanese and becomes embarrassed living there. By dropping his Go stones, he happens to meet an old Japanese woman who sells vegetables on the street. They become familiar with each other. The young Chinese Go player, the old woman named Igarashi and her grandson Shoichi then live together.

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.

The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.

Guanglin is a blind boy in China who displays great skill at the ancient board game called Go, in which two players place black and white pieces on a grid in an attempt to dominate their opponent. Raised by a single father with limited means, Guanglin faces deep societal prejudice against the blind. First-time filmmaker Yunhong Pu, supported by veteran producer Jean Tsien (76 Days), follows the father and son trying to make a better future for themselves.

When LIU Yishou, nicknamed the "Go King" by his peers because of his skill in Weiqi (Go), finds himself without a job. And with no other skills to make a living, he then turns to teaching this strategic Chinese board game in a humble training school for children. Annoyed by her husband's passion for the game, LIU Yishou's wife leaves him, but their son, Xiao Chuan, wants to stay with his dad. Unexpectedly, LIU Yishou discovers that his son has a great talent for playing Weiqi and vows to support him in developing his gift for the game. A struggle then arises for the Go King to come up with the money to finance his son's studies of Weiqi.

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

The photographer Yilin grew up in a country village; now she lives and works on her own in the city. Increasingly unhappy, she decides to return to her village. But not even in her childhood home does she find the serenity she longs for. On the contrary, she is forced to face up to painful childhood memories and come to terms once more with her mourning over her father’s death. The situation is made even more distressing after she meets a strange couple who live nearby: the mother keeps her child blindfolded and tied to a chair in the stall.

Tells a story of how two pupils are brought up the spirit of collectivism with the help of their teachers and Young Pioneers.

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The film tells the story of Zhang Hao, a martial arts stuntman who has stellar skills but has no talent. His family life is not going well. He returns to the house and leaks when he finds out that he has cancer. Recognizing the FBI, he was involved in an operation to annihilate the Golden Triangle drug lord by mistake, and all kinds of ironic stories happened in the process. With the appearance of different characters, Brother Hao's various "death by tricks" plans were frequently interrupted, and many jokes were made, but he also slowly realized the true meaning of life...

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Chinese girl Moran (Yuan Bai Zi Hui) lost her mother during childhood, but her sudden bizarre death has always been a mystery, which left her heartbroken. Having moved to Thailand, eighteen year-old Moran is perplexed by a variety of bizarre deaths that occur one after another in massage parlours, making her mother’s death even more complicated and confusing. Meanwhile, Thai policeman (Huang Kaijie) has led an in-depth investigation, discovering that the people who died are inextricably linked. Layers of mystery finally expose a cover-up and the shocking truth…

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It's about the life of a family in the 1960s and 1980s

Zhou's husband died in the Cultural Revolution. She lived arduously with her only son. Lo, a kind postman, helped her during her hardest time.

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Top programmer Lu Xiaopao received a blackmail video of her sister Lu Xiaomei being kidnapped and asked Lu Xiaopao to pay 1 million yuan to ransom her. The younger sister Lu Xiaomei, who was successfully "rescued", and Lu Xiaopao broke up. Unexpectedly, Lu Xiaomei was accidentally kidnapped by the cybercriminal gang "Black Domain", and the rescue operation began.

Seven adventurers including Shanhe were invited to the exploration this time. Yet these unexpected visitors disturbed a huge prehistoric worm in the isolated and dangerous forest where numerous unknown creatures were lurking. As the adventurers were killed by the prehistoric worm one by one, they met a mysterious old lady and the secrets of the worm as well as the Wild men unfolded…

Chen Xiaozhou suffered an accident after falling out of love, and since then he has often seen large groups of “quacking” rubber ducks, which has brought great obstacles to Chen Xiaozhou's life. Until a girl named Feng Jianan appears, Chen Xiaozhou is surprised to find that as long as he is with Feng Jianan, the ducks won't run out to make trouble, and a hilarious romantic journey begins.

A teenage girl during Japanese occupation of Northeast China joins a group of bandits to get revenge after her friend is brutally gang-raped by the invaders.

Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s.

Documentary about Gertrude Du-Wagner, an Austrian woman who married a Chinese policeman in the 1930s and raised a family on a farm in eastern China.

A girl grew up in South Korea comes to Fengdu County to visit her mother. She finds a old building inherited by her mother's current husband and experiences an uncanny connection with a wrongly accused ghost.

On the eve of a new millennium and a looming eclipse, 9-year-old May tries to make sense of her mother’s difficult pregnancy while a neighbour plays a sinister speech on an endless loop.

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