First part of the Decisive Engagement trilogy. Directed by Pingfen Li et al.

Chinese movie

Chinese movie

A brilliant, blackly comic script and the subtle comic genius of star Zhu Xu mark this as one of the best tragi-comedies of post-liberation Chinese cinema.

When impoverished young bride Youyou (Zhang) collapses from hunger at the door of handsome buccaneer Pan Hao (You Yong), he immediately decides to have her, much to the chagrin of his current squeeze, Widow Ma (Jiang Yanqiang).

On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail. While working for the local dog patrol team to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he strikes up an unlikely connection with a black dog. These two lonely souls embark on a journey together.

Qi Xiaofu is an autistic child, and his parents' marriage will also come to an end. One day, Qi Xiaofu unexpectedly met a stray dog, a child from the stars and a stray dog with the same bumpy fate, from mutual fear and rejection to slowly approaching, until they were interdependent and inseparable. After being forced to separate, the stray dog searched everywhere in the vast city, and passed by Qi Xiaofu many times but failed to see each other. Qi Xiaofu's condition became more serious, and he was finally reunited after experiencing various hardships and dangers. However, there is a sad story behind the stray dogs.

After villager Gu Dahe reports criminal leader Wei Tianlang, he mysteriously disappears, and his sister dies under suspicious circumstances. Amid a nationwide anti-crime campaign, Lei Yang, captain of the criminal investigation unit, steps in to uncover the truth and bring justice.

During the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, an aging father attempts to maintain his family line. With all able bodied men are being forced into labor by the Japanese, he stops at nothing to ensure his daughter-in-law produces a male heir.

A special force officer on his annual vacation meets a poor girl on street whose sister was kidnapped. He helps the girl to find her sister and breaks a women trafficking crime case.

In the southern Jiangxi region in the 1930s, in this place known as the "red cradle" of the Chinese revolution, there was a mother who sent her eight sons to the Red Army and rushed to the front lines of the battlefield. But the war was ruthless, and six of the brothers died one after another, leaving only the eldest brother Yang Daniu and the youngest child full of cubs.

An old man finds it hard living with his injured legs, having to depend on others for his needs. But when a small puppy escapes from a nearby dog meat restaurant and comes into his life, things start to turn around.