Movie
Basketball Player No 5
Bell of Qingliang Temple
Birth of New China
Bitter Laughter
Bright Sunny Skies
Burning of Yuanmingyuan and The Rule behind the Curtain
Basketball Player No 5(Nulan Wu Hao, C-1957, VC)---A basketball coach meets his former girlfriend, the daughter of his whilom coach who, 18 years earlier, had tossed him off a squad for refusing to throw a game, and a long-buried love is rekindled. D: Xie Jin; C: Liu Qing, Qin Yi, Cao Qiwei; M: Tianma.

Bell of Qingliang Temple(Qingliang Si Zhongsheng, C-1991)---In the wake of the Japanese army's retreat from China in 1945, an old woman finds an abandoned Japanese baby boy wrapped in a Japanese soldier's jacket and fosters the orphan. The baby grows up and, while visiting Japan as a member of a Chinese Buddhist delegation, he meets his natural mother. The film is partially a condemnation of the Japanese invasion of China, but it delves deeply into Buddhist doctrines and human sensitivities, especially the sympathetic and maternal love of the aged granny heroine. D: XieJin; C: Ding Yi, Pu Chunxin, You Yong, Fang Chao; M: Shanghai .

Birth of New China (Kaiguo Dadian)---An epic about the dramatic events of 1949 , which saw the fall of Chiang Kai-Shek's government and the birth of the socialist republic. For the first time, Communist leaders, including Mao Zedong and ZhouEnlai, are shown as ordinary people with ordinary feelings , while their enemy, Chiang Kai-shek, is portrayed as a man of complex personality, instead of as a villain. D: Li Qiankuan, XiaoGuiyun; C: GuYue, SunFeihu, Guo Fazeng, Luxi, Huang Kai; M: Changchun.

Bitter Laughter (Kunao-ren De Xiao, C-1980)---One of the intriguing cinematographic treatments of the " cultural revolution, " this film is about a Shanghai journalist in 1975 who struggles with his conscience overwhether to report good news or expose abuses he has discovered. His concern for the truth almost causes his marriage to break up. Eventually he accepts the dictates of his conscience but in an almost accidental, rather than heroic, way. D: Yangjin, Deng Yimin; C: PanHong, Qin Yi; M: Shanghai.

Bright Sunny Skies(Yanyangtian, C-1973)---A stereotypical class-struggle movie, this film is about two contending factions of a village in suburban Beijing. One side represents the interests of the majority of the villagers, the other represents the interests of the ex-landlords and rich farmers. The former is shown as a positive force and the latter as a negative one. D: Lin Nong; C: Zhanglianwen; M: Changchun.

Burning of Yuanmingyuan and The Rule behind the Curtain (Huoshao Yuanmingyuan and Chui Lian Ting Zheng, C-1984,VC)--- A joint production between the China Film Co-production Corporation and Hong Kong's New Kwunlun Film Productions Ltd, this two-part film depicts the rise to power of Empress Dowager Ci Xi (1835-1908), de facto ruler of the country for 48 years. Glamorous sets recreat the past glory of Yuanmingyuan, or the old grand Summer Palace, which was destroyed by British and French soldiers in 1860. D: Lee Han Chiang; C: Liu Xiaoqing and Chen Yan; M:China film Co-production Corporation. 

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