Kara Hui is a veteran Hong Kong-born actress who made her debut in the 1976 martial arts movie “Challenge of the Masters” (1976). She played the main role in the smash-hit action film “My Young Auntie” (1982) and was handed the Best Actress prize at the inaugural Hong Kong Film Awards. She has since starred in scores of films in both Hong Kong and mainland China, including the 2019 film “My Best Summer.”

Kara Hui

A rebellion has devastated the Imperial Court, leaving a power vacuum that unscrupulous opportunists plot to fill. One such scheme sees a woman attempt to win favor by marrying her daughter Bai Fengyao (Wang Yu Wen) to Chen Wende (Sun Yi Zhou), a military leader with famously uncouth ways and a bad reputation. Fengyao, wanting a way out of the union, turns to the person she trusts the most, her orphaned cousin Moxi (Zhang Nan), to help. But interfering inadvertently leads Moxi to a fateful meeting with Wende herself. Will he take a shine to her instead? And will love save the day for all three of them? This 2023 Chinese drama series was based on the novel “Love in the Chaotic Realm” by Ni Luo and was directed by Wang Wei.

Gone with the Rain

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Wang Xuan (Zhang Zi Yi), a 15-year-old noblewoman, becomes a political pawn when the power struggle between the royal family and their extended relatives intensifies, leading to her arranged marriage with low-born general Xiao Qi (Zhou Yi Wei). Thrust into a web of court intrigue, they form a powerful alliance, navigating fierce succession battles, palace conspiracies, and shifting loyalties. But as tensions rise, can they overcome the kingdom's political turmoil and safeguard their legacy from the shadows? Directed by Hou Yong and Cheng Yuan Hai, this 2021 Chinese drama series is adapted from the popular novel "Emperor's Conquest" by Mei Yu Zhe.

The Rebel Princess

The Emperor’s Conquests

In a compilation of seven short films, seven directors explore the history of modern China and its people, going back to the 1940s and the aftermath of World War II, on the eve of the birth of the People’s Republic of China, through to the 1960s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and finally the 2010s, with stars like Song Jia and Ou Hao making appearances.

The first film focuses on an engineer struggling to organize a ceremony to mark the birth of the nation and the second tells the story of a love-sick nuclear scientist. In the third film, a young boy does what he can to help his neighborhood watch the gold medal match of the women’s volleyball competition in the 1984 Olympic Games.

The remaining films focus on more recent events, including two groups of people preparing for the handover of Hong Kong by the British colonial government in 1997. There is another Olympic story in a film about events surrounding the 2008 Olympics, which were held in Beijing, as a taxi driver decides to gift a ticket he had bought for his own son to another boy.

In the sixth film, two homeless boys watch a spectacular space mission in the 2010s. And in the final film, a female air force pilot attempts to ensure that a military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War goes off without a hitch

“My People, My Country” is a 2019 Chinese movie that was directed by Chen Kai Ge,&nbsp;Zhang Yi Bai,&nbsp;Guan Hu,&nbsp;Xue Xiao Lu,&nbsp;Xu Zheng,&nbsp;Ning Hao, and Wen Mu Ye.

My People, My Country

The Patriots Team

Colleges students Feng (Tsao Yu Ning), Victory (Carlos Chan), and their three friends return to Feng’s former school to pay it one final visit in their summer vacation.

But this is not any old school: It is a former detention camp dating back to World War II, when Imperial Japanese used it as a gruesome torture center and a base for ghastly human experiments on hapless prisoners.

The school has been closed for a decade and is due to be demolished shortly, but there is still time for Feng and friends to unearth no shortage of secrets.

And as they begin their search, they soon come across reports of a ghostly presence, and even more spine-chilling accounts of students’ disappearance.

The school’s former principal and an ex-janitor whose daughter vanished at the school also roam the hallways – as do monstrous phantoms who threaten to end this exploratory journey in the most macabre of ways...

“Binding Souls” is a 2018 Hong Kong horror film that was directed by Chan Pang Chun.

Binding Souls

The Sorrowful Phantoms

Geng Geng (He Lan Dou) is a socially awkward but warm-hearted girl who is about to start her first year at the exclusive Zhen Hua High School.

She is filled with trepidation, though, and worried that the school will be too much for her to cope with – and fearful that she does not belong there.

But in a stroke of good fortune, she finds herself paired in class with a remarkable deskmate, the popular and smart Yu Huai (Chen Fei Yu).

Although their friendship gets off to a rocky start – with the two arguing about minor trifles – they eventually form a strong bond and become inseparable.

Together, they begin to form firm friendships with their classmates – including some quirky and unusual characters – as well as some very inspiring teachers.

Will Geng Geng and Yu Huai’s friendship survive high school – and could platonic love turn into something more romantic as their relationship deepens.

The movie is based on a novel by Chinese author Ba Yue Chang An. The novel also spawned the 2016 series “With You.”

“My Best Summer” is a 2019 Chinese movie directed by Zhang Di Sha.

My Best Summer

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A sitting princess has everything taken away from her by her power-hungry uncle, but can she get it all back? 

In 10th-century imperial China during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Ma Fuya (Ruby Lin) is a princess in the Chu state during a tumultuous time of warring kingdoms and political unrest. When Fuya’s uncle seizes the throne and kills off her family, Fuya barely escapes with her life and is exiled. 

When both Meng Qi You (Kevin Yan), the prince of Later Shu, and Liu Lian Cheng (Wallace Huo), the prince of Northern Han, fall in love with Fuya, she becomes embroiled in succession struggles and battles between states. Can Fuya use her position to rise to power, avenge her family and regain her kingdom? 

“The Glamorous Imperial Concubine” is a 2011 Chinese drama series directed by Lin Feng and George Leung. The drama is based on a novel by the same name by Murong Yinr and marks the production debut of Ruby Lin, who also stars in the series.

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