Han Lan-Gen Movies

During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai....

A young woman must pretend to be a man to visit her grandfather, and gets into some romantic scrapes in the process.

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. When Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is...

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character....

Historical film based on the life of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation...

Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend...

The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua’s construction company 24 years later.

An upper-class son of urbane landowners falls in love with a peasant girl. When a pregnancy results, the couple are kept apart by strict societal...

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as...

Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and has...

A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The...

Live action adaptation of Snow White fairy tale.

The story is about a fisherman's family living near to Shanghai. In the beginning, twin babies are born, a boy and a girl. Their growing-up is...