Movies by Jiao Gang
And the Spring Comes
In a grimy provincial industrial city, a talented but unattractive schoolteacher dreams of an operatic career.
Feng Shui
One of the most acclaimed movies to come out of China last year, Feng Shui harnesses the talents of underrated actress Yan Bingyan to deliver this family drama about a woman desperate to ascend to the middle class and willing to pay any price. Powerful and emotionally tense, this is a portrait of the hidden side of the great Chinese success story.
So Young
Although new friendships and new love await her, a college freshman discovers that university life is not as simple as she had hoped.
A Tale of Three Cities
A former spy in the Chinese Nationalist Party falls for an opium-dealing widow, as China is ravaged by war and revolution.