Huang Xin Movies

The inner workings of Chinese bureaucracy are sliced open in this cutting Hong Kong satire. Wang is the ambitious assistant director of the Cultural Center in Xi'an. Though an excellent manipulator who is respected and admired by his staff, Wang cannot seem get promoted. Wang and his staff are outraged when the newly vacant director's post is filled by Old Ma, an old-fashioned Communist cadre member. They immediately begin devising plots to get Old Ma out of the office and into a new post. They succeed only to find a new bureaucrat, Yan, has been hired to fill it. Yan is wise to Wang and not easily fooled. Wang's father gets involved and devises a situation that gets Yan humiliated in public. Unfortunately Yan survives the derision with his position intact. He gets revenge on Wang who ends up hospitalized with a nervous breakdown. Wang's staff turns around and gets revenge on Yan. But when Wang returns, he is a changed man. He now knows that there are more important things in life than ambition. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

In this sequel to the mild drama Hei Pau Shi Jian (The Black Cannon Incident), the man whose career was nearly stalled by a misunderstood translation in the earlier film has been promoted to be the head of a large corporation. However, he has discovered not only that it's lonely at the top, it's boring. There are just too doggone many meetings to attend. In this comedy, the resourceful businessman makes a robot which resembles him sufficiently to take his place at the many dull meetings he is forced to attend. All goes well until the robot decides he wants some of life's goodies too and develops some habits that are distinctly unlike those of his creator. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This award winning Chinese drama examines the actions of a shy and quiet misanthrope who slyly begins meddling in others' lives. The film is set within an aging apartment block in Beijing. Xiao Dou has been cared for by his sister since their parents died many years ago. Anxious to begin living her own life, his married sister tries to find a match for Xiao Dou. She has yet to succeed. Xiao Dou works for the Post Office as a letter box installer. He is reassigned to delivering mail in the Happiness District mail after the former mailman was caught reading the letters he was supposed to deliver. Intrigued by that, and by the games played by the postal clerk Yun Qing who tries to discover the contents of letters, Xiao Dou begins to secretly open the mail. This leads him to get involved in the dramas of people's lives. For example, when a boy commits suicide, Xiao Dou delays sending the letter to his parents who patiently wait to hear from their son. Xiao Dou's most difficult drama involves the relationship between to homosexual drug addicts. All of their lives forever change when the postman gets directly involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi