Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.

Set during the 'War of Resistance Against Japan'. The squad leader of a platoon and his medic become separated from the rest of the team and find themselves behind enemy lines.

First film directed by Lu Xuechang.

A young miner with no acting talent wants to enter film academy but fails in admission test twice.

In "Incense", director Ning Hao makes a comment on the state of traditional Buddhism in modern China. He portrays a disspirited, empty setting in which old Buddhist values are replaced by modern values of materialism and capitalism.

The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.