Dans le temple bouddhiste d’un petit village du Tibet, à l'époque du Nouvel An tibétain, un jeune moine se prépare à passer quelques jours en famille où il découvre avec surprise un poste de télévision...
Un maitre de Wing Chun originaire du Sud, arrive à Tianjin au début du 20ème siècle afin d’y ouvrir sa propre école de kung-fu. Pour cela, il doit obéir à certaines règles : se marier, entraîner un protégé, et passer un pacte avec le maître Zhen. Mais le pouvoir de ce dernier est usurpé par une certaine Madame Zou alliée à un seigneur de guerre.
En Chine, à cause de la bureaucratie, il est difficile de trouver un autre logement, Li Xuelian et son époux Qin Yuhe simulent un divorce pour obtenir un second appartement. Pourtant, son mari la quitte et se marie avec une autre femme. Li veut la justice et décide de rechercher des hommes susceptibles de tuer son ex-mari...
Li Li, jeune femme intelligente, est ouvrière dans une filature de Xian'an. L'entreprise connait des difficultés. Son mari, qui travaillait dans la même entreprise, a fait partie des premiers licenciés et s'est lancé dans un petit commerce (de poissons). Ils ont un petit garçon, Bing Bing. Fatiguée, Li Li va consulter à l'hôpital. Le verdict tombe : leucémie aiguë.
A Mainland director Nie Wen (Jacky Cheung) decides to make a film musical starring his Mainland girlfriend Sun Na (Zhou Xun) and Hong Kong actor Lin Jian-dong (Takeshi Kaneshiro). Unknown to him, Sun has met Lin before ten years ago when she was a cabaret singer in Beijing. The two had a relationship together then, when Lin was a film student. Ten years later, now a huge movie star, Sun refuses to acknowledge they have met before.
Accompagné d'un homme d'affaires, d'un assistant et d'un chauffeur, un cinéaste tibétain parcourt en 4x4 l'Amdo rural, y recherchant des acteurs pour un film inspiré de l'opéra tibétain Drime Kunden, éponyme du prince-bodhisattva sacrifiant ses possessions au service d'autrui.
Jianbin (Geng Le) and Xiaohui (Xu Jinglei) are a young couple living in Beijing who have been married for seven years. As the film starts, the couple has begun to grow bored with their existence bringing their relationship to an impasse. Xiaohui, who works at a designing firm, tentatively begins a flirtatious relationship with one of her customers, Lao Hu, a coffee-shop owner (played by director Zhang Yang). Jianbin, meanwhile, has recently been laid off, though he keeps it a secret from his wife by dressing for work every morning, hiding his briefcase in a public bathroom and riding the Beijing metro for most of the day.
The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. 500 years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains. Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse. With the help and encouragement of this special child, Monkey King saves the village from the evil monsters.
The film opens in 1912, immediately before the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the abdication of Emperor Pu Yi. The Pang clan, a wealthy family in a small town near Shanghai is suffering a similarly drawn out decline. Yu Zhongliang (Leslie Cheung), then a 13-year-old boy, arrives at the Pang estate to live there along with his sister Yu Xiuyi (He Caifei) and her husband, Pang Zhengda (Zhou Yemang). There, he is treated like a servant by his brother-in-law who forces him to kiss his own sister while intoxicated by the effects of opium. In revenge Zhongliang poisons his brother-in-law's opium pipe and flees. Chen Kaige, however, deliberately leaves the audience in the dark, making Zhongliang's flight from the Pang estate all the more mysterious. As Zhongliang attempts to find his way to Beijing, however, he is taken by several men who lead him to Shanghai where he is embraced by the triads.
Un règlement de compte entre deux familles mafieuses rivales qui gère le trafic de motos d'une région mène le héros, Zhou Zenong, à abattre un policier par erreur. Il est dès lors recherché dans tout le secteur, et sa tête est mise à prix.