Witnessing the Border of Freedom

An artist named Jiajia promised to show her girl friend Wei Ling around in Japan but eventually fails to show up for no reason. After Wei Ling goes and gets accommodated in a family-run hot spring hotel of Shimizu, Jiajia's Japanese boyfriend, she begins her endless weird experience as if she's haunted, and the hotel even sinks into a series of horrible homicides, in which the victims are all family members of the Shimizu's without exception. Every clue found is connected to Jiajia.

After leaving her lucrative job to pursue writing, An Nuoxuan is left broke and heartbroken, only to reunite with Su Ziqiao, a man she once helped and who has secretly loved her ever since. As cohabitation turns from conflict to romance, misunderstandings and family pressures test their bond—until they choose each other and finally realize both love and their dreams.

If there is no utopia on the map of this world, then this world is not worth considering. Independent documentary director Sun Zhiqiang has always maintained a firm belief in Utopia, and has regarded it as his consistent state of existence and creative practice guidelines. From the first part of "The Edge of Freedom" to the "Utopia" ", Sun Zhiqiang has always focused his camera on the group of people living on the edge of freedom in the underground rock circle, faithfully witnessing their changes over the past ten years. In "Utopia", we not only experience a journey in the lives of these musicians, but we also learn about the things around them and the wider environment.

A village in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing has been home to young rock musicians and bands from all over the country since 1997. From 1999 to 2000, there were hundreds of people and more than 30 bands. The art and life style of this generation of young people starts from here...Sun Zhiqiang surpassed the status of an ordinary documentary worker, shooting as a member of the underground rock scene to the most calm and calm appearance of the original ecology of underground music. The film seems to record only one thing, that is love. Since Sun Zhiqiang came to Beijing from Xinjiang in 1997, he never stopped observing and filming the lives of Beijing rock bands and marginal art youth. He has adopted the closest and unique perspective to silently capture the era of cultural turmoil. A generation of youth movements destined to change the direction of future culture.