The Twins

Beauty in the eyes of 4 filmmakers. Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Beautiful New Bay Area Project finds it in a kung-fu fighting young woman with a particular sense of honor. From China, Lu Yue's 1 Dimension reinvents a childlike Buddhist fable about good and evil. For Taiwan's Wu Nien-Jen and Hong Kong's Mabel Cheung, beauty resides in reconciliation and new hope. Wu's A New Year, the Same Days happens over New Year when a retired old man leaves home, while Cheung's Indigo takes place during Christmas, with Elaine Jin playing an aging dance teacher with two troublesome children.

There is a little Dong girl named Changfamei who lives at the foot of a desolate steep mountain. Once, Changfamei finally managed to get some water for her sick mother. She carried water through the old banyan tree and saw that the branches and leaves of the tree were withered and yellow, so she poured some water on the roots of the tree, and the old banyan tree immediately became green all over. Later, the long-haired girl found a spring on the cliff of a steep mountain. She was surprised and delighted. Suddenly, a black wind blew her into the eerie cave. The mountain demon threatened her not to tell anyone about the discovery of the spring.

There are three neighbors living in a big tree, the black magpie, the squirrel, and the old rabbit. They are all selfish and have a bad relationship with each other. They often quarrel and tease each other.

The princess is lively and active by nature, and she is very tired of the rigid life in the palace. The king thinks that her words and deeds are not a princess, and asks her to stay in the boudoir all the time. The woodcutter, who made her fall in love at first sight. The prime minister wanted his son to be a son-in-law. One day, he gave the princess a golden phoenix crown, and took the opportunity to propose marriage to the king, and the king agreed. The princess is unwilling to have her happiness ruined, but she doesn't know how to resist. The shepherd boy has an idea, remembering that he can use the local custom of riding a bull to "marry into the sky", and tells his plan, the princess is overjoyed.