Kan Maizi - Recommendations

Alt title: The Wheat Keeper

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The Coin

The Coin

In Chinese New Year holidays, finding the coin inside the dumplings means having a blessed year ahead. A young woman loses a jar on her journey to a new country, which contains the lucky coins she has been collecting growing up. Her new life begins with a search to find the coin.

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Sister

Sister

A man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?

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Depths of Night

Depths of Night

The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.

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Line Soul

Line Soul

The national intangible cultural heritage “Xiamen Lacquer Line Carving” is a unique traditional handicraft which applied to the Buddha carving industry. From father to son, the animation shows the changes of the times and the tradition.

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Encounter

Encounter

A boy going home from school was curious and went into a senior citizen’s house. The boy happily played with the items in the house, especially a radio and robot that tried to scare him away. The senior was extremely irate and grabbed the boy. At that moment, she happened to see a picture of her grandson, who was killed in a car accident. The boy was able to understand the senior’s situation, but he also gave her peace of mind.

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Yumemi Douji

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Dareka no Manazashi

The story is set "slightly in the future" and revolves around Aya "Aachan" Okamura, a woman who has been working for two years and has begun living on her own for a job opportunity. With Aachan's mother working overseas as a doctor, Aachan's father is now living alone with the family's longtime pet cat Mii-san. One night, Aachan returns from a long day at work, and as she rests on her bed, she reminiscences about the times the family had together. She remembers the sadness she felt when her mom went overseas, and the solace she felt when her father brought home Mii-san to give her comfort. Then, she receives a phone call…

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Mizu no Kotoba

Mizu no Kotoba

In a cafe, people spend their time talking to each other about what’s on their mind. They talk about troubles with love, spread gossip about a friend of a friend and tell about the time they saw a flying fish. The waitress of the cafe tries to teach a lesson to a boy that just broke up with his girlfriend that relationships don’t end when the people involved part ways. Overall, the other people in the cafe also become influenced by what tools of humanity and the human language can do for relationships between lovers and friends. The unbelievable is always tested by science and our own imaginations...

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Hong Lingjin Yu Wang Xiaoming

Hong Lingjin Yu Wang Xiaoming

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