See them for this year’s domestic films.

　　In 2022, the movie market of Spring Festival ended with a box office score of 6.6 billion, and won the second place in the box office history of China Spring Festival. Although it did not exceed last year’s 7.8 billion, it has been considered by the industry as a positive signal in the "post-epidemic era". Next year, what other movies are expected to hit the big screen and surprise the audience?

　　The main melody blockbuster is still wonderful.

　　Tony Leung Chiu Wai, YiBo and Zhou Xun lead The Unknown.

　　The high box office and high reputation of The Battle at Lake Changjin and Watergate Bridge of Changjin Lake once again prove that China’s new mainstream blockbusters have become the audience’s first choice. And this year’s next new mainstream blockbuster will have a good performance, and the most worthy of the audience’s expectation should be "Nobody".

　　The film "Nobody" focuses on the mysterious hidden front and tells the story of underground workers risking their lives to send information and defend the motherland with their lives and blood. The film’s lineup is quite strong, directed by director Cheng Er, starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, YiBo, Zhou Xun and Eric Wang. Just looking at the list of participants, the audience has begun to look forward to the performance of the acting school.

　　This time, The Unknown focuses on the revolutionary period from 1937 to 1945. Cheng Er revealed that Shanghai was in a "difficult moment" at that time, and countless underground workers courageously fought for the victory of the China Revolution with their obscure dedication. This film hopes to show the struggle of the "unknown" in detail and take the audience to see a world that they have never seen before. As the third part of Bona’s Trilogy of Victory in China, it remains to be seen whether Unknown can open up a new realm for Chinese spy films.

　　Xin Yukun’s third feature film, Interpol in China, has attracted much attention this year. The film is based on the story prototype of the "Su Xiangyu series of gun robbery and murder cases" that the police cracked for eight years in 2012.

　　In addition, Siu Fai Mak directed, Zhao Peng scripted, starring Johnny, Bai Baihe and Claudia, and "The Prosecutorial Storm" featuring Wang Qianyuan and Bao Beier will also be released this year. This is the first commercial crime film focusing on prosecutors in China. Based on a real case, it tells the story of how prosecutors take responsibility and act in the fight against evil.

　　The sixth generation directors frequently have surprises.

　　New works by Wang Xiaoshuai, Guan Hu and Lou Ye.

　　Fertile Soil is a film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, with Ouyang Wenxin, Yongmei, Zu Feng, Molly, Li Jun, Wang Jingchun, Ligeng Si, etc. It is the second part of Wang Xiaoshuai’s trilogy of homeland after Forever, based on Li Shijiang’s short story Grandpa’s Trick, and tells a story about rural family life.

　　Yongmei cooperated with Wang Xiaoshuai again after Forever, and played Muyue, the mother of a small fertile soil, in Fertile Soil. Zu Feng, an actor who has just cooperated with Wang Xiaoshuai in the online drama "The Mystery Fog in the Eight Corners Pavilion", plays the father Laochuan in the film. In addition, the actor Molly plays the old wine in the film, and the actor Li Jun plays the grandfather of fertile soil. The film was launched in Jingyuan County, Baiyin City last September, and it is expected to meet the audience this year.

　　Guan Hu, who is the same as Wang Xiaoshuai as the sixth generation director, introduced a new work, Dogville, which was written and directed by himself. The film tells the story of a small town in northwest China more than ten years ago. In order to make a living, Jiro joined the folk dog catcher, where he hauled stray dogs all day long. A stray dog came into his life and gradually developed feelings with him. Jiro’s compassion for life is slowly awakened, and in order to save more stray dogs, he takes active action. "Dogville" started filming in a low-key way as early as September 2021, and it is reported that the film will be released this year.

　　The film "Three Words" by Lou Ye, the sixth generation director, has attracted people’s attention since the cast was exposed, starring Jackson Yee, Chun Xia, Li Xian, Zhang Yu and others. The film takes a character’s memory as a clue to the development of the story, telling the story that he once lost his love for the person he likes because of lack of courage, and once struggled with his friends with fate.

　　The film directed by Lou Ye has a distinct personality and is good at portraying characters, while Jackson Yee has become more and more colorful in performance because of Xiaobei in Better Days, Wei Yihang in A Little Red Flower and Wu Wan Li in The Battle at Lake Changjin. I wonder what surprises will be brought to everyone in this film.

　　The famous director made a breakthrough in his new film.

　　Look at Zhang Yimou, Gu Changwei and Chen Sicheng.

　　Director Zhang Yimou’s diligence and talent are obvious to all. Directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Lei Jiayin, Zhang Guoli, Yu Hewei and Zhou Dongyu, As Hard as a Rock has been "waiting to be released" by the audience. The film tells the story of an ordinary young policeman who works in the criminal identification center of the municipal bureau. In order to protect the safety of the people, he started a thrilling investigation trip. This is the first time that director Zhang Yimou has directed an urban gangster film. The film has replaced the traditional classical composition with a modern shooting style. In the play, director Zhang Yimou will present crime and humanity with fresh handwriting.

　　Gu Changwei, who is also the "fifth generation" of director Zhang Yimou, also has a new work "Hedgehog" coming soon. The film, starring Ge You and Karry, is adapted from Zheng Zhi’s short story "Fairy Disease", which tells the story of Wang Zhantuan and his nephew Zhou Zheng, a strange couple who forgot to make friends. They are "heterogeneous" in the secular world, but they are normal people in each other’s eyes, and they have experienced a unique absurd past in Northeast China.

　　"Hedgehog" was finished on January 19th this year, and Ge You played the role of the earthly man Wang Zhantuan, trying the role of a mental patient for the first time. Karry subverts the image and plays the self-abased and stuttering teenager Zhou Zheng. In the previously released trailer, the lens came to an abrupt end with Wang Zhantuan’s sentence "You are not sick", which was thought-provoking. Is there a "disease" how to define it? Where does the so-called "disease" come from and how to recover? Northeastern dialect dialogue with its own sense of joy is matched with spicy human inquiry, showing a unique black humor. The beginning of the film makes people wonder how director Gu Changwei will tell this story.

　　It is worth mentioning that the filming of Hedgehog is the re-cooperation between Ge You and Gu Changwei after Farewell My Concubine for nearly 30 years. Gu Changwei’s works attach importance to humanistic care, and look at the bottom groups of society. As a favorite actor, Ge You’s comedy style can often add bright colors to heavy themes. When Gu Changwei’s humanistic spirit collides with Ge You’s comedy characteristics, it is expected that generate will have a wonderful chemical reaction.

　　Another comedy, Mozart in Outer Space, is also eagerly awaited. It is a sci-fi and comedy film written and directed by Chen Sicheng and starring Bo Huang and Rong Zishan. The film tells the story that Ren Dawang (Bo Huang) is bent on cultivating his son Ren Xiaotian (Rong Zishan) who likes astronomy into a piano player, and the mysterious alien Mozart helps Xiaotian and his father start a life of wits and courage after his unexpected appearance.

　　Chen Sicheng plans to create a cute king who has influenced generations like Doraemon through this film and become an "outer space trilogy". The film was released at the end of 2020, but it was not released in the summer of 2021 because the post-production stage exceeded expectations. It is speculated that the film may be released this summer.

　　Text/reporter Xiao Yang Coordinator/Liu Jianghua