1978年深秋，在一座依山傍水、幽静孤立的小楼里，闲居多年的李力将军热切渴望能重新出来工作。恰在此时，他与失散21年的老朋友周芹重逢了，他们回忆起往事：1949年秋，刚从美国留学归来在东方大学任英文讲师的周芹，由于继续用英语讲课，遭到激进学生的围攻和军代表的责难。这时，军管会秘书长、东方大学校友李力来到自己母校，他宣布，东方大学就是东方大学，它需要为我们培养出多方面的人材。也正是这一次，李力结识了周芹和外语系学生林书痕。李力多方保护和支持周芹，后来，周芹在李力和林书痕之间充当了红娘。婚后不久，李力帮助一个有所谓"特嫌"的教会大学生物系毕业生梁九邨，并为他安排了工作。接着李力奉命执行"改造战犯，挽救有用人才"的任务。他发现死刑犯、国民党少将特级工程师陈天寿有民族气节和真才实学，便冒着风险将陈天寿派到水电站工地监督使用。林书痕对这一切忧心忡忡。果然，军委会改组时，李力被莫名其妙地停职了。大跃进年代，复出的李力担任一个水利工程的总指挥。因无法控制泥沙淤积，在技术处工作的陈天寿建议这个工程暂时下马，却不料触怒了李力，他将陈天寿赶出技术处，下放到桥梁工地。在一次排险时，陈天寿壮烈牺牲……回顾往昔，面对现实，李力陷入深深的思索。他仍然渴望重新工作，但当他知道是妻子背地里在拼命阻止自己出来工作时，对妻子大动肝火。林书痕终于忍不住了，她想起20年来的风雨坎坷，心痛欲碎。夜晚，李力接到了老首长赵司令员要他出来重新工作的信，兴奋不已。第二天清晨，林书痕怀着极其复杂的心情为丈夫送行，她用担忧的目光看着丈夫乘坐的吉普车迎着朝阳在颠簸的路上疾驶远去……

IN SHANGHAIIn Shanghai Lou Ye, 2001short FilmIn Shanghai or the eyes of a Chinese director of his city, Shanghai, Communist economic center , but also megalopolis with many faces ...Lou Ye is a great filmmaker. After having the success that we know for the sublime Suzhou River, the young director of the sixth generation is coupled to the design of this short film about Shanghai, the city of his heart , beautiful and multicultural . Camera in hand ( for lovers is a Sony DSR- PD150 DVCam ... ) for subjective , Lou Ye rhyme begins this urban plan by a girl asleep on a bed. Slowly the camera moves out of the suburb where this unknown young woman is given the arms of Morpheus , better visit this city that is Shanghai. The narrator who is also the hero says in voice-over that he loves this megalopolis . It focuses on the residents of these neighborhoods without cloth and without resources where most of the native population of Shanghai Lodge . Indeed the streets Zongshan Donglu which contains the Bund, Pudong, the famous Oriental Pearl is not the stock market and everyone. We must go farther Jingan District to discover the social wealth of this city . Why attach immense cold and nervous architectures while the Shanghai Blood flows through the veins of its rural ? It's a little message Lou Ye through this short film ."You can guess who they are, but we can never really know "Lou Ye eradicates a rare cinematic power of this often precarious and old people waiting on the bus every morning to go to work and make the Chinese economy humming .The old streets of the city like the nearby temple Cheung Hong Bund to the bank of the Huangpu , the filmmaker does not recognize the city. As if all these steel towers of the 21st century had absorbed the social essence of the " Paris of the East" .Lou Ye then takes us on a visit to the arcades , discos, clubs, dances, flashy locations and disconnected from the reality of ordinary people in the middle of poverty which is near workers and street vendors where people drown their defecation in water by putting the edge of an old tub ... This is a new look for the Western .Finally, after making stops in a dangerous Shanghai streets by night , the hero wakes up in the morning director in a corner near buildings unsafe and fixed on the face of a shy child , concluding : "The only thing that matters is Shanghai . "By these words Mr. Lou Ye, I bear you my esteem .

话说满清王朝的历代帝王，大概没有哪个比乾隆皇帝（刘永 饰）更爱微服私访的吧！这一天，厌倦了宫中繁文缛节、枯燥无趣生活的乾隆一肚子邪气，他厌烦了黄色的衣服、沉重的帽子以及每日乏味的朝会，连山珍海味也提不起他半点的兴趣，反倒是军械库士兵们吃的杂烩菜乞丐钵让他胃口大开。各种不满逐渐累积，终于让皇帝大爆发，他立志学习唐明皇微服出巡，体察民情，当然更多的是去民间好好玩耍一番散散心。乾隆在运用一番计谋之后偷跑出宫，大臣们只能忙不迭地派人暗中保护。这一日，皇帝遇到算命的马半仙（史仲田 饰），谁知对方却告知他将遭遇牢狱之灾。以平民身份行走江湖的皇帝，即将遭遇一连串的意外……

《笑笑笑》鲍方是乐天知命的父亲，深爰中国相声艺术；在抗战中的天津，他带领一家人坚忍卓绝地渡过艰辛岁月，维系伦情于不倒。一些处境，如女儿石慧背地里替父亲通宵改作业簿，反被误解，很有“少年笔耕”的悲情感触：加插的滑稽相声表演亦甚有讽笑趣味、李萍倩导技圆熟、感情饱满，悲喜交集得恰如其份，首儿场节口气氛场面尤见情凋。整体颇能体现中国传统乐天积极的生命哲学。