Old Scholar
紀元前200年、戦乱のさなかの中国。後に始皇帝となる秦王のもとに無名と名乗る男が拝謁を願い出る。彼は中国全土で最強と評判の暗殺者3人、長空、残剣、飛雪を自らの手で倒したと語り、それぞれが所有していた自慢の武器を証拠として持参していた。暗殺者たちを恐れる秦王は、100歩以内の距離に誰も近づけようとしなかったが、無名にはもっと近くまで寄ることを特別に許し、それらの対決の歴史を詳しく語るよう彼に命じる。
Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him sight. The other is his apprentice, Shidou, who longs for a woman's love and is enchanted with the radiant and spirited Lanxiu. The two men are encamped outside Lanxiu's village, the saint using his energy and voice to bring peace between warring factions. Does sight await the saint when the 1000th string breaks? Can Shidou's strength of character overcome provincial prejudice to win the hand of Lanxiu and a place in the village?
Five young girls in a remote mountain village each find themselves forced into unhappy marriages. Together, they find solace in an old legend, that a girl may hang herself before marriage and retain her purity, her soul turning into a white bird and soaring to the heavenly garden, where there is only beauty and peace.
In the 90s, Kuomintang troups rejected by Chiang Kai-shek live in the forest on the border of China
