Old Tailor
1971年、文革の嵐が吹き荒れる中国。青年マーとルオは医者を親に持つことから、反革命分子の子として再教育のために奥深い山村へ送り込まれた。彼らはそこで過酷な肉体労働を強いられる。ある日2人は、美しい少女、お針子に出会う。ルオはお針子に一目惚れした。彼らは、同じ再教育で来ている若者が禁書である西洋の本を大量に隠し持っていることを知り、それを盗み出す。そして、文盲のお針子に毎夜西洋の文学を読み聞かせてあげるのだった。許されない秘密を共有することで結びつきを強める3人。そして、お針子は西洋文学が語る自由に次第に目覚めていく…。
Grandfather
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
In December 1937, during the Second Japanese-Sino War, a Chinese doctor, his Japanese pregnant wife, their teenage daughter and their young son travel from Shanghai to Nanjing seeking shelter in the Capital during the Japanese invasion. The family faces the Rape of Nanking by the Imperial Japanese Army, with rapes, mass murder of prisoners of war and civilians including women, children and elders, and disrespect of international conventions.
Won Golden Rooster Award for Best Film in 1990
巨匠チャン・イーモウと名女優コン・リーの黄金コンビによる初期の傑作。舞台は1920年代中国の農村。不能の染物屋に嫁ぎ、夜な夜な虐げられる菊豆が染物屋の甥と不義の仲となり、やがて悲劇を招く。
