Novel
With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.
Story
On a cold winter morning Tav wakes his son Samuel at 4 A.M. to help with chores on the family farm. He sternly comments on Sam's work, such as napping while milking, or spilling a little milk, causing Sam to tell his mother how hard it is to please his father. She explains that Tav is just teaching him traits he will need as a man, and although his father loves him very much he finds it hard to express this in words. Sam admits to having the same problem. She says that there are unspoken ways to communicate love, and Sam volunteers, "Like Christmas presents ?" She agrees, but will not tell him how to select a special gift for his father. On Christmas morning Sam goes out to the barn alone (except for the cows, pigs, and chickens) to deliver his special gift in a setting very similar to where the very first Christmas gifts were bestowed.
Novel
국공 내전이 이어지던 1949년의 중국, 오배니언 신부는 그를 따르는 중국인 여성 시우란과 함께 선교지에 도착한다. 오배니언 신부는 공산당의 박해를 견디며 척박한 땅에서 오래 선교 활동을 했던 보바르 신부의 뒤를 이을 예정이다. 그런데 갑자기 들이닥친 공산당의 군인들이 교회를 장악한다. 대장 호산은 오배니언 신부를 포박하고, 시우란을 강간하기까지 한다. 노벨문학상을 수상한 펄 벅이 쓴 시나리오를 바탕으로 했으며, 이 시나리오는 1962년에 동명의 소설로 발표되기도 했다. 레오 맥커리의 마지막 작품이기도 하다.
Executive Producer
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
Novel
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on the other. Yukio's younger sister Setsu follows then and dreams of becoming a pearl diver. Toru is preparing to go fishing with his father when a bell tolls and a danger flag is hung high on the hill behind the village to warn of an impending tidal wave by the village patriarch, known as Old Gentleman.
Novel
During World War II, an American mission hospital is headed up by Dr. Gray Thompson and Dr. Sara Durand. Sara is secretly in love with Gray but hides her feelings as his new wife, Louise, arrives at the hospital. Sparks fly, however, when Louise becomes jealous of Sara, and then tries to convince her husband to leave war-torn China behind for a calmer life in the United States. But Thompson is attached to both Sara and the people who need his help.
Writer
The lives of a small Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. An heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.
Novel
중국의 가난한 농부 왕룽(폴 무니 분)은 노예 출신의 여자 아란(루이즈 레이너)과 결혼한다. 기근이 닥치자 왕룽은 가족들을 데리고 일자리를 찾아 도시로 이사한다. 아란은 왕룽과 함께 힘든 생활을 견디고 혁명을 겪지만 돈을 모아 가족을 이끌고 다시 고향으로 돌아온다. 토지를 조금씩 사들여 드디어 부자가 된 왕룽. 그러나 그는 조금씩 방탕해지고 드디어 젊은 여자를 첩으로 맞아들이며 집안은 혼란에 빠진다. 왕룽의 집안은 젊은 첩과 장성한 아들로 인해 불화가 끊이지 않지만 왕룽의 아내 아란은 결코 흔들리지 않는다. 그 와중에 메뚜기 떼가 마을을 습격하여 왕룽 일가를 궁지로 몰아넣는데…
