The film follows the rise and fall of a family in Shanghai. Once wealthy and capitalist, the family unraveled during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Their home, once a French concession mansion, was converted into a multi-family dwelling.
After Women’s Story, Peng returns to the most straightforward representation of women’s issues in Shanghai Women, a film about three rural women. As the first work in Peng’s Shanghai Trilogy, Shanghai Women describes the problem that women encounter trying to secure urban (residential) space through the story of women from three generations.
Recounts the experiences and deep feelings of two revolutionary predecessors, Li Fuchun and Cai Chang, for half a century, and eulogizes the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries.
An old mother of five struggles to get by after her husband is killed during the liberation war. The simple and kind-hearted Ah-Fu stumbles across them, and tries to help them as much as he can.
애인을 잃고 아이를 출산한 주인공. 가족에 의해 딸을 잃어 버린 후, 정신 이상자가 되어버렸다.
6년 후, 6살 여자아이 ‘잉즈’와 우연히 친구가 되면서 잉즈를 통해 친딸을 느끼게 된다.
여 주인공과 6살 잉즈의 눈에 비친 20년대 말 베이징 사람들의 삶을 현실적으로 표현한 영화. 로 알려진 장펑이의 출연작으로 ‘제2회 마닐라 국제영화제’ 최우수 작품상 및 ‘제3회 금계장 영화제’ 최우수 감독상 수상.
