Shangguan Yunzhu

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges. After they're sold to a Shanghai opera and the revolution dawns, Yuehong radicalizes and devotes her career to politically progressive performances, while Chunhua flees to avoid turmoil. As the world changes around them, they fight to maintain their friendship.

1926년 방황하던 청년 교사 초윤추는 절강성 동부에 있는 부용진 중학교에서 교사로 일한다. 그는 진(鎭)에 사는 가난한 과부 문씨를 동정하여 경제적인 도움을 주고 그녀의 딸 채련을 학교에 보내준다. 그는 채련을 매일 다리까지 바래다주고 마중을 나간다. 또한 그는 학장 도모간의 여동생 도남을 사랑하였다. 문씨의 어린 아들이 병으로 죽고 큰 슬픔에 빠져 의지할 사람이 없는 문씨를 불쌍히 여긴 초윤추는 그녀를 끝까지 보살펴주려고 아내로 삼기로 결심하고 도남과의 사랑을 포기한다. 그 일은 사람들로부터 비난을 받게 되었고 문씨는 크게 수치심을 느껴 강물에 뛰어들어 자살로 생을 마감한다. 초윤추는 어떻게 해야 할 바를 모르고 고뇌에 빠진다. 그러던 어느 날 그는 자신이 부용진에 들어선 날부터 시비의 소용돌이에 휘말린 것 같았고 문씨가 자살하고, 왕복생이 퇴학한 사건들이 자신을 어지럽게 만든 한편으로 머리를 맑게 해주었다고 밝히면서 이제 방황을 끝내고 나아가야 할 길을 찾았으며 시대의 큰 흐름에 뛰어들기로 결심하였다고 도남에게 편지를 쓴다. 그는 '우리에게는 기나긴 미래가 있다'는 희망을 안고 부용진을 떠나고 도남은 그가 남긴 편지를 읽고 감명을 받아 황급히 그의 뒤를 따라간다.

It is policeman Ma Tianmin’s day off, and his chief’s wife has fixed him up with Liu Ping, a young woman she knows. But, on his way to keep the date, Ma, who embodies all the qualities of an exemplary member of the new communist society, stops many times to help people in need. In a Shanghai fully involved in the Great Leap Forward, will the kind-hearted socialist hero get the girl?

Soldiers stay in Hainan Island and fight Japanese invaders in harsh conditions.

At a Shanghai apartment, Mr Hou, a Nationalist official, gets ready to move to Taiwan upon the imminent defeat of the KMT during the Civil War. Mrs Hou gives an ultimatum to the rest of the tenants to move out on behalf of her husband, who is the "owner" of the flat and who is now planning to sell it. From the conversations with the rest, we find out that Hou has been a Hanjian during the Sino-Japanese War and that he has since taken over the apartment by force from the old landlord, Mr Kong. The tenants, including Mr Kong, Mrs Xiao, Little Broadcast (alias Mr Xiao, played by Zhao Dan) and a schoolteacher, Mr Hua, and his wife, initially plan to band together, but circumstances force them to find other ways out. Mr Hua tries to find a place to stay at the KMT-sponsored school he is teaching in. Little Broadcast and Mrs Xiao invest in black market gold. As the situation escalates, Mr Hua gets arrested by KMT agents and his young daughter falls desperately ill.

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the whole family becomes embroiled in one emotional/economic struggle after another.

A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences and his business falls apart while the man’s sister starts to have a relationship with the brother of his wife.

1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.

During the war, a small town butcher store, drug dealer Li Buyun, rogue Liu Tianyuan, soldier gangster Pan Qishan and a group of villains on the orders of the Japanese commander Yamamoto, secretly planning to set up a traitor organization to maintain the Association. They are fighting for oil and water, and Yamamoto has to send police chief Yang Kecheng to strengthen control, but Yang is an uncompromising straw man. Liu Tianyuan and Pan Qishan get a batch of arms to sell to a buyer outside the city, but the news is learned by Li Buyun, and the two sides fight for profit. When Pan Qishan came to report that the buyer of the arms was a guerrilla group. The gunfire is so loud that the villains hide in the basement, only to be blown up by the guerrillas with the grenades they are selling.