Qi Mengshi

Ma Yiming graduated from university and worked as a photojournalist in a newspaper office, dreaming of creating his own film festival. Yiming wants to find beauty around him and wants to use nostalgia to explore the confusion of modern urban people. The old artist Xu Lao, who is engaged in root carving, suggested Yiming and him go to the mountains to observe the simplicity and rural spirit of the people in the mountains. Yiming fulfilled the old man's will and went to Dashan and opened his own film exhibition. Following the proposal of the newspaper director, the theme of the village was changed to change the theme of the film exhibition. The film festival really succeeded. Yiming finally got rid of the hustle and bustle of the city and walked on the land of China to pursue the true meaning of beauty. He finally became a promising young photographer.

Mr. Wang is a typical Shanghai husband, his wife plays Mahjong everyday, his daughter is busy in love with the boyfriend. A beautiful lady shows up in Mr. Wang's lonely life and it is going to become an affair.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek stepped up efforts to eliminate dissidents, and first targeted Long Yun, who was in power in Yunnan and had progressive ideas.

This simple romance story does not mean much to westerners, and in fact, does not even mean anything to Chinese today, but it was a big thing when it was made, not long after the end of Cultural Revolution in which even the personal romance was restricted. This movie is one of the pioneers of personal liberalization in advocating people seeking out their love following their own hearts, not from other people.

베트남 전쟁이 종결되고 난후, 3년이 지나 일본인 사진작가 개천은배트남을 취재하러간다. 정부 문화국의 안내로 견학한 도시의 신 경제지구는 밝은 표정이었다. 이러한 모습들을보고 개천은 베트남을 좋게생각한다. 그러나 그것은 정부가 꾸민 것에 불과하다. 후에 개천은 남주임을 만나서 이상한 것을 알고 혼자 거기로 나온다. 그곳에서 신양가족을 만나게 되고 비참한 베트남의 실상을 알게된다. 그러다가 주명을 만나고 그가 탈출하려할때 목숨을 걸고 도와주지만 죽고 만다. 어느날 매춘을 하는 신냥의 어머니가 자살하고 개천은 잇따른 불행으로 남동생과 둘만이 되어버린 14세의 소년 신냥을 그대로 내버려 둘 수가없었다. 그래서 그는 사진작가라는 타이틀을 버리고 신냥과 그의 동생을 국외로 탈출시키기 위해 자신의 카메라를 팔아서 여비를 만든다. 끝내 개천은 신냥을 탈출시키지만 자신은 총에 맞아 죽는데...

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.