Conta a trágica história de Song Danping (Jin Shan, um dos melhores atores chineses da época), um cantor de ópera. Ele era apaixonado pela filha de um rico senhor feudal. A mando do sogro, foi espancado, desfigurado e abandonado à morte. Song resolveu fingir sua morte, pois não queria que sua amada o visse daquela forma. Ela acabou enlouquecendo.
A primary school teacher rallies the citizens of a small town to resist the corruption of the local government and unite to build reinforcements against an oncoming flood.
This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.
To get over a breakup with his actress girlfriend, a playwright goes on holiday to a lakeside resort, where he meets a strangely mismatched couple, a man and his much younger wife. He and the wife begin an affair, during which she introduces him to some of the darker aspects of romance.
