Old Scholar
Há mais de 2000 anos atrás a China estava divida em sete reinos que batalhavam entre si pela supremacia do território. Qin, o soberano do Norte, era o de maior sucesso militar, mas lutava para preservar sua vida já que três lendários assassinos tentavam mata-lo. Um dia o oficial de uma de suas províncias entra no palácio carregando as armas dos três assassinos e alegando tê-los vencido em combate.
Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string, an event his own master promised years before would bring him sight. The other is his apprentice, Shidou, who longs for a woman's love and is enchanted with the radiant and spirited Lanxiu. The two men are encamped outside Lanxiu's village, the saint using his energy and voice to bring peace between warring factions. Does sight await the saint when the 1000th string breaks? Can Shidou's strength of character overcome provincial prejudice to win the hand of Lanxiu and a place in the village?
Five young girls in a remote mountain village each find themselves forced into unhappy marriages. Together, they find solace in an old legend, that a girl may hang herself before marriage and retain her purity, her soul turning into a white bird and soaring to the heavenly garden, where there is only beauty and peace.
In the 90s, Kuomintang troups rejected by Chiang Kai-shek live in the forest on the border of China
