It is a story about the Chinese police who intelligently and bravely fight with the cooperation of the factory's Party Committee and the masses, against the spies, who steal the navy's equipment "Hunting No.99".
Five soldiers of the Eighth Route Army fight heroically to cover the evacuation of local people from border area between Shanxi and Hebei provinces as the Japanese attack.
This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on.
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.