Old Scholar
Китай расколот на княжества, но уже есть лидер, который хочет покорить соседей и стать императором объединенной страны. К нему засланы убийцы, безукоризненно владеющие боевыми искусствами; у них фольклорные имена Сломанный Меч, Летящий Снег и Небо.Их противник обозначен как Безымянный, он хочет защитить императора. Его разговор с Всесильным образует раму, скрепляющую несколько ретроспектив — поединков с убийцами. Он рассказывает об этих поединках как сказку, где истину не отличишь от выдумки. Своя версия есть и у императора.
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
