Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids.
Emerging from the Chinese film renaissance of the 1990s (Raise the Red Lantern, Farewell My Concubine) this haunting folk tale set in rural China in the 1920s tells the story of a young woman forces to grieve the death of a man she was destined to marry. Combining astonishing visuals with intriguing plot turns, this moving drama is not to be missed. When the spirited Young Mistress (Wang Lan) is kidnapped on the way to her arranged wedding, the groom is killed in an explosion in an attempt to rescue her. The peasant charged with her care, Kui (Chang Shih) manages to free her but the groom's bitter mother forces the Young Mistress to honor her agreement by marrying a wooden statue of her son, and staying chaste. Director Jianxin Huang's fascinating exploration of forbidden love and rigid social hierarchy reveals a culture in turmoil, where tradition is taken to cruel extremes and young lovers may not survive.
О мужественной и самоотверженной борьбе китайских патриотов с гоминдановцами в годы первой и второй революционных гражданских войн в Китае (1924—1937).
Жить в маленьком городке душно и скучно. Дни монотонны, никогда ничего не происходит. Каждое утро молодая женщина идет на рынок и по пути поднимается на развалины городской стены, это ее отдушина и ее тайный мир. Она замужем уже 8 лет, 6 лет из которых ее муж болен и 3 года они не были близки, они даже почти не разговаривают. Она старательно ухаживает за ним, но сердце ее холодно и безучастно, она всего лишь выполняет свой долг. Однажды безнадежную монотонность дней разрушает приезд кого-то из прошлого обоих супругов. В маленький городок пришла весна..
During the war, a small town butcher store, drug dealer Li Buyun, rogue Liu Tianyuan, soldier gangster Pan Qishan and a group of villains on the orders of the Japanese commander Yamamoto, secretly planning to set up a traitor organization to maintain the Association. They are fighting for oil and water, and Yamamoto has to send police chief Yang Kecheng to strengthen control, but Yang is an uncompromising straw man. Liu Tianyuan and Pan Qishan get a batch of arms to sell to a buyer outside the city, but the news is learned by Li Buyun, and the two sides fight for profit. When Pan Qishan came to report that the buyer of the arms was a guerrilla group. The gunfire is so loud that the villains hide in the basement, only to be blown up by the guerrillas with the grenades they are selling.
