Movies: Yan Han

In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until ...

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Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner....

Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is reall...

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An idealistic youth moves to the countryside in search of a purer, more honest society, but finds injustice even in his remote village....

Directed by Ban Lu....

Militiaman in Lü Liang Shan actively organize to fight enemies....

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A family is persecuted by I-Kuan Tao, a feudal religious organization....

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