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  • Yigong Wu & Yonggang Wu – Ba Shan Ye Yu aka Evening Rain (1980)

    AsianChinaClassicsYigong WuYonggang Wu

    This film had a deep influence upon China in the 1980s, as it was beginning to come to terms with the Cultural Revolution.

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    Evening Rain, a feature film co-directed by Wu Yonggang and Wu Yigong, is about the years of the Cultural Revolution. Qiu Shi, a well-known poet, is wronged during that political movement. He is aboard a passenger ship bound for Chongqing from Wuhan under the guard of a young man and a young woman. In the third-class cabin, there is a village girl who has sold herself to repay her family debt, a woman teacher who speaks out from a sense of justice, an old actor who has had a full taste of suffering, an old woman who is on her way to commemorate her son killed in the violent factional struggle, and a righteous young worker. Read More »

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