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Xiao cheng zhi chun (2002) | User Rating
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Release Date • USA: Oct 9, 2002 • UK: 13 Jun 2003
MPAA Rating Rated PG for some thematic elements.
Running Time 1 hour, 56 minutes
Country China, Hong Kong, France, Netherlands
Studio Beijing Film Studio, China Film Group Corporation, Fortissimo Films, Orly Films, Paradis Films
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles • Xiao cheng zhi chun • Springtime in a Small Town (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Period Piece, Marriage, Love Triangle, Love, Doctor
Plot: A country town in South China. It's the spring of 1946 … less than a year since the defeated Japanese withdrew from China. A young woman languishes on the bomb-damaged walls of the small town. She is bored … frustrated … unfulfilled. The sound of a distant train whistle triggers thoughts of escape.Dai Liyan is the only surviving male of the Dai family. He married Yuwen eight years ago, just before the war started. When Japanese planes bombed the town, they evacuated to Suzhou; they returned to the family's ancestral home after the war to find it half in ruins, and moved back into the relatively intact Flower Pavilion. But then Dai Liyan fell ill with suspected tuberculosis. He and Yuwen began sleeping in separate rooms. Liyan gave up the thought of having children. The couple lives with Liyan's sister Xiu, who goes to a local school, and the family's elderly retainer Lao Huang. Liyan's health is not improved by watching his wife become his nursemaid: her vivacity has given way to a numbed ennui, and she cries alone in her room at night. But everything changes when an unexpected visitor arrives from Shanghai. Zhang Zhichen, now a qualified doctor, is Dai Liyan's old friend from college. He cuts a dashing figure in this rural setting. He is perturbed to find Liyan in such
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