Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo (2006)

Featuring a first-class cast of China's great actors - Siqin Gaowa, Chow Yun-fat, Vicky Zhao Wei and legendary Lisa Lu - The Postmodern Life of My Aunt tells the story of old-fashioned Ye Rutang (Gaowa), a single woman in her sixties who struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai, a city that seems to have become the receptacle for all kinds of con men. The first to pull a scam on Ye is her twelve-year-old nephew Kuan-kuan (Guan Wenshuo). He moves to her old-fashioned apartment after breaking a leg in an accident, but when he can't bear her stinginess, he runs away and pretends to have been kidnapped in order to get the ransom money. Then comes Pan Zhichang (Chow), an amateur opera singer, who tricks Ye into a relationship and steals most of her savings with a complicated swindle involving speculation in the price of cemetery plots.

Focusing the film on the experience of women in her home country and around the

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