Daughters of China
Women play a heroic role in the Volunteer Army fighting the Japanese in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Casts & Crew
Zheng Zhang
Shen Yue
Li Bo
Defu Du
Yu Yang
Xingjia Qi
Fengxia Du
Buhua Qin
Feng Jin
Qiang Zhai
Baiwan Li
Ying Wang
Yan Xue
Sufei Zhou
Yuezhi Sun
Yingzhen Zhou
Also Directed by Zifeng Ling
Xiang Zi is a rickshaw boy who has always had a desire to excel and a thirst for freedom. He married Hu Niu who died of dystocia later. After her death, another girl, Xiao Fuzi, falls in love with Xiang Zi but they are separated by poverty. Xiang Zi works very hard in order to change his life, only to find that Xiao Fuzi is dead just as he begins to be hopeful for their future. Finally, Xiang Zi, an unflinching man, surrenders to that dark society.
In Beijing 1930s, a young woman is torn between her lover and her disabled husband.
Cuicui is raised by her 70-year-old grandfather. 17 years ago, Her mother was pregnant before marriage and she committed suicide after giving birth to Cuicui by drinking cold water in the river. When Cuicui grows up, her grandfather begins to worry about her marriage, because he doesn’t want Cuicui to have the miserable life like her mother.
With few other real options, when the young village woman in this story is offered an arranged marriage with a kindly but mildly retarded shopkeeper who lives in a nearby town, she readily accepts. Once she has settled into her new home, she becomes involved with her new husband’s patron, a man involved in some underworld trading activities.