Hibiscus Town Page #8

Synopsis: Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution.
Director(s): Jin Xie
  10 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Year:
1987
164 min
102 Views


What name will you be giving

to this healthy child?

Gu Jun...

Which Jun?

The Jun for "army," as in

the People's Liberation Army...

Gu Jun...

Oh, Comrade Hu Yuyin, have a seat...

According to the directives of

the Central and Provincial Committees...

...and approved by the District and

County Research Committees...

...it has been resolved to rectify

past mistaken judgements.

It has been decided that your

new house will be returned to you...

And your 1500 kuai will

also be returned to you...

Do you have any further requests?

You've given back my house...

You've given back my money...

Give me back my husband!

Give me back my husband!

Give me back my husband...

Give back... my... husband...

Young Gao...

I spent many a year working

right here at Hibiscus Town!

I've heard that, it was that

business of many years ago...

It really is true that important people

are forgetful... You must be busy!

Qin... Qin Shutian!

Right right right, Qin Shutian...

Also known as Crazy Qin!

My specialty was sweeping streets,

and I did a pretty good job of it!

During the Great Cultural Revolution,

I was lucky enough to get married...

My wife is called Hu Yuyin!

Comrade Qin Shutian...

Through these years...

you have suffered a lot...

Comrade Qin Shutian!

I've not heard those words

together very often...

Your rehabilitation case

was also signed off on by me...

Yes, the official procedures

are indispensable in your work...

Director Li, get in the car!

It's all in the past now...

Perhaps... I can help you

again sometime...

It seems... you haven't

gotten married yet...

I'm on my way to the county seat

to get married now...

Ohh... Great!

Settle down peacefully, and learn

to pass the days like the common people!

Don't always be so hard on them...

Their lives... are simple... but difficult!

Aiya, it that...?

Hey, who are you?

I've never seen him...

- Who is it?

- Aiya, he's never been through here!

- Who is that?

- I don't know...

Junjun, why haven't you gone home?

Your father has come back...

Your father has come back!

Mom, mom!

- What are you doing?

- He's come back!

Oh? Who has come back?

He's come back!

Garlic flowers blossom,

oh, so soft and tiny...

I keep my lover in my heart,

oh, even in poverty...

Just the two of us,

oh, our affection is enough...

Tea brewed with cold water

will diffuse slowly...

So he's finally come back...

Poor ill-fated Junjun...

What are you doing

still standing here, go inside!

Mom!

Junjun...

This is your father!

How come you never came back?

- What's everyone looking at?

- Hu Yuyin's husband is back!

Hu Family Rice Tofu

I haven't eaten such delicious

rice tofu for so long!

Hey, two bowls of rice tofu!

- Yuyin!

- Coming!

- Here you are!

- You guys made it!

Give out a little more...

Old Gu, here's some extra...

- Ai, its really delicious!

- That's right!

- How much for another bowl?

- No charge...

It's our fifteen year-old custom...

If its no charge,

everyone will love to eat it!

This rice tofu of yours

tastes better and better!

It's all due to strict training

from the wife!

Comrade, let me see

your business permit...

Business permit!

- Mangeng is here!

- Brother Mangeng...

Big Momma!

- Yuyin, don't be too hard on Shutian...

- Of course not!

- What's the matter?

- He said I shouldn't be too hard on you...

That's right, Mangeng is correct...

Shutian, the higher-ups

have asked us in the town...

if you will return to your old

profession in the county government?

Head of the County Cultural Office!

Crazy, I mean, Shutian,

congratulations! I already knew...

Sit down, sit down!

This is...

This is all ancient history

from twenty years ago...

I forgot all that long ago, I can't do it...

- What do you mean? Don't you know?

- Shutian...

You've been rehabilitated,

you can be reinstated...

You're such an accomplished man!

I'm only accomplished as a man

when I'm together with Yuyin...

Ghosts can't carry on romance, can they?

Yuyin...

Mangeng, I'm serious, this street doesn't

look as clean as when I was here...

No one knows the cracks between

these street stones like I do...

The way I see it...

From now on...

I want to return to sweeping!

I'm not going anywhere...

Loyalty

Time for a movement!

Time for a movement!

Lunatic! Stinking and filthy!

Time for a movement!

- Don't be afraid, it's nothing...

- Time for a movement!

So Wang Qiushe has lost his mind...

Times like these...

are really interesting...

The one called "Crazy" isn't crazy at all...

While the ones who

weren't crazy... turn out mad...

Without campaigns to launch,

he's lost his mind...

Go on! I'll hit you! Get out of here!

Yuyin...

Give him a full bowl of rice tofu.

We can spare it...

Time for a movement!

We need a movement...

There should be a movement!

Unless our attitudes change,

unless we stay on guard...

...what he's saying may

still have a kind of logic to it...

Assemble after dinner... for a movement!

Time for a movement!

Time for a movement!

Time for a movement!

Time for a movement!

Time for a movement!

The End

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