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Synopsis: Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work. They raise a family and survive, managing "to live" from the 40's to the 70's in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Yimou Zhang
Production: Hallmark Entertainment
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
87%
NOT RATED
Year:
1994
133 min
1,630 Views


Please, Doctor, please!

You'll pull through!

It's all right.

Mommy's here. Don't be afraid.

Dr. Wang!

- Feeling better?

- Not at all.

Oxygen.

Fengxia! You'll pull through.

Mommy's here. Don't be afraid.

Please, Doctor, she's my only daughter.

The only child I have left.

Fengxia! Mommy's here. Don't afraid.

Some years later...

Grandpa! It's crooked again.

Is it?

I'll fix it.

Take the medicine to Granny.

Granny, your medicine.

Back already?

Has Little Bun been a good boy?

I delivered 10 thermoses of water.

Such a good little boy.

Ten whole thermoses.

Have you had your medicine?

I'll make lunch.

Little Bun...

give me a hand.

I light the fire?

Yes, and I'll make some noodles.

I want to visit Fengxia's grave again...

and take Little Bun's photos...

to show her.

He's another year older.

Fine, I'll let Erxi know.

Little Bun! Hold onto those chicks.

We should've bought them

on the way home.

Now we've got to carry them!

Careful! Don't drop them!

Are you happy?

Grandpa, where will the chicks live?

Where will they live?

I'll find a home for them when we get back.

Youqing eats dumplings.

Fengxia looks at photos.

Little Bun, do you know who Youqing is?

Uncle.

- And Fengxia?

- Mommy.

What a clever boy!

Granny, why all the photos for Fengxia?

Before you were born...

Granny said to mommy that...

she should take a photo every year.

If I hadn't given Dr. Wang those buns...

everything would've been fine.

He could have saved our Fengxia.

He's a professor, after all.

He always carries on like this.

It's okay.

We shouldn't have given him water.

People say, once you drink water...

one bun in the stomach turns to seven.

Dr. Wang ate seven buns.

Seven times seven is 49.

It's much too much.

Erxi, is it true that Dr. Wang...

won't eat buns, only rice now?

Not just buns...

anything made from wheat.

Rice costs more than wheat.

What a food bill he must have.

- I'll make dinner.

- I'll help.

No, you're tired. You two have a rest.

I'll do it.

Little Bun, behave yourself.

Grandpa, where'll we put the chicks?

Let's see.

How about in here?

This box is bigger, isn't it?

They'll have more room to run around.

Then they'll eat more.

And soon they'll grow up.

When will they grow up?

Very soon.

And then?

And then...

the chickens will turn into geese...

and the geese will turn into sheep...

and the sheep will turn into oxen.

And after the oxen?

After oxen...

After oxen, Little Bun will grow up.

I want to ride on an ox's back!

You will ride on an ox's back.

Little Bun won't ride on an ox...

he'll ride trains and plains...

and life will get better and better.

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