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The Herdsman

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble herdsman on the grasslands. His bitter life has been transformed by a happy marriage to the wise and beautiful Xiuzhi, and more recently by his rehabilitation by the Party. When he goes to Beijing for their reunion, he discovers his father wants him to work for his chemical company in San Francisco. Lingjun tells the story of his life to his father, as he ponders his future.

The Herdsman

7.5 1982
The Constable

Lam Kwok Kuen, nearing retirement and raising a mentally challenged son by himself, is a police officer whose sole requirement on the job is oversee the department fleet. Despite this, he remains active in the front line of police service, putting his life on the line for the sake of others, his heroism bettering even the most seasoned professionals. He fights the bad guys, putting criminals behind bars, upholding the law at any cost, for as his adage proclaims, to live a day surmounts to pursuing justice relentlessly, whether life or death proceeds in its aftermath.

The Constable

4.4 2013
Chuang Tzu Tests His Wife

Taoist spiritual leader Jang-jung doubts fidelity of his wife Geun-hwa and comes back home from a mountain. However, nothing happened to her. As Jang-jung dies suddenly, Geun-hwa falls into deep sorrow. Cho-u who is a student of Jang-jung appears to condole her. Geun-hwa and Jang-jung become lovers and at the moment when they make love, Cho-u falls down and becomes ill. Geun-hwa hears that he needs a brain for cure. So she opens up Jang-jung's coffin. To her surprise, Jang-jung wakes up and Geun-hwa dies of shock. Jang-jung regrets his doubt toward his wife.

Chuang Tzu Tests His Wife

NR 1970
Cherries

Set in the village of Aicun, Yunnan province, pic begins in the early '80s, with poor, lame farmer Ge Wang (Tuo Guoquan) pressured by his family to marry the mentally and emotionally stunted Cherry (Miao Pu). Ge weds the unkempt but harmless woman, who spends most of her time chasing children and offering them the fruit that is her namesake. Once married, the shamelessly sexual and embarrassingly naive Cherry shows an insatiable desire to have her own child. Fate intervenes in the second act when Cherry finds an abandoned baby girl in the woods. Though the sprig, named Scarlet, comes complete with a handful of bank notes, Ge panics, thinking he can't afford to raise a child, and reacts in callous fashion. Final section puts a pre-pubescent Scarlet (Long Li) centerstage as she deals with the stigma of having a mentally handicapped mother whose affection is both infinite and frequently inappropriate.

Cherries

NR 2008