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Story by the Minjiang River

Set in 1950s, along the Minjiang River, Fujian Province. Li Yinhua and Yang Xiaolong are childhood growing up friends and have similar interests and ambitions. They work for Baihua Isle mutual aid group now. Xiaolong's father is an individual peasant household and has a different standpoint against his son. There are several self-serving members in Yinhua's team and they are contentious about the fairness of work-points. When citrus trees suffer plague of insects, Xiaolong's father fails in rescuing the trees. At this critical moment, Yinhua get insecticide and sprayers from the district government and help peasants riding out the storm.

Story by the Minjiang River

NR 1956
The Story in the Murals

The film tells the story of a severe drought in a certain year. Farmers dug wells and repaired canals on the mountain to fight the drought, and left a doggerel on the mountainside: "We don't rely on the Jade Emperor, we don't rely on the Dragon King. We are the Jade Emperor, and we are the Dragon King." The sun read it and read it to Wu Yun, but Wu Yun didn't think so. It was at this time that people really dug water out of the mountains and began to fight the drought. Wu Yun was very unconvinced and decided to teach these ignorant farmers a lesson.

The Story in the Murals

NR 1959
Ootone no Taiketsu

In the town of Yumoto, Asakichi, a left-arm-less gambler who had been winning at the gambling hall, was attracted by the sound of a faintly heard storyteller, Saman, and left his seat. Asakichi was fascinated by the voice of Oyasu, who sounded exactly like his wife Ochiyo, who had died three years earlier. Asakichi told Oyasu that Ochiyo had fled with him to his home town of Omigawa just before he was deposed by the samurai Shingo Inaba, but that he had put her through a lot of hardship to make her die. Oyasu's husband Tokujiro was a palace carpenter in Edo, but his skills were damaged and he came to take a cure. Asakichi heard about Oyasu's story and offered him money, and Tokujiro's arm was almost completely healed by Oyasu's nursing care.

Ootone no Taiketsu

NR 1955
Heroine in Black

The Head of Southern Stone Village, Lee Ba-hung bullies others with his power. Yet he has no knowledge that his niece Lee Chun-hong is actually the Black Heroine who confronts him. It turns out that Chun-hong's father is fearful that Ba-hung would bully the mother and daughter of Chun-hong, hence he has disguised Chun-hong with woman attires. Chun-hong's identity is unveiled when she devotes herself to helping the refugees of a disaster by distributing food and emergency supplies. Ba-hung would like to murder Chung-hong by hanging, yet it ends in him being killed by his followers.

Heroine in Black

NR 1955
All the Love Heaven Allows

A shoe salesman and a tailor respectively fall in love with two sisters, Yuk-sin and Yuk-ling, both reputed singers on the radio. The men devise various schemes to meet the two women. Fourth Aunt, the sisters' mother, treats the two women as commodities to be traded off to the highest bidder, greedily making money off their talents by arranging lucrative concerts. The shoe salesman and the tailor disguise themselves as rich men to get close to their dream lovers. Finally, the sisters are won over by true love.

All the Love Heaven Allows

NR 1952
Ghost Currency

A drowned body with strangulation marks was found by a large river, while a man stained in vermilion collapsed at the “Hisago” liquor store. A dropped koban was identified as a fake by Nagatsugu Yingko. The dead man, Minokichi, was a Kazari craftsman exploited by a man named Denzo, who was also later found dead. Ten other Kazari craftsmen were reported missing. Choji, investigating the scene, witnessed one gang member kill another to silence him. Choji’s investigation leads him to Shinsuke Shinanoya, a lumber merchant with ties to the fake koban and whose daughter Choji had previously saved. Choji connects the koban to Sadoya, run by Ginbei, who disappears nightly. Keeping watch, Choji intercepts a message for Bun-ei, whom Seikichi, Sadoya’s keeper, summoned to Ryukokuji Temple. Disguised as Bun-ei, Choji enters a forgery foundry, confronting Ginbei. With fireworks timed like lightning, Choji seizes and binds the gang, foiling their plans.

Ghost Currency

NR 1959
Two Fools Catch the Murderer

Following the success of Two Fools in Hell (1958) and Two Fools in Paradise (1958), Sun Ma Si-tsang and Tang Kei-chen team up for the third film in the series. The two fools have finally finished school, but their road to steady employment is fraught with obstacles. Things get worse when their troubled former classmate sets the two heroes up for murder. A spirited take on The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), the film even includes a cover of Que Sera, Sera as the theme song against hoodlums.

Two Fools Catch the Murderer

NR 1959