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- Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
- A decades-spanning romantic drama about a woman who pays dearly for following her heart.
- Sister Ye is the master craftswoman in a village of toymakers that is subject to outside attacks. A series of personal tragedies reduces her to a shell of herself, until she breaks and rallies the townsfolk to fight their oppressors.
- Six young men from the city take jobs on a road crew, building a highway of strategic importance to the Chinese Army. The story relates the men's interactions with each other, the local community, and two friendly and flirtatious young local girls who become part of their circle. Meanwhile, their hard work is countered by a traitorous foreman bribed by Japanese agents to sabotage the road.
- Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.
- Bai Le De and Hu Lin Tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away. Later, Bae Le De is appointed to a post at the same place. Hu Lin Tung falls in love with Luo Hua, daughter of the local commander.
- A feisty country girl Xiao Feng nicknamed Wild Rose has moved to the city with her artist friend Jiang after her father's disappearance. They move to Shanghai and discover that it is a city that only caters for the privileged few.
- The daughter of a peasant family that works on a landowner's property is in love with the owner's son but the parents force them to separate.She lands up having a child out of wedlock.
- Fishing village girl Ling Ling sets off to look for her cousin in Shanghai. She soon finds out that Shanghai is a city full of vice: she is raped, sold into prostitution, and later becomes a socialite who uses her earnings to help others. She still waits at the pier in the hope that she sees her sailor lover return from the sea one day. By then, the revolution is starting to gain momentum.
- About the trials and tribulations of the family of a poor fisherman.
- Returning home from a long voyage overseas, a man finds his wife and child living with another man. Fuelled by anger, he murders the other man and is forced to flee justice, until he faces death on a deserted island.
- The film is composed of eight short stories.
- A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the Shanghai movie scene, with parallels to the true-life story of popular actress Ruan Lingyu. A simple girl is plucked from the countryside by a famous actor, who romances her and makes her a star, with unhappy results. The film's score is lost, but the engagement of Zi Luolan, an opera star (credited as Violet Wong), to play the lead opposite Jin Yan (Raymond King) was a sensation.
- To fulfill his father's deathbed wish, a businessman moves his extended family from the city to the countryside, and opens a school for poor children and a sanctuary for childless elders. But his adult children miss urban life and rebel.
- A young Shanghai woman battles against the tyranny of her bullying father, with the help of a bookish neighbor.
- The story of a young novelist who is supported by a loving and hard-working wife. The novelist, however, is drawn to the decadent life of a socialite who introduces him to the dance halls that dot Shanghai.
- To please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little Hong, and marry his cousin, with disastrous results.
- A twelve years old boy moves from his village to Shanghai. A lonely and rich old man adopts him.
- The story of a farmer's son sent to study in the city, where he marries a wealthy heiress. In the end, his wife leaves him, and he is forced to return home to his village, where he learns that his family is ruined and starving.
- In order to inherit a fortune, a gentle young man is required to kill his father's longtime enemy. Unable to do it himself, he looks for people willing to do it for him, with comical results.
- Ostensibly a tale of a village attempting to fend off a pack of vicious wolves. In reality, the wolves were a euphemism for the Japanese army who had recently occupied Manchuria.
- Yu is a village boat-rower who loves smiling. On the contrary, serf girl xiao Hong never smiles because of her miserable life. Yu volunteers to teach her smile. Just when Xiao Hong begins to smile, the warlord rivalry commences and Yu is forced into conscription by the warlord and in turn loses his ability to smile.
- Ill-fated romance of an orphaned flower girl and a young musician, destroyed by his traditional family and the Shanghai underworld.
- The story of a poor family living in China's slums. The daughter is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, the daughter is forced to give up her body to her landlord's son in exchange for a delay in construction.
- The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua's construction company 24 years later.
- Master and sisters of Hong's circus come to Kaifeng and arrange their show. They are bullied by local tyrant Hou family and master Hong dies. Hong sisters go to the Shaolin Temple and ask help to take revenge for their father's death.
- A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The father dies of grief and Song lives with his cousin abroad. The warlord's nephew loses power and also escapes to the same country.
- Lai-lan is the only child of millionnaire Tsoi Chi-sin. She is beautiful and free-spirited, never lacking in suitors. One day, Lai-lan and a suitor Henry Wong are mugged. Henry runs away and Lai-lan is saved by a blacksmith, Cheung Kwok-keung. Later, Kwok-keung saves the life of Lai-lan again, twice. Lai-lan falls in love with Kwok-keung. She sends a matchmaker to Kwok-keung's parents. However, knowing that their social status are incompatible, Kwok-keung rejects her overtures of marriage. Lai-lan falls ill. Touched by her feelings, Kwok-keung finally agrees to marry her.
- This film depicting the lives of ordinary people - street peddlers, poor scholars, and young revolutionaries - reflects the culturally progressive political climate of that pre-War, post-May the 4th era.