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A Spring River Flows East


Director:
Cai Chu Sheng, Zheng Junli
Cast:
Bai Yang, Tao Jin


The film, through a family's joys and sorrows, partings and reunions, reflects the real life of people from the September 18 Incidents until after the surrender of the Japanese invaders.
SuFen who was a spinner at a Shaihai textile mill fell in love with an evening school teacher ZhangZhong liang. Not long ago, they married and had a son born a year later. After the War of Resistance against Japan broke out all-round, ZhangZhog liang left ShangHai for attending the ambulance corps and pared from his family. SuFen returned countryside with her child and mother-in-law where was invaded and occupied by the Japanese aggressors. ZhongLiang experienced much tribulation and hardly fled from ChongQing. He gradually couldn't resist the temptation of degeneration life and was married to WangLi zhen. At that time, SuFen and her mother-in-law got along hardly. After the success of the War of Resistance against Japan, SuFen hoped to get her husband's news. ZhongLiang went back to ShangHai and got relationship with WangLi zhen's cousin (elder sister)HeWen yan. For supporting her family, SuFen went to be servant at the home of HeWen yan.
On one night banquet there, SuFen recognized her husband ZhongLiang and spoke out his true experience of life what caused a sensation. Then SuFen told her mother-in-law. His mother went to meet him and bitterly scathed him who was quite cowardly with no intention of mending his way.SuFen had no alternative but to throw herself into a rive to commit suicide.