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A Spring River Flows East
Director: Cai Chu Sheng, Zheng Junli
Cast: Bai Yang, Tao Jin
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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.
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