Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon

Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon is a 1947 Chinese film directed by Shi Dongshan and Wang Weiyi, starring Bai Yang and Tao Jin, two actors who were the leads in The Spring River Flows East released that same year. The film was selected as one of the 100 greatest 20thcentury Chineselanguage films chosen by Asia Weekly.

For years the company perseveres with their arduous journey, with many of them falling sick. Finally they reach Chongqing, where musical instructor Gao Libin Tao Jin falls ill. Jiang remains behind to take care of him, where they receive news that Jiangs father has agreed to their marriage. They decide to get married once the war is over. Jiangs cousin, an entrepreneur, comes to see her. Soon, the troupe read from the papers that the Japanese has surrendered. Ecstatic, the couple gets married immediately.The couple leaves the troupe to take a barge home. Postwar situation is bad, and they discover Jiangs father has died in the Jiangxi countryside before the war ended. They take up lodging at Jiangs uncles mansion in Shanghai. They are disappointed at the selfcentered, bourgeois attitude held by her uncles family. ........

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