Myriad of Lights

Myriad of Lights, also translated as Lights of Ten Thousand Homes, is a 1948 Chinese film directed by Shen Fu and starring Shangguan Yunzhu, Wu Yin and Lan Ma.

The film begins with a small family of four including a servant and a young daughter in postwar Shanghai. The father, Hu Zhiqing, is a modest office worker. He finds out one day in a letter that his mother and his brothers family are coming down from the provinces to join him, because living conditions are tough in the countryside. His wife cautions him that this means household expenses will increase greatly.Spiralling inflation makes it difficult for Hu to feed the nine people in this extended family. They have to cramp themselves in a small, rented apartment. Things become even more difficult after he is dismissed from his job by Qian Jianming, a former friend. Hu cannot find a new job and his younger brother has to work odd jobs on the streets. His wife has a quarrel with his mother and then suffers a miscarriage. He is mistaken as a pickpocket and gets beaten up in a public bus. Distraught, Hu gets run over accidentally by Qians chauffeur. ........

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