Purple Sunset

Purple Sunset Chinese pinyin Zr is a 2001 Chinese film written and directed by Feng Xiaoning. Feng also acted as the films cinematographer.

The film begins with a flashback of an elderly Chinese man Yang in 2000 who is interviewed and who begins reminiscing about the Second SinoJapanese War, prompted on by a journalist. He grasps an old okiagarikoboshi musical doll which brings his memories back to August 1945, near the end of the war.In 1945 Yang, a Hebei peasant in his 30s, was captured by Japanese imperial soldiers, and was brought to the Daxinganling area near Manchuria bordering the Soviet Union after the Japanese slaughtered his aged mother. He was put in a firing squad to be executed. The firing killed everyone in line but Yang. As the Japanese soldiers reloaded their machine gun, a Soviet T34 tank knocked over the wall against which the captives were lined. Yang was the sole survivor and was put under the charge of Nadja, a young female Soviet lieutenant and her comrades. As Nadja escorted him to the headquarters, their truck was ambushed by the Japanese and Nadja, a fellow Soviet comrade and Yang escaped to a forested area. ........

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