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NfO synopsis: Food is sent to the bandit village for the 8 Americans and 19 other foreigners held captive whilst negotiations are in progress.
The setting is Long Bow, a village 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Focuses on one family - the village doctor’s - and integrates the lives of individuals with larger issues. Dr Shen, a Roman Catholic,...
Feature film. An oedipal mystery melodrama informed by Hamlet. A young man named Guan Jin (TA Chung Wa) walks into a police station, offering information about a 10-year-old murder. He says that the victim...
Concerns the women of the village, Long Bow, who are the subject of the William Hinton books ‘Shenfan’ and Fanshen’. The title refers to the enduring attitude in rural China that while a boy is ‘big...
Looks at daily life in Long Bow, showing how the traditional way of life has been affected by political change, particulaly collectivisation and decollectivisation. An elaborate funeral is shown, and the...
Chinese silk-stringed zithers and folk dances, including a performance of a Peking Opera. Also shows village life, the Chinese type of Buddhist prayers, and temple architecture, painting and calligraphy.
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Copter Doctor. DESCRIPTION: Hong Kong’s flying doctor paid one of his fortnightly visits to outlying villages. (With a helicopter he can do in a few hours what takes days any other...
Pathe synopsis: Final trip is to the ancient Chinese city of Wangcheng. The local store is full of exotic goods ranging from ancient eggs to dried octupus and edible bird’s nests. But the city, built at a...
To provide more water for Hong Kong’s millions, they’re building a reservoir on near-by Lantao Island. But a 600-year-old village will be submerged in the process, and 50 families were moving. When...
23,000 Chinese and North Koreans refusing repatriation travel to Indian peace village pending settlement of their problem.
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