synopsis
It seems too good to be true when young unemployed Yu Jiayin is introduced to a tutoring job by an old classmate. She and the father of the girl she tutors fall in love. He already has a wife, although she is ill and lives in the countryside away from him and their daughter. Jiayin’s father shows up, wanting money and making trouble.Read More »
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NEW YEAR SACRIFICE is based on the short story by the prolific Chinese author Lu Xun and was recently named one of the top 100 Chinese films of all time by Asia Weekly. In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast. When the New Year comes, can this poor woman find any hope in this society?Read More »