Movie
The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes
1948 · 114 min
A slow, earnest plunge into a family's grinding poverty, watching ordinary people buckle under relentless economic pressure.
- Directed by
- Shen Fu
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Shangguan Yunzhu, Lan Ma, Wu Yin
- Overview
- This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and children, and his situation is worsened by the unexpected arrival of his mother, brother and sister-in-law. When he is fired by his unscrupulous boss, the whole family becomes embroiled in one emotional/economic struggle after another.
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- Directed by
- Shen Fu
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Shangguan Yunzhu, Lan Ma, Wu Yin
