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- Program Title: The Family
- EASC Code: CF-04
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: China
- Language: Mandarin
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Movie & TV Drama
- Program Type: Feature
- Media Type: VHS
- Director: Chen His-ho
- Producer:
- Release Date: 1956
- Running Time:124 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: "This story is taken from one of the famous novels written by the well-known novelist, Pa Chin. The story tekes place between 1916 and 1920. It is all about a bureaucrat and landlord family in a big city. The head of the family Olm Man Kao is a feudal-minded bigot. He insists that Chuen-hisn, his eldest grandon, marry a girl named Jui-chuen instead of cousin Mei whom Chueh-hisn loves. He forbids his two other grandsons Cheh-min and Chueh-hui to take part in the partiotic movement then on the upsurge. He intends to give away Ming-feng, a house-maid who Chueh-hui loves, to an old man as concubine. Ming-feng is thus forced to kill herself in a pond. He also makes arrangements for Cheh-min to be engaged to a girl although the young man is over head and ears in love with cousin Chin. Encouraged by Chueh-hui, Chueh-min runs away from home. Old Man Kao gets so furious that he dies… Cheh-hui comes to see that in order to be free and happy, he must strive to smash this feudal society."
- Data Entry Date: 1/31/2000
