1961 – Mandarin – 99/114 Minutes
Director: Yi Wen
Cast: You Min, Ge Lan, Ye Feng, Zhang Yang

Before the Sino-Japanese war, a pair of young lovers, Zhu Lan and Xu Jianbai face objection from Xu’s parents, who want him to marry his cousin Qiuming instead. Frustrated, Xu goes to study in the north where he meets Yanan. War breaks out, Yanan and Xu join the army. Lan joins the Nursing Corps and runs into the seriously wounded Xu. Qiuming joins a traveling troupe as a singer to entertain the soldiers. After the war, Lan dies of illness, Yanan has lost a leg and Qiuming becomes a nun. Ten years of conflict and turmoil has wrought great change and Xu comes to realise that only true love remains as constant as the sun, moon and star.

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