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The Lin Family Shop (Lin jia pu zi)
VHS
90 minutes
1984
PN1997 .L5761 1983
The Lin Family Shop is one of the most highly regarded Chinese films of the 1950's recenters praised by English film critics as "ambitiously concieved and directed" as well as "completely untypical of the Chinese film industry's production in 1959, the year marking the tenth anniversary of Liberation."
The story takes place in a village in Zhejiang Province in 1931, the year the Japanese invaded Manchuria. Students have started a nationwide boycott of Japanese-made products, but Shopkeeper Lin merely relabels his Japanese goods in order to stay in business. Lin must resort to every type of underhanded business practice to keep his shop afloat. When his own daughter is threatened by the amouous advances of the chief of police, Lin decides it is better to give up - he closes down his shop and flees with the girl. But the people who really suffer are those he leaves behind. The poor widows who had entrusted their money to his shop's small bank are left totally destitute.
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