Movie
Half Fire , Half Water
Happiness Knocks at the Door
Happy Singles
Heading South
Herdsman
Heroic Sons and Daughters
Hibisus Town
Half Fire, Half Water Yiban Huoyan Yiban Haishui, C-1989)---This film tells the tragic love story of hopelessly cynical and misdirected young man and his girlfriend, an innocent college girl. The young man lives by blackmailing foreigners and Hong Kong business people who sleep with Chinese girls at hotels. He lands in jail and the girl commits suicide. The script is by Wang Shuo ,a young writer who writes about the "lost generation" of young people who have no political beliefs and live only to satisfy their own pleasures. D: Xia Gang; C:Luo Gang, Ji Ling, Xie Lei; M:Beijing

Happiness Knocks at the Door(Xi Ying Men, C-1982, VC)---This light comedy about rural family life won the 1982 Hundred Flowers Award for best film. Critics attribute its popularity not only to its simplicity an humour, but to the way it shows respect and care for the elderly, striking a sympathetic chord in a society anxious to restore those values damaged in the " cultural revolution. " D: Zhao Huanzhang; C: Wang Shuqin, Wen Yujuan, Hong Xuemin; M: Shanghai

Happy Singles(Kuaile De Danshenhan, C-1984)---Young people in a shanghai shipyard grumble about their failures to find mates but succeed in the end . Produced by Shanghai Film Studio, this light comedy takes a realistic look at life. D: Song Chong; C: Gong Xue and Liu Xinyi; M: Shanghai.

Heading South(Nan Xing Ji, C-1990)---Based on a novel of the same title by Ai Wu, this film records the author's experiences when he journeyed from his native Sichuan Province into northern Burma half a century ago when large parts of the country were controlled by bandits. The film introduces many ugly people and scenes, for example, a selfish opium trafficker who doesn't care a fig about others, a woman who sells her daughter's body for alcohol and a beautiful girl who is willing to turn to banditry...D: Zhou li; C: Lei Han, Zhang Fengyi, Tan Xiaoyan, zheng Zhenyao; M Emei

Herdsman( Mumaren, C-1983, VC)--- A man who has worked as a herdsman for 22 years, after having been branded a rightist in 1957 and having endured countless humiliations, is reunited with his father and wins sympathy and friendship from neighbours and co-workers in this Shanghai Film Studio colour feature. D: xie Jin; C: Zhu Shimao, Cong Shan; M: Shanghai.

Heroic Sons and Daughters ( Yingxiong Ernu, BW-1964, VC)--- A young woman who ,as a baby, was entrusted to the care of a worker by her father, a high-ranking commander of the Chinese Volunteer Army when he was arrested, does not learn the truth until 18 years later when she learns of the death of her brother in the Korean War and of her real father's return home. D: Wu Zhaoti;C: Tian Fang, Zhou Wenbin, Liu changxian; M: Changchun.

Hibiscus Town (Furong Zhen, C-1987, VC)--- This film chronicles the chaotic decade of the " cultural revolution" ( 1966-1976) through the lives of several men and women in the small town of Hibiscus. The political movements before and during the tumultuous years are strongly denounced in the movie. It won the Seventh Golden Rooster Awards for the best feature film, best actress and best supporting actor in 1987. D: Xie Jin; C: Jiang Wen, Liuxiao qing ; M: Shanghai 

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