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After a warlord’s relative destroys his family, a young man escapes to a tropical settlement of Chinese workers. A dancer offers him the possibility of a different life, but the arrival of his old enemy reopens the wound. Romance and revenge move toward a confrontation beneath an increasingly threatening volcano.
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DirectorsSun Yu
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Sun Yu moves familiar Shanghai melodramatic conflicts into an imagined South Seas world. The selected subtitled edition uses a VHS-derived copy made accessible by Columbia University Libraries; its visual limitations reflect that source.
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- Li Lili — Unknown photographer, 1930s; source Sina, via Wikimedia Commons. Commons source was already denoised and sharpened. · Public domain — PD-China and PD-1996
