Anxious to Return explained
Anxious to Return |
Director: | Jun Li |
Runtime: | 110 min. |
Starring: | Siqin Gaowa Erkang Zhao Chen Peisi |
Language: | Mandarin |
Cinematography: | Zhenzhong Chen Guangyuan Yang |
Editing: | Luchu Xu Xin Zou |
Music: | Mingzhe Zhen |
Country: | China |
Anxious to Return[1] (also known as Eagerly Homebound[2]) is a 1979 Chinese film directed by Jun Li and starring Siqin Gaowa, Chen Peisi, and Erkang Zhao.[3] The movie is best known for the first appearance of actress Siqin Gaowa.
Plot
The film is set in the 1930s, during the Sino-Japanese War, and tells about a widow and peasant woman, Yu Zhen, who finds and saves a wounded soldier, and falls in love with him. The soldier is "trying to grapple with his conflicting emotions."[4] [5] [6]
Siqin Gaowa won the Ministry of Culture's Youth Creativity Award in 1979 for her portrayal in this movie.[2]
Cast
- Siqin Gaowa as Yuzhen
- Erkang Zhao as Wei Desheng
- Ma Zhigang as Uncle Qi
- Lu Yong as Dong Laoli
- Xu Yao as Chuan Zhu
- Han Zaisheng as Sun Haishan
- Zhao Baojun as a Veteran
- Li Fengqiu as Xiao Xuzi
- Chen Peisi as Police captain
- Zhao Shoukai
- Liu Zhao
Notes and References
- Book: US-China Review Volume 6. 20. US-China Peoples Friendship Association. 1982. 978-1-782-38245-4.
- Book: Sue Wiles . Clara Wing-chung Ho. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women Volume 2. 465. M.E. Sharpe. 1992. 978-1-315-49924-6.
- Web site: Anxious to Return (1983). 2021-04-07 . IMDb.
- Book: China Review. 66. China Review Publications Limited. 1989.
- Book: Song, Yuwu. Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. 274. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. 2013. 978-0-7864-3582-1.
- Book: Chinese Literature. 123. Foreign Languages Press. 1983.