The Spring River Flows East (1947)
• October 9th, 1947 • 3h 12min
Drama
Overview
1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focus shifts back and forth from the brothers' parents and Zhongliang's wife and son to Zhongliang's newfound life of luxury in a town not too far away. The plight of Zhongliang's mother, his wife, Sufan and her son, Kongeson is contrasted with Zhongliang's rise in a flourishing company.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Freud's Last Session
Released on: 2023-12-22
Drama
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis a...
Shanghai Madness
Released on: 1933-08-03
Drama, Adventure
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires ...
Mirror
Released on: 1975-03-07
Drama, History
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
M. Butterfly
Released on: 1993-10-01
Romance, Drama
In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling – but...
The Devil's Backbone
Released on: 2001-04-20
Fantasy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía ...
The Warrior
Released on: 2001-09-07
History, Drama, Action, War
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...
Mongolian Ping Pong
Released on: 2005-06-11
Drama, Comedy
Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and runnin...
Curse of the Golden Flower
Released on: 2006-12-14
Action, Drama, Fantasy
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...
Frost
Released on: 2017-08-03
Drama
Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to...
To Kill a Mockingbird
Released on: 1962-12-20
Drama
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their ti...
The Remains of the Day
Released on: 1993-11-05
Drama, Romance
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...
The Good Shepherd
Released on: 2006-12-11
Drama, Thriller, History
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
Road to Perdition
Released on: 2002-07-12
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figur...
Murder on the Orient Express
Released on: 1974-11-22
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...
Her Sister's Keeper
Released on: 1963-05-18
Drama
To put her younger sister Huilan (Margaret Tu Chuan) through college, Huilian (Grace Ting Ning) beca...
Gosford Park
Released on: 2001-12-26
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation...
Dancing at Lughnasa
Released on: 1998-09-04
Drama
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
The Woman of Wrath
Released on: 1984-09-08
Drama
A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...
The Day of the Locust
Released on: 1975-05-07
Drama
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the l...
The Pleasure
Released on: 1985-07-31
Drama
Italy in the early 1930s. To the elderly aristocrat Gerard, all that is left of Leonora, the love of...