The Lin Family’s Shop
Just finished watching The Lin Family’s Shop 林家铺子 DVD. This film was adopted from the same title chinese classic written by Mao Dun 茅盾.
Simple introduction by PRCmovie.com:
n 1930s, many small businesses had a hard time surviving with the confusion generated by the political uncertainty of the time. Whose law is to be followed, the Japanese occupation forces or the bureaucrat nationalist government? Lin, who owns a family shop, racks his brain to save himself from bankruptcy. He tries everything, even cheats a poor widow out of the meager saving she deposited in his store, but finally loses everything.
Produced in 1959 and of course, this film is a resemble of the 30s in China. The sad episode at the end of story describes the harsh reality of that era’s society, on how constrain or repress one’s emotions can be, when facing it.
This film won the Special Jury Prize at the 12th Fegladafuz International Film Festival, Portugal in 1983.