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Shanghai Film Studio

('Ba Shan Ye Yu') = Evening Rain =

Screenwriter – Ye Nan

General Director – Wu Yonggang

Director – Wu Yigong

Photographer – Cao Weiye

Art Designer – Xue Jianna Composer – Gao Tian

Recording Engineers - Jin Fugen, Yang Liangkun Film Cutter – Lan Weijie

Assistant Director – Zhang Yuqiang

Assistant Photographer – Tang Shibao Editor - Zhang Mengzhao

Stunt Designer - Chen Jizhang Photographer – Zhou Haofei

Stagehands – Tian Zhigao, Tao Meichun

Lighting Engineer – Ye Lian'gen

Set Decorator – Sun Dianlin

Set Drawer – Yan Jishen Lighting Engineer – Peng Wenlong

Costume Designer – Chen Meilian Propsman – Qin Xiquan

Production Manager – Xu Songlin

Music performed by - Shanghai Film Music Ensemble

Music Director – Yao Di Solo Singer – Jin Xiaocai

Cast

'Qiushi' ... Li Zhiyu 'Liu Wenying' ... Zhang Yu

'Li Yan' ... Qiang Ming

'Policeman Old Wang' ... Zhong Xinghuo 'Grandma' ... Ouyang Ruqiu

'Female Teacher' ... Lin Bin

'Song Minsheng' ... Lu Qing 'Xinghua' ... Zhang Min

'Guan Shengxuan' ... Shi Ling

'Aunt Liu' ... Zhao Jing 'Little Juanzi' ... Mao Weihui

'Captain' ... Zhang Fusheng

'Commissar' ... Liu Zhizi 'Chef Liu' ... Fang Bo

'Young Man' ... Ma Chongle 'Xinghua's Father' ... Wang Feng

This film was made with the help of the Changjiang River Shipment Bureau,

Ministry of Communications.

Ladies and gentlemen, don't push! Please board in order.

Don't hurry. Take your time!

You are so early.

Let's go.

Xinghua, don't leave me. Return the ticket.

I'd rather die with you. Stay with me!

Talk to me, please.

It'll be easier if you pretend I'm dead.

Xinghua, Xinghua, Xinghua.

Revolutionary people and comrades, good day!

Let's make the room a bit quieter.

We're all tired of so much noise in this world, right?

We need peace and quiet.

Look, this old comrade is trying to read.

No, no, I'd like to listen to it. It is very instructive and significant.

It's a Model Drama

which originates from the film but is better than the film.

It has nothing to do with me.

You are the Beijing opera actor, Guan Shengxuan, famous for the clown role.

Well, San Su, congratulations.

No, no, I'm guilty.

I think the role you acted was very vivid.

But I showed the feudal government's officials in a good light.

That is, a restoration of a dethroned monarch; that is...

We are on board now, not in your unit.

It's not a vacuum on board.

It may not be a vacuum, but the air has been polluted.

Excuse me, where is your Revolutionary Committee?

- Upstairs - Thank you

Escorted secretly. That is to say, he is in great danger now.

It's tyranny!

Watch your words, old fellow.

Yes, you should be careful.

I'm not afraid. At the worst I'd...

Forget it.

We don't want any trouble.

Sorry, old comrade, this is bridge-control. You shouldn't be here.

I'm looking for the leader of the Revolutionary Committee.

What's the matter?

I want to change cabin.

Why?

I just want to.

Which cabin are you in?

Cabin 13, third class.

Mr. Qiushi, I recognised you at first sight.

I'm Song MingSheng. We met once.

That is to say...

Yes. Yes.

Where is the actor?

He disappeared so quickly.

What on earth are you afraid of?

Afraid of being punished,

imprisoned in a cowshed, and handcuffed.

You're on board now. As long as you obey the law, nothing will happen.

I always obey the law.

So you are safe.

Are you the top leader?

Yes.

All right.

Well, are you sure your Revolutionary Committee

won't be driven out of power before we arrive at Wuhan City?

That is, will the leaders be changed? My destination is Wuhan City.

Don't worry! It won't happen before we arrive at Wuhan.

Persecutors.

It has been several years since the Cultural Revolution,

but still it seems this ship is not under control of the working class.

Good, the ship has set off.

We are on a leaf of a ship,

drifting out of the troubled world.

It won't happen. The Revolutionary Committee said so.

Comrades who are not sailing, please now disembark.

The ship is going to set sail.

Excuse me.

Weigh anchor!

Good-bye, bye-bye.

Xinghua, Xinghua.

Xinghua.

Xinghua.

Who is the Commissar?

He is a poet.

Many people know him.

He is a guilty poet, the enemy of the working class.

This is our captain.

Life is like a boat, with white sails shuttling through time.

I just heard yesterday.

Then, if you have any questions, talk to the policeman.

Have a seat.

Qiushi is a public enemy, wanted by the central leaders.

That is, he is a major criminal.

Yes, the authorities ordered us to escort him to Wuhan.

He attacks the cultural revolution of the working class, attacks...

Wait. Can you tell us what Qiushi's crime is?

Present counter-revolutionary.

That's not really very clear.

What's not clear about that?

I mean, the word you used is not clear.

It's too big a crime for him. It's too... These years...

Have some water.

For example, and here I only make an analogy,

so please don't get offended.

For example you may accuse me of being old-fashioned, conservative,

or even a revisionist of counter-revolution.

How can you even joke about such a thing!

Keep calm and listen to me.

Sit down, please.

I want to know: is Qiushi imprisoned, in custody, or in ward?

Has he been accused and brought to trial?

I'm talking about the legal procedures.

Are you from a foreign country??

What kind of questions are these?

This is the proletarian governmental Administration.

Typical old-fashioned thinking!

Now, you see, old-fashioned!

Haha.

Is the central leaders' decision not enough?

Of course, the central leaders...

What on earth do you want us to do?

To ensure the criminal's safety.

We're responsible for the safety of all passengers.

I'm a seed of dandelion.

No one knows my happiness and sadness.

No one knows...

Hi, little girl, glad to see you again.

Why did she disappear as soon as she got aboard?

Which cabin are you in?

Are you with your mother?

What's the matter with the girl?

That girl is not my granddaughter. I don't know who she is.

She came here just now, and then ran away again.

I see.

What's the story with that child?

She might be an orphan.

An experienced policeman can't catch a little girl on a ship. It's funny!

Haha.

Comrade Qiushi, you may not know where you are being taken.

Don't you remember I searched your house and confiscated your property that year?

At that time, I...

The manuscripts of your poems are safe in my place. I won't lose them.

Thank you.

I heard that your wife had died.

Do you need help? Watch out. He's coming.

Good girl, come here.

How do you like it? Smell it.

Look at the colour. It's really a work of art.

Wonderful.

It's famous around the Chuanjiang River.

Taste it.

Thank you, uncle.

That's all right.

Chef, are you busy now?

Old Wang, come in and have a drink with me.

I'll come after work.

Good, I'll wait for you.

Child, taste the clover I cooked.

Oh, it's you.

Did you creep onto the ship?

The policeman is looking for you.

Is your name Xinghua?

Have some food.

Thank you. I have no appetite.

Girl, I can read your sadness from your eyes.

But anyway you need to eat.

You must take care of yourself when you travel.

Don't let the boy who saw you off worry about you.

Girl, don't cry.

We are on the same ship now, though we come from different places.

It makes us friends.

Tell us your trouble.

Girl, tell me, where are you going?

I'm going to marry a man.

Marry a stranger.

I see. You don't want to,

but you have to.

These years, no one cares about production,

the daily wage is only 9 cents.

Your family is in too much debt.

We have no way to live.

A distant relation sent a message that

someone will pay my father's debt

if I...

I keep hearing things like this more and more in recent years.

The ways of the old society are coming back.

Young man, where are you working?

Why do you ask?

No reason.

I'm a worker.

Do you know him?

Who?

The one talking to you when you were eating.

It's none of your business.

Tsh, secret police!

Secret police? Where?

I was just joking.

Haha.

Hi, I've found something strange.

The policemen on this ship are very good,

very friendly,

but you must be careful of some people

who are not in police uniforms.

Young man, be careful what you say.

As the saying goes, "trouble comes from your mouth".

Haha, but...

It seems that you are well-educated.

I have got an education and also had the experience of teaching others.

No wonder. You were a teacher.

You know more than we do.

It's hard to say.

Nowadays,

more education means more guilty.

I don't think it's right.

When we were fighting the Japanese,

we were taught to read and write,

and the government encouraged people to get educated.

Old woman, that was a long time ago.

Things are different now.

So, the schools don't have lessons now?

Yes, we have lessons, but - How can I explain?

Think, the famous poet Du Fu is a landlord,

Pushkin is an aristocrat, Hugo is a capitalist,

Gorki needs to be re-examined,

and all the modern Chinese writers are guilty.

Take, for example, the poet Qiushi.

It is said that his family has broken up and even he himself has disappeared.

Listen.

- The moon is so gentle and the stars are so peaceful

- The gentle moon and peaceful stars witness the change of the world

- A fairy in heaven is unable to fall asleep every night

- She rolls up the gauze with her slim fingers.

Isn't it beautiful?

Fairies are only a myth, and it is culture,

but why has writing things like this become a crime?

How can a writer commit such a big crime that

even his family and relations are tainted?

Do you think they are really revolutionaries?

Well, what do you think of our traditional culture

of thousands of years of history, revolutionary or counter-revolutionary?

Can all things only simply be divided into good and evil?

Aren't you complaining for the bourgeois intellectuals?

Oh, the fighting begins again.

In some people's eyes I am,

so they don't let me teach.

That's how it should be!

She more than deserves it

and needs to be knocked to the ground...

- You... - and...

I don't quite understand what you are arguing about.

But, Miss, if you want to persuade people, you can't get so angry.

Yes.

Trouble usually comes from the mouth.

You, too, are not serious in arguing.

Good aunt, we can't be serious in doing anything now.

I'm a worker but I can't do normal work.

Anyone who works will be guilty.

Really?

We peasants have misunderstood you,

and thought you only knew how to take a salary but refused to work.

May I have your attention please.

May I have your attention please.

Passengers to disembark, take your luggage to the second floor.

The ship is docking.

The ship is docking.

I'm going to have a look.

Let's go and see. You won't go?

Yes, I suppose not going is also good.

Why didn't you say anything?

Didn't you hear their nonsense?

Why won't you answer me?

It's not the time to talk about it.

Captain, will we arrive at Yichang on time tomorrow?

How long will the ship stay in Yichang?

Do you want to get off the ship early?

Aren't you going through to Wuhan?

Forget it. I'm just curious.

Those dates are big!

From your hometown?

From our own date tree in the yard.

Are you from Hebei Province?

Yes.

To visit your relations?

Visiting relations, visiting relations.

I'm here to visit a grave,

to visit the grave of my only son.

I have been a widow since I was young,

and I only had this son.

In order to fight the Japanese invaders, I sent him to join the army.

To fight the Kuomintang, I sent him to the banks of the Yellow River.

I missed him so much, and my tears often came,

but I knew where he was.

After liberation in 1949, he went to Sichuan.

Then what?

Then there was fighting on the Chuanjiang River,

a power struggle to control the cannons.

The transport on the river was stopped.

The authorities asked him to settle the matter,

and he went there.

The two groups each controlled one side of the river.

They fought fiercely,

two sides firing their guns and cannons.

My poor son.

His boat sank, and he died. His body was not found.

So his grave is this river.

This is for you.

Of course, you wouldn't want one,

because this is about capitalist sentiment.

Hey...

I'm going to take you back to the cabin.

Relax. I'm not going to kill myself.

Well, you found hope again,

from the people in the cabin.

I've never lost hope in life.

As to the people in the cabin, they make me more firmly hold my beliefs.

In your eyes, it might be right,

but what kind of people are they?

What kind of people are they in your mind?

A female teacher who attacks proletariat educational principles,

a clown who acts like the feudal generals,

and a worker who is like a hooligan complaining of everything.

In your eyes, they are all the enemies.

But what about that aunt?

She is ignorant.

Ignorant?

Then what about Xinghua?

She is like you,

growing up in the new society.

I can tell that you look at people and things

in an abstract way.

You simply divide people into two kinds: revolutionary and counter-revolutionary.

And your judgements are usually back-to-front.

- You... - Listen to me

You are superstitious. You are superstitious about that so-called authority.

In fact, they are all liars.

You are misled by their lies.

It's counter-revolutionary to talk like that.

I don't care. I am a criminal now.

However, you are the real criminal.

You are a real criminal in spirit.

Nonsense.

Aren't you aware how lonely you are among us?

No one accepts you.

Your behaviour makes no one dare to talk to you.

Everyone is wary of you.

Why not open your eyes to look at the real world?

Use your own eyes to observe,

don't just follow what others say.

How can I explain?

Just think about it. Now some people are,

in fact resisting education,

science and material production.

If a world has no sunshine, no green trees,

no flowers, no colours,

it would be a dead world.

You are just exaggerating.

Judge society by yourself.

Use your own head.

Look, this is what you called an ignorant person.

In fact she is such a great mother

that she doesn't give in to her misery and grief.

She carries on living.

Aunt.

We're approaching his place, not far from here.

In the battles against the Japanese and Kuomintang armies, he didn't die.

But then he died in such a needless way.

My son liked to eat the dates from our hometown.

So I bring him dates every time I come here,

and this time I brought dates too.

Aunt, let's go back to the cabin.

Ah.

- You've found her? - Yes.

You are the real criminal, You are a real criminal in spirit.

I came to be with you.

At this time of danger?

Exactly.

Daddy.

Someone has jumped into the river! Help!

Help! Someone has jumped into the river

Where?

Over there. Over there.

What's the matter?

Why did she jump into the water?

Go and have a look.

Be quick, Commissar. That was Qiushi.

He is Qiushi.

Qiushi!

Qiushi!

A good man.

This woman and this man are plain-clothes police, and they have handcuffs.

Xinghua

Please stand out of the way.

What she needs most now is a doctor.

Hey.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Please don't worry.

The girl who jumped into the river has been saved.

She is out of danger now.

The sacrificing spirit of another comrade

has set a good example to us.

Please go back to your cabins and rest.

- Go. - All right.

This girl is still unconscious.

Comrade Qiushi needs rest.

No, he needs treatment.

Indeed.

I'm all right.

Rest here.

This is the only thing that we can do for you.

Look at Qiushi, though he himself is miserable,

he still cares for others.

Well. What a difference between people.

Some people themselves have a good life, but make every effort to trouble others.

Don't be frightened, girl.

Hey, you haven't put on your shoes.

Aha, it's easy to catch cold outside.

Sleep here.

How old are you?

You are about the same age as my daughter.

Come on, wear this. Your clothes are too thin.

No.

Oh.

No, it's yours.

Poor girl, where are her parents?

Why not open your eyes to look at the real world?

You are superstitious about that so-called authority, and you are misled by their lies.

In fact, they are all liars.

All liars, all liars.

Tell me, who is your father?

Who is your mother? Tell me, girl

Tell me so that I can find them for you.

Ah.

Xinghua, lie down.

You should not have saved me.

I will die sooner or later.

Why do you think so?

Why do you always want to die?

Be brave to live.

Xinghua, I'm a criminal.

I might even be sentenced to death. Really.

But I never think about dying.

What crime have you committed?

Have you killed someone?

You only know about the crime of murder.

But you don't know, sometimes we are taken as criminals,

though we have done nothing wrong.

If you would like to hear, I'll tell you my story.

So, this is all what I have experienced.

Look.

Although Aunt Liu's son is dead,

I am sure she never lost hope in this world.

And also the other old woman in the cabin.

Isn't she strong enough to keep living?

At that time, we were in difficulty,

Aunt Liu's life was harder than mine,

but she still held hope for life.

These years, there are many innocent criminals like me.

Later, someone told me in secret

that we had a daughter.

Girl, tell me, what's your father's name?

I won't tell you, and I've never seen my father

Then, how can you find him?

My mother once taught me a poem.

A poem?

Written by my father.

Come here, Juanzi, sing after mother.

I'm a seed of the dandelion.

I'm a seed of the dandelion.

No one knows my happiness and sadness.

My daddy and mummy gave me an umbrella

so that I can fly, fly in the vast sky.

Mummy, mummy!

Little Juanzi.

Hey, hey, look, she...

Xinghua, you...

I have made a decision.

I've decided to go home, and I will get off at the next stop.

Er, come with me a moment.

All right.

Girl, sing the song.

Sing it.

I'm a seed of the dandelion.

No one knows my happiness and sadness.

My daddy and mummy gave me an umbrella.

My daughter!

Daddy!

I find you are upset.

What do you mean?

Your behaviour will not help get the job done.

So, from tonight on,

until we reach Yichang, you may rest,

and I will handle everything.

No, I can complete the task. I can.

Captain, captain.

Safety helm.

Safety helm.

Hello, is there anything wrong?

No, nothing, nothing.

Left, left.

Captain, I beg you to save Qiushi.

Captain, I know you dislike me.

You probably won't believe me, but I know I was wrong.

You must save Qiushi.

You can save him. I beg you.

Save him, please.

Captain, there is something wrong with the machine.

There is a small stop ahead, and we may dock there.

Captain...

Comrade Qiushi, that is the decision.

As soon as the ship stops, you may get off with your daughter.

No. I just hope that someone will take care of my daughter.

It won't make trouble for others. I will take full responsibility.

No, I cannot allow that.

Comrade Qiushi, be quick.

The ship is about to dock.

Hurry up. I must deal with the other people.

Aunt.

Let's go.

The ship has stopped.

This woman took the handcuffs and went away.

Ah.

That man has already been outside for a long time.

Let's go and have a look.

Go, have a look.

Come.

I know everything.

Haha.

You've found out too late.

I'm the one who let him go.

You -

I understand him better than you do.

I have already contacted the comrades at Yichang.

I didn't think about you.

You can get off with me when the ship arrives at Yichang.

Mm.

I will arrange everything.

I'm a seed of the dandelion.

No one knows my happiness and sadness.

My daddy and mummy gave me an umbrella

so that I can fly, fly in the vast sky.

The little umbrella takes me to fly, fly and fly.

The little umbrella takes me to fly, fly and fly.

The End