Dam Street
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A clumsy teenaged love affair gets Yun pregnant at the age of sixteen, and what at first is only a nuisance that she can't get rid of soon becomes a mortal sin hushed away. Yun has violated China's rigid morals and stigmatized herself for life. Away from prying doctors' eyes, her mother induces labour and takes care of the shameful secret. At twenty-six, Yun is trained as a beautiful Sichuan Opera performer, but resigned to singing in a crass local musical troupe. Her pregnancy is apparently forgotten, but she is still an object of scrutiny, an errant element in a perfectly constructed society and the target of derision for the people in her town. The men she has to please and entertain are abusive and manipulative, but then she meets ten-year-old Xiao-yong, one of her mother's students, who is precociously interested in protecting her. There is a strange emotion he feels but can't articulate. One more mature would call it "love".
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Li Yu
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Released in United States 2006
Released in United States on Video April 22, 2008
Released in United States September 2005
Released in United States Winter January 17, 2007
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Time and Tide) January 25-February 5, 2006.
Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery) September 8-17, 2005.
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Time and Tide) January 25-February 5, 2006.)
Released in United States Winter January 17, 2007
Released in United States on Video April 22, 2008
Released in United States September 2005 (Shown at Toronto International Film Festival (Discovery) September 8-17, 2005.)
