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The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes is a film of genre Drama with Shangguan Yunzhu

The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes (1948)

The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes
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Length 2h1
Genres Drama
Rating70% 3.5018753.5018753.5018753.5018753.501875

Myriad of Lights, also translated as Lights of Ten Thousand Homes, is a 1948 Chinese film directed by Shen Fu and starring Shangguan Yunzhu, Wu Yin and Lan Ma.

The film is selected as one of the 100 best 20th-century Chinese films by Asia Weekly. It also ranks #91 in Hong Kong Film Academy's poll of the 100 best Chinese-language films.

Synopsis

The film begins with a small family of four (including a servant and a young daughter) in post-war Shanghai. The father, Hu Zhiqing, is a modest office worker. He finds out one day in a letter that his mother and his brother's family are coming down from the provinces to join him, because living conditions are tough in the countryside. His wife cautions him that this means household expenses will increase greatly.

Actors

Shangguan Yunzhu

(Lan Youlan)Wu Yin

((as Yin Wu))
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