Hoi Heung

Based on the novel by Ba Jin, about a former schoolteacher, Wang Wenxuan, who is forced into an office job during the war. During this time he is slowly overco me by his mother's tyrannical influence the Japanese invasion and his own slow death from tuberculosis. (bfi.org.uk)

Scholar Li-I marries the beautiful Huo Hsiao-Yu soon after their first meeting, and a purple hairpin marks their intimate bond.