Qiuxia Gong

Tragi-comedy about an insurance clerk's struggle for financial survival, and his eventual realisation that there are others in greater difficulty than himself. (bfi.org.uk)

Spring, 1949. Lin Daiyu has lost her father and come to live with her maternal grandmother. She falls in love with her cousin Jia Baoyu. In appearance, the Jia family is rich and prosperous. In reality, it is in dire financial straits. Jia Zheng, the elder, is hoping to enter into a banking business venture with a relative Xue Pan, with his son Baoyu act as manager. His daughter-in-law Wang Xifeng runs the family affairs and uses up the family's cash flow for issuing usurious loans... (imdb)