Anxious to Return

1981 film
  • 1979 (1979)
Running time
110 min.CountryChinaLanguageMandarin

Anxious to Return[1] (also known as Eagerly Homebound[2]) is a 1979 Chinese film directed by Jun Li and starring Siqin Gaowa, Chen Peisi, and Erkang Zhao.[3] The movie is best known for the first appearance of actress Siqin Gaowa.

Plot

The film is set in the 1930s, during the Sino-Japanese War, and tells about a widow and peasant woman, Yu Zhen, who finds and saves a wounded soldier, and falls in love with him. The soldier is "trying to grapple with his conflicting emotions."[4][5][6]

Siqin Gaowa won the Ministry of Culture's Youth Creativity Award in 1979 for her portrayal in this movie.[2]

Cast

  • Siqin Gaowa as Yuzhen
  • Erkang Zhao as Wei Desheng
  • Ma Zhigang as Uncle Qi
  • Lu Yong as Dong Laoli
  • Xu Yao as Chuan Zhu
  • Han Zaisheng as Sun Haishan
  • Zhao Baojun as a Veteran
  • Li Fengqiu as Xiao Xuzi
  • Chen Peisi as Police captain
  • Zhao Shoukai
  • Liu Zhao

References

  1. ^ US-China Review Volume 6. US-China Peoples Friendship Association. 1982. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-782-38245-4.
  2. ^ a b Sue Wiles; Clara Wing-chung Ho (1992). Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women Volume 2. M.E. Sharpe. p. 465. ISBN 978-1-315-49924-6.
  3. ^ "Anxious to Return (1983)". IMDb. Retrieved 2021-04-07.[unreliable source?]
  4. ^ China Review. China Review Publications Limited. 1989. p. 66.
  5. ^ Song, Yuwu (2013). Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-7864-3582-1.
  6. ^ Chinese Literature. Foreign Languages Press. 1983. p. 123.

External links

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