Rice

Year: 2003

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: Chinese

Director: Huang Jian-Zhong

Drama

Though filmed in 1995, the movie was banned until 2004. It adapts Su Tong’s novel about a cunning, amoral country boy who arrives in a bustling 1930s metropolis and takes a job at a rice emporium. Initially marginalized, he quickly masters the trade, rises through the ranks and ultimately becomes its boss by marrying the owner’s daughter. Firmly.

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