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A New Old Play

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Not finished yet?

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- Hurry up, man!
- Take it easy.

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Keep it up!

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Old Qiu, good morning.

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Master Qiu…

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And you are…?

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Learned Sir, so versed in ancient lore,
surely you recognize us?

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Are you kidding?
I've been on stage since I was seven.

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Acted every role.

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You're from Fengdu,
the capital of Hell.

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- That's us indeed!
- At your service.

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Demons Oxhead and Horseface.

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Oxey and Horsey to you.
Most honoured!

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The honour's all mine.

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Meeting two deities in person…
Quite a day!

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You flatter us.

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Are you here… for me?

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We are! Welcome!

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I'm certainly much obliged…

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Not at all!
We're great fans of your plays.

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When our Dads heard you were next
on our list, they were green with envy!

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- Your Dads are demons too?
- Naturally!

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But now retired.

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Then they should visit our theatre.
I'll get them tickets.

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With pleasure! Wonderful!

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Mr. Qiu?

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Mr. Qiu!

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Where are you off to?

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- What are you running for?
- Come back!

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Where do you think you're going?

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It's no use running.

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Don't follow me!

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- The King of Hell has sent for you!
- He wants to see your show!

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Sure, and who comes back from Hell?

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Come on, or we'll look bad.

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What office sent you?
Ministry of Propaganda, right?

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We don't answer to them down here.

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Just on your say-so?
Do you have no respect for artists?

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In the old days, you'd need
a red and gold invitation.

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Hang on a minute!

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Look, here!

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A formal invitation, signed personally
by the King of Hell.

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So what?

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If I'm being transferred,
you should notify my work unit.

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Don't worry,
Propaganda won't complain.

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Who cares about them?
My direct boss is my wife!

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Has been for forty years.

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She must be very sad now.
I have to say my goodbyes.

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Qiu, it's fate, no one can change that.

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You've been in opera since you were eight,
you know about life and death.

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Seven!
I was seven when I joined New-New!

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Alright, you were seven.

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Come on,
nothing down there to be afraid of.

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Mr. Qiu! Let's go.

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Thank you, Holy One.
This Netherworld is impressive…

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Respects, General, but I'm no Saint.

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Private Liu, 21st Army.

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You're one of my men?

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Your skull is as smooth
as a holy pearl.

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What else could you be but a Saint?

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I shaved it this morning, sir.

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- So smooth and shiny.
- I was a barber before the army.

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And quite skilled at it.

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If you're not a saint,
you must be a demon…

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The skin on your face is rough.

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I got the pox very young.

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They still call me Pocky.

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- Generalissimo.
- Master.

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Is that Pocky singing?

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Indeed. Who else?

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He's a real opera lover.

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Life was tough before he joined up,
but he watched plays whenever he could.

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Being rather short,
and too poor to buy a ticket,

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he couldn't see much.

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But he vowed that one day,
he'd start his own troupe

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and sit up at the stage
watching opera every day.

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A dreamer, right?

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Lucky he heard the holy call of guns,

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or he'd just be a struggling actor.

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- Lucky Star!
- Yes, sir!

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Forward march!

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Say, Commander…

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We need a name for the troupe.
How about "The New-New Theatre"?

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- What?
- "New-New"

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New-New?

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Boss,

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the Confucian Classics tell us

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"Renew daily."

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"Renew yourself daily,
and be new every day."

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We took our players
from the "New Theatre" troupe.

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And our repertoire
is the best in Sichuan.

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"New-New" is newer than new.

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- "Blue comes from indigo…
- … and yet surpasses it!"

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- Exactly!
- "New-New" …

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is even newer than "Renewed".

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Exactly!

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But how is it newer?

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By being different.

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How will it be different?

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- By adding more female roles.
- Right!

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- Audiences like female roles.
- Times are changing.

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We need more female actors.

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Quite right!
"Progress through change."

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But we need to consider carefully…

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Consider? Audiences love them!

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Some critics have protested.

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Who cares about them?

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Old fogeys who won't live long.

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Right!

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We're a goddam Republic now.
"Be young at heart!"

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Right!

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With you in charge, Commander,

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we'll be resolutely modern!

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- Modern is best.
- They'll love it.

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- To be modern is to be new.
- A new era!

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- We need modern dramas!
- In modern costume!

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Let's recruit Liu Huaixu.
Our best modern playwright.

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Brilliant!

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COURTESY
SILENCE

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HOLY FOUNDER BODHISATTVA

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Here he comes! Hurry, Crooky!
See who's here?

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Look, over there.

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Come on, come on.

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He's come at last.

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Master Crooky!

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It's really you!
Do you still recognize me?

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<i>How could I not?</i>

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<i>I came specially to meet you!</i>

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- He did.
- You knew I was coming?

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<i>It's been so long…
I've missed you all.</i>

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<i>I heard you'd died.
I was so excited I couldn't sleep!</i>

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And you, when did you die exactly?

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He's been hanging around here for ages.

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We couldn't find his file.

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The King of Hell takes no-one in
without a file.

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Sent him away twice,
sonvabitch still wandered back!

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Well, are you alive or dead?

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Can't enter Ghost City, can't go back,

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stayed here and opened a pub!

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- He has customers in this hellhole?
- What do you think?

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- Is there wine?
- Sure!

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My toes are curling
just thinking of it.

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Come on, drinks time.
Since we're here…

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<i>Have you got taller?</i>

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Your back is straighter!

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You'll be wanting dinner.

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CANTEEN

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That kid's still here.

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- Who's the little brat?
- Don't ask me.

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I heard a teacher call him… Qiu something.

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Filthy. Puts me off my food.

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Does the boss know he's squatting here?

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You're drinking early again.

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<i>Join me, my Empress,</i>

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<i>Drink with your lonely monarch!</i>

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- Oh, stop that!
<i>- Come, one cup of wine!</i>

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<i>- One single cup…</i>
- Insufferable.

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Don't wolf your food.

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Be careful swallowing!

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Aren't you hungry?

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I'm still hungry.

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Thank you, Master Crooky.

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You're still drinking.

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<i>This is the Emperor's last sip.</i>

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The last sip, how sad.

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Who the fuck threw that?

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Honestly… down to the very dregs.

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ORDER

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<i>The chickens go gugugugu…</i>

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<i>The ducks go didididi…</i>

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Push more from the diaphragm.

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Just listen to you bellowing!
Who will pay to hear that?

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Understood? You'll all starve!

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<i>In the peace of night…</i>

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Sing.

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<i>The peace of night,
its melancholy light</i>

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Again.

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Stupid old…

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In time you'll see, I'm quite easygoing.

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If you need help with anything,

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just ask, Uncle Crooky.

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But when you scoop rice,
please look down!

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Blow!

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And again!

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Coming, Uncle Crooky!
What do you need?

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And… blow!

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Still burning!

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Don't cry.

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At the Academy,
we have food and blankets,

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plus cotton uniforms.

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Even a beating
tones up the muscles.

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What more can you ask?

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I'm hungry.

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Well, I'm starving!

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Tomorrow,
we'll all bring a bit extra.

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Look, it's that brat Qiu.
Want another beating?

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Scram.

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They say his old man was an actor.

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That's right.

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So who was he?

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- Who's there?
- Master, it's me.

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I got you some peanuts from the kitchen.

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Peanuts?

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Why aren't you in bed yet?

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Can't sleep.

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Well, have some peanuts, then.

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No thanks.
If I eat them, I'll be stealing.

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If you eat them, I'm showing respect.

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Seems you know the score.

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Master, I want to learn opera.

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Best forget it, son.

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That would be bad karma for me.

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Your Pa spent his life on the stage,

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and that's where he died,
exhausted.

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Your father…

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would never have wanted
to see you in this game.

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My Dad wouldn't let me be an actor

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and wouldn't take me with him.
So what should I do?

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I'm eating and sleeping here,

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but if Commander Liu finds out,
he'll throw me out for sure.

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If I'm in uniform like the others,

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Crooky will see me and I'll get rice.

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Opera training is tough.

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So what? I already know tough.

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How tough?

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When my Ma remarried,
she took my little brother

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and left me here.

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But I don't blame her.

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He's just a baby,
he eats less than me.

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Master, if I study hard,

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when my Ma comes to see me
I'll sing for her,

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and show her
I can get along by myself.

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Son…

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A lake doesn't freeze
in a single night.

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What?

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To be an opera singer

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is no easy thing.

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It takes years to master.

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Then teach me one line to start,
to sing for my Ma.

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Alright then.

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<i>My father found glory in Langzhong</i>

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<i>My father found glory…</i>

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<i>My father…</i>

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Wrong!

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That's better.

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Not bad, not bad.

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<i>My father found glory in Langzhong</i>

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The boys have no clothes on!

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They're naked!

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Gotcha!

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- You're the one with nits!
- So what?

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Strip him, lads!

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<i>On the hill the cowherd boy</i>

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<i>With cap of grass and coat of straw</i>

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<i>Astride his ox and flute in hand</i>

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<i>Sings of peace and joy</i>

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<i>Young cowherd boy!</i>

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<i>What do you have to say?</i>

260
00:25:50,126 --> 00:25:51,251
Master!

261
00:25:52,501 --> 00:25:54,626
<i>My father found glory in Langzhong!</i>

262
00:26:28,001 --> 00:26:30,376
What's that line you just sang?

263
00:26:32,251 --> 00:26:34,001
"My father found glory in Langzhong"

264
00:26:34,251 --> 00:26:37,001
- Which opera?
- "Surrender of Jiang Wei".

265
00:26:37,376 --> 00:26:38,876
Whats the next line?

266
00:26:39,751 --> 00:26:41,251
Haven't learned it yet.

267
00:26:48,459 --> 00:26:49,959
Can you sing anything else?

268
00:26:50,209 --> 00:26:52,376
- One more short bit.
- Sing it.

269
00:26:53,001 --> 00:26:54,751
Commander-in-chief,
were you here long?

270
00:26:54,917 --> 00:26:58,751
- I'm not a Commander-in-chief.
- I heard you just got promoted.

271
00:26:59,459 --> 00:27:02,376
Independent Division Commander,
Sichuan Army.

272
00:27:02,542 --> 00:27:03,626
Congratulations!

273
00:27:04,709 --> 00:27:07,876
Hurry up and sing,
or I'll shoot you!

274
00:27:09,376 --> 00:27:12,501
<i>Never did an evil thing,
Why did I learn to sing?</i>

275
00:27:12,834 --> 00:27:16,126
<i>It kept me from death's knell
But nor could I live well.</i>

276
00:27:17,126 --> 00:27:20,834
- How come I've never seen you before?
- You'll never see me.

277
00:27:36,251 --> 00:27:37,751
To hide from you,

278
00:27:38,001 --> 00:27:41,251
many a time I nearly starved
under a dorm bed.

279
00:27:41,501 --> 00:27:44,001
But I've had enough, I have to speak.

280
00:27:55,251 --> 00:27:56,251
So?

281
00:27:57,751 --> 00:28:01,376
I haven't just been hiding
for one or two days.

282
00:28:01,626 --> 00:28:03,126
Who helped you?

283
00:28:04,876 --> 00:28:08,751
You can't blame them,
it's all my fault.

284
00:28:09,459 --> 00:28:12,001
They took pity on me,
like bodhisattvas.

285
00:28:12,167 --> 00:28:15,584
And a bodhisattva gave you that uniform?

286
00:28:15,876 --> 00:28:19,334
Oh, no.
When that student ran away last month,

287
00:28:19,501 --> 00:28:21,959
I was under the bed, I heard you yelling.

288
00:28:22,126 --> 00:28:25,001
Well, he left his uniform behind,

289
00:28:25,251 --> 00:28:26,876
so finders keepers!

290
00:28:28,251 --> 00:28:30,626
Anyway, I've been eating your food,

291
00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:33,126
and using the schools blankets,

292
00:28:33,334 --> 00:28:36,084
lamp-oil and bath water.

293
00:28:36,501 --> 00:28:40,001
Stole a uniform
and dressed up like an official.

294
00:28:40,167 --> 00:28:43,084
I did all that, it's all on me.

295
00:28:43,251 --> 00:28:44,334
No-one else.

296
00:28:45,251 --> 00:28:47,876
Lock me up or shoot me,
up to you, old man.

297
00:28:48,084 --> 00:28:51,251
But if I lied to you,
I wouldn't be my parents' son!

298
00:28:51,751 --> 00:28:52,709
That's it?

299
00:28:53,084 --> 00:28:54,209
That's it.

300
00:28:58,626 --> 00:28:59,751
Stop there!

301
00:29:00,376 --> 00:29:01,626
You're not dismissed.

302
00:29:02,001 --> 00:29:03,001
Atten-shun!

303
00:29:04,876 --> 00:29:06,251
A-bout — turn!

304
00:29:22,501 --> 00:29:25,376
Those last lines…
what play are they from?

305
00:29:26,376 --> 00:29:27,459
Don't know.

306
00:29:28,001 --> 00:29:29,251
Who taught you them?

307
00:29:30,584 --> 00:29:33,459
My Dad sang them
when he was drunk.

308
00:29:33,751 --> 00:29:36,251
- What was his name?
- Qiu Xiaoqiu.

309
00:29:37,959 --> 00:29:39,834
I knew it.

310
00:29:42,251 --> 00:29:43,376
Shit…

311
00:29:44,126 --> 00:29:46,709
Place is turning
into an orphanage.

312
00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:52,084
"Promoting Sichuan Opera

313
00:29:52,251 --> 00:29:55,834
"is our duty to the nation and society.

314
00:29:56,001 --> 00:29:59,751
"And the most urgent task is education.

315
00:29:59,959 --> 00:30:03,001
"This Academy is dedicated

316
00:30:03,251 --> 00:30:08,459
"to training the flower of our youth

317
00:30:08,834 --> 00:30:10,501
"in a protected environment.

318
00:30:12,126 --> 00:30:15,751
"Time passes, and waves
bring pearls to the shore.

319
00:30:15,959 --> 00:30:20,376
"For these young talents,
the day of graduation has come.

320
00:30:21,126 --> 00:30:24,709
"We urge our students to persevere

321
00:30:24,876 --> 00:30:29,751
"and uphold the ethos of our school.

322
00:30:30,126 --> 00:30:33,334
"Up with the cock's crow, ever alert,

323
00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:37,001
"each graduate duty-bound

324
00:30:37,209 --> 00:30:40,834
"to join the New-New troupe for life."

325
00:30:43,959 --> 00:30:46,376
Shit, "promote" is misspelled.

326
00:30:47,376 --> 00:30:49,251
Well, I didn't write it.

327
00:30:53,459 --> 00:30:57,459
SCHOOL YEARBOOK

328
00:31:02,126 --> 00:31:06,251
"Honour is best"… Xie Wenxin.

329
00:31:10,251 --> 00:31:12,834
Thank you, Holy Founder.

330
00:31:30,501 --> 00:31:34,501
"Remember my Charms"… Lin Qinxin.

331
00:31:41,709 --> 00:31:43,751
Thank you, Holy Founder.

332
00:31:51,876 --> 00:31:56,751
"Flower Branch"… Yao Mixin.

333
00:32:04,751 --> 00:32:06,876
Thank you, Holy Founder.

334
00:32:07,376 --> 00:32:11,001
"Pink Butterfly"… Zhao Xiuxin.

335
00:32:19,376 --> 00:32:20,376
What?

336
00:32:21,209 --> 00:32:24,626
"Golden Chimes"… Li Yongxin.

337
00:32:24,792 --> 00:32:27,501
Thank you… Holy Founder!

338
00:32:31,876 --> 00:32:35,626
"Oil of the Gourd"… Pang Xiexin.

339
00:32:54,251 --> 00:32:58,459
"The Abalone Blows"… Xiong Zaixin.

340
00:33:23,209 --> 00:33:25,001
Next, please!

341
00:33:26,084 --> 00:33:27,584
Let's have you now!

342
00:33:34,376 --> 00:33:36,376
Qiu Fu-xin…

343
00:33:37,751 --> 00:33:39,834
What about my aria?

344
00:33:55,126 --> 00:33:59,126
GRADUATION BANQUET

345
00:34:30,876 --> 00:34:34,917
Ma, look at this uniform.
Like a government official, right?

346
00:34:35,084 --> 00:34:38,792
I'm now a New-New actor
in the 21st Army.

347
00:34:39,042 --> 00:34:42,292
You can be proud.
I'm doing alright for myself.

348
00:34:42,501 --> 00:34:44,792
The teachers treat me very well.

349
00:34:44,959 --> 00:34:48,042
Crooky the odd-job man
ran a hot bath for me.

350
00:34:48,251 --> 00:34:53,376
The tutors and trainees all say
I'm a natural.

351
00:34:54,292 --> 00:34:55,751
No surprise!

352
00:34:55,917 --> 00:34:58,792
Am I not the son of the
great Qiu Xiaoqiu?

353
00:34:58,959 --> 00:35:01,126
But, nothing to brag about.

354
00:35:01,417 --> 00:35:05,042
As Pa used to say,
"Good singers eat rice,

355
00:35:05,251 --> 00:35:07,667
bad singers just get bullied."

356
00:35:07,876 --> 00:35:09,876
I have to keep at it,

357
00:35:10,542 --> 00:35:13,376
so no time yet
to visit you and my brother.

358
00:35:13,542 --> 00:35:16,751
Regards to my stepfather.
Be happy together.

359
00:35:16,917 --> 00:35:19,501
Don't quarrel.
And don't worry about me.

360
00:35:19,667 --> 00:35:24,501
I haven't started earning yet,
so I couldn't receive you in style.

361
00:35:25,042 --> 00:35:29,792
But I can sing a line of opera,
to show you what I can do.

362
00:35:32,542 --> 00:35:37,501
<i>"My father found glory in Langzhong"</i>

363
00:36:07,542 --> 00:36:09,542
Trying to scare me with that again?

364
00:36:12,667 --> 00:36:15,292
Do you demons know what that is?

365
00:36:16,167 --> 00:36:18,542
- Some kind of baton??
- What's it for?

366
00:36:18,709 --> 00:36:22,042
Known as a "red-cooked carp".

367
00:36:22,792 --> 00:36:25,751
Why a red-cooked carp?

368
00:36:27,042 --> 00:36:28,876
It was kept back-stage,

369
00:36:29,501 --> 00:36:31,626
and whenever a student slipped up,

370
00:36:31,876 --> 00:36:35,251
they beat him with it.
Ten or twenty strokes, depending.

371
00:36:36,667 --> 00:36:39,167
Once I was sick and came in late.

372
00:36:39,334 --> 00:36:41,542
They beat my buttocks to a pulp.

373
00:36:43,292 --> 00:36:46,292
I silently cursed them.
"You motherfuckers!"

374
00:36:46,501 --> 00:36:48,001
And then I escaped.

375
00:36:48,376 --> 00:36:50,167
- Where did you go?
- Where?

376
00:36:50,626 --> 00:36:54,042
He tried the Hua-ying Theatre,
the Yong—le…

377
00:36:55,417 --> 00:36:59,667
And then the Yuelai Tea House,
Sanqing Club, Liuhe…

378
00:37:00,792 --> 00:37:04,042
I did the rounds,
every damn troupe in Sichuan.

379
00:37:04,209 --> 00:37:05,917
No-one dared take me.

380
00:37:09,751 --> 00:37:11,917
<i>No troupe in this garrison</i>

381
00:37:12,126 --> 00:37:14,751
<i>would touch a runaway</i>

382
00:37:14,917 --> 00:37:18,542
<i>from Commander Pocky Liu.</i>

383
00:37:21,251 --> 00:37:24,917
No option but to starve…
or bite the bullet and head back.

384
00:37:26,001 --> 00:37:30,417
<i>They threw him in a hole, in solitary,</i>

385
00:37:31,376 --> 00:37:33,667
<i>ten days at least.</i>

386
00:37:35,667 --> 00:37:38,292
They did a good job on me that day.

387
00:37:39,042 --> 00:37:42,626
<i>I was there, I saw it all.</i>

388
00:37:43,167 --> 00:37:45,626
<i>My legs were shaking like leaves.</i>

389
00:37:46,126 --> 00:37:49,167
<i>The "red-cooked carp"…</i>

390
00:37:55,167 --> 00:37:57,667
Don't cry, Crooky.

391
00:38:06,501 --> 00:38:08,792
- There's Crooky.
<i>- "Good-a Morning"</i>

392
00:38:09,126 --> 00:38:13,251
Young Qiu, you need oil
to remove your make-up!

393
00:38:13,417 --> 00:38:17,167
Or you'll have that white nose for life!

394
00:38:27,376 --> 00:38:29,167
Crooky's going wild!

395
00:38:49,751 --> 00:38:52,917
<i>In 1936, he was Commander
for Suppression of Communists.</i>

396
00:38:53,126 --> 00:38:54,917
<i>It was 1938.</i>

397
00:38:55,376 --> 00:38:58,751
Pocky was promoted
during the Anti-Jap War.

398
00:38:59,751 --> 00:39:02,292
"Moo" all you like, it was in 38.

399
00:39:02,501 --> 00:39:05,542
I wrote the history of the theatre.
Can't be wrong.

400
00:39:05,709 --> 00:39:06,792
The history…

401
00:39:07,917 --> 00:39:09,792
Quit your mooing, young fellow.

402
00:39:09,959 --> 00:39:13,792
It was after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

403
00:39:14,001 --> 00:39:15,417
Let's be scientific.

404
00:39:15,667 --> 00:39:18,667
That war started
when we lost the North-East.

405
00:39:18,876 --> 00:39:23,751
- The Eight-Year Anti-Japanese War.
- It was fourteen years!

406
00:39:24,126 --> 00:39:26,167
Whatever, fourteen years.

407
00:39:26,417 --> 00:39:30,001
- Still. Pocky was promoted in 1938!
- 1936!

408
00:39:30,501 --> 00:39:33,501
Enough already!
The dinner I cooked is getting cold!

409
00:39:33,667 --> 00:39:36,667
Stop quibbling like a couple of kids!

410
00:39:36,834 --> 00:39:39,167
Just settle down and eat!

411
00:39:39,417 --> 00:39:43,251
Master Qiu, try this food I've made.

412
00:39:43,417 --> 00:39:46,542
Crooky waited for you a long time.
Try our local dish.

413
00:39:49,126 --> 00:39:51,126
Dinner time. Forget about him.

414
00:39:51,542 --> 00:39:53,251
- "Scientific"…
- It is too!

415
00:39:53,417 --> 00:39:56,876
- Ask my Dad!
- Better ask the guns…

416
00:39:59,042 --> 00:40:00,167
You shut up now.

417
00:40:00,876 --> 00:40:02,376
Have a drink, Qiu.

418
00:40:33,417 --> 00:40:36,292
All repeat after me:
Down with Jap bandits!

419
00:40:37,876 --> 00:40:38,876
Louder!

420
00:40:39,417 --> 00:40:41,001
Down with Jap bandits!

421
00:40:41,417 --> 00:40:42,876
Recover lost territory!

422
00:40:44,792 --> 00:40:46,626
No! Louder!

423
00:40:47,792 --> 00:40:48,792
You too!

424
00:40:49,126 --> 00:40:50,542
Recover lost territory!

425
00:40:51,792 --> 00:40:53,292
Solidarity is strength!

426
00:40:54,292 --> 00:40:56,542
Enjoying a free show?

427
00:40:57,001 --> 00:40:58,001
And again!

428
00:40:58,792 --> 00:41:00,001
Down with Jap bandits!

429
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:02,542
Recover lost territory!

430
00:41:04,792 --> 00:41:09,501
"The Patriot Beggar"
A Patriotic Opera By The New-New Theatre

431
00:41:11,917 --> 00:41:16,042
<i>In my dream were Sun Yatsen</i>

432
00:41:16,209 --> 00:41:20,292
<i>And the 72 martyrs of Canton,
and all the heroes</i>

433
00:41:21,876 --> 00:41:24,167
<i>watching you from Heaven.</i>

434
00:41:24,334 --> 00:41:27,417
<i>Oh my wife! You're too selfish!</i>

435
00:41:28,167 --> 00:41:30,626
<i>Come, then… take this contribution.</i>

436
00:41:30,917 --> 00:41:33,292
<i>My wife is a woman of honour!</i>

437
00:42:02,917 --> 00:42:05,417
You fat slob.
Not fighting the Japs?

438
00:42:05,667 --> 00:42:08,126
Sniffing around our Commander's tent?

439
00:42:11,042 --> 00:42:14,126
Whose mob are you with?
Call your boss over here!

440
00:42:14,542 --> 00:42:16,292
We'll put you in the front line!

441
00:42:16,751 --> 00:42:19,292
Name and rank!

442
00:42:19,626 --> 00:42:21,292
I said, name and number!

443
00:42:22,917 --> 00:42:27,292
"Behead Ma Miao"
A New-New Patriotic Production

444
00:42:31,042 --> 00:42:34,792
Were the best!
The audience went wild!

445
00:42:35,542 --> 00:42:39,167
Down with the traitor!
Behead Ma Miao!

446
00:42:40,292 --> 00:42:42,792
Stop that! It's a play!

447
00:42:43,292 --> 00:42:44,542
Down with the traitor!

448
00:42:47,542 --> 00:42:49,417
Are you crazy? Get back!

449
00:42:52,876 --> 00:42:55,376
Its theatre, dammit!

450
00:42:56,167 --> 00:42:58,126
An opera! Are you nuts?

451
00:42:58,792 --> 00:43:00,501
Silence! Sit down!

452
00:43:00,751 --> 00:43:02,417
I'm all right. Let me be.

453
00:43:04,917 --> 00:43:06,251
Down with the turncoat scum!

454
00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:08,042
Down with traitors!

455
00:43:08,292 --> 00:43:09,667
Recover lost territory!

456
00:43:13,292 --> 00:43:16,417
Long live the Sichuan Army!

457
00:43:39,792 --> 00:43:41,126
Are you drunk?

458
00:43:42,251 --> 00:43:43,876
You could say that.

459
00:43:44,251 --> 00:43:47,292
When he drinks, he thinks of his Ma.

460
00:43:51,292 --> 00:43:54,292
- Innkeeper! Bring wine!
- Coming up!

461
00:43:56,917 --> 00:43:58,167
Your wine.

462
00:43:58,917 --> 00:44:00,251
And more dumplings.

463
00:44:00,417 --> 00:44:01,417
Just one plate.

464
00:44:01,792 --> 00:44:04,626
I'm out of dumplings.
There's no more flour.

465
00:44:04,792 --> 00:44:06,667
Around here we mostly eat rice.

466
00:44:06,834 --> 00:44:10,001
- Rice or noodles, we're all Chinese.
- Of course!

467
00:44:10,167 --> 00:44:13,167
Compatriots!
Come tomorrow, I'll have flour.

468
00:44:13,376 --> 00:44:14,626
Fuck tomorrow.

469
00:44:15,042 --> 00:44:19,376
Tomorrow we'll probably
be moving south…

470
00:44:20,251 --> 00:44:22,042
The war doesn't stop for us.

471
00:44:22,417 --> 00:44:25,917
We just have to move on.
No more flour.

472
00:44:27,167 --> 00:44:29,542
No more rice.

473
00:44:35,917 --> 00:44:42,001
<i>North and South, the summer's scene</i>

474
00:44:43,042 --> 00:44:49,376
<i>See the stalks of sorghum green</i>

475
00:44:51,501 --> 00:44:54,542
See? War has broken many homes.

476
00:44:54,917 --> 00:44:57,542
Lucky if you're not blown to bits.

477
00:44:57,751 --> 00:45:00,917
Ma or no Ma, you still have to live.

478
00:45:02,542 --> 00:45:07,376
I have a Ma,
just bad luck I can't see her.

479
00:45:08,667 --> 00:45:12,042
In time of war,
the main thing is to stay alive.

480
00:45:12,667 --> 00:45:15,292
You're alive, your luck isn't bad.

481
00:45:15,792 --> 00:45:21,751
Imagine you're the Monkey King —
no Ma, but still a man!

482
00:45:23,417 --> 00:45:25,417
Fine.
Master…

483
00:45:27,001 --> 00:45:28,292
Stop drinking.

484
00:45:28,667 --> 00:45:31,167
Fuck off! No-one asked you.

485
00:45:31,376 --> 00:45:33,501
You'll cry again.

486
00:45:34,501 --> 00:45:37,167
Did I bother you?
And I wasn't crying.

487
00:45:37,376 --> 00:45:38,542
Stop drinking.

488
00:45:38,876 --> 00:45:41,792
- Let him, if he wants to.
- But, Master…

489
00:45:42,792 --> 00:45:43,876
Go on then, drink.

490
00:45:45,167 --> 00:45:46,792
Easy, easy!

491
00:45:47,126 --> 00:45:51,417
You drink like your old man.
Slow down!

492
00:45:53,376 --> 00:45:56,001
Did you hear me?
You're the Monkey King.

493
00:45:57,417 --> 00:46:00,667
<i>I, the Monkey King,</i>

494
00:46:01,542 --> 00:46:04,667
<i>was born in Aolai land</i>

495
00:46:04,876 --> 00:46:07,376
<i>from a dead stone.</i>

496
00:46:07,917 --> 00:46:11,167
<i>Yet never would</i>

497
00:46:12,542 --> 00:46:15,167
<i>those Immortals dare</i>

498
00:46:15,876 --> 00:46:18,751
<i>look down upon</i>

499
00:46:19,042 --> 00:46:22,376
<i>our monkey tribe.</i>

500
00:46:25,251 --> 00:46:28,167
Master brother, you're here! Come!

501
00:46:28,792 --> 00:46:29,876
Innkeeper!

502
00:46:30,167 --> 00:46:32,667
- What's on the menu?
- Mushroom soup.

503
00:46:32,834 --> 00:46:34,042
A big bowl for me!

504
00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:38,542
- Why so late?
- Rehearsing a new patriotic opera.

505
00:46:41,126 --> 00:46:42,542
I've had a few jars…

506
00:46:43,167 --> 00:46:44,501
Me too!

507
00:46:45,001 --> 00:46:47,417
Your health, masters!

508
00:46:49,042 --> 00:46:51,626
No more for you today!

509
00:46:52,042 --> 00:46:53,292
Don't want you drunk.

510
00:46:53,792 --> 00:46:55,626
Mushroom soup!

511
00:46:55,792 --> 00:46:57,376
Fresh local produce,

512
00:46:57,667 --> 00:46:59,792
just picked today!
Make room there.

513
00:47:01,292 --> 00:47:04,626
A bowl of hot soup clears the head.

514
00:47:04,792 --> 00:47:05,917
Good!

515
00:47:06,501 --> 00:47:07,626
Cheers.

516
00:47:07,792 --> 00:47:09,542
Masters, I toast you!

517
00:47:10,792 --> 00:47:12,417
Easy, you'll burn your tongue!

518
00:47:12,667 --> 00:47:14,042
He doesn't care.

519
00:47:15,167 --> 00:47:16,792
Can you leave some for us?

520
00:47:18,667 --> 00:47:20,501
- Drink.
- Take your time.

521
00:47:23,876 --> 00:47:26,417
It would be nicer with rice in it.

522
00:47:27,126 --> 00:47:29,042
Bring him a bowl of rice!

523
00:47:33,167 --> 00:47:36,376
A growing boy should eat more rice.

524
00:47:36,542 --> 00:47:38,917
And drink a bit less wine!

525
00:47:46,001 --> 00:47:47,626
Is it better with rice?

526
00:48:25,917 --> 00:48:27,042
Hey, kid! Hey!

527
00:48:27,209 --> 00:48:29,876
- Where are you off to?
- The Monkey Kingdom!

528
00:48:30,417 --> 00:48:33,042
- Innkeeper!
- Coming!

529
00:48:33,292 --> 00:48:34,917
Where did you get those mushrooms?

530
00:48:35,084 --> 00:48:38,667
Picked just this morning,
super fresh!

531
00:48:59,542 --> 00:49:00,917
There he is!

532
00:49:02,417 --> 00:49:04,376
It's rehearsal time!

533
00:49:05,042 --> 00:49:06,376
Come down!

534
00:49:11,292 --> 00:49:14,042
- Qiu Fu!
- We're rehearsing, dammit!

535
00:49:14,292 --> 00:49:16,501
Aren't you dizzy up there?

536
00:49:18,417 --> 00:49:19,792
Come down here!

537
00:51:18,542 --> 00:51:20,667
Master Qiu, welcome!

538
00:51:44,042 --> 00:51:48,001
Is that your student
singing at your funeral?

539
00:51:48,542 --> 00:51:50,167
My student's student.

540
00:51:50,542 --> 00:51:52,917
Bunch of spoilt kids.

541
00:51:54,042 --> 00:51:57,167
Back then, obviously,
we had no microphones.

542
00:51:57,626 --> 00:52:01,126
We sang in village squares or fields,
alone on a stage.

543
00:52:01,292 --> 00:52:04,042
Audiences of thousands.

544
00:52:04,292 --> 00:52:06,042
With nothing but our throats,

545
00:52:06,251 --> 00:52:09,292
and a row of urns full of water
at our feet.

546
00:52:09,626 --> 00:52:11,292
From the front row to the back,

547
00:52:11,501 --> 00:52:15,751
each note clear as a bell,
so everyone could hear.

548
00:52:17,417 --> 00:52:20,001
But most of all, you needed style.

549
00:53:14,292 --> 00:53:15,292
Master!

550
00:53:17,667 --> 00:53:21,792
You scared me, Qiu Fu!
Thought I'd seen your late Papa.

551
00:53:26,792 --> 00:53:30,792
"THE FALL OF THE SUI DYNASTY"
WITH QIU FU

552
00:53:37,792 --> 00:53:40,376
Isn't the Commander attending the play?

553
00:53:40,542 --> 00:53:43,292
No idea.
I haven't seen him either.

554
00:53:44,126 --> 00:53:46,417
My condolences for his loss.

555
00:53:46,584 --> 00:53:47,667
Thank you.

556
00:54:15,876 --> 00:54:17,251
Fucking light…

557
00:54:17,917 --> 00:54:19,126
Commander!

558
00:54:20,876 --> 00:54:24,917
You're not at the performance?
Second Wife is looking for you.

559
00:54:25,167 --> 00:54:26,876
I can hear it from here.

560
00:54:27,501 --> 00:54:30,542
I don't like crowded theatres,
you can't see.

561
00:54:35,667 --> 00:54:40,042
That young Qiu Fu
really is a natural.

562
00:54:41,292 --> 00:54:43,126
All the young New-News

563
00:54:43,417 --> 00:54:44,792
are singing in plays now.

564
00:54:44,959 --> 00:54:48,167
They've really repaid
the Commander's dedication.

565
00:54:50,126 --> 00:54:52,792
I'm not the man I was, alas.

566
00:54:54,292 --> 00:55:01,501
<i>When the tall tree falls,
the monkeys scatter…</i>

567
00:55:09,167 --> 00:55:11,167
Since the Generalissimo died

568
00:55:11,917 --> 00:55:14,876
my heart hasn't stopped thumping.

569
00:55:15,542 --> 00:55:20,501
I am afraid the Sichuan Army
will be sidelined.

570
00:55:22,501 --> 00:55:24,167
With the Japs beaten,

571
00:55:24,376 --> 00:55:27,501
Chiang Kai-shek has given
Wang Lingji's clan

572
00:55:27,667 --> 00:55:30,042
sweeping powers in Sichuan.

573
00:55:40,167 --> 00:55:42,626
Damn!
Nothing in here but peppers!

574
00:55:44,167 --> 00:55:46,376
Come on, let's change tables.

575
00:55:53,501 --> 00:55:56,792
They want us out of the way,
on garrison duty.

576
00:55:58,001 --> 00:56:00,792
My regiment is no motley crew.

577
00:56:03,126 --> 00:56:04,667
- Sorry.
- Don't worry.

578
00:56:05,251 --> 00:56:10,001
And New-New
is no hick backwoods troupe!

579
00:56:11,417 --> 00:56:13,626
This is where I want to die!

580
00:56:15,792 --> 00:56:17,417
This table will do.

581
00:56:18,251 --> 00:56:20,042
This one might be better.

582
00:56:23,542 --> 00:56:26,042
When the work's done, kill the mule?

583
00:56:26,417 --> 00:56:30,251
Do those idiots think
I can't see their game?

584
00:56:42,292 --> 00:56:46,542
When I stepped down and retired,

585
00:56:47,501 --> 00:56:51,917
plenty of people were
rubbing their hands with glee.

586
00:56:52,667 --> 00:56:53,626
Commander,

587
00:56:53,917 --> 00:56:57,876
do you remember when
those officers from Mao's army…?

588
00:57:00,917 --> 00:57:02,751
There's only scraps here.

589
00:57:09,376 --> 00:57:10,376
Chief…

590
00:57:10,542 --> 00:57:12,042
Look!

591
00:57:13,542 --> 00:57:16,126
The moon is so big tonight.

592
00:57:18,167 --> 00:57:19,417
Commander…

593
00:57:20,042 --> 00:57:22,626
I know what you're going to say.

594
00:57:23,792 --> 00:57:24,917
Commander…

595
00:57:25,542 --> 00:57:27,376
Their leader's a wise man,

596
00:57:27,542 --> 00:57:31,626
And it seems to me
that power is changing hands.

597
00:57:34,167 --> 00:57:36,667
Luo, be straight with me now.

598
00:57:37,167 --> 00:57:38,751
Are you a Communist?

599
00:57:39,126 --> 00:57:40,542
Commander!

600
00:57:40,751 --> 00:57:42,042
Yes or no?

601
00:57:42,626 --> 00:57:44,667
Tell the truth or I'll shoot you!

602
00:57:45,667 --> 00:57:49,167
Chief, I think there are still
some peanuts over there.

603
00:57:49,376 --> 00:57:51,542
Let's sit down and talk.

604
00:58:24,876 --> 00:58:28,376
Holy Founder, please forgive me.

605
00:58:28,626 --> 00:58:32,792
This place is full of explosives now…

606
00:58:33,917 --> 00:58:37,167
Sorry, but I have to move you
to the temple.

607
00:58:37,417 --> 00:58:39,751
Others will offer you incense there.

608
00:59:34,501 --> 00:59:36,667
Masters! Masters!

609
01:00:17,751 --> 01:00:20,167
Farewell, dear colleague.
Take care.

610
01:00:24,667 --> 01:00:26,376
I'm going now.

611
01:00:27,126 --> 01:00:29,001
Farewell, dear colleague.

612
01:00:29,292 --> 01:00:32,376
Until we meet again!

613
01:00:38,376 --> 01:00:40,292
Our masters are free now.

614
01:00:41,376 --> 01:00:45,667
Going their separate ways.
Even the bouncers have disbanded.

615
01:00:45,917 --> 01:00:50,667
Sure… but at least they're free
to perform where they like.

616
01:00:51,292 --> 01:00:55,042
Sounds fine, but it's civil war.
Every troupe's in trouble.

617
01:00:55,417 --> 01:00:59,042
You can bet they still pay
better than New-New.

618
01:00:59,417 --> 01:01:01,917
And no more "red-cooked carp".

619
01:01:09,126 --> 01:01:10,417
Qiu Fu…

620
01:01:13,251 --> 01:01:15,876
- Thanks.
- Don't mention it.

621
01:01:18,126 --> 01:01:20,042
Thanks for what?

622
01:01:23,542 --> 01:01:27,667
For being so kind.
Not forsaking me and my daughter.

623
01:01:31,626 --> 01:01:34,292
Our Commander was the generous one.

624
01:01:35,667 --> 01:01:38,167
You should thank him.

625
01:01:39,542 --> 01:01:43,542
He saw I was still a bachelor,
gave me his adoptive daughter

626
01:01:43,751 --> 01:01:46,167
with a ready-made baby in tow,

627
01:01:46,876 --> 01:01:52,417
all to save me the trouble of looking
and keep my energy for the stage.

628
01:01:53,542 --> 01:01:56,542
How could I thank him enough?

629
01:01:58,292 --> 01:02:00,292
If you feel wronged,

630
01:02:00,667 --> 01:02:04,042
I can leave with the baby
as soon as I've finished this pipe.

631
01:02:04,209 --> 01:02:06,542
- I didn't say anything.
- You said plenty.

632
01:02:06,751 --> 01:02:09,667
- You're stoned.
- You're the stoned one.

633
01:02:09,834 --> 01:02:11,792
I smoked half a pipe!

634
01:02:18,126 --> 01:02:22,542
<i>A farewell song</i>

635
01:02:24,792 --> 01:02:28,292
<i>so painful every time</i>

636
01:02:33,917 --> 01:02:37,667
<i>Those many years we shared…</i>

637
01:02:38,042 --> 01:02:42,251
Listen… little Ah Gui is so adorable,

638
01:02:42,667 --> 01:02:44,626
how could I ever leave her?

639
01:02:48,417 --> 01:02:53,001
Not to mention
that she has a pretty mother.

640
01:02:56,792 --> 01:02:58,001
Right.

641
01:02:59,917 --> 01:03:02,126
Long before joining New-New,

642
01:03:02,876 --> 01:03:05,667
I was famous in Chengdu.

643
01:03:06,126 --> 01:03:08,001
"Eight-year-old star".

644
01:03:08,501 --> 01:03:13,167
I was still scrubbing floors with Crooky,
but I'd heard of you.

645
01:03:16,292 --> 01:03:18,042
Famous. Big deal.

646
01:03:19,042 --> 01:03:21,917
Pestered and molested
from an early age.

647
01:03:35,417 --> 01:03:37,917
That year singing in Xikang,

648
01:03:39,251 --> 01:03:41,667
soldiers massed below the stage,

649
01:03:43,376 --> 01:03:47,917
rifles on their backs,
all gawking at us.

650
01:03:49,501 --> 01:03:52,042
Like hunters sizing up their prey.

651
01:03:52,417 --> 01:03:56,167
- Enough…
- I was already used to it.

652
01:03:56,542 --> 01:03:59,292
I'd seen plenty of those stares.

653
01:04:00,001 --> 01:04:01,501
Spectators, right?

654
01:04:04,001 --> 01:04:05,667
You're stoned.

655
01:04:09,626 --> 01:04:11,751
But that day I really lost it,

656
01:04:12,542 --> 01:04:15,667
I started yelling at them
from the stage.

657
01:04:16,042 --> 01:04:20,001
"What are you gawking at?
On a hunting trip, are you?"

658
01:04:22,376 --> 01:04:23,792
I remember running,

659
01:04:24,667 --> 01:04:28,417
two grunts after me,
each with his rifle.

660
01:04:33,542 --> 01:04:34,667
One shot.

661
01:04:36,126 --> 01:04:37,376
Two shots.

662
01:04:40,667 --> 01:04:42,667
Yes, they were hunting.

663
01:04:46,001 --> 01:04:48,417
Then they came whistling…

664
01:04:49,792 --> 01:04:51,917
I heard them clearly…

665
01:05:17,292 --> 01:05:20,001
There's a time and a place, you know.

666
01:05:21,751 --> 01:05:25,251
You always dig all that up
when we smoke together.

667
01:05:31,042 --> 01:05:33,001
What I mean is…

668
01:05:33,167 --> 01:05:35,376
I've got a family now.

669
01:05:40,126 --> 01:05:42,542
Life is so good!

670
01:05:58,667 --> 01:05:59,876
Ah Gui…

671
01:06:01,167 --> 01:06:03,292
- Who's your papa then?
- You!

672
01:06:03,501 --> 01:06:04,751
Prove it, then.

673
01:06:04,917 --> 01:06:06,792
<i>My father found glory in Langzhong</i>

674
01:06:18,417 --> 01:06:22,417
SAVE THE NATION,
FIGHT COMMUNISM

675
01:07:53,001 --> 01:07:54,917
Hey, come on,
we're on the same side!

676
01:08:06,542 --> 01:08:09,376
We're Commander Liu's troupe!

677
01:08:18,584 --> 01:08:20,251
Come on, Ah Gui.

678
01:08:34,001 --> 01:08:35,376
Stop fighting!

679
01:08:36,251 --> 01:08:38,751
Come on, quit that!

680
01:08:38,959 --> 01:08:40,959
Right, that's it. I'm off.

681
01:09:00,334 --> 01:09:03,376
This is mutiny!
I'll report you!

682
01:09:21,501 --> 01:09:25,626
SAVE THE NATION,
DOWN WITH CHIANG KAI-SHEK

683
01:09:31,876 --> 01:09:32,876
Put it here.

684
01:09:33,584 --> 01:09:36,376
NO PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS

685
01:09:38,751 --> 01:09:40,876
- What's this?
- Recognize the writing?

686
01:09:41,251 --> 01:09:42,376
No idea.

687
01:09:42,626 --> 01:09:44,584
- Where is he?
- Who?

688
01:09:44,751 --> 01:09:46,584
- Now what?
- Let's go.

689
01:10:05,626 --> 01:10:06,626
Qiu Fu…

690
01:10:08,751 --> 01:10:10,209
What are you smiling at?

691
01:10:11,876 --> 01:10:15,751
Do they understand Sichuanese
in Taiwan?

692
01:10:16,126 --> 01:10:17,626
How would I know?

693
01:10:20,001 --> 01:10:23,876
Can we make a living from theatre
in Taiwan?

694
01:10:26,251 --> 01:10:30,251
It's hard enough in Sichuan,
imagine in Taiwan…

695
01:10:36,751 --> 01:10:38,626
Now what are you grinning at?

696
01:10:40,001 --> 01:10:45,501
They've sent Chiang Kai-shek packing.
This Liberation Army is tough.

697
01:10:47,459 --> 01:10:50,876
They're all army grunts,
each with his rifle,

698
01:10:51,126 --> 01:10:53,126
and that hunter's stare…

699
01:11:03,626 --> 01:11:06,251
- An aria for you, sirs?
- Clear off.

700
01:11:10,751 --> 01:11:13,126
- And you two gentlemen?
- Scram.

701
01:11:14,709 --> 01:11:15,834
Master Gong!

702
01:11:16,001 --> 01:11:17,959
Master Qiu, our respects.

703
01:11:18,501 --> 01:11:19,876
And you, Sir, are…?

704
01:11:23,501 --> 01:11:26,126
Good sirs, an aria for your pleasure?

705
01:11:27,126 --> 01:11:29,876
- Not interested!
- Good fortune to you.

706
01:11:30,459 --> 01:11:31,501
Master Qiu!

707
01:11:32,751 --> 01:11:35,126
- A tune from the repertoire?
- Go away.

708
01:11:44,459 --> 01:11:46,001
Master Li…

709
01:11:47,584 --> 01:11:50,334
So we're agreed? Name your target.

710
01:11:51,626 --> 01:11:55,959
You're an actor. An artist.
You're not a killer.

711
01:11:58,001 --> 01:12:02,501
Killing is not a problem.
And I'll give you a good price.

712
01:12:04,459 --> 01:12:07,376
- Brotherhood, right?
- I have no enemies.

713
01:12:08,626 --> 01:12:10,459
You're a fine performer.

714
01:12:10,626 --> 01:12:11,251
Thank you…

715
01:12:11,501 --> 01:12:14,001
And your wife is too.

716
01:12:14,209 --> 01:12:16,751
Perhaps a small contribution, sir?

717
01:12:17,001 --> 01:12:18,209
Thanks all the same.

718
01:12:19,001 --> 01:12:22,334
- We've paid to see the show.
- Of course…

719
01:12:22,501 --> 01:12:26,876
If you like our music,
some coins for a pipe will do.

720
01:12:27,126 --> 01:12:28,709
What do you say, kind sirs?

721
01:12:52,126 --> 01:12:53,001
Uncle!

722
01:12:53,751 --> 01:12:57,251
New-New's lead actors
are all begging now.

723
01:12:57,501 --> 01:12:59,501
You think Commander Pocky knows?

724
01:12:59,709 --> 01:13:00,876
I dunno.

725
01:13:09,126 --> 01:13:13,001
Our people must have reached
Pengshan by now.

726
01:13:13,751 --> 01:13:15,876
They're following the Min river.

727
01:13:22,876 --> 01:13:24,001
They'll be fine.

728
01:13:24,334 --> 01:13:26,834
I've let them down.

729
01:13:27,459 --> 01:13:28,876
Take your cards.

730
01:13:32,626 --> 01:13:37,501
I can hardly save my own bacon,
let alone look after them.

731
01:13:38,334 --> 01:13:40,626
Not necessarily, husband.

732
01:13:41,084 --> 01:13:45,084
I've put a little bit aside,
and when the time comes,

733
01:13:45,376 --> 01:13:48,459
we'll build a new theatre
for the New-New.

734
01:13:50,126 --> 01:13:51,251
I won!

735
01:13:55,834 --> 01:13:59,959
Damn…
Seems Nanking's fallen to the Reds.

736
01:14:00,626 --> 01:14:03,501
What hope is there for us?

737
01:14:04,126 --> 01:14:08,001
Speaking of which, Luo came looking
for you this morning.

738
01:14:08,209 --> 01:14:09,751
I said you were asleep.

739
01:14:12,376 --> 01:14:15,001
Don't let it worry you.
Take your cards.

740
01:14:17,126 --> 01:14:19,251
I've let you down too.

741
01:14:19,709 --> 01:14:22,001
The cards.
That's my hand you're holding.

742
01:14:22,501 --> 01:14:27,001
You're as wise as you are beautiful.
I'm the useless one.

743
01:14:27,751 --> 01:14:28,751
Go on, play.

744
01:15:33,959 --> 01:15:35,876
Fuck your mother, alright?

745
01:16:00,834 --> 01:16:01,959
They started it!

746
01:16:02,334 --> 01:16:04,251
- It was them!
- Go fuck yourself!

747
01:16:04,417 --> 01:16:07,251
- Fuck you, Communist!
- Screw you, Nationalist!

748
01:16:08,709 --> 01:16:09,751
Shut up!

749
01:16:12,376 --> 01:16:13,584
Alright, move on.

750
01:16:14,334 --> 01:16:15,334
Get in line!

751
01:16:15,751 --> 01:16:16,751
Hurry up. Go, go.

752
01:16:22,459 --> 01:16:24,584
Qiu Fu, where are you going?

753
01:16:49,751 --> 01:16:50,751
Qiu Fu!

754
01:16:53,501 --> 01:16:54,626
Come back!

755
01:17:35,626 --> 01:17:40,626
WELCOME HOME NEW-NEW

756
01:18:24,626 --> 01:18:28,334
Young masters, my, how you've grown!

757
01:18:34,709 --> 01:18:36,959
Crooky!

758
01:18:37,626 --> 01:18:40,001
Crooky! Its been so long!

759
01:18:45,334 --> 01:18:47,834
JOYFUL THEATRE

760
01:18:48,626 --> 01:18:50,334
Get these benches lined up.

761
01:18:51,126 --> 01:18:55,334
That's it, line them up straight.

762
01:18:55,959 --> 01:18:56,876
Call them in.

763
01:18:57,209 --> 01:18:59,751
Get them seated.
All look towards the camera!

764
01:19:02,126 --> 01:19:03,251
All sit down!

765
01:19:19,751 --> 01:19:20,834
Attention!

766
01:19:34,834 --> 01:19:36,334
Look at the camera!

767
01:19:39,376 --> 01:19:41,459
You two step down.

768
01:19:45,001 --> 01:19:47,251
Crooky! Leave that!

769
01:19:49,126 --> 01:19:52,626
- Crooky, come on!
- Bring the Holy Founder!

770
01:19:54,501 --> 01:19:57,251
Forget Crooky, watch the camera!

771
01:19:58,834 --> 01:20:01,501
Fan folded, please.
Straighten that flower.

772
01:22:51,751 --> 01:22:54,751
PEOPLE'S THEATRE

773
01:22:55,876 --> 01:22:57,626
So many soldiers…

774
01:22:58,876 --> 01:23:00,001
So many soldiers…

775
01:23:03,376 --> 01:23:04,376
At ease!

776
01:23:06,959 --> 01:23:08,876
Artist friends, congratulations!

777
01:23:19,209 --> 01:23:22,251
They say this Liberation Army's
a bit rough.

778
01:23:32,376 --> 01:23:34,126
Major Ma, I believe?

779
01:23:34,376 --> 01:23:37,376
- You must be Manager Ma.
- Indeed. An honour, Sir.

780
01:23:37,626 --> 01:23:40,084
- Both named Ma, eh?
- So it seems!

781
01:23:40,251 --> 01:23:43,959
- Same clan, 500 years old!
- Kith and kin!

782
01:23:48,584 --> 01:23:49,876
Major Ma!

783
01:23:50,251 --> 01:23:52,251
Comrade artists, greetings!

784
01:23:52,501 --> 01:23:55,709
Welcome to a new society, a new era!

785
01:23:58,251 --> 01:24:01,459
Our struggle to liberate
the Chinese people

786
01:24:02,001 --> 01:24:05,251
is fought on several fronts.
To secure victory,

787
01:24:05,417 --> 01:24:08,084
we must first rely
on an army with guns.

788
01:24:08,376 --> 01:24:11,501
But we also need
an army of Culture.

789
01:24:12,376 --> 01:24:16,751
To unite the masses and defeat our foes,
this army is indispensable.

790
01:24:17,001 --> 01:24:19,084
Its name is "Art and Literature".

791
01:24:20,334 --> 01:24:22,584
Art has two dimensions.

792
01:24:22,751 --> 01:24:26,001
One is political, one is artistic.

793
01:24:26,876 --> 01:24:29,126
When it unites the masses,

794
01:24:29,292 --> 01:24:33,459
for progress
and against backwardness,

795
01:24:33,751 --> 01:24:34,959
Art is good.

796
01:24:36,251 --> 01:24:40,126
But when it divides the masses
against progress,

797
01:24:40,501 --> 01:24:42,501
when it favours backwardness,

798
01:24:43,251 --> 01:24:44,626
it is bad.

799
01:24:45,959 --> 01:24:48,626
The old society is gone…

800
01:25:07,501 --> 01:25:09,167
As Chairman Mao said

801
01:25:09,417 --> 01:25:11,001
at the Yan'an Conference,

802
01:25:11,334 --> 01:25:14,376
"Art must serve
the workers-peasants-and-soldiers."

803
01:25:14,751 --> 01:25:18,376
You are all artists,
this should be your guiding principle!

804
01:25:21,126 --> 01:25:25,834
Qiu Fu, when did you last read
your school yearbook?

805
01:25:26,001 --> 01:25:27,501
I study it every day.

806
01:25:27,667 --> 01:25:28,584
Bullshit!

807
01:25:28,876 --> 01:25:33,126
Have you forgotten kneeling
before our Holy Founder,

808
01:25:33,376 --> 01:25:37,084
vowing to accept punishment
if you moonlight with other troupes?

809
01:25:37,251 --> 01:25:39,584
- No sir.
- And what was the penalty?

810
01:25:40,751 --> 01:25:43,876
To lose my voice
and never work again.

811
01:25:44,126 --> 01:25:45,501
Still want to run off?

812
01:25:46,126 --> 01:25:50,001
- Sir, it's too tough.
- Better change jobs then!

813
01:25:50,209 --> 01:25:52,376
Piss off and starve!

814
01:25:52,959 --> 01:25:54,876
I'll never do it again!

815
01:25:55,126 --> 01:25:59,209
Just think about it.
What troupe in all of Sichuan

816
01:25:59,376 --> 01:26:03,251
would dare take a traitor
to my New-New theatre?

817
01:26:03,459 --> 01:26:06,376
- I'll never do it again!
- Red-cooked carp!

818
01:26:06,584 --> 01:26:08,084
Don't beat me!

819
01:26:15,001 --> 01:26:19,459
In the old society,
an artists life was toil and suffering.

820
01:26:20,251 --> 01:26:23,751
A new society is born!
You are all artists,

821
01:26:23,959 --> 01:26:26,376
and Art must serve the people!

822
01:26:39,001 --> 01:26:41,084
Why not take a short nap,
Master Qiu?

823
01:26:42,459 --> 01:26:45,334
I'm going to Hell,
who needs to sleep?

824
01:26:46,001 --> 01:26:48,126
You still need your rest!

825
01:26:48,292 --> 01:26:51,376
Tomorrow morning
they'll take you across the river.

826
01:26:52,959 --> 01:26:55,501
- The River of Forgetfulness.
- That's right!

827
01:26:56,584 --> 01:27:00,334
- And Fengdu on the other side.
- Exactly!

828
01:27:01,376 --> 01:27:03,834
- What time does the boat leave?
- It's still early.

829
01:27:04,126 --> 01:27:06,709
- What time is it now?
- Plenty of time!

830
01:27:17,084 --> 01:27:19,251
How about a round of mahjong?

831
01:27:19,751 --> 01:27:21,626
- Yes, let's.
- Okay by you?

832
01:27:22,584 --> 01:27:24,459
Sure. Plenty of time, right?

833
01:27:25,751 --> 01:27:27,376
Chicken Foot, get the tiles.

834
01:27:28,001 --> 01:27:29,376
Coming up!

835
01:27:30,459 --> 01:27:31,876
I love mahjong.

836
01:27:39,126 --> 01:27:42,001
Sorry, I left in a hurry.
I don't have much cash.

837
01:27:42,209 --> 01:27:45,959
- Forget it, we're playing for fun.
- Just to pass the time.

838
01:27:47,001 --> 01:27:48,876
Father, receive this money.

839
01:27:51,626 --> 01:27:53,126
Don't stir the ashes.

840
01:27:53,376 --> 01:27:57,126
- How will he get the money?
- Not that way.

841
01:27:57,834 --> 01:27:59,501
- You shouldn't stir.
- I should.

842
01:27:59,709 --> 01:28:02,084
I could ask Teacher tomorrow.

843
01:28:03,376 --> 01:28:05,209
- You don't stir.
- Yes you do.

844
01:28:05,751 --> 01:28:08,376
- He won't get it.
- He will.

845
01:28:20,001 --> 01:28:21,584
He got money!

846
01:28:21,876 --> 01:28:24,959
- One million a hand?
- Half a million.

847
01:28:25,126 --> 01:28:27,251
We're public servants, after all.

848
01:28:27,876 --> 01:28:28,751
Fine.

849
01:28:29,084 --> 01:28:30,584
Three players?

850
01:28:30,876 --> 01:28:33,626
- Chicken Foot?
- I have to light the fire.

851
01:28:33,834 --> 01:28:35,584
- For grilled veggies.
- When?

852
01:28:35,751 --> 01:28:37,376
- Later.
- Make plenty.

853
01:28:37,626 --> 01:28:39,251
- Call Crooky.
- Right.

854
01:28:40,251 --> 01:28:41,959
Hey Crooky! Over here!

855
01:28:42,209 --> 01:28:43,501
Come play mahjong!

856
01:28:43,751 --> 01:28:45,584
Crooky! Mahjong!

857
01:28:47,626 --> 01:28:49,126
Where's he got to?

858
01:29:50,334 --> 01:29:53,001
Five, six, seven, eight.

859
01:29:53,876 --> 01:29:58,626
Two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight.

860
01:30:10,001 --> 01:30:11,876
Next exercise. Ready… go!

861
01:30:20,376 --> 01:30:24,584
What are you girls looking at?
You'll be moving in soon!

862
01:30:24,751 --> 01:30:26,501
We like watching.

863
01:30:26,876 --> 01:30:29,376
Are you looking at the house, or…?

864
01:30:29,542 --> 01:30:30,501
Go away!

865
01:30:39,501 --> 01:30:40,751
Hello, little one.

866
01:30:41,751 --> 01:30:43,876
Four Mums, are you sunbathing?

867
01:30:44,334 --> 01:30:46,084
Are your Mum and Dad alright?

868
01:30:46,959 --> 01:30:50,751
They're trying on their Lenin jackets
in the dressing room.

869
01:30:50,959 --> 01:30:52,709
- Are they really fine?
- Yes.

870
01:30:53,001 --> 01:30:55,126
- Have they freed your Dad?
- Yes.

871
01:30:55,751 --> 01:31:00,126
Last night they untied him from the bed,
and I helped him to walk.

872
01:31:00,459 --> 01:31:03,626
- He's kicked it, then.
- Good for him!

873
01:31:03,876 --> 01:31:05,751
Well done and good luck!

874
01:31:06,209 --> 01:31:07,626
Thank you, too.

875
01:31:08,126 --> 01:31:11,501
- Where are you going now?
- The canteen is about to open.

876
01:31:11,667 --> 01:31:13,251
Getting a drink for my Pa.

877
01:31:13,501 --> 01:31:16,501
- A drink?
- Sounds risky, he just got up.

878
01:31:16,876 --> 01:31:20,376
He says it was really tough,
and he needs a drink.

879
01:31:20,584 --> 01:31:22,959
He's still weak.
What does the doctor say?

880
01:31:23,126 --> 01:31:27,126
What doctor?
He's got Mum's permission.

881
01:31:34,376 --> 01:31:35,834
Canteen's open.

882
01:31:36,084 --> 01:31:38,584
Lunchtime, lads!
Food's up!

883
01:31:48,959 --> 01:31:51,251
Our Soviet brothers
are mobilising.

884
01:31:53,084 --> 01:31:57,126
And our People's Liberation Army
is battle-ready!

885
01:31:57,834 --> 01:31:59,126
Steamed bun?

886
01:32:02,834 --> 01:32:04,251
Steamed bun, anyone?

887
01:32:04,876 --> 01:32:07,876
Eat plenty, get strong and fit!

888
01:32:09,376 --> 01:32:11,626
When the Nation needs us,

889
01:32:12,709 --> 01:32:15,834
the Sichuan People's Theatre
will answer her call!

890
01:33:54,876 --> 01:33:56,376
Sugar water…

891
01:34:06,501 --> 01:34:07,751
Less sugar for him.

892
01:34:08,251 --> 01:34:09,626
I'll have it.

893
01:34:36,709 --> 01:34:37,876
Opium!

894
01:34:39,584 --> 01:34:41,251
Aka the big smoke,

895
01:34:42,001 --> 01:34:47,209
the Big O, black pill,
midnight oil, Afghan hibiscus…

896
01:34:48,376 --> 01:34:52,084
Or as some called it,
the "paste of bliss and longevity".

897
01:34:57,251 --> 01:34:59,501
Extracted from the opium poppy,

898
01:35:00,876 --> 01:35:02,751
rich in natural alkaloid.

899
01:35:06,751 --> 01:35:09,751
In the West, their Bible calls it

900
01:35:10,501 --> 01:35:12,084
the Herb of Forgetfulness.

901
01:35:12,459 --> 01:35:16,084
That's right!
Even their God used it!

902
01:35:18,459 --> 01:35:20,709
Since the early Han Dynasty,

903
01:35:21,001 --> 01:35:23,959
opium was a prized commodity.

904
01:35:24,376 --> 01:35:26,959
From the Persian tributes

905
01:35:27,501 --> 01:35:29,876
to the corrupt Qing dynasty,

906
01:35:30,126 --> 01:35:34,001
all of China, from Emperors
to the common people,

907
01:35:34,251 --> 01:35:36,959
used it as a pleasure drug.

908
01:35:37,376 --> 01:35:40,251
The Western Imperialists,
led by Britain,

909
01:35:40,501 --> 01:35:45,334
used it to break down our gates
and enslave our people.

910
01:35:45,501 --> 01:35:50,501
They say it can stop a cough,
suppress pain, stimulate the mind,

911
01:35:50,667 --> 01:35:52,959
cure epilepsy and diarrhoea…

912
01:35:53,584 --> 01:35:55,501
All bullshit enemy propaganda!

913
01:35:59,001 --> 01:36:02,876
More vicious than bullets and cannon,

914
01:36:03,376 --> 01:36:05,209
silently, stealthily,

915
01:36:05,876 --> 01:36:08,626
it destroys you through your own mind.

916
01:36:09,876 --> 01:36:14,251
If the Nationalists hadn't fallen,
the smoke would have finished them!

917
01:36:22,501 --> 01:36:26,334
But History teaches us once again

918
01:36:26,876 --> 01:36:31,626
that if we stand solidly with the people,
there is no battle we cannot win!

919
01:36:32,459 --> 01:36:33,459
Just look.

920
01:36:34,376 --> 01:36:36,459
These comrades here before us,

921
01:36:36,751 --> 01:36:40,126
once helpless, cringing addicts,

922
01:36:40,959 --> 01:36:43,876
were able, in only 170 hours,

923
01:36:44,376 --> 01:36:47,959
to kick the evil opium habit

924
01:36:48,376 --> 01:36:52,626
and say goodbye for ever
to the corrupt old society.

925
01:36:58,251 --> 01:37:00,251
You heard them, right?

926
01:37:00,501 --> 01:37:03,501
Their screams in the night,
these last few days?

927
01:37:04,126 --> 01:37:06,751
They tied themselves
to their own beds.

928
01:37:06,959 --> 01:37:10,001
Five days and nights
without food or water.

929
01:37:14,751 --> 01:37:17,876
170 hours is not that long,

930
01:37:18,584 --> 01:37:20,876
but the time goes pretty slow.

931
01:37:21,334 --> 01:37:26,251
Yet that's how our comrades,
by their own concrete actions,

932
01:37:26,709 --> 01:37:29,084
have made another human miracle!

933
01:37:30,001 --> 01:37:33,876
As our Chairman said,
"For great men, look to this age alone."

934
01:37:38,876 --> 01:37:40,751
What does this new era mean?

935
01:37:41,834 --> 01:37:43,251
Ladies first.

936
01:37:44,376 --> 01:37:47,126
Thank you, leaders and comrades.

937
01:37:49,626 --> 01:37:52,751
Our 170-hour ordeal is over.

938
01:37:53,209 --> 01:37:55,751
And so is the old society.

939
01:37:56,376 --> 01:37:58,251
It's painful to recall

940
01:37:58,876 --> 01:38:01,584
and even to talk about.

941
01:38:02,584 --> 01:38:04,959
What were actors' daily concerns?

942
01:38:05,126 --> 01:38:08,126
Birth, old age, sickness,
death and poverty.

943
01:38:08,292 --> 01:38:13,626
Without a pipe, who could sing
the five styles of Sichuan opera?

944
01:38:14,626 --> 01:38:16,126
Yes, shame on us.

945
01:38:16,626 --> 01:38:18,334
As for the big smoke,

946
01:38:20,584 --> 01:38:24,959
half the troupe were addicted,
we all had a puff before a show!

947
01:38:27,251 --> 01:38:29,501
Come on! We all did it!

948
01:38:32,376 --> 01:38:34,251
I told you not to drink.

949
01:38:34,626 --> 01:38:39,376
Forgive him, he just got up yesterday,
he's still confused.

950
01:38:40,251 --> 01:38:43,876
Opium fries your brain.
He's still on medication!

951
01:38:44,584 --> 01:38:48,251
Through the generations,
actors had a saying:

952
01:38:48,626 --> 01:38:52,709
"Play every role,
lose your own soul".

953
01:38:52,876 --> 01:38:55,876
And if you fall prey to opium…

954
01:38:56,126 --> 01:38:59,126
But that's all in the past.

955
01:39:01,251 --> 01:39:05,876
Back then I was the wildest player
and the most hopeless addict.

956
01:39:06,126 --> 01:39:07,876
I quit many times,

957
01:39:08,251 --> 01:39:10,209
but I kept sliding back.

958
01:39:11,501 --> 01:39:15,751
As you all know, Commander Liu
locked me in his house…

959
01:39:16,376 --> 01:39:17,584
"Bogus Commander".

960
01:39:17,751 --> 01:39:19,709
- Manager…
- Party Secretary?

961
01:39:19,876 --> 01:39:22,626
Mr. Liu saw the light in time,

962
01:39:23,126 --> 01:39:26,209
and has joined the struggle
as a provincial official.

963
01:39:26,376 --> 01:39:29,834
According to policy,
he's now a senior leader.

964
01:39:30,251 --> 01:39:31,834
Hence, our comrade.

965
01:39:32,501 --> 01:39:34,084
Call him "Comrade Liu".

966
01:39:34,251 --> 01:39:37,376
Anyway, he locked me up
quite a few times.

967
01:39:37,959 --> 01:39:42,084
Each time I quit,
Comrade Liu gave me a bag of cash,

968
01:39:42,334 --> 01:39:46,001
a new long robe,
and a solemn warning:

969
01:39:46,251 --> 01:39:48,376
"Go to that opium den again
and I'll shoot you!"

970
01:39:51,501 --> 01:39:55,959
- Weren't you afraid he'd shoot you?
- Nah, that was his pet phrase.

971
01:39:56,584 --> 01:39:59,251
He's right,
that was Comrade Liu.

972
01:40:00,376 --> 01:40:02,751
"Tell me or I'll shoot you!"

973
01:40:04,334 --> 01:40:07,376
"Sing or I'll shoot you!"

974
01:40:23,876 --> 01:40:26,501
Ding-a-ling! Malt candy…!

975
01:40:32,376 --> 01:40:37,001
In such a wondrous spring,
who needs opium?

976
01:40:37,251 --> 01:40:39,251
No-one, no-one.

977
01:40:40,251 --> 01:40:43,584
As times change, everything changes.

978
01:40:43,876 --> 01:40:47,376
Today, even if you held
the pipe to my mouth,

979
01:40:47,626 --> 01:40:49,126
I wouldn't smoke it.

980
01:40:49,292 --> 01:40:51,209
No way, no way.

981
01:40:52,084 --> 01:40:55,876
In the old society, we smoked
to ease our hearts' suffering.

982
01:40:56,334 --> 01:40:59,501
With my new robe,
I'd still go to the opium den

983
01:40:59,709 --> 01:41:01,376
because I was suffering.

984
01:41:02,209 --> 01:41:06,126
And this Lenin suit is
so much finer than a robe!

985
01:41:06,751 --> 01:41:08,709
"People's — Sichuan — Theatre".

986
01:41:09,501 --> 01:41:13,001
The People's troupe, the People's actors.

987
01:41:13,876 --> 01:41:16,584
Would that be possible
in the old society?

988
01:41:16,876 --> 01:41:18,376
Impossible!

989
01:41:19,751 --> 01:41:22,959
<i>Chairman Mao</i>

990
01:41:23,501 --> 01:41:27,626
<i>is the new Holy Founder.</i>

991
01:41:28,334 --> 01:41:33,584
<i>We'll need an incense bowl,</i>

992
01:41:36,834 --> 01:41:38,834
<i>like back in the day</i>

993
01:41:39,501 --> 01:41:42,126
<i>at the Theatre Academy.</i>

994
01:42:24,001 --> 01:42:25,834
<i>Crooky!</i>

995
01:42:32,626 --> 01:42:33,626
<i>Crooky!</i>

996
01:42:40,251 --> 01:42:41,709
Your move.

997
01:42:49,751 --> 01:42:51,376
Hurry along there.

998
01:42:52,084 --> 01:42:55,084
Careful…
Push it up here.

999
01:42:57,834 --> 01:42:59,001
Come on, come on!

1000
01:42:59,459 --> 01:43:01,209
Come on, catch up.
This way.

1001
01:43:01,459 --> 01:43:04,001
Careful! Mind the flowers!

1002
01:43:04,626 --> 01:43:05,834
Goddamn! Move on!

1003
01:43:07,126 --> 01:43:08,126
Three cracks.

1004
01:43:10,626 --> 01:43:15,084
It's insane! You and me playing
mahjong in the Netherworld…

1005
01:43:17,709 --> 01:43:18,709
Once, after New Year,

1006
01:43:19,376 --> 01:43:22,084
you vanished from New-New.

1007
01:43:22,376 --> 01:43:23,626
Play!

1008
01:43:26,834 --> 01:43:30,084
Some said you were
in Chengdu with Pocky.

1009
01:43:30,501 --> 01:43:33,876
Others said you were in Fengdu
with Oxey and Horsey.

1010
01:43:34,042 --> 01:43:35,209
- Play.
- Eight tong.

1011
01:43:37,251 --> 01:43:38,376
Fuck…

1012
01:43:39,501 --> 01:43:44,626
Or they'd seen you at the gate,
in broad daylight,

1013
01:43:45,501 --> 01:43:47,251
vanishing in a sunbeam…

1014
01:43:48,834 --> 01:43:49,709
Go on, play!

1015
01:43:50,251 --> 01:43:53,251
He evaporated in early autumn.

1016
01:43:53,751 --> 01:43:56,334
It was just after New Year!

1017
01:43:57,334 --> 01:44:00,501
Moo yourself!
I remember it perfectly!

1018
01:44:00,709 --> 01:44:04,001
- It was New Year.
- Well, you're the troupe historian.

1019
01:44:04,167 --> 01:44:06,334
Does the history mention Crooky?

1020
01:44:06,501 --> 01:44:07,584
Seven sticks.

1021
01:44:07,751 --> 01:44:10,876
You useless demons lost his papers!

1022
01:44:12,334 --> 01:44:15,251
- Quit bickering and play!
- Stop pushing us!

1023
01:44:18,501 --> 01:44:21,084
Self-drawn, seven hidden pairs!

1024
01:44:26,626 --> 01:44:29,751
Who said to go up there?
Come down, come down.

1025
01:44:33,876 --> 01:44:36,376
Where are you putting that?

1026
01:44:36,751 --> 01:44:39,084
Hang those lanterns properly.

1027
01:44:40,709 --> 01:44:43,209
Over there, see?
Straight ahead of you.

1028
01:44:43,876 --> 01:44:45,376
Then stay there.

1029
01:45:33,001 --> 01:45:37,001
- Ah Gui just fell asleep.
- I'll get her medicine.

1030
01:45:37,376 --> 01:45:41,876
I'll go after rehearsal.
Just focus on your report for the Army.

1031
01:45:42,042 --> 01:45:45,751
- I'll be quick.
- No need to panic.

1032
01:45:46,584 --> 01:45:50,709
They just want your story about
the bad old days.

1033
01:45:50,876 --> 01:45:53,626
- A lesson for all.
- I know.

1034
01:45:54,501 --> 01:45:57,959
As a "model emancipated actor",
you need to be sincere.

1035
01:45:58,626 --> 01:46:02,001
Don't worry about sincerity.
I've still got the bullet scars.

1036
01:46:03,626 --> 01:46:06,501
The curtain!
Ah Gui will start coughing.

1037
01:46:13,626 --> 01:46:18,959
Qiu Fu, don't you remember?
When I told you about my past,

1038
01:46:19,251 --> 01:46:21,376
you said I was stoned.

1039
01:46:22,126 --> 01:46:25,751
Well, in those days,
I was like a stoned maggot.

1040
01:46:26,001 --> 01:46:27,876
I'm self-reforming, my love.

1041
01:46:28,376 --> 01:46:29,751
Sure you are.

1042
01:46:32,084 --> 01:46:34,501
Quiet now, son.
Your sister's asleep.

1043
01:47:02,251 --> 01:47:04,001
Morning, elder sister.

1044
01:47:04,709 --> 01:47:07,876
- Ah Gui was coughing all night.
- She's sleeping now.

1045
01:47:08,042 --> 01:47:09,251
That's good.

1046
01:47:09,626 --> 01:47:12,084
- How's little brother?
- That one's fine.

1047
01:47:12,251 --> 01:47:16,209
Eats, sleeps, makes trouble.
Not like his sister at all.

1048
01:47:16,376 --> 01:47:18,626
Such a happy kid!

1049
01:47:19,751 --> 01:47:21,501
Morning. Your turn.

1050
01:47:22,001 --> 01:47:23,334
Morning.

1051
01:47:32,834 --> 01:47:35,626
Good morning, Master!
Please go first.

1052
01:47:36,834 --> 01:47:38,709
Thanks, I can hold it in.

1053
01:47:39,251 --> 01:47:40,876
When I was in acting school,

1054
01:47:41,042 --> 01:47:44,459
we had to wait to poop
till after morning training.

1055
01:47:44,626 --> 01:47:47,626
- What for?
- To "tap our energy".

1056
01:47:49,501 --> 01:47:53,626
Imagine, you had to hold it in
for four and a half hours.

1057
01:47:53,792 --> 01:47:55,709
Plus the five hours of sleep…

1058
01:47:55,876 --> 01:47:57,126
All that time?!

1059
01:47:57,709 --> 01:48:00,001
We're two different generations!

1060
01:48:00,959 --> 01:48:06,209
Back then, from one gig to the next,
sleeping rough or on stage.

1061
01:48:06,376 --> 01:48:10,376
we were beaten and called names,
had to hold our pee and poop.

1062
01:48:12,584 --> 01:48:13,626
And you?

1063
01:48:14,001 --> 01:48:16,751
Food at the canteen,
brick lodgings,

1064
01:48:17,084 --> 01:48:21,584
a fixed state salary, sing into a microphone,
never get beaten

1065
01:48:21,751 --> 01:48:23,959
and shit when you feel like it.

1066
01:48:29,209 --> 01:48:30,376
Good morning teacher!

1067
01:48:30,959 --> 01:48:32,334
Study this carefully!

1068
01:48:33,001 --> 01:48:34,334
New guidelines?

1069
01:48:34,584 --> 01:48:37,126
To be announced after training.

1070
01:48:37,501 --> 01:48:39,001
Wouldn't miss it.

1071
01:48:44,001 --> 01:48:47,001
In my experience, best have a dump.

1072
01:48:54,126 --> 01:48:56,376
Good morning, dear Tolstoy.

1073
01:48:56,542 --> 01:49:00,959
- You scared me. What is it?
- A question for our genial playwright.

1074
01:49:03,501 --> 01:49:06,584
- This passage here…
- Can't see it for marks and circles.

1075
01:49:06,751 --> 01:49:10,334
Back then we just listened.
No books.

1076
01:49:10,501 --> 01:49:13,001
Mmmm, tough for you.
What is this?

1077
01:49:13,584 --> 01:49:16,584
- You're shivering.
- A nighttime chill.

1078
01:49:17,084 --> 01:49:20,001
You kids,
let Master Tolstoy go first.

1079
01:49:20,376 --> 01:49:22,001
Thank you, thank you.

1080
01:49:23,751 --> 01:49:29,084
"Transference, central to
the Stanislavski method,

1081
01:49:29,376 --> 01:49:33,876
"is the idea that an actor
must become one with his character,

1082
01:49:34,042 --> 01:49:37,501
"entering a state of selflessness…

1083
01:49:40,251 --> 01:49:44,084
"and using the compressed
space and time of the stage

1084
01:49:44,251 --> 01:49:46,626
"to create an 'illusion of truth'

1085
01:49:46,876 --> 01:49:51,876
"that gradually draws actor and audience
into believing

1086
01:49:52,084 --> 01:49:57,126
"in its reality,
thus creating a common voice."

1087
01:50:00,459 --> 01:50:02,626
One, two, three, four…

1088
01:50:14,126 --> 01:50:16,584
The workers are too stiff,

1089
01:50:18,751 --> 01:50:21,584
the peasants are too frantic,

1090
01:50:23,251 --> 01:50:25,251
the teachers are flaccid,

1091
01:50:26,501 --> 01:50:29,376
and the monks are too slow.

1092
01:50:32,084 --> 01:50:36,834
The best in radio gymnastics
is the Sichuan Theatre Troupe.

1093
01:50:40,584 --> 01:50:43,251
Opera actors are trained,

1094
01:50:44,626 --> 01:50:48,001
their movements elegant and precise.

1095
01:50:54,126 --> 01:50:55,751
Move it along!

1096
01:50:57,459 --> 01:50:58,459
Keep up now.

1097
01:51:16,626 --> 01:51:19,834
- Reform student
- Come on, Troupe Manager.

1098
01:51:51,584 --> 01:51:54,751
Who was it? Who's off key?
Again!

1099
01:51:55,501 --> 01:51:57,709
"Let's go!"

1100
01:52:12,626 --> 01:52:16,126
Look, Master Qiu,
Crooky's Special Reserve!

1101
01:52:16,376 --> 01:52:19,126
He broke it out today just for you.

1102
01:52:19,334 --> 01:52:23,001
A few jars will keep you warm
on the road to Hell.

1103
01:52:23,251 --> 01:52:27,751
Good <i>fengshui</i> here,
I've had a lucky night!

1104
01:52:27,959 --> 01:52:30,501
- Here, take some and spend it!
- I couldn't.

1105
01:52:30,667 --> 01:52:32,001
Take it!

1106
01:52:32,376 --> 01:52:34,834
But go and join in the fun!

1107
01:52:36,334 --> 01:52:37,959
He's too polite.

1108
01:52:43,001 --> 01:52:44,709
Let's count this again.

1109
01:52:47,751 --> 01:52:48,751
Master Qiu!

1110
01:52:49,501 --> 01:52:50,709
Banquet's ready!

1111
01:52:50,959 --> 01:52:53,584
Be a plump ghost in Fengdu!

1112
01:52:56,751 --> 01:52:59,626
<i>Our twilight land has seen</i>

1113
01:52:59,834 --> 01:53:02,501
<i>A year of copious reaping</i>

1114
01:53:02,751 --> 01:53:05,459
<i>Let's help these hungry souls</i>

1115
01:53:05,626 --> 01:53:08,126
<i>To their eternal sleeping…</i>

1116
01:53:16,626 --> 01:53:19,126
Not so tight! Easy!

1117
01:53:19,876 --> 01:53:23,001
For a starving man,
you have a strong grip.

1118
01:53:24,376 --> 01:53:26,209
Let go! Let me go!

1119
01:53:27,751 --> 01:53:29,001
Now what?

1120
01:53:29,209 --> 01:53:30,209
He's done.

1121
01:53:31,001 --> 01:53:32,001
Beat.

1122
01:53:32,251 --> 01:53:33,209
Tired out?

1123
01:53:33,376 --> 01:53:36,376
Can't walk…
haven't eaten for…

1124
01:53:36,959 --> 01:53:40,626
It's the Great Leap Forward.
Everyones making steel.

1125
01:53:40,876 --> 01:53:43,126
Didn't dare use the pedicab.

1126
01:53:43,334 --> 01:53:47,751
Lets rest a bit.
Look at the state he's in.

1127
01:53:51,084 --> 01:53:54,501
<i>The Emperor for the Dragon served</i>

1128
01:53:55,209 --> 01:53:59,626
<i>A stew of fishes head</i>

1129
01:54:00,376 --> 01:54:03,751
<i>The second dish that followed then</i>

1130
01:54:04,501 --> 01:54:08,751
<i>was mushrooms cooked in red!</i>

1131
01:54:09,626 --> 01:54:11,209
<i>Dish number three,</i>

1132
01:54:12,084 --> 01:54:18,126
<i>a soup of shrimp
with vinegar from Baoning,</i>

1133
01:54:19,126 --> 01:54:20,667
<i>Dish number four</i>

1134
01:54:21,251 --> 01:54:23,626
<i>was silver noodles</i>

1135
01:54:23,876 --> 01:54:27,376
<i>juicy, long and thin…</i>

1136
01:54:28,209 --> 01:54:29,459
No, no!

1137
01:54:30,001 --> 01:54:32,709
Picture it, taste the flavour!

1138
01:54:33,459 --> 01:54:37,001
<i>Juicy, long and thin!</i>

1139
01:54:37,959 --> 01:54:38,959
Once again.

1140
01:54:39,334 --> 01:54:40,626
Ready… begin!

1141
01:54:45,834 --> 01:54:49,501
<i>Dish number five</i>

1142
01:54:50,251 --> 01:54:53,376
<i>was chicken tofu…</i>

1143
01:54:58,126 --> 01:55:01,876
So you really are
the legendary Oxhead?

1144
01:55:02,334 --> 01:55:03,501
Well, yes.

1145
01:55:04,376 --> 01:55:07,751
Never thought I would see
a real deity.

1146
01:55:08,084 --> 01:55:09,334
You flatter me.

1147
01:55:11,751 --> 01:55:14,834
You don't look like the statue
in our temple.

1148
01:55:15,001 --> 01:55:16,251
How's that?

1149
01:55:16,459 --> 01:55:19,001
You look fresher and plumper.

1150
01:55:19,376 --> 01:55:21,376
Well, I'm new to the job.

1151
01:55:22,959 --> 01:55:24,334
Your muscles are…

1152
01:55:25,584 --> 01:55:27,001
shapely…

1153
01:55:29,084 --> 01:55:30,376
These legs are so…

1154
01:55:32,626 --> 01:55:33,709
Alright, lets go!

1155
01:55:37,251 --> 01:55:38,334
What?

1156
01:56:00,876 --> 01:56:02,251
Ma, I'm off to school.

1157
01:56:02,417 --> 01:56:04,001
Had your porridge?

1158
01:56:04,459 --> 01:56:07,876
Finished it and licked the bowl.

1159
01:56:08,126 --> 01:56:09,626
And drunk lots of water.

1160
01:56:10,126 --> 01:56:13,376
Save your energy for schoolwork,
don't waste it on mischief.

1161
01:56:13,542 --> 01:56:16,376
So busy all day,
and you hardly eat.

1162
01:56:16,834 --> 01:56:18,126
Yes, Ma.

1163
01:56:18,376 --> 01:56:20,084
- Off you go.
- Yes, Ma…

1164
01:56:35,626 --> 01:56:36,959
Four Mums…

1165
01:56:37,626 --> 01:56:38,626
Bye.

1166
01:56:43,126 --> 01:56:45,251
- Kid…
- Off to school?

1167
01:56:47,876 --> 01:56:52,001
Those steps are so cold,
she could freeze to death.

1168
01:56:54,876 --> 01:56:58,126
If he takes her home,
they'll all starve together.

1169
01:56:58,292 --> 01:57:00,334
But leaving her would be a sin.

1170
01:57:15,209 --> 01:57:18,376
- Master Qiu, do a good deed!
- Charity, Master!

1171
01:57:18,584 --> 01:57:22,376
Officially registered actors
get extra sugar rations.

1172
01:57:22,542 --> 01:57:25,084
With you she won't starve.

1173
01:57:25,501 --> 01:57:29,459
A pound of Cuban sugar
every month, I hear.

1174
01:57:29,751 --> 01:57:31,834
Go on, take her home!

1175
01:57:32,251 --> 01:57:33,751
Take her!

1176
01:57:35,876 --> 01:57:38,376
- Take her, Master Qiu!
- Little Ah Gui is gone,

1177
01:57:38,584 --> 01:57:40,084
your house is cold.

1178
01:57:40,251 --> 01:57:43,209
You'll have a daughter again!

1179
01:57:54,126 --> 01:57:55,126
Pa?

1180
01:57:57,126 --> 01:57:58,376
What is it?

1181
01:58:02,126 --> 01:58:03,584
A little kitten.

1182
01:58:11,126 --> 01:58:13,959
Her parents couldn't feed her anymore.

1183
01:58:14,501 --> 01:58:17,334
An old lady found her.

1184
01:58:17,959 --> 01:58:21,501
She thought it was a kitten mewing,

1185
01:58:22,126 --> 01:58:26,084
looked around and found the baby

1186
01:58:26,334 --> 01:58:27,751
on a step, crying.

1187
01:58:29,126 --> 01:58:33,209
We're starving,
and you bring another mouth to feed?

1188
01:58:33,501 --> 01:58:34,876
How can we manage?

1189
01:59:22,876 --> 01:59:24,001
Ah Hei!

1190
01:59:27,334 --> 01:59:28,501
Ah Hei!

1191
01:59:29,001 --> 01:59:31,209
What? I'm doing my homework.

1192
01:59:31,376 --> 01:59:32,876
Come here. Goodies.

1193
01:59:33,334 --> 01:59:34,876
- Hurry up!
- Coming!

1194
01:59:37,584 --> 01:59:40,834
Lick those crumbs off.
Careful, it's hot.

1195
01:59:43,001 --> 01:59:44,126
Yummy.

1196
01:59:51,626 --> 01:59:56,126
This can fool an adult's belly,
not a tiny baby's,

1197
01:59:56,334 --> 01:59:58,376
just when she needs it most.

1198
01:59:58,542 --> 02:00:00,876
But this is all we've got.

1199
02:00:01,584 --> 02:00:05,876
- What she needs is milk.
- And how will you find her mother?

1200
02:00:06,501 --> 02:00:08,209
Maybe a wet nurse?

1201
02:00:08,959 --> 02:00:10,251
How about you?

1202
02:00:10,959 --> 02:00:13,501
Huh! It's not that simple.

1203
02:00:14,751 --> 02:00:16,876
Finding a wet nurse nowadays…

1204
02:00:20,376 --> 02:00:23,251
She's so weak, how long can she…

1205
02:00:27,709 --> 02:00:30,626
I couldn't keep Ah Gui alive.

1206
02:00:31,959 --> 02:00:36,167
I couldn't face
losing another daughter.

1207
02:00:57,459 --> 02:00:59,251
Finished your homework?

1208
02:00:59,501 --> 02:01:00,584
I don't know!

1209
02:01:03,876 --> 02:01:05,876
Wuyan Street? What for?

1210
02:01:06,376 --> 02:01:08,001
To buy some eggs.

1211
02:01:08,959 --> 02:01:12,584
There's a black market clampdown.
You could get arrested.

1212
02:01:13,376 --> 02:01:15,626
Especially in Wuyan Street.

1213
02:01:15,959 --> 02:01:18,584
The West Lake area is less policed.

1214
02:01:19,501 --> 02:01:22,001
West Lake? That's miles away.

1215
02:01:22,751 --> 02:01:24,459
Not when you're hungry.

1216
02:01:24,834 --> 02:01:26,584
My mother-in-law has bound feet.

1217
02:01:26,751 --> 02:01:30,501
She walked there at midnight,
bought some expensive corn,

1218
02:01:30,667 --> 02:01:33,751
and was back with it at dawn.

1219
02:01:34,459 --> 02:01:37,376
I hear they have everything there,

1220
02:01:37,709 --> 02:01:40,251
and they take cash or food coupons.

1221
02:01:40,501 --> 02:01:43,209
- West Lake, then.
- West Lake?

1222
02:01:43,376 --> 02:01:45,251
Closed down two days ago!

1223
02:01:48,001 --> 02:01:52,459
My cousin sold overpriced rice there,
he's disappeared.

1224
02:01:52,751 --> 02:01:54,459
No news.

1225
02:02:12,126 --> 02:02:13,251
Fuck it.

1226
02:02:13,584 --> 02:02:15,001
Wuyan Street it is.

1227
02:02:15,459 --> 02:02:16,959
Mind your back, Tolstoy.

1228
02:02:19,876 --> 02:02:21,126
Damned idiot!

1229
02:02:21,334 --> 02:02:25,001
That fool!
He needs to wear a dark coat.

1230
02:02:26,001 --> 02:02:28,376
- He'll be back soon.
- You bet.

1231
02:02:36,626 --> 02:02:39,001
Rice… Eggs…

1232
02:02:40,459 --> 02:02:42,501
- Rice…
- Eggs…

1233
02:02:43,126 --> 02:02:46,876
Rice… Millet… Sorghum…

1234
02:02:48,459 --> 02:02:51,126
Spuds… Beans…

1235
02:02:52,376 --> 02:02:54,626
Peanuts… Sweet potato…

1236
02:02:55,501 --> 02:02:58,376
Taro… Corn… Sichuan yam…

1237
02:02:58,751 --> 02:03:02,501
Duck eggs, quail eggs…

1238
02:03:03,709 --> 02:03:05,251
Cuban white sugar…

1239
02:03:13,959 --> 02:03:16,459
Someone's coming, run!

1240
02:03:43,959 --> 02:03:47,251
The hut stinks of fumes.
Don't start a fire.

1241
02:03:49,876 --> 02:03:52,709
Keep watch.
If anyone comes, whistle.

1242
02:03:59,876 --> 02:04:01,001
Alright.

1243
02:04:02,376 --> 02:04:04,751
- You be careful.
- You eshpeshally.

1244
02:05:04,751 --> 02:05:05,834
Hell…

1245
02:05:06,376 --> 02:05:10,834
These people are starving.
Not a single maggot in their shit.

1246
02:05:14,751 --> 02:05:16,626
Hey, you'll blow us up!

1247
02:05:17,626 --> 02:05:20,751
Let it blow,
put an end to our troubles.

1248
02:06:13,251 --> 02:06:14,126
Halt!

1249
02:06:14,501 --> 02:06:16,709
- What's in the bucket?
- Shit.

1250
02:06:16,876 --> 02:06:20,001
We know it's shit.
We've been watching you.

1251
02:06:20,167 --> 02:06:24,376
China depends on farming.
You think feeding 800 million is easy?

1252
02:06:25,001 --> 02:06:28,001
Don't you know that
manure is precious?

1253
02:06:28,334 --> 02:06:32,126
And there's an ongoing natural disaster.
Stealing shit is a crime.

1254
02:06:32,876 --> 02:06:34,251
What's your work unit?

1255
02:06:34,417 --> 02:06:38,251
None of your business!
We're in charge of shit around here.

1256
02:06:38,417 --> 02:06:41,376
- How would we know?
- That's no excuse!

1257
02:06:41,584 --> 02:06:42,751
Put the shit back,

1258
02:06:43,126 --> 02:06:44,209
and pay the fine.

1259
02:06:44,376 --> 02:06:46,126
That's extortion! No way!

1260
02:06:46,334 --> 02:06:47,334
You're not going anywhere.

1261
02:06:48,209 --> 02:06:50,626
That's State property!
Get it?

1262
02:06:51,876 --> 02:06:53,626
We'll see about that!

1263
02:06:54,209 --> 02:06:56,209
That shit, we're borrowing it.

1264
02:06:56,376 --> 02:06:59,084
I'll take a dump at home
and bring it back.

1265
02:06:59,584 --> 02:07:00,876
We're not that dumb!

1266
02:07:01,084 --> 02:07:04,876
It'll be high quality.
Better for crop growth.

1267
02:07:05,126 --> 02:07:06,876
- Take a dump here then.
- Right now!

1268
02:07:07,084 --> 02:07:09,251
- First you shit.
- Right here.

1269
02:07:09,501 --> 02:07:10,876
- Then you can go.
- No way!

1270
02:07:11,042 --> 02:07:12,876
- Shit now!
- Fine, I'll shit!

1271
02:07:13,709 --> 02:07:17,001
- Get on with it!
- I haven't had breakfast…

1272
02:07:19,126 --> 02:07:21,251
Wait, he looks familiar.

1273
02:07:21,417 --> 02:07:23,959
- Him?
- It's his voice…

1274
02:07:25,334 --> 02:07:29,376
He's the famous clown actor
from the People's Theatre!

1275
02:07:31,251 --> 02:07:33,459
A state-approved artist!

1276
02:07:33,626 --> 02:07:36,584
Your ideological standards
should be higher!

1277
02:07:36,751 --> 02:07:39,001
Stealing national shit?

1278
02:07:39,209 --> 02:07:42,876
It's complicated.
Being caught here by you…

1279
02:07:43,084 --> 02:07:44,626
I'm so ashamed.

1280
02:07:46,001 --> 02:07:47,001
Look,

1281
02:07:47,209 --> 02:07:51,001
Why don't I sing you something,
in exchange for a bucket-load?

1282
02:07:51,501 --> 02:07:53,334
- Maybe.
- Yes or no?

1283
02:07:53,626 --> 02:07:57,376
As if you were at the opera,
and with a bit extra.

1284
02:07:57,626 --> 02:08:00,001
A proper long scene, then.

1285
02:08:02,501 --> 02:08:07,251
A long scene for a large bucket.
The real thing, trust me.

1286
02:08:37,459 --> 02:08:38,626
Hey, little sister!

1287
02:08:39,501 --> 02:08:43,084
Come sing again tomorrow,
we'll help with the maggots!

1288
02:08:43,501 --> 02:08:44,626
Of course!

1289
02:08:44,834 --> 02:08:46,334
Sure you will.

1290
02:08:52,501 --> 02:08:53,626
All good protein.

1291
02:10:01,126 --> 02:10:02,751
Can we help you?

1292
02:10:05,501 --> 02:10:08,334
- Do you know her?
- I don't think so…

1293
02:10:28,751 --> 02:10:31,626
- The baby's mother?
- Must be.

1294
02:10:32,001 --> 02:10:34,001
She's from out of town.

1295
02:10:36,459 --> 02:10:38,834
Ah Hei! What's going on?

1296
02:10:47,876 --> 02:10:49,626
- Uh oh.
- Let's go, quick.

1297
02:11:05,876 --> 02:11:07,459
I've caused you trouble.

1298
02:11:08,251 --> 02:11:09,376
Have some hot water.

1299
02:11:10,126 --> 02:11:11,834
I shouldn't have come.

1300
02:11:12,709 --> 02:11:13,876
Drink that.

1301
02:11:18,251 --> 02:11:21,251
- What are you doing?
- What are <i>you</i> doing?

1302
02:11:32,501 --> 02:11:35,084
We came here to escape the famine.

1303
02:11:35,626 --> 02:11:38,251
There was nothing left
in the village,

1304
02:11:38,626 --> 02:11:42,751
not even leaves, tree-bark or roots,
not even a worm.

1305
02:11:43,459 --> 02:11:47,709
My husband, that bastard,
was staring at her greedily.

1306
02:11:48,459 --> 02:11:52,876
"Why not eat her?" he said,
"she's just a girl, anyway".

1307
02:11:57,251 --> 02:11:59,876
Just being a girl is a curse.

1308
02:12:01,959 --> 02:12:06,126
The village chief told me
fleeing famine is a political offence.

1309
02:12:06,376 --> 02:12:08,251
I was so afraid they'd eat her…

1310
02:12:08,709 --> 02:12:12,751
I didn't know then
things were no better in the city.

1311
02:12:14,251 --> 02:12:18,251
I tried to jump into the river with her,
but some women stopped me.

1312
02:12:18,959 --> 02:12:23,876
"Your kid's done nothing wrong",
they said, "find another way".

1313
02:12:26,001 --> 02:12:27,584
One of them told me

1314
02:12:28,251 --> 02:12:32,209
that Master Qiu, from the Sichuan Theatre,
loved children,

1315
02:12:33,459 --> 02:12:35,209
and had lost his daughter…

1316
02:12:35,626 --> 02:12:36,709
I'm so sorry!

1317
02:12:37,626 --> 02:12:39,876
You've been in the city all this time?

1318
02:12:40,376 --> 02:12:45,501
I went to my parents' home
where things are a bit better.

1319
02:12:45,667 --> 02:12:48,459
I secretly planted this pumpkin.

1320
02:12:48,626 --> 02:12:51,209
It's my gift to you both.

1321
02:12:51,376 --> 02:12:52,251
No need.

1322
02:12:52,417 --> 02:12:55,626
It's not that big,
it's been a bad year.

1323
02:12:55,792 --> 02:12:56,626
No need, really.

1324
02:13:09,334 --> 02:13:11,626
- Mrs. Qiu…
- Here. Take her back!

1325
02:13:12,126 --> 02:13:13,084
Take her!

1326
02:13:13,376 --> 02:13:15,584
- That's not why I came!
- Huafeng!

1327
02:13:25,251 --> 02:13:26,626
Since her mother's here,

1328
02:13:27,001 --> 02:13:29,459
we'll keep the pumpkin
and return the baby.

1329
02:13:30,376 --> 02:13:33,876
I didn't come to take her,
just to see her.

1330
02:13:34,209 --> 02:13:35,501
Now you'll see her all day.

1331
02:13:36,084 --> 02:13:38,584
In the village, she could starve!

1332
02:13:38,751 --> 02:13:39,876
The pity of it…

1333
02:13:51,001 --> 02:13:53,501
- Please, no…
- It's not for you.

1334
02:13:53,667 --> 02:13:56,376
It's to buy food for the baby.
Take it!

1335
02:13:57,626 --> 02:14:01,126
Just remember what it's for.
To each tool its purpose.

1336
02:14:01,376 --> 02:14:04,501
Money for oil
isn't spent on vinegar.

1337
02:14:04,834 --> 02:14:06,334
Or you'll answer to me.

1338
02:14:06,501 --> 02:14:09,376
"Money for oil
isn't spent on vinegar."

1339
02:14:11,001 --> 02:14:14,126
We fell straight into your trap.
Disgusting.

1340
02:14:14,751 --> 02:14:18,126
But that's our fault, not the baby's.

1341
02:14:18,751 --> 02:14:21,126
I don't regret our time with her.

1342
02:14:22,876 --> 02:14:25,459
Don't be angry. I won't be back.

1343
02:14:25,626 --> 02:14:26,626
Thank you!

1344
02:14:27,084 --> 02:14:30,126
We'll keep the pumpkin.
We're quits.

1345
02:14:31,001 --> 02:14:32,376
- Huafeng!
- What do you know?

1346
02:14:33,001 --> 02:14:35,084
A child should be with its mother.

1347
02:14:58,376 --> 02:15:00,209
Here, clean this pumpkin.

1348
02:15:01,709 --> 02:15:04,001
I'll cook you a nice dinner with it.

1349
02:15:04,376 --> 02:15:07,501
I'll make soup,
and a salad from the peel.

1350
02:15:10,209 --> 02:15:11,209
Go on, then.

1351
02:15:11,501 --> 02:15:12,876
Yes, Ma.

1352
02:15:43,084 --> 02:15:44,709
You don't blame me?

1353
02:15:45,001 --> 02:15:46,001
Not at all.

1354
02:15:46,876 --> 02:15:49,001
"A child should be with its mother!"

1355
02:15:49,751 --> 02:15:51,209
I'm just jealous.

1356
02:15:58,459 --> 02:16:02,584
When I was a kid at the Academy,
I hoped every day to see my Ma.

1357
02:16:03,084 --> 02:16:04,459
She never came for me.

1358
02:16:09,751 --> 02:16:14,834
I guess she died in the bombings
in Chongqing, with my little brother.

1359
02:16:20,376 --> 02:16:22,626
You're both drinking fast!

1360
02:16:23,001 --> 02:16:25,501
- Is it really so good?
- Try some.

1361
02:16:26,501 --> 02:16:28,751
- Don't do that.
- Just a drop.

1362
02:16:30,959 --> 02:16:33,126
- Like this?
- Just take a sip.

1363
02:16:38,751 --> 02:16:40,251
Tastes like medicine!

1364
02:16:40,792 --> 02:16:42,876
Well, it's rubbing alcohol.

1365
02:16:44,792 --> 02:16:46,751
It's horrible!

1366
02:16:48,126 --> 02:16:51,876
Young man, we're lucky
just to have this.

1367
02:16:52,042 --> 02:16:53,167
Give it here.

1368
02:17:03,042 --> 02:17:07,292
Crooky, leave me some salt,
I need it to make pickles!

1369
02:17:07,917 --> 02:17:08,917
What a waste!

1370
02:17:47,542 --> 02:17:49,417
In the famine years,

1371
02:17:50,001 --> 02:17:52,376
we performed in factories.

1372
02:17:52,792 --> 02:17:56,542
A workshop foreman
taught me this tonic recipe.

1373
02:18:05,667 --> 02:18:06,792
Here, take this.

1374
02:18:09,167 --> 02:18:10,167
Take it.

1375
02:18:12,167 --> 02:18:13,167
Take the money!

1376
02:18:14,001 --> 02:18:17,667
If old friends come by,
it'll be my treat.

1377
02:18:21,126 --> 02:18:22,292
What's so funny?

1378
02:18:26,667 --> 02:18:28,542
In life I was a simpleton.

1379
02:18:31,751 --> 02:18:35,292
Shy and unsure of myself,
on or off stage.

1380
02:18:36,667 --> 02:18:41,667
Not wanting the show to end,
and sad to part with my friends.

1381
02:18:42,542 --> 02:18:44,542
It's only now, since I'm dead

1382
02:18:46,292 --> 02:18:50,042
that I see the play's not over
when the curtain falls.

1383
02:18:51,667 --> 02:18:56,542
Tomorrow, across the river in Fengdu,
I'll find friends and family.

1384
02:19:00,167 --> 02:19:01,542
My little Ah Gui,

1385
02:19:02,876 --> 02:19:03,917
my Ma…

1386
02:19:05,751 --> 02:19:08,292
my little brother and my Pa.

1387
02:19:10,417 --> 02:19:13,667
And I can ask them face to face,

1388
02:19:15,167 --> 02:19:16,792
"Did you miss me?"

1389
02:19:18,376 --> 02:19:21,917
Isn't dying just
meeting up somewhere else?

1390
02:19:22,667 --> 02:19:24,501
Have you just arrived?

1391
02:19:24,917 --> 02:19:26,667
To enter Fengdu,

1392
02:19:27,001 --> 02:19:31,376
you must pause at Forgetfulness Bridge
and drink the Soup of Oblivion.

1393
02:19:31,917 --> 02:19:35,126
No more reunions
after Mother Meng's soup.

1394
02:19:35,417 --> 02:19:38,917
Terrible…
Drink that old bitch's soup

1395
02:19:39,167 --> 02:19:40,792
and forget everything,

1396
02:19:41,042 --> 02:19:46,376
Your own Ma and Pa,
brothers, sisters and loved ones.

1397
02:19:47,876 --> 02:19:51,292
- You mustn't drink it.
- I won't, I won't.

1398
02:19:51,917 --> 02:19:56,126
We'll stay here for ever,
undead, as stray ghosts.

1399
02:19:56,417 --> 02:19:58,042
Together for eternity.

1400
02:20:08,542 --> 02:20:11,876
- Could I stay here?
- Can't be done, Master Qiu.

1401
02:20:12,376 --> 02:20:16,292
Unlike them, you have to check in.

1402
02:20:16,542 --> 02:20:19,667
No tomfoolery.

1403
02:20:19,834 --> 02:20:21,376
Your file has been stamped.

1404
02:20:22,792 --> 02:20:24,126
Hey, Master Qiu,

1405
02:20:24,292 --> 02:20:26,167
you don't know how lucky you are!

1406
02:20:26,334 --> 02:20:30,042
We're in legal limbo here.
No documents, no status.

1407
02:20:30,251 --> 02:20:32,667
Stateless in a shadow world.

1408
02:20:33,542 --> 02:20:36,251
<i>Oh, I shall never be released,</i>

1409
02:20:36,417 --> 02:20:38,667
<i>But you're officially deceased,</i>

1410
02:20:38,917 --> 02:20:43,126
<i>Blessed with good karma and success!</i>

1411
02:20:47,292 --> 02:20:51,417
<i>"The plum does not compete with Spring,
but only tells its coming</i>

1412
02:20:51,751 --> 02:20:55,626
<i>"When the mountain flowers bloom,
she stands aside and smiles"</i>

1413
02:20:57,501 --> 02:21:00,417
SECOND-GENERATION COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY

1414
02:21:00,751 --> 02:21:02,667
Keep still and don't talk!

1415
02:21:32,376 --> 02:21:39,292
Reactionary Warlord,
Criminal Bogus Commander Pocky Liu

1416
02:21:40,167 --> 02:21:42,167
GANGSTER

1417
02:21:42,376 --> 02:21:44,376
THEATRE TYRANT

1418
02:21:50,626 --> 02:21:53,542
Fuck… even you two young stars?

1419
02:21:55,417 --> 02:21:56,876
"Young stars"? Huh.

1420
02:21:57,417 --> 02:22:00,042
I was never interested in politics.

1421
02:22:01,751 --> 02:22:05,417
As a kid I sold sunflower seeds
and cigarettes in the theatre.

1422
02:22:05,584 --> 02:22:07,042
Or hot towels.

1423
02:22:07,667 --> 02:22:11,292
You masters know that.
I just wanted to watch or sing.

1424
02:22:11,501 --> 02:22:15,626
You're a born Anti-socialist.
Serve you right!

1425
02:22:19,167 --> 02:22:21,167
What about me, though?

1426
02:22:21,792 --> 02:22:25,542
I tried to reform myself
and follow the policy.

1427
02:22:26,167 --> 02:22:28,167
I study politics every day.

1428
02:22:28,376 --> 02:22:29,376
Child,

1429
02:22:30,167 --> 02:22:33,542
didn't you go to perform
in the USSR?

1430
02:22:34,001 --> 02:22:36,792
Obviously, plotting
with a foreign power.

1431
02:22:37,042 --> 02:22:41,292
It was at the World Youth Festival,
a socialist celebration!

1432
02:22:41,542 --> 02:22:46,126
There's shit all over you now.
Even if it's mud, it smells like shit.

1433
02:22:46,876 --> 02:22:48,792
Your Russian is far too good.

1434
02:22:50,167 --> 02:22:53,917
The Sichuan Propaganda Office sent me
to honour China!

1435
02:22:54,167 --> 02:22:55,501
No talking! And stand still!

1436
02:22:58,792 --> 02:23:04,626
You were the Party Secretary's protégé.
Now he's fallen,

1437
02:23:04,792 --> 02:23:06,542
you're doomed too.

1438
02:23:08,667 --> 02:23:11,626
You people brought this on yourselves.

1439
02:23:11,792 --> 02:23:13,917
Mine was original sin.

1440
02:23:14,667 --> 02:23:19,792
Before Liberation,
my Pa had inns and teahouses,

1441
02:23:19,959 --> 02:23:21,792
a big grocery business,

1442
02:23:21,959 --> 02:23:26,501
shops running half-way down
fucking Temple Street.

1443
02:23:29,042 --> 02:23:31,126
I always knew

1444
02:23:32,667 --> 02:23:34,751
they'd get me sooner or later.

1445
02:23:35,501 --> 02:23:38,042
Bound to, eventually.

1446
02:23:38,376 --> 02:23:42,292
Just a matter of time…

1447
02:23:44,001 --> 02:23:47,501
I was nobody, an amateur actor.

1448
02:23:49,167 --> 02:23:53,667
but before Liberation,
I moonlighted as a policeman.

1449
02:23:54,626 --> 02:23:56,667
for just 2 days…

1450
02:23:57,042 --> 02:23:59,667
Now that's in my file for life.

1451
02:24:00,001 --> 02:24:03,917
My case is even harder to shake.

1452
02:24:04,376 --> 02:24:07,501
They say, if I can write and compose,

1453
02:24:07,667 --> 02:24:09,667
my thinking is too complex.

1454
02:24:10,042 --> 02:24:13,376
So, possibly anti-Party
and anti-socialism.

1455
02:24:14,584 --> 02:24:16,042
But my dear Tolstoy,

1456
02:24:16,876 --> 02:24:19,167
have you had bad thoughts?

1457
02:24:19,501 --> 02:24:22,542
Hard to know
what a person is thinking…

1458
02:25:23,126 --> 02:25:27,292
- Qiu! Put your back into it!
- My shoes are nearly worn flat!

1459
02:25:34,292 --> 02:25:36,292
Let's take a break.

1460
02:25:51,917 --> 02:25:54,292
Come on, Qiu, get on with it!

1461
02:25:54,876 --> 02:25:56,042
Don't worry.

1462
02:26:29,376 --> 02:26:31,917
Ah Hei, your Pa's really funny!

1463
02:26:32,126 --> 02:26:35,126
- You mean your Pa.
- My Pa died long ago.

1464
02:26:35,876 --> 02:26:37,376
Leave me the fuck alone.

1465
02:26:38,542 --> 02:26:41,917
Where are you going?
Something to show you, don't go!

1466
02:26:45,667 --> 02:26:47,792
Where are you going? Wait!

1467
02:26:48,292 --> 02:26:49,917
Fuck, wait for me!

1468
02:26:51,167 --> 02:26:52,751
Are you trying to kill yourself?!

1469
02:26:53,251 --> 02:26:54,376
Fuck!

1470
02:26:56,042 --> 02:26:57,917
Hey, you can swim!

1471
02:26:58,751 --> 02:27:00,542
That's Olympic swimming!

1472
02:27:01,584 --> 02:27:03,417
You're really good!

1473
02:27:04,126 --> 02:27:06,917
One-two-one, one-two-one…

1474
02:27:07,751 --> 02:27:10,792
Trying to make me look bad?
Faster!

1475
02:27:11,501 --> 02:27:14,251
One two three four five six seven!

1476
02:27:17,667 --> 02:27:18,792
Stop!

1477
02:27:27,167 --> 02:27:30,542
What's with you, friend?
Comrade Ah Hei…

1478
02:27:31,167 --> 02:27:34,126
"Family is fate,
but your path is your own."

1479
02:27:34,292 --> 02:27:39,001
You're Dad's the political criminal,
not you. No shame.

1480
02:27:39,792 --> 02:27:41,417
Four-Eyes! Music!

1481
02:27:45,542 --> 02:27:46,792
Have a drink.

1482
02:27:51,501 --> 02:27:55,167
- Yuck! Tastes like disinfectant!
- Are you crazy?

1483
02:27:55,334 --> 02:28:00,126
It's cognac, made from grape skins!
Genuine French product.

1484
02:28:00,876 --> 02:28:02,167
Tastes horrible.

1485
02:28:02,542 --> 02:28:04,792
Feed good grain to a boar…

1486
02:28:14,667 --> 02:28:17,417
Cognac… the Mediterranean…

1487
02:28:19,376 --> 02:28:22,917
Once we liberate France,
we'll drink it every day!

1488
02:28:26,417 --> 02:28:28,167
You raided people's homes again?

1489
02:28:28,417 --> 02:28:32,251
I didn't report it,
just slipped it in my pocket.

1490
02:28:32,417 --> 02:28:34,501
The accordion's from Hungary!

1491
02:28:38,167 --> 02:28:40,167
Why don't you take me along?

1492
02:28:41,167 --> 02:28:46,001
It was up to the lads.
I had no say.

1493
02:28:47,751 --> 02:28:50,042
They despise me, right?

1494
02:28:51,167 --> 02:28:53,417
When I get back from the rally
in Beijing,

1495
02:28:53,626 --> 02:28:56,042
we'll see if those bastards
look down on me.

1496
02:28:56,376 --> 02:28:59,917
Don't worry, Four-Eyes and me
will back you up.

1497
02:29:00,167 --> 02:29:01,167
Right!

1498
02:29:04,001 --> 02:29:08,042
Ah Hei, don't tell your Ma
about our trip to Beijing.

1499
02:29:08,292 --> 02:29:12,042
- You think I'm stupid?
- Better if you're not.

1500
02:29:18,167 --> 02:29:20,667
The troupe is pushing her
to divorce my Pa.

1501
02:29:20,917 --> 02:29:21,876
Good.

1502
02:29:22,501 --> 02:29:24,292
Fuck no. My Ma refuses.

1503
02:29:24,751 --> 02:29:27,292
- Why's that?
- She's stubborn as hell.

1504
02:29:28,542 --> 02:29:31,917
What a shame.
Such a good class background.

1505
02:29:35,292 --> 02:29:39,001
- Down a bit. Lower.
- This side, this side!

1506
02:29:42,667 --> 02:29:43,876
Over here!

1507
02:29:44,251 --> 02:29:45,667
Stop nagging!

1508
02:29:45,876 --> 02:29:48,917
Fine, fine, it's coming…
Just as you say.

1509
02:29:49,626 --> 02:29:51,417
What about this side?

1510
02:29:52,542 --> 02:29:54,667
Paint this side, not that side.

1511
02:29:54,834 --> 02:29:56,251
Coming, coming…

1512
02:30:22,792 --> 02:30:24,917
What's this? Sabotage!

1513
02:30:37,126 --> 02:30:38,542
Ma?

1514
02:30:42,042 --> 02:30:46,417
Well, son… you're all grown up now.

1515
02:30:47,126 --> 02:30:50,251
- And planning to betray us.
- Betray you?

1516
02:30:50,792 --> 02:30:53,751
- Leaving your family isn't betrayal?
- Of course not!

1517
02:30:53,917 --> 02:30:57,167
I'm going with Ah Mang and Four-Eyes
to the Great Rally in Beijing!

1518
02:30:57,334 --> 02:30:59,292
- In search of truth.
- Truth?

1519
02:30:59,501 --> 02:31:02,042
Ah Mang's an idiot,
and Four-Eyes has TB.

1520
02:31:02,209 --> 02:31:06,792
Beijing is miles away! Where are you
blockheads going to find truth?

1521
02:31:07,042 --> 02:31:11,167
An idiot, bad lungs, so what?
All men are equal before the truth!

1522
02:31:11,334 --> 02:31:14,876
Chairman Mao has invited the world's
revolutionary youth!

1523
02:31:18,042 --> 02:31:21,917
And Ma, what right do you have
to read my letters?

1524
02:31:23,126 --> 02:31:27,542
So you can raid people's homes,
but your Ma can't touch your stuff?

1525
02:31:43,667 --> 02:31:46,417
Senior comrades,
please let me pass.

1526
02:31:46,917 --> 02:31:49,626
Ah Hei, your father
is locked in a cowshed!

1527
02:31:50,917 --> 02:31:54,292
<i>My father found glory
in Langzhong…</i>

1528
02:31:55,417 --> 02:31:56,626
I'll give you glory!

1529
02:31:58,917 --> 02:32:00,167
Did he just bite me?!

1530
02:32:03,042 --> 02:32:06,167
Going somewhere?
You wait, you little wretch!

1531
02:32:08,376 --> 02:32:11,042
- Old bags!
- Who dare you call old bags?

1532
02:32:12,167 --> 02:32:13,542
You louse!

1533
02:32:17,626 --> 02:32:19,667
He bit me!

1534
02:32:20,792 --> 02:32:24,251
Torturing his own ma…
Biting people…

1535
02:32:28,167 --> 02:32:30,167
Just you wait, you ignorant brat.

1536
02:32:30,376 --> 02:32:34,834
- Careful, they'll report us.
- "Revolution is no crime"!

1537
02:32:44,751 --> 02:32:48,251
Still wet behind the ears
and running off to Beijing.

1538
02:32:48,417 --> 02:32:50,917
It's a complex world out there.

1539
02:32:51,792 --> 02:32:54,417
Do you know how cold it is in Beijing?

1540
02:32:54,792 --> 02:32:57,626
When it snows
you could be buried alive.

1541
02:32:59,167 --> 02:33:02,417
With your Pa still locked up,
you running off…

1542
02:33:04,292 --> 02:33:07,126
You want to drive
your mother crazy?

1543
02:33:08,126 --> 02:33:12,292
All those hot-headed students,
rushing around left and right.

1544
02:33:12,459 --> 02:33:14,417
All good-for-nothings.

1545
02:33:14,792 --> 02:33:19,042
What I heard, on the trains to Beijing
the boys and girls all sleep together.

1546
02:33:19,251 --> 02:33:21,292
Worse than our troupe ever was.

1547
02:33:21,667 --> 02:33:27,376
Mark my words:
"Lie down with dogs, you get fleas."

1548
02:33:38,292 --> 02:33:42,376
In the old society, we learned by ear,

1549
02:33:42,542 --> 02:33:46,126
I never learned many characters,
how could I write an accusation?

1550
02:33:46,292 --> 02:33:48,417
Just dictate, we'll take notes.

1551
02:33:48,792 --> 02:33:51,292
- What's "dictate"?
- You just talk.

1552
02:33:51,542 --> 02:33:53,167
Denounce his crimes.

1553
02:33:53,667 --> 02:33:57,792
You're the "oppressed artists" delegate
and you lived with him for years,

1554
02:33:58,001 --> 02:33:59,876
so you're the best witness.

1555
02:34:00,042 --> 02:34:03,501
On big issues, you need to
take a clear position.

1556
02:34:04,292 --> 02:34:05,542
Don't be afraid.

1557
02:34:06,292 --> 02:34:07,792
Afraid of him?

1558
02:34:31,417 --> 02:34:35,792
The Party and masses trust your class
background and life experience.

1559
02:34:36,626 --> 02:34:41,292
So don't let marital relations
obscure the class contradictions.

1560
02:34:51,167 --> 02:34:52,542
Talk to us.

1561
02:34:52,792 --> 02:34:55,542
Just tell us. Be brave!

1562
02:35:04,417 --> 02:35:06,376
Hardly noticed the time…

1563
02:35:08,417 --> 02:35:10,001
Have to put the rice on.

1564
02:35:14,292 --> 02:35:17,292
I'm the one who knows him best.

1565
02:35:17,626 --> 02:35:19,876
We've been together twenty years.

1566
02:35:20,167 --> 02:35:22,667
He has so many problems…

1567
02:35:23,626 --> 02:35:25,001
Yes, speak up!

1568
02:35:26,417 --> 02:35:27,917
Where should I start?

1569
02:35:52,167 --> 02:35:57,542
How did he conspire with reactionary
warlord Pocky to marry you by force?

1570
02:35:58,167 --> 02:35:59,376
By force?

1571
02:36:03,917 --> 02:36:07,917
It's true, the marriage
was a painful experience.

1572
02:36:09,542 --> 02:36:11,626
Speak up, don't worry.

1573
02:36:13,917 --> 02:36:16,167
It was in 1946 or 1947…

1574
02:36:16,667 --> 02:36:20,126
Just after the New Year.
At the wedding banquet

1575
02:36:20,542 --> 02:36:23,417
I kept telling him to stop drinking,

1576
02:36:23,626 --> 02:36:27,626
but he wouldn't let up,
kept going till he was blotto.

1577
02:36:28,292 --> 02:36:32,876
Just imagine, out for the count
on his wedding night!

1578
02:36:33,876 --> 02:36:35,917
I've had a hard life,

1579
02:36:36,167 --> 02:36:38,376
but I've always accepted it.

1580
02:36:38,792 --> 02:36:42,167
Would you believe, first thing
next morning he swears at me!

1581
02:36:42,417 --> 02:36:43,667
He insulted you?

1582
02:36:44,501 --> 02:36:48,292
I was sitting on a chest,
combing my hair.

1583
02:36:48,542 --> 02:36:53,042
He yells: "Damn, woman!
Don't you know the first rule of theatre?

1584
02:36:53,251 --> 02:36:56,876
"Chests backstage are reserved
for the clown role to sit on!"

1585
02:36:57,042 --> 02:36:59,042
And he makes me get off it!

1586
02:37:03,167 --> 02:37:08,542
This cowshed is for us "cow and snake
demons" to reform ourselves.

1587
02:37:09,292 --> 02:37:11,917
We should call it
"Self-Regeneration Shed".

1588
02:37:12,501 --> 02:37:16,251
What cowshed?
This used to be a pigsty!

1589
02:37:16,417 --> 02:37:17,917
I know.

1590
02:37:18,917 --> 02:37:24,542
You can still smell the pigshit.
We should call it "Pig Hall".

1591
02:37:25,001 --> 02:37:28,167
"People's artists" have become
public enemies.

1592
02:37:28,334 --> 02:37:31,417
Might as well call it
"Build your own jail"!

1593
02:37:32,917 --> 02:37:36,542
More like "dig your own grave".

1594
02:37:39,167 --> 02:37:43,376
<i>- I want to be an actor!
- Opera singing is not so easy!</i>

1595
02:37:43,542 --> 02:37:45,917
<i>Sing, or I'll shoot you!</i>

1596
02:37:46,084 --> 02:37:49,667
<i>My father found glory in Langzhong</i>

1597
02:38:04,501 --> 02:38:05,917
Ah Hei! Ah Hei!

1598
02:38:08,667 --> 02:38:10,417
Don't go, Ah Hei!

1599
02:38:12,292 --> 02:38:14,042
Where are you going?

1600
02:38:15,667 --> 02:38:17,167
Think of your poor mother!

1601
02:38:59,917 --> 02:39:00,917
Go away!

1602
02:39:20,626 --> 02:39:22,501
Good afternoon, Major Ma.

1603
02:39:44,251 --> 02:39:45,292
Good job, colleagues!

1604
02:39:47,751 --> 02:39:50,792
- Going back for debriefing.
- Stay safe!

1605
02:39:51,542 --> 02:39:52,792
Keep your eyes open.

1606
02:39:53,251 --> 02:39:56,167
They're just starting,
we'll be here all night.

1607
02:39:56,917 --> 02:39:58,792
Big job. Good luck!

1608
02:39:59,001 --> 02:39:59,667
Keep it up!

1609
02:39:59,917 --> 02:40:01,917
- Off we go.
- See you soon!

1610
02:40:11,542 --> 02:40:12,542
Who goes there

1611
02:40:13,542 --> 02:40:15,626
- Which faction?
- Speak up!

1612
02:40:17,917 --> 02:40:20,501
- I'm with…
- Which faction?

1613
02:40:21,626 --> 02:40:23,042
- No!
- What?

1614
02:40:23,792 --> 02:40:26,292
- I'm not…
- Which faction!?

1615
02:40:26,501 --> 02:40:27,917
- No, no…
- So?

1616
02:40:28,084 --> 02:40:30,917
- Wait, don't shoot.
- Speak up!

1617
02:40:31,542 --> 02:40:33,417
Hell, I don't know!

1618
02:41:51,292 --> 02:41:52,876
Ma!

1619
02:41:53,167 --> 02:41:54,917
Ma'am!

1620
02:41:55,667 --> 02:41:57,001
Been shopping?

1621
02:41:57,292 --> 02:42:00,126
Time for lunch, isn't it?

1622
02:42:00,292 --> 02:42:03,667
- Yum, are those chives
- Garlic sprouts.

1623
02:42:05,292 --> 02:42:06,751
Are we having guests?

1624
02:42:08,667 --> 02:42:10,542
Well… our "gangster" is back.

1625
02:42:11,626 --> 02:42:14,292
- You afraid to go home?
- Why would I be?

1626
02:42:14,459 --> 02:42:16,417
- Let's go.
- I'll give moral support.

1627
02:42:17,626 --> 02:42:21,042
Dad's reformed himself.
Worth celebrating.

1628
02:42:21,417 --> 02:42:22,667
I love chives.

1629
02:42:22,834 --> 02:42:28,251
Reformed! He's on parole, to rehearse
for a model opera as "First Bandit".

1630
02:42:28,417 --> 02:42:29,417
A bandit?

1631
02:42:31,626 --> 02:42:35,626
- Not even a speaking part.
- But he gets back on stage!

1632
02:42:35,917 --> 02:42:40,792
He's really nervous,
practising all day for a few simple moves.

1633
02:42:41,126 --> 02:42:45,917
Acted his whole damn life,
but you'd think it's his first show.

1634
02:42:46,501 --> 02:42:47,667
Don't worry.

1635
02:42:47,834 --> 02:42:52,917
When he's fully reformed,
he'll get speaking villain roles!

1636
02:42:53,917 --> 02:42:56,917
- Tell me, Ah Mang.
- What, Auntie?

1637
02:42:58,042 --> 02:43:00,709
Did you find the truth in Beijing?

1638
02:43:01,042 --> 02:43:04,042
Well… it was rewarding.

1639
02:43:07,626 --> 02:43:08,751
Four-Eyes!

1640
02:43:10,417 --> 02:43:14,417
Tell your Ma to chop a radish with
white onion stalks and brown sugar,

1641
02:43:14,626 --> 02:43:20,667
or else, extra ginger. Heat with three bowls of water,
simmer to get a thick soup, and drink hot.

1642
02:43:20,917 --> 02:43:23,417
Take it a few times,
good for your lungs.

1643
02:43:23,667 --> 02:43:27,792
Auntie, I was born this way,
half-dead. It's normal.

1644
02:43:28,417 --> 02:43:30,542
So did you find the truth in Beijing?

1645
02:43:31,542 --> 02:43:32,792
Look,

1646
02:43:33,042 --> 02:43:39,251
pulling the bellows in and out like this
is good exercise for my lungs.

1647
02:43:40,792 --> 02:43:45,751
Ma'am, when are they staging
this model opera?

1648
02:43:45,917 --> 02:43:47,167
I couldn't say.

1649
02:43:47,376 --> 02:43:50,501
With Uncle Qiu in it,
it's bound to be great!

1650
02:43:51,042 --> 02:43:53,751
Come on, he's just "First Bandit".

1651
02:43:54,042 --> 02:43:59,001
- Bandits are the best!
- He'll be on for 10 seconds.

1652
02:43:59,542 --> 02:44:04,042
Bandits, landlords,
thugs, spies, traitors,

1653
02:44:04,251 --> 02:44:07,167
dictators, playboys…
those are the fun parts.

1654
02:44:07,376 --> 02:44:11,542
He was really great in
"Wiping out Captain Matsui".

1655
02:44:11,709 --> 02:44:15,001
I even did an impression
at our school's New Year party.

1656
02:44:15,167 --> 02:44:18,292
Why isn't he playing
Grey Vulture, the bandit chief?

1657
02:44:18,459 --> 02:44:22,001
- Director says he's too short.
- Use platform heels!

1658
02:44:22,167 --> 02:44:26,667
- Not going home for lunch, Ah Mang?
- I'm not hungry yet. Let's go.

1659
02:44:52,792 --> 02:44:54,167
Greetings!

1660
02:45:19,126 --> 02:45:24,167
So before entering Fengdu, we have to
drink Mother Meng's Soup of Oblivion?

1661
02:45:24,334 --> 02:45:25,751
That's right.

1662
02:45:26,417 --> 02:45:31,751
Once you drink the soup,
your past life is of no more concern.

1663
02:45:31,917 --> 02:45:34,667
You can enter
at peace with yourself

1664
02:45:34,876 --> 02:45:39,417
to perform for the King of Hell,
as a People's Artist of the Netherworld.

1665
02:45:39,626 --> 02:45:40,667
Break a leg!

1666
02:45:42,501 --> 02:45:44,917
Can't play after drinking the soup.

1667
02:45:45,667 --> 02:45:47,001
Why not?

1668
02:45:47,709 --> 02:45:50,126
How would I remember my lines

1669
02:45:51,001 --> 02:45:53,751
No! You only forget
the story of your life.

1670
02:45:54,417 --> 02:45:56,917
Your loves and hates and fears

1671
02:45:57,084 --> 02:46:00,792
will all go up in smoke,
But you'll remember opera.

1672
02:46:01,751 --> 02:46:03,292
No worries there.

1673
02:46:03,542 --> 02:46:07,376
Remember who you are.
A born actor, a natural.

1674
02:46:08,376 --> 02:46:10,417
You have your own secret code.

1675
02:46:11,792 --> 02:46:12,917
A secret code?

1676
02:46:13,417 --> 02:46:15,001
What secret code?

1677
02:46:22,376 --> 02:46:23,917
What's he doing?

1678
02:46:33,417 --> 02:46:34,542
Telegram!

1679
02:47:07,792 --> 02:47:09,751
See that, Master Qiu?

1680
02:47:10,001 --> 02:47:13,751
Each of us has a secret code,
a force that none can take away.

1681
02:47:13,917 --> 02:47:17,042
So be bold, drink the soup,
play your part,

1682
02:47:17,209 --> 02:47:19,626
and the King of Hell
will reward you.

1683
02:47:33,751 --> 02:47:36,167
Haven't travelled much, then?

1684
02:47:50,417 --> 02:47:56,042
"Fengdu Daily"! "Truth Times"!
"Random Post"!

1685
02:47:57,167 --> 02:47:59,126
Take a break, little sister.

1686
02:47:59,417 --> 02:48:02,542
- Scram, I have to do the dishes.
- Come out and play.

1687
02:48:02,876 --> 02:48:03,876
Git!

1688
02:48:05,251 --> 02:48:09,042
"Noplace Newsletter"!
"Amnesia River Weekly"!

1689
02:48:11,667 --> 02:48:15,501
It's cold out here.
How about some soup?

1690
02:48:15,876 --> 02:48:17,417
MOTHER MENG'S SOUP

1691
02:48:18,626 --> 02:48:20,126
Read all about it!

1692
02:48:20,417 --> 02:48:22,501
"Fengdu Daily News"!

1693
02:48:23,292 --> 02:48:26,001
Give me a Fengdu Daily.

1694
02:48:30,917 --> 02:48:31,917
Here you go.

1695
02:48:32,667 --> 02:48:36,001
- How much?
- Just pay what you like.

1696
02:48:37,501 --> 02:48:38,501
Here.

1697
02:48:38,917 --> 02:48:40,917
- That's too much!
- Take it.

1698
02:48:42,417 --> 02:48:43,792
- Enough!
- Take it!

1699
02:48:46,792 --> 02:48:47,917
Take it all.

1700
02:48:48,501 --> 02:48:50,042
You want to buy the news agency?

1701
02:48:50,792 --> 02:48:53,251
Can't be doing with
this hell money.

1702
02:48:57,126 --> 02:48:59,917
Here, chief, just take the lot.

1703
02:49:00,167 --> 02:49:02,792
- What are you doing?
- They'll come in useful.

1704
02:49:02,959 --> 02:49:06,001
- I can't read all this.
- Make a fire…

1705
02:49:06,292 --> 02:49:09,417
It's much colder in Hell.

1706
02:49:11,126 --> 02:49:15,126
HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL, ( ) DAYS TO GO

1707
02:49:29,542 --> 02:49:30,876
Do you recognize me?

1708
02:49:31,626 --> 02:49:33,917
You're a customer.
Just take a seat.

1709
02:49:50,376 --> 02:49:53,042
Would be nicer with rice in it.

1710
02:50:02,001 --> 02:50:05,417
"Countdown starts to Hungry Ghost Festival.

1711
02:50:05,626 --> 02:50:09,292
"Lords of Ten Hells issue
important joint statement,

1712
02:50:09,667 --> 02:50:13,751
"urging public vigilance
against fire, theft and returning spirits.

1713
02:50:16,417 --> 02:50:20,167
"We wish all Fengdu residents
a happy festival!"

1714
02:50:37,501 --> 02:50:41,417
Fuck, can't we get steamed buns?

1715
02:50:46,667 --> 02:50:49,667
Can't you do anything
except play with your guns?

1716
02:51:07,876 --> 02:51:10,042
Doesn't Meng's serve liquor?

1717
02:51:10,417 --> 02:51:14,126
If you have finished eating
please vacate your seats.

1718
02:51:14,542 --> 02:51:16,501
There are customers waiting.

1719
02:51:17,667 --> 02:51:18,876
Thank you.

1720
02:51:19,542 --> 02:51:21,876
Please move on when you've finished.

1721
02:51:22,792 --> 02:51:25,167
Customers are waiting for seats.

1722
02:51:25,334 --> 02:51:27,167
Any chance of a refill?

1723
02:51:28,417 --> 02:51:31,292
When finished, please vacate your seat.

1724
02:52:14,167 --> 02:52:19,167
A New Old Play