The Herdsman

Description

The Herdsman

牧马人

Director: Xie Jin
Starring: Shu Shimao
Order No. D8531
EAN: 6937475384325
Picture Format: NTSC (good for North American users)
Length: 100 min.
Number of Disc: 1
Language: Chinese with English and Simplified Chinese subtitles
Publisher: Qilu Audio and Video Press
Price: $14.95

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, an old overseas Chinese entrepreneur returns to China from America. In Chilechuan in the northwest of China, he finds his son, Xu Ling Jun, who works in a pasture. He decides to bring his son to America so that he can succeed to his heritage. But his son feels reluctant to leave the pasture and his work. During the 30 years in the past, he was grown up from an orphan to a rightist. It was other neighboring herdsmen who cared and helped him live up. He got married and had children, and works as teacher. He couldn’t possibly depart from the past. Seeing this, Xu Jingshan tries to understand his son and they finally get on well with each other as a father and son…