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Alison W Conner 牢 LAW AND JUSTICE IN EVENING RAIN づ Alison Alison W Conner 牢 This α何icle an αlyses the movie Eveni ηg Rain [巴山夜府]， which w αsmα de iη 1980 by some of Chin α's most tα lented filmm αkers ，including the gr ωtWu Yonggα ng. Though it mα y seem old~fashioηed ηow ， the film おbe αutifully mα de αηd its powe γful mess α ge still reso ηα tes todα y. Li ke other ex α mples of scαT ciη em α，Eve ηiη gR αiη depicts iη justices that Chinese people suffered during the Cultural Cultural Revolution ，mostly as αresult of the lawless ηess of th αt period. But unlike unlike most such films ， Evening Rαiη directly addresses the value of law and the the protections it might offer ，especially for writers αηd artists like the movie's central central character ，the poet Qiu Shi. 1. 1. Introduction One of my favourite Chinese films of the 1980s has unfortunately fallen off off the radar ， but because of its beauty and its message it deserves a wider viewing now. Eve ηiη gR αin was made when movies were not only the major form of popular entertainment in China but also a critical way for for people to come to terms with the scars of the Cultural Revolution. The film's appealing hero ，uplifting theme and hopeful ending - and especially especially its ideas about justice and law - deeply affected Chinese audiences audiences when Eve ηingR αin was first released. The film also left a strong impression impression on me when 1 saw it years ago and ，however old-fashioned its style ， the passage of time has not diminished its aura. Although clearly set set in China at a particular place and time ， the message of Evening Rαiη can be broadly read ，its concerns are remarkably timely ，and it speaks to us us with force great today: this is still a movie worth watching and not only in in China. Eveni ηgR αiη[ 巴山夜雨p was made in 1980 ， shortly after the end of of the Cultural Revolution (1 966-1976) ，by a highly talented group Profe 田 or of Law ， William S Richardson School of Law ， University of Hawaii at Manoa. Th is article article was originally presented at the Centre for Chinese Law at the University of Hong Kong ， and 1 am grateful for the comments 1 received ，particularly from Li nda Johnson ， Albert Chen and Michael Palmer. Full Full cast and credits are given in 中園電影萎術中心(ed) ， 中厨影J十大典 1977-1994 [Eη りdopedia of Chin 己S己Film 1977-1994] (北京:中園電影出版社， 1995) pp 73-74. See al 回陳 景亮and 都建文 (eds) ，百年中厨電影精選 [TheB 己5t of Centennial Chine5 己Cinema] (北京:中園 616 Alison W Conner (2017) HKLJ of of filmmakers: Ye Nan 葉楠2 wrote the movie's screenplay ，and Wu Yonggang 臭水剛 and Wu Yigong 央日台弓 directed it. Wu Yonggang ， who is credited as general or executive director [総導演]， made some 30 movies during his career and is undoubtedly one of the greatest of China's China's 20th-century directors. 3 His co-director Wu Yigong ，though less experienced experienced then ，went on to make the highly praised My Memories of Old Old Beijing [城南奮事] in 1983. 4 Eveni ηg Rain's excellence was recognised in in the fir 司 Golden Rooster prizes ， given by the China Film Association in in 1981 ，when it won the awards for best screenplay ， best music and best supporting supporting cast. 5 Eve ηiηgRαin also won the first Golden Rooster best picture award ， which it shar 吋 with another 1980 film ，The Legend of Tianyunsha η[ 天 雲 w惇奇].6 That film was directed by Xie Jin (謝音 1923-2008) ， the most famous and probably the most popular of China's Third Generation directors. directors. The two movies ， filmed during the unusually open post- Cultural Cultural Revolution years of 1979-1981 ，represented a break from Maoist aesthetics aesthetics both thematically and cinematically ，7 and they remain the best ofthe ofthe early “ scar dramas" depicting the wrongs of the Cultural Revolution. 8 Both films continued the melodramatic tradition of pre-1949 Chinese movies and ，like those earlier films ， they critiqued the social and political system system of their own time ， giving them great emotional impact even now. 9 社曾科学出版社， 2005) pp 85-88. The script is published in 葉楠， E 山夜府.従劇本到影片 [Ev 己ηing Rain: Fγ 叩 lSαψtωSααη] (北京:中華電影出版社， 1982) pp 1-6 1. Z 陳佐華， 1930-2003. Ye Nan wrote screenplays for a seri 田 ofmovi 田， including Battle of 1894 (甲午反 l* 1962) ，S 凶己γ( 姐姐 1984) and Do 山 T干α(鏡子樹 1985) ， in a 勺argely soc 凶 st realist realist vein'¥Paul Clark ，R 己mv 己ηting China: A G 己η己γatl び白日nd Its Fil m.s (Hong Kong: Chinese University University Press ， 2005) p 223 footnote 34. But in my view Evening Rai ηremains his best film. Wu Yonggang ， 1907-1982. For a brief biography ， see Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao (eds) ， Eη cydop 己dia ofChin 己S己Film (London ，New York: Routledge ， 1998) p 3 n. Wu Yigong (b 1938) had served as director or assistant director on four earlier mo 羽田before he worked on Ev 己ηingRai η; Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao (n 3 above); 中園電影圃史編輯委員 曾 (ed) ，中厨電影国史 1905-2005 [Chin 出 Film: An Ill ustrated Histo γy 1905-2005] (北京:中園 惇媒大学出版社， 2006) p 596. 5 中園電影圃史編輯委員曾 (n 4 above) p 565. 6 The Legend of Tωη， yu η shan also won for best director and best cinematography. Ibid. ，pp 564- 565. 565. For 五111 cast and credits ，see 中園電影萎術中心 (n 1 above) pp 106-107. Yomi Braester ，Witn 己ss against History: Li teratu γ己，Film ，and Public Discou γ犯 in yq 山叩己仇-Century China (Stanford: Stanford University Press ， 2003) p 23. E 山 ηing Rai γ1 and The Legend of Tianyunshan share many of the themes and techniques of Chinese movies made just after the Cultural Revolution ， including more complex characters and plots ， the use of flashbacks ， narratives of separation and reunion and even romance. Chris Chris Berry ，Postsocialist Cinema in Post-M ω China: Tl 日Cultural R 乱。lu 白川 afte γ仇己 Cult 即日l Rω olution (New York: Routledge ， 2004) pp 89-9 1. These films may remain ofhistorical interest for for ideas their ， but many of them ， unlike Ev 己ηlη "Rai γ1 and The Legend ofTianyunshan ， are hardly watchable today. See Paul G Pickowicz ，“ Melodramatic Representation and the ‘May Fourth' Tradition of Chinese Cinema" in Ellen Widmer and Da 、吋 Der-wei Wang (eds) ，Fγ 印 ηMay Fou γth ω }une Fourth: Fourth: Fictio γ1 aηd Film in Twen 自己仇 -Centu η Chi γ!a (Cambridge: Harvard University Press ， 1993) 1993) pp 295-326. Vo147 Part 2 Law and Justice in Evening Rain 617 Both Wu Yonggang and Xie Jin had themselves experienced many of the political events they depict in their movies and suffered because of them. 10 Consequently ， Evening Rαin and The Legend of Tianyunsh αn are deeply felt ，they are authentic and they raise important issues of justice that continue to be relevant to Chinese society today. Whatever themes these films had in common ，Wu Yonggang and Xie Jin made very different movies in substance and style; their careers may have overlapped ，but they belonged to different generations in film film as well as in lifeY The Legend of Tianyunsh αn is about justice or ， more accurately ， injustice and whether (and how) it can be redressed. Set in 1978 ， after the end of the Cultural Revolution ， it tells the story of a young engineer who is wrongly accused of being a Rightist ， as seen through the eyes of two women who love him. But the complex plot of Tianyunshan Tianyunshan is so China centred and so politically dense that at least some knowledge of Communist Party (the Party) campaigns is essential for for a full understanding of the story.12 The plot of Evening Rαin is much more accessible and ， at least on the surface ， it is a simpler film. The movie covers a shorter time frame and political campaigns are not directly depicted; instead ， its focus is on individuallives and the great personalloss its characters have suffered - a husband has lost his wife ，a mother has lost her son ，a daughter has lost her mother. Although it is quieter in tone and less openly emotional than The Leg εη， dofTi αη yu ηsh αη ， Evening Rαin too is sharply critical of injustice during the Cultural Revolution ， in particular the treatment of writers and other artists ，who were not just harassed and prevented from working but often beaten up ，imprisoned or driven to suicide. Evening Rαin is about freedom of expression ，about art and the power of the written word - it's not about people who choose the wrong Party line and are made to pay the price for it. At the same time ， Evening Rαin deals more directly with the relationship of law and justice ，the ways in which the absence of law 10 In 1957 ，Wu Yonggangwas labelled aRightistwhen h引えlrote an essay criticising the Communist Party's Party's control over the film industry and then was barred from directing movies untill962; nor could could he make movies during the Cultural Revolution. Yingjin Zhang and Zhiwei Xiao (n 3 above) above) p3 n. The screenwriter Ye Nan's twin brother ， the poet and playwright Bai Hua 白樺 (~佑華)， was also labelled a Rightist in 1957 and forced to remain silent for some 20 years; Clark Clark (n 2 above) p 93. 11 11 In Chinese parlance ， Xie Jin belongs to the Third Generation of Chin 田 e directors and Wu Yonggang Yonggang is usually considered a member of the Second Generation ， but both of them made films films over the course of many decades and during very different political times.
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