Crows and Sparrows
烏鴉與麻雀
At a Shanghai apartment, Mr Hou, a Nationalist official, gets ready to move to Taiwan upon the imminent defeat of the KMT during the Civil War. Mrs Hou gives an ultimatum to the rest of the tenants to move out on behalf of her husband, who is the "owner" of the flat and who is now planning to sell it. From the conversations with the rest, we find out that Hou has been a Hanjian during the Sino-Japanese War and that he has since taken over the apartment by force from the old landlord, Mr Kong. The tenants, including Mr Kong, Mrs Xiao, Little Broadcast (alias Mr Xiao, played by Zhao Dan) and a schoolteacher, Mr Hua, and his wife, initially plan to band together, but circumstances force them to find other ways out. Mr Hua tries to find a place to stay at the KMT-sponsored school he is teaching in. Little Broadcast and Mrs Xiao invest in black market gold. As the situation escalates, Mr Hua gets arrested by KMT agents and his young daughter falls desperately ill.
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Cast
Zhao Dan
as Little Broadcast/Boss Xiao
Wei Heling
as Mr. Kong
Qi Mengshi
as Lao Liu
Li Tian-Ji
as Mr. Hou
Baoluo Li
as Principal
Fu Botang
as Lao Zhao
Zhang Zhizhi
as Ruffian
Shi Ling
as Doctor
Huang Zongying
as Mrs. Hao
Shangguan Yunzhu
as Mrs. Hua
Wu Yin
as Mrs. Xiao
Daolin Sun
as Teacher Hua
Wang Bei
as Hsiao Ah Mei
Qian Zhang
Tian Guangcai
Guan Peng
Ge Meiqiang
Cheng Mo
Qiu Huan
Lan Xu
as Female visitor
Lan Wang
as Man handing out bread
