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After being stationed in the Scottish Highlands, eight young soldiers are tasked with watching for the first signs of an invasion. Yet, what they discover leaves them to face an unexpected mental battle instead.
This is the sole surviving motion picture of Unique Film (Shanghai), one of China's three major film companies in the 1930s. The young lovers in rural China are framed by their evil landlord. The man is sent to prison; the woman is forced to get married. She tries to seek revenge but is killed. When the man is released from prison, he joins the People's Volunteer Army but is killed in battle. The film was significant in its time. Runje Shaw had imported advanced American audio film equipment and technology in 1931, making this one of the first sound films in China. As one of Unique's few ‘progress' films, it also reflects that this ‘entertainment-only', apolitical film company, under the left-wing influences in society, also needed to make films with topics such as the war effort and that criticise the bourgeoisie. Struggle is a joint effort among the best of talents in front of and behind the camera, and is also the only surviving work of director Qiu Qixiang.
During the Spanish Civil War, a desperate deserter on the run enters an ominous forest. Inside, he encounters a wandering soldier and a mysterious maiden who lead him into the inner depths of insanity, love & death.
It is an episodic movie about Ashora and social subjects made from 4 episodes each with a different director and about a different subject.