Adapted from Su Tong’s novel Rice, the movie tells the story of Wulong, an escaped peasant who works in the city in the 1920s as a clerk in a rice store in Dahong, and is oppressed by his boss and his eldest daughter, Qiyun, and Sixth Master’s henchman, Ahbao. Hateful Wulong gradually turns into a cruel and heartless man.
He first denounces the adulterous affair between his youngest daughter, Wei-Yun, and Sixth Master’s henchman, Ah-Bao, which leads to Ah-Bao’s murder; then he has sex with Wei-Yun and marries her; then he rapes his eldest daughter, Qi-Yun, and leads to the death of the boss; he fills the emptiness and uneasiness in his heart with hatred and vengeance, and is eventually killed by an assassin hired by his eldest daughter.
Plot-wise, the seduction of the youngest daughter, Yi-Yun, by her country fellow, Wu-Long, and Master Six’s henchman, Ah-Bao, doesn’t quite make sense.
1995 / China / Drama Erotica / Huang Jianzhong / Tao Zeru Shi Lan
Five Dragons (Tao Zeru) has fled to the city to work as an assistant in a rice store in Dahong with his brute strength. He eats an incredible amount of food, which makes him difficult to work for the store’s owner, Feng, and his eldest daughter, Qiyun (Yang Kun), but his youngest daughter, Weiyun (Shilan), who has been the concubine of the Sixth Master since childhood, always smiles when she meets him.
A chance encounter allows Wulong to discover that Weiyun is fooling around with Sixth Master’s henchman, Ah Bao. In order to take revenge on Ah Bao for the bullying he has been subjecting himself to on a regular basis, Wulong secretly denounces him to Sixth Master, and later on, Ah Bao is stabbed by a man.
The first taste of the pleasure of revenge makes the five dragons excited and sleepless all night long, and the seduction of the naturally flirtatious Weiyun makes him completely lost.
From then on, the five dragons will begin to the side of the bullying of their own city people crazy revenge …… This film by the famous writer Su Tong’s novel “rice” adapted in 1995 after the completion of the filming is considered to promote human sexuality evil theory and known as gray film, snow seven years before the release of the ban.
