Red Dust (1990)

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This love story spans many decades of modern Chinese history. In the beginning (1938), an independent-minded female writer (Lin Ching-hsia) strikes up an acquaintance and then a romance with a man who is collaborating with the Japanese (Chin Han). Despite warnings from friends that their romance can… More This love story spans many decades of modern Chinese history. In the beginning (1938), an independent-minded female writer (Lin Ching-hsia) strikes up an acquaintance and then a romance with a man who is collaborating with the Japanese (Chin Han). Despite warnings from friends that their romance can only end in catastrophe for them both, she persists, but eventually the two of them are separated during the Civil War, and their fates only become clear in 1989. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi