The Blue Kite (1993)
Lan feng zheng (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Tian Yi	...	Tietou as an infant
	Wenyao Zhang	...	Tietou as a child
	Xiaoman Chen	...	Tietou as a teenager
	Liping Lü	...	Chen Shujuan
	Cunxin Pu	...	Lin Shaolong
	Xuejian Li	...	Li Guodong (Uncle Li)
	Baochang Guo	...	3rd husband
	Ping Zong	...	Chen Shusheng
	Quanzhong Chu	...	Chen Shuyan
	Xiaoying Song	...	Sis
	Hong Zhang	...	Zhu Ying
	Yanjin Liu	...	Shujuan's mother
	Bin Li	...	Granny
	Zhang Lu	...	Mrs. Lan
	Donglin Guo	...	Lin Yunwei

Storyline

On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou (Iron Head), is born. The Party is everywhere: Mao's photograph, loud-speaker announcements, visits from the neighborhood committee. Shaolong dies in a reform camp; a close family friend, who protects Shujuan and her son partly out of guilt for lying to authorities about Shaolong, succumbs to malnutrition; a confrontation with the Red Guard leads to injury, imprisonment and death. Shujuan's love for Tietou sustains her, and the child's blue kite embodies hope: "I can make another for you," says Tietou's dad; by the end, Tietou promises this to a small child Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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