Hongying, the original author of "Lyceum Theatre", also began to become a director. On October 31, the first film "Moonlight Samurai", written and directed by Hongying, was launched in Chongqing, which will trace the emotions of the innocent era and show the beautiful emotions of warm support between people.
As a representative writer of China's new women's literature, Hongying's representative works include "Hungry Daughter", "Good Children's Flower", "Shanghai King", etc., many of which have been adapted into film and television works, such as the just-released "Lyceum Theatre" from her novel "Death in Shanghai".
The film Moonlight Samurai is based on Hongying's novel of the same name, set in Chongqing. The story takes place in 1976, when 12-year-old Dou Xiaoming was injured and admitted to the hospital, and met Jiahui, a nurse who took good care of him. Jia Huisheng's beauty, but married to a local mixed society of young steel brothers, often suffered from domestic violence. After Dou Xiaoming learned of this, he stood up and hugged the injustice, and since then he has changed the fate of the three of them...
The film was produced by Jia Zhangke and Artistic Director by Marco Mueller. At the launching ceremony, Hongying said that she would work with all the crew members to unite and make a good movie that reflected China's past. "The film is a miniature of the times of a small family in Chongqing, vividly telling the urban story of men and women who eat. In the difficult years, they guarded each other, each for each other's moonlight, and for each other's samurai, becoming the force to wake each other up. ”