Love and Duty
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Raised in a strict family, YANG falls in love with a college student, LI, but she yields to her parents’ marital arrangement. Several years later, she encounters LI again. This time she chooses to pursue her true love, but a harsh reality awaits her. The final blow comes when a young man proposes ma...(Read more)
Raised in a strict family, YANG falls in love with a college student, LI, but she yields to her parents’ marital arrangement. Several years later, she encounters LI again. This time she chooses to pursue her true love, but a harsh reality awaits her. The final blow comes when a young man proposes marriage to her daughter, Ping-er, but has second thoughts upon learning their family history. For her daughter’s happiness, YANG must endure for breaking with tradition.
For many years, people had always believed that Love and Duty was lost. It was not until the early 1990s that a copy of the movie was found in Uruguay. After cleaning and restoration, Love and Duty became the greatest treasure of the Taiwan Film Institute. In June 2014, a digitally restored Love and Duty was presented as the opening film at the Shanghai International Film Festival starting a new chapter in the film’s history.
DVD source： Taiwan Cinema Toolkit, Ministry of Culture, R.O.C.
| Chinese title： | 戀愛與義務 |
| Year： | 1931 |
| Director： | BU Wancang |
| Duration： | 153min |
| Length： | Feature |
| Category： | Fiction |
| Genre： | Drama |
| Theme： | Gender、Society、Literature |
| Color： | B & W |
| Format： | DVD |
| Sound： | Silent |
| Language： | Silent |
| Subtitle： | Chinese, English Intertitles |
| Producer： | LUO Ming-you |
| Actors： | JIN Yan, RUAN Lin-yu |
| Screenplay： | CHU Shi-lin |
Camera： |
HUANG Shao-fen |
| Excluded for public screenings： | Licensed to all regions except: Taiwan, China (not including Hong Kong, Macau) |
| Royalty period： | 2016-2018 |
| Licensing contact： | This license for non-profit screenings has expired in 2018. |
| Festival list： | 2014 Shanghai International Film Festival |
