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The movie tells the story of Lao Wu, an ordinary bath master in a small town in the northeast with a history of more than 30 years in the "Minle public baths", who has excellent skills and an optimistic personality. However, in order to save his son Binbin, who is in a coma after a car accident, Old Wu goes south to Shenzhen to take over the "Star of the Sea" bathing center, and his three old workers work side by side again. A series of ludicrous stories happened in the modern metropolis in the south
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Original Language
ZH

A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.

Wang Sen
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.