Front cover image for 骆驼祥子 = Rickshaw boy

骆驼祥子 = Rickshaw boy

In the 1920s, a young hardworking peasant arrives in Beijing to become a rickshaw boy at a time when the city is torn by dueling warlords. The owner of the rickshaw company's daughter falls in love with the boy despite a ten year age difference and decides to marry him. Not long after their marriage she dies in labor and his world becomes empty and meaningless. He is a wreck of emotional suffering induced by an archaic society, at the mercy of his environment

DVD Video, Chinese, 2004
China Century Entertainment ; Knight Mediacom International, New York, N.Y., Tappan, N.Y., 2004