Posterity and Perplexity
(Bi yun tian)
by Lee Hsing
Taiwan
Script: Chang Yung-hsiang
Cinematographer: Yang Hung
Editor: Chen Hung-min
Sound: Wang Yung-fang
Music: Chuang Nu
Cast: Chang Bo-lin, Chang Ping-yu, Chang Sylvia, Chang Yue-yun, Chen Lan-li, Chen Ying Fung
Production: Ma Ru-cheng
Year: 1976
Beta SP, Colour, 110 min,
OV Mandarin with English Subtitles
French Electronic Subtitles
Unreleased
With kind support of the Taipei Representative Office in France and & GIO
When Hao-tian comes back from the United States, he finds Yi-yun, his friend Tian-han’s young sister with whom he has always been in love. Supply teacher Yi-yun, is particularly interested in Bi-han, one of her pupils living in the slums who is maltreated by her mother-in-law. After their wedding, the couple stays with Tian-han’s parents. One day, the couple saves Bi-han and they decide that she will live with them. Bi-han works as Hao-tian’s secretary. However, after six months of married life Yi-yun is still not pregnant. Analyses reveal she is sterile. The mother-in-law insists to have a grand-son from her own flesh and blood; hence the solution found is that Bi-han will carry her grand-son. A strange and painful love triangle starts in the house.