The Storm

Director: Liu Yiran Starring: Wang Yanan/Meng Yao/Li Liqun

Plot introduction:

In Jiangnan in the 1940s The famous city - Nancheng, has been famous for its silk since ancient times. There is an old saying that "when silkworms are ripe, the world is full". The story of this film takes place on the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. The Yao family and the Zhang family are well-known silk industry giants in Nancheng. The Yao family's Tianzhang silk is an ancestral family business. The mansion built by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, in the hands of Yao Tianzhang, has attracted funds, vigorously developed, and sat firmly. The top spot in the industry in Nancheng. Zhang Jiefu, the master of the Zhang family, relied on his banker father-in-law to make his fortune. He dreamed of overthrowing the Yao family and became the leader of the Jiangnan silk industry.

The Yao family and the Zhang family fought with each other for fame and fortune. The second young master of the Yao family, Boya, was a suave man who ignored his father's cultivation and indulged in the various styles of Mei Ling, a famous actress from Jiangnan; while Yao Tianzhang and Zhang Jiefu were in Japan. The textile industry has shown a completely different attitude towards China's encroachment. Yao and Zhang's children are inevitably involved in this confrontation of right and wrong. As a result, their love, family affection and friendship have become complicated and bizarre. Heartbreaking.

The head of Yao Mansion, Yao Tianzhang, is a business dignitary who is patriotic, loving and upright, and is good at managing Chinese silk. He has two sons. The eldest son was born to Mrs. Yao and was named Yao Bofei; the second son Yao Boya was said to be the son of an "actor" named "Nine Sisters" and Mr. Yao. After giving birth, his mother was expelled from the house. The door has not been heard from since.

In this way, although the two young masters came from wealthy families, their life experiences and personalities were completely different: Bo Fei was regarded as the "justified" eldest son of the Yao family and was sent to study in Japan. Also going were Peng Gengfu and Zhang Jiefu's niece Tao Kainan (Mrs. Zhang's niece); while Boya stayed in China to study. Due to his lack of maternal love since childhood, he developed a stubborn character who was bohemian and dared to fight. Although he appears "crazy" and "ignorant of worldly affairs", in his heart he is a kind-hearted person who knows right from wrong, hates evil as much as he hates it, and has a special liking for others. When the iron hoof of Japanese militarism invaded China brazenly, and the entire land of China was turned into scorched earth, and the Chinese people were in dire straits, Yao Bofei, the handsome and talented newspaper editor who once drank foreign ink, suddenly transformed into a Japanese The invader - Mr. Watanabe's translator, he also had an affair with Tao Kainan, Yao Boya's so-called "wife" (in name only, without substance), so that this vanity-loving and unscrupulous man entered Yao's house and wanted to be Yao's wife. Tao Kainan, the heir to the family fortune, has a dream come true! Later, under the coercion and inducement of the Japanese invaders, Yao Bofei personally led the Japanese to raid the Yao Mansion! Master Yao broke off the father-son relationship with him in anger.