Greedy Neighbors (1933)

193342mdir. Ren Peng-Nian/任彭年English subtitles

Directed by Ren Peng-Nian/任彭年

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Alternate English title: "Evil Neighbors" NOTE: This is a copy of the video at with English subtitles and music added. Captions: English - English subtitles ZH - Traditional Chinese subtitles notes - Notes on some of the political and cultural symbols in the film A foolish wealthy inheritor, whose household is dependent on his wife's competence, finds his estate threatened by a bully neighbor in this allegory of the difficulty of dealing with unchecked aggression and treachery, and of the tension between traditional Chinese customs and early 20th-century European influences.

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