Asian Drama

The single father Li Chang Feng resolutely embarked on the road of revenge after his daughter was abused and killed by several minors.

(Source: Chinese = Douban)

Adapted from the novel "The Miracles of the Namiya General Store" (ナミヤ雑貨店の奇蹟) by Keigo Higashino (东野圭吾).

Duration: 1 hr. 47 min.

Ratings: 6.6

In 1940, Chou Zi Gang, a progressive youth from the Yan’an Anti-Virus University, is suddenly appointed by the central government to establish the Yan’an Nursery. Chou Zi Gang refuses, saying, “I didn’t come to Yan’an to be the king of children. I didn’t expect Mao Ze Dong to be the first to send his daughter Mao Jiao Jiao to the nursery.”

Since then, the orphans of the martyrs, the descendants of the soldiers of the War of Resistance, and the children of revolutionary leaders such as Mao Ze Dong and Liu Bo Cheng are given to the rural women and aunts who are not well-educated or even illiterate. The nursery experiences many historical events such as the “battle against whooping cough”, “Liu Hua Bei’s death”, “renaming to Los Angeles Nursery”, “enemy plane bombing”, “secret counterattack”, “struggling to cross the Yellow River”, “Chinese and foreign journalists visiting group ” and much more.

In 1947, when the Kuomintang bomb Yan’an, Mao Ze Dong and Zhou En Lai instruct that the nursery retreat with the first batch of Zhongzhi agencies. During the retreat, the team of more than 300 people and more than 100 carriages become violently attacked by the enemy.

Adapted from a real story and tells the story of the revolutionary experience of many revolutionary workers fighting to protect the red descendants during the Anti-Japanese War in the 1940s when the Party Central Committee established a nursery school in Yan’an.

A musical journey follows Chen Jing, her guy friend and a group of female musicians who are passionate about traditional Chinese music. Together, they start a band to challenge the norm and go on an all-out war against the students of Western music.

Chen Jing is a student of folk music who specializes in the yangqin. Because she likes the piano, she volunteers to become a page turner for school senior Wang Wen but earns his ridicule when her knowledge of Western music is shown to be lacking. To prove that she has what it takes to stand on stage, Chen Jing turns to the girls from dorm 502 for help and together with her bestie Li You, they start up a band to create the kind of music that they want. Meanwhile, Chen Jing's older cousin Chen He Xu is a teacher who tries hard to clear the misunderstandings between the students. Outside the school, Chen He Xu meets Feng Anyu and inspires him to reevaluate his own life.

Can the two schools of music finally coexist?