Our Neighbor

街頭巷尾

An orphaned girl in a poverty-stricken neighborhood is adopted by a kindly neighbor. He struggles to support her honestly, despite opportunities to participate in a neighbor’s scurrilous get-rich-quick schemes. Invoking the pain of Chinese exiles living in Taiwan, or missing relatives still in China, the touching film posits an in-between historical period during which it is crucial for displaced residents to maintain virtue as a bedrock of identity.

Director

Lee Hsing

Screenplay

Yao Feng-Pan

Status

Released

Release date

08/11/1963

Original language

Chinese