The Barber

The barber Lu Ping (played by Chen Kun) lives an ordinary life in Shanghai with his good skills. After the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, an unexpected accident forced him to leave his hometown, and he began to wander around for half his life. After escaping to the ancient town of Jiangnan, Lu Ping met Song Jiayi (Zeng Li), a beautiful Jiangnan woman. ), the two fell in love at first sight, but Song Jiayi was engaged first. His father Song Fengnian also wanted to use his daughter to have someone to rely on in that special era, so he married Song Jiayi to the Kuomintang officer Ye Jiangtian. As a married woman, Song Jiayi never stopped falling in love with Lu Ping, and Lu Ping, besides his craftsmanship, had never let go of this feeling for most of his wandering life. A lifetime of love, half a lifetime of ups and downs, in troubled times, the lovers performed their lives and love like songs and tears... This film is adapted from Fan Yiping's novel of the same name and is the last work of director Chen Yifei during his lifetime.