Loading Page
The Younger Generation(1970)
Status: Released
Date: 1970-03-12
58%
4 Votes
Time: 1h 24m
Overview:
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
Languages: Mandarin.
Countries:
Hong Kong
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: The Younger Generation
Top 10 Billed Cast
Ivy Ling Po
Mei Shu Qing
Nau Nau
Jiang Xiu Wen
Lin Jing
Granny (Qing's mother)
王清河
Headmaster Wong
Ng Wai
Md Wu
陸偉
Dr Liu Shan Zhi
HomePage
Overview
The Younger Generation is an ultra-tragic tale about a young girl, played by Ivy Ling Po who gets married, has five kids, then she and her husband die forcing one child sold to prostitution to feed the other four. Chinese culture dictates that great respect is given to the elders and in The Younger Generation, it is an elder that is the hero, telling audiences that although sadness abounds, they can return home happy with their Confucius mindset.
Release Date
1970-03-12
Average
5.75
Rating:
2.9 startsTagline
Genres
Languages:
普通话
Recommendations Movies
68%
Buddha Mountain(zh)
2011-03-03
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
70%
The Short History of the Long Road(en)
2019-04-27
Nola grew up living in a van with her father, Clint—two nomads against the world. When tragedy strikes, Nola must confront the reality of life on the road alone, learning to own her grief, her past, and her new destination.
58%
The Girl in the Book(en)
2015-06-13
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
69%
Eleanor the Great(en)
2025-09-04
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
63%
Palm Trees and Power Lines(en)
2023-03-03
A disconnected teenage girl enters a relationship with a man twice her age. She sees him as the solution to all her problems, but his intentions are not what they seem.
68%
White Vengeance(zh)
2011-11-29
White Vengeance tells the story of two brothers contending for supremacy during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC. As rebels rose, the nation fell into chaos. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, became leaders of the rebellious army, and also became sworn brothers in battle.Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are close friends who both serve King Huai of Chu. King Huai uses a plot, saying that whoever can subvert the Qin kingdom in Guanzhong would be the Lord Qin, in order to benefit from the competition between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu is over-confident. He fights against the main force of Qin army, and entrusts Liu Bang with Yu Ji, the woman he loves.Liu Bang expresses his love to Yu Ji and takes the chance to invade Guanzhong first when most of Qin army is outside fighting against Xiang Yu’s army.
71%
What Maisie Knew(en)
2013-05-02
In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.
68%
Iron Jawed Angels(en)
2004-01-16
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
65%
The Safety of Objects(en)
2002-10-25
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
77%
So Long, My Son(zh)
2019-03-15
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
68%
American Dreams in China(zh)
2013-05-17
Three Chinese friends build a successful English language school to help Chinese teenagers fulfil their dreams.
62%
All Day and a Night(en)
2020-05-01
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
66%
El Chicano(en)
2019-05-03
A pair of twin brothers from East L.A. choose to live their lives differently and end up on opposite sides of the law.
72%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl(zh)
1998-02-19
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.
70%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film(en)
2013-04-20
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
60%
The Truth About Emanuel(en)
2013-04-26
A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
66%
Goodbye June(en)
2025-12-12
Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.
69%
The Young One(en)
1960-09-05
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
61%
The Nest(en)
2020-05-08
Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.