The Accused Uncle Shangang

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name = The Accused Uncle Shangang没有原告的杀人事件


director = Fan Yuan
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released = 1994
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"The Accused Uncle Shangang" (1994) is a Chinese language film about life in rural China. By Fan Yuan, a late addition, was a melodramatic lecture about moral dilemmas.

Plot Summary

Village Chief Shangang is not a bad man, but he often metes out justice as he sees it without regard to the law. To punish a woman accused of beating and otherwise abusing her old mother-in-law, Shangang has her bound and exhibited in the village in humiliating fashion, after which thewoman commits suicide, hanging herself in front of Shangang’s door. Her husband threatens to report Shangang to higher authorities, and eventually prosecutors Su Qiang and Xiao Ding come to investigate after being tipped off by an anonymous letter. They find that they have to take Shangang away for his illegal treatment of the woman, and when the villagers complain, Shangang himself tells them to uncomplainingly accept the law.