The film tells about Shanghai during the Revolution of 1911. The patriotic martial artists Huo Zhenshan and He Dachuan worked together to burn the smokehouse, and attracted an axe to help them. He Dachuan was rescued by Huo Zhenshan. Twenty years later, Huo Zhenshan opened a martial arts hall in...
A Peng meets a girl named Jinhua at a festival and they agree to meet the next year but she fails to turn up. He searches for her and finds other girls named Jinhua.
Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend over into absurdist, self-contained fantasy episodes where the two comics allegorically parody Party propaganda and ideological orthodoxy.
