1918

Liu Yichang, who was born in Shanghai in 1918, is a witness to the history of the modern Chinese literary world. He was already in his forties when he finished The Drunkard, so he could be considered a late bloomer. The turning point in his literature and life unexpectedly came from a love experience in Singapore. This film leads the audience into Liu Yichang's creative life and gets close to his sense of the city as both a common man and a celebrity. Between real scenes and the world of novels, travel through the modern Shanghai of the 1930s and 1940s, the Nanyang flavor of the 1950s, the charm of the old and new cities of Singapore and Hong Kong, travel between fiction and reality, and turn back the literary time and space of the past and present...