Woman Basketball Team Member No. 5

Made in Shanghai just after the Communist take-over of the city in 1949, this film features Qin Yi, who plays the mother of a basketball player whose coach is the mother’s long lost lover. Her daughter plays the same team position as her mother did 18 years before, when the coach was fired because he refused to lose a championship game.

Introduction and Q&A by Seattle University’s Richard J. Meyer, an authority on Chinese films.

Presented by the Museum's Asian Arts Council and ASU Center for Film, Media and Popular Culture