The Chinese Widow (Feng huo fang fei)

Director: Bille August
2016

In 1940s, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and this destroyed the Americans morale. The president of America, Franklin Roosevelt, decided to risk it all to bomb Tokyo raising more hope of the public. Bombardment air crafts led by U.S lieutenant colonel Doolittle took off from a massive aircraft carrier. But after completing their missions, the air crafts had to land at the coastal areas near Zhejiang due to the consumption of too much fuel.One young pilot was saved by a local woman who was a widow. And a tear-jerking love story went on between those two.