On the morning of the winter solstice, Yang Yuan's son disappeared in the stairwell; gambler Yuan Wu hid his father's body; and two unsolved cases involving the assault of Lin Chuping, a woman living alone, were eventually intertwined.
Set against the backdrop of the bacterial experiments conducted by the Japanese Imperial Army's Unit 731 in Northeast China, and reveals the crimes of Unit 731 through the turbulent fate of an ordinary individual.
"Hai Tang Hong" tells a tragic story of opera artist Haitanghong. It profoundly exposes the oppression and bullying of the opera artists by the evil forces in the old times, praises the great love of the world and embodies the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.
