Where to Watch Sun and Man

Yearning to watch 'Sun and Man' on your TV, phone, or tablet? Tracking down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Peng Ning-directed movie via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to do the heavy lifting.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription alternatives - along with the availability of 'Sun and Man' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch 'Sun and Man' right now, here are some finer points about the Changchun Film Studio drama flick.

Released , 'Sun and Man' stars Liu Wenzhi, Meiying Huang, Leng Mei The movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 50 min, and received a user score of (out of 100) on TMDb, which collated reviews from respected users.

Interested in knowing what the movie's about? Here's the plot: "With the birth of New China, a husband-and-wife pair of Overseas Chinese painters resolve to return to the embrace of their motherland, and their child is born under the five-starred red flag. But these Overseas Chinese patriots are persecuted in various political campaigns and their daughter subject to discrimination from childhood. The male lead freezes to death as a fugitive and draws a giant question mark in the snow before dying. The daughter emigrates following the Cultural Revolution; when her relatives try to stop her, she says: "You love the motherland, but does the motherland love you?" Based on a script by Bai Hua, SUN AND MAN was completed in 1981 but permanently shelved following high-level criticism and a public campaign against its "anti-Party" character. The film is said to survive in the studio archive but has never been publicly screened. A Taiwanese adaptation of the script (with some modifications) was released in 1982 under the English title PORTRAIT OF A FANATIC." .