黄连·厚朴 (2000)

名称：黄连·厚朴
又名：Huanglian houpu / Beijing Herbs
年代：2000
类型：剧情
语言：英语 / 汉语普通话
国家：中国大陆
导演：丁荫楠
编剧：丁荫楠
演员：朱旭 / 王之夏 / 袁玫
剧情：老北京四合院中，住着世代名医龚老太爷（朱旭 饰）一家。虽说儿媳于莲舫（王之夏 饰）与儿子离了婚，但碍于师徒关系他仍象以前一样对待她。一天，老爷子正在座诊，女婿任大伟带自己的老总来瞧病，把完脉，老爷子面无表情地仍出一句吓人的话：不用开药了，回去准备后事吧。张悦当年插队时就 爱着于莲舫，如今她已离婚，可张悦面临升职，不敢对妻子提离婚的事。龚晓默与于莲舫离婚后去了国外，如今带了个洋媳妇珍妮回来，龚家小院一片喜气。珍妮研究中国历史，也热爱中国文化，她敬佩于莲舫的医术，很快赢得于莲舫和女儿珠珠的好感。任大伟的老总果然死了，大家十分惊叹老爷子的眼力，纷纷讨教......

Title：Huang lian · Hou pu
Year：2000
Genre：Drama
Language：English / Mandarin
Country：China
Director：Yinnan Ding
Actors：Zhixia Wang / Xu Zhu
Plot：This family tale spans three generations of Chinese trying to understand and come to terms with life's changes. Middlesome relatives stir up a storm. The old and the young find themselves and their values developing and evolving, and new relationships come and go. The eldest family member, Guan, the son of a royal physician of the former Qing Dynasty, has also become a great physician who is able to predict the exact time of a patient's death. His ex-daughter-in-law, Yu, trained by him to be a physician, still stays with the family as his assistant. Her ex-husband, Jin, comes back from the USA with his new girlfriend, Jenny, a beautiful American who is doing a research on the death of Guangxu, the second last Emperor of Qing Dynasty who is Guan's father's patient. Jenny speaks fluent Mandarin, but she has a long way to go before understanding and getting accustomed to the Chinese tradition and mindset. On the other hand, Yu falls in love with her old friend who is a married man. Jin takes the opportunity to send an anonymous letter to the man's wife which results in a mess in the family. Mr. & Mrs. Guan and Jenny strongly disapprove of Jin's face-saving revenge. Jenny decides to break up with Jin, although her friendship with the rest of the family members remains...