My Country, My Parents (2021) on Netflix
Four Chinese families in four eras. A cavalry commander and his soldier son, a gunpowder sculptor, a factory sales director in Shanghai, and a bionic robot that travels back from 2050.
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Plot summary
My Country, My Parents presents four stories in four periods. In 1942, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Ma Renxing commands the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment and his son Ma Chengfeng is a soldier in the same regiment. As China works to launch its first satellite, Yu Kaiying is a mother and a gunpowder sculptor, and Shi Ruhong designs rocket engines. In the Reform and Opening Up era, when China makes its first television commercial, Zhao Pingyang is the director of sales at the Shanghai No. 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory and Han Jingya is his wife. In the final story, Xing Yihao is a bionic robot that travels from 2050 back to 2021, and Xiao Xiao is a primary schoolboy whose mother is Ma Daiyu.
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