Exhausting a Lifetime

This film (drama)Also known as耗尽一生，is aMainland ChinaProducerwomen sex，At1996Released in year 。The dialogue language isMandarin Chinese，Current Douban rating6.8(For reference only)。

Yang Mingyuan is tired of the bandit life and returns to his hometown with his son Kanzi. He gets a piece of land from his brother, the town mayor, and opens a coffin shop to accumulate good deeds. Yang Mingyuan's former lover, Dou Guo, is now married to the butcher Hu Wei, and now he wants Hu Wei to return Dou Guo to him but is met with refusal. Dou Guo secretly cries upon seeing Yang Mingyuan in the house. Soon, the coffin shop opens, and Yang Mingyuan and Yang Mingshan prepare to bury their deceased parents. The coffin shop does well, but Hu Wei and the wealthy Li Zhaolian, who have a grudge against Yang Mingyuan from ten years ago, do not want to see him prosper and plot to drive Yang away. A poor family in the town is holding a funeral. Yang Mingyuan brings a coffin to help this family and greets the townspeople warmly. However, knowing that he was once a bandit, the townspeople run away in fear. In the coffin shop, Yang is teaching Kanzi to study well when Yang Mingshan runs in to tell him that the coffin they just delivered has been brought back. The sunset paints the sky red as Yang Mingyuan squats in the weeds, lost in thought. Dou Guo quietly approaches him from behind, and when Yang Mingyuan sees her, he is stunned. Suddenly, the two embrace excitedly. In the morning, Yang Mingyuan goes to Hu Wei's house again, asking him to return Dou Guo. Hu Wei flatly refuses and continues to torment Dou Guo. Li Zhaolian's son, Guigui, bullies Hu Wei's daughter, Huahua, and Liu Ma teaches Guigui a lesson. Enraged, Li Zhaolian and his group wreak havoc on the Hu family. Yang Mingyuan offers gold bars and gives the coffin shop to Hu Wei in exchange for Dou Guo, but Hu Wei still refuses. Although Yang Mingyuan has become wealthy after his bandit days, he is still looked down upon by the townspeople, and the rich continue to bully him, reigniting his former bandit nature. Drunken and lying in the desert, Yang Mingyuan is hurt by a statement from Guigui. He gradually calms down, revealing a murderous intent on his face. Guigui dies, and a desperate Li Zhaolian believes that Hu Wei is responsible. Thus, the Li and Hu families gather their men, sharpening their knives for a fight to the death. The streets of the town are filled with the sounds of homemade explosives. People flee in panic outside the town. Hu Wei is killed by a spear, and Li Zhaolian is blown up by a bomb next to a well. The town mayor, Yang Mingshan, is also shot down. The town is engulfed in flames, and corpses are everywhere. In the dead of night, a loud crash sounds from the coffin shop. Kanzi and Huahua stand outside the town, watching it burn in flames...