Who is the hero of a movie "Spring Water Always Flows East" in 1970s and 1980s?

Actor: Tao Jin

The film "A River Flows East" is a feature film directed and written by Cai Chusheng and Zheng, starring Bai Yang, Tao Jin, Xiu Wenshu and Wu Yin, and shot by Kunlun Film Studio 1947. This film represents the highest level of China film industry in 1930s and 1940s, and is regarded as an epic film in China film history.

The film "A River Flows East" is a typical family ethics film of the traditional story "My Beauty Case" set in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. * * * is divided into two episodes: Eight Years After the Chaos and Before and After Dawn. The film condensed the complicated social life of nearly ten years before and after the Anti-Japanese War into a family experience, forming a tortuous and moving story. The film reveals that the nation is in crisis and the whole society is in numerous turmoil, which strongly expresses the people's voice for justice.

The film integrates China's classical novels, poems, operas, paintings and other artistic expressions into the forms of film art, creating an artistic style that is loved by the general audience.