The great Chinese star Shi Hui portrays an energetic lawyer fighting for the good of his neighbors in this stirring drama from Cao Yu, one of China’s most important twentieth-century playwrights. Using reason and knowledge to aid his fellow citizens, an affable, good-hearted neighborhood lawyer faces his toughest task: to help defend an orphanage against corrupt businessmen, war profiteers, and wealthy thugs. Its melodramatic crescendos lightened by the relentless charisma of Shi Hui (not to mention several moments of orphan-related cuteness), Bright Day recalls the little-man-battling-windmills heights of Capra, yet with Cao’s own remarkable sense of justice and morality.