Love is Sin (2011)
99 min | Drama

Love is Sin (2011)

99 min | Drama

A-Mien, a kind, loving 50-year-old woman, runs a grocery store in a remote mountain village. In her store she keeps a notebook, her "conscience accounting book," to keep a tally of how much money customers owe her, as she very often ...See moreA-Mien, a kind, loving 50-year-old woman, runs a grocery store in a remote mountain village. In her store she keeps a notebook, her "conscience accounting book," to keep a tally of how much money customers owe her, as she very often excuses elementary-school students from paying, telling them: "Don't worry about it. Just pay me next time!" One day, a mysterious wanderer, Jimmy, appears in the small village and Midori the postman mistakes him for a priest. Since he looks like a foreigner, A-Mien assumes that he knows English and asks him to give her and Yabi, an orphan, English classes; why she's interested in learning English is unknown. Meanwhile, Midori feels anxious because A-Mien is spending so much time away from her store. With the start of the English classes, a sense of change goes throughout the village, stirring up much curiosity among the fellow villagers. As the story unfolds, it turns out that A-Mien, Midori, Jimmy, and Yabi have been carrying loads of bottled-up guilt and regret for much too long. On Christmas Eve, A-Mien enters the church to finally confront her guilt. She hesitates, then begins in her broken English: "God, I have a sin..." See less

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Name	Known for
Mei-Hsiu Lin A-Mien A-Mien See fewer	In Time with You (2011)
Akio Chen Midori Midori See fewer	Old Fox (2023)
Esther Huang Limuyi Limuyi See fewer	Hang in There, Kids! (2016)
Edwin Gerard Jimmy Jimmy See fewer	Khepri Cockroach Tide (2020)
Jay Wei Yabi Yabi See fewer	Rising Sun (2018)
Man-shu Jian Ting-Ting Ting-Ting See fewer	The Arc of Life (2021)
Ting-Hung Wu Yabi's grandfather Yabi's grandfather See fewer	Hidden Treasures in the Mountain (2018)

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