Love and Duty is a 1931 Chinese silent film, directed by Bu Wancang and starring Ruan Lingyu and Jin Yan.

Long considered lost, it was accidentally rediscovered in Uruguay in the 1990s, and was almost immediately hailed as one of the greatest Chinese silent films.

As he slept in for half an hour, he meets the girl of his life at the entrance of his home whom he had previously missed because of different schedules.

Soon after this, though, Nei Fang's father arranges a marriage for his daughter with a young man of good background, Huang Ta Jen.

Tsu Yi then dies when overwork in a badly paid job exacerbates a longstanding undisclosed illness and Nei Fang takes care of their daughter, Ping Erh, alone, after her husband and her family reject her requests to return.

Then, Yuan also writes in his article that the focus points of these old films are on the traditional concepts about the relationship between a couple or the lives of family members.

In addition, the scholar says that there is usually an immoral person in the romantic relationship in the film, and because of the lowly status of women in China at the time, female protagonists are usually chosen.

Moreover, Wang Dake says in his article that the film is authentic in arranging Tsu Yi and Nei Fang to be murdered by financing and other people's words instead of letting them have a happy life together.

"[6] Kristine published in a later paper that the United Photoplay Service (Lianhua yingpian gongsi) strategically “staged,” even allegorized, Shanghai to signal its cosmopolitan ambitions while simultaneously alluding to Chinese filmmakers’ quest for a kind of “cinematic sovereignty” during the early Nanjing decade.

[8] In 2014, Love and Duty underwent a 2K digital restoration under Italy's L'Immagine Ritrovata, after which it was screened at the Shanghai Film Festival that same year.