Chinese movies came to attract attention all over the world after middle of 1980's. Many of those works draw the living environment of modern China. Therefore, the living environment drawn there is impressed with as reality as well as an image for the people who watched these Chinese movies. This paper aims to interpret the family relations as such living environment in the Chinese movie "Postmen in the mountains" by Huo Jianqi who is the sixth generation director, from the viewpoint of constitution analysis based on cinematography, As a result, 12 chapters, 28 scenes, 637 cuts can be extracted from this movie. And based on these functions and relations, the following relations of a family can be interpreted: I. There exists gender in a family. II. Second son is placed in merge null of a family, and he has the role to connect a family to the outside. III. However, he also has family's center position that ties a family dynamically. IV. Second son is a metaphor of "a thing" succeeded to in a family. In other words, it was able to interpret second son's ambiguity in a family, and his position as mediation of the family succession.

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