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Chinese Sci-Fi/Period Piece

This was a movie I watched on Hulu around 2016 that I believe was part of the Criterion Collection, but searching through their database yields nothing. To the best of my memory, it was a period piece about a little girl with mysterious origins and some kind of special powers that made her not fit in, being raised in a rural Chinese village. I believe she had loving parents who may or may not have believed she was their real daughter. Other kids saw her as some kind of freak. One of the images from the film I remember most strongly was her showing up bullies by staring at them with piercing blue eyes and intimidating them with her vibes or something. At the end, a flying saucer with lots of glowing lights shows up at night. I remember the movie being very slow and unrewarding. I wanna say it was from the early 80’s, but for all I know it could be earlier.