Movies: Jin Yan

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army...

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film details the poverty she must endure for breaking with tradition....

An upper-class son of urbane landowners falls in love with a peasant girl. When a pregnancy results, the couple are kept apart by strict societal morays....

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Bai Le De and Hu Lun tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away. Later, Bae Le De is also appointed to a post at the same place. Hu Lun Ting falls in love with Luo Hua, daughte...

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty....

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Although Hui-Ying is now married to a husband that offers a life of stability and comfort, over ten years ago her first husband (Jia-Hu) fled from Shanghai to Nanyang (old name for Southeast Asia) to escape capture by a warlord - leaving her and the...

This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) and Ying (Violet Wong). They meet after hearing Ying sing while another movie is being shot. You, of course, don't get to hear the song, but it catches...

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After the end of the war, Mrs. Lu's eldest daughter's fiancé Situ Yan returns to Shanghai from Chongqing. When they meet, they find that he is an impoverished journalist, and cannot provide for them. One day, Situ Yan exposes a corruption case, which...

Based on the novel "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, about the hardships of a peasant laborer....

Wu Song and Pan Jinlian (1938) is a feminist masterpiece. This insular-era production was produced by Zhang Shankun, directed by Wu Cun, photographed by Huang Shaofen, and starring Gu Lanjun, Jin Yan, and Liu Qiong in a gloriously hefty cast. It tell...

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Returning home from a long voyage overseas, a man finds his wife and child living with another man. Fuelled by anger, he murders the other man and is forced to flee justice, until he faces death on a deserted island....

Ill-fated romance of an orphaned flower girl and a young musician, destroyed by his traditional family and the Shanghai underworld....

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General Zhou organized a boat trip with his family and friends, but a storm struck and they were all drifted to a deserted island....