Movies: Huang Shaofen
- 1927
Way Down West (1927)
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Based on the classic Chinese play Romance of the Western Chamber, Way Down West follows the love story between a poor scholar and wealthy woman. Unable to marry due to their social status, this changes when a bandit attacks the monastery they are sta...
- 1957
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957)
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Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflec...
- 1931
A Spray of Plum Blossoms (1931)
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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...
- 1949
Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man (1949)
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In pre-communism China, a widowed man falls in love with a young colleague who's the same age as his own children....
- 1931
Love and Duty (1931)
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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....
- 1931
The Peach Girl (1931)
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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....
- 1959
The Opium Wars (1959)
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China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu emperor Tao Kuang is forced to take action that precipitates the 'Opium War'....
- 1954
Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (1954)
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A traditional chinese story about a girl, Zhu Yingtai, daughter of the noble Mr. Zhu, who goes to Hangzhou to study, dressed as a boy. There, she meets a student, Liang Shanbo, with whom she becomes good friends. They go to school together for the fo...
- 1930
The Dream of the Ancient Capital (1930)
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This film depicting the lives of ordinary people — street peddlers, poor scholars, and young revolutionaries — reflects the culturally progressive political climate of that pre-War, post-May the 4th era....
- 1931
Two Stars in the Milky Way (1931)
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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...
- 1938
Vistas of Art (1938)
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Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class"....
- 1947
Long Live the Mistress! (1947)
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A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences and his business falls apart while the man’s sister starts to have a relationship with the brother of h...
- 1962
Nie Er (1962)
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Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC’s national anthem....
- 1935
Song of China (1935)
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A businessman moves his family from the city to the countryside to open a school....
- 1955
伟大的起点 (1955)
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- 1983
Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns (1983)
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History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the organisation of filmmaking under the post-war communist government; the impact of the Cultural Revolution; th...
- 1939
Ming mo yi hen (1939)
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- 1930
Wild Flower (1930)
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Ill-fated romance of an orphaned flower girl and a young musician, destroyed by his traditional family and the Shanghai underworld....
- 1952
Window to America (1952)
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A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast ar...
- 1937
The Front and the Back of the Stage (1937)
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When the top diva of an opera troupe storms off after not getting money upfront from their manager, a common street performer comes in to replace her....