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"After overcoming various obstacles, Yaozu and his childhood sweetheart Jingjing are finally together. Unfortunately, this doesn't last long. Jingjing leaves Yaozu for some reason, and they miss out on getting together. When they meet again, it’s at Yaozu's wedding. Faced with his new love and old love, how should Yaozu choose..."
A melodrama about the couple Zhu Dongxin and Ma Nina.
Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is really about Communist revolution that won over the hearts and minds of Chinese youth.
China's first song and dance film was "Poetry Written on the Banana Leaf" directed by Sun Yu and starring Wang Renmei in 1932. A battalion commander's lover, named Zhao Zhao, wrote a poem on a banana leaf in memory of the battalion commander. Just as she was about to mail it, she met people in the village holding the Autumn Tage Festival. Zhao Zhao decides to participate the festivities with her friends. Unexpectedly, the banana leaf was lost on the ground. Zhao Zhao rejects a man who tries to pursue her. Mad being rejected, the man picks up the lost banana leaf. He decides to write his own name to it, trying to deceive the battalion comrade that Zhao Zhao has cheated on him. The film is thought to be lost.
A mad scientist dresses up as a gorilla to kidnap young girls, so he can use their brains to produce the elixir of life...
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 people's attention. Once they meet and work together, they fall in love. Is it forever?
A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.