Gao Xiaoou

Underground Route (1959)

The Min River is crucial for Fujian Province's economy. In 1947, Lin Sen Guan, a Communist Party member and driver of the "Fuzhou" steamship, smuggled weapons and radios to a guerrilla base with fellow party members. The enemy, led by transportation inspec ...

Cowboy Joining the Army (1958)

The story of fifteen-year-old shepherd Gu Xiao, who ran away from his landlord to the mountains. There he met scouts from the People's Liberation Army and helped them find the right path. The shepherd then took part in an important combat operation. For hi ...

Happiness (1958)

Wang Jiayou, a young worker at the Shanghai New Machinery Factory, is a man whose life is unorganized, does not pay attention to labor discipline, and often spends his youth in dance halls, skating rinks and cafes. When working during the day, he appears l ...

Diary of a Nurse (1957)

After graduating from a Shanghai nursing school, Jian Shuhua decides to work at a construction workers' clinic in a remote area, despite the objections of her fiancé Shen Aoru. When she arrives at her new workstation, she finds that one of the clinic dire ...

Li Shizhen (1956)

This biography film is based on the life of the real historical figure Li Shizhen.The story focuses on the social injustices suffered by Li as well as the difficulties he overcame in writing the famous Encyclopedia of Herbs. ...

Song Jing Shi (1955)

In the mid-19th century, at the height of the Opium War, the Chinese people rose up against the feudal system and the Manchu dynasty, which had capitulated to foreign invaders. ... With their heads bowed, peasants in chains trudge along, those who refused ...

Can't Follow Along That Path (1954)

Set in the period of land reform movement, a poor peasant Zhang gets a fertile land. But he doesn't work seriously on it, then loses money and runs into debt. Song wants to buy Zhang's land but his son thinks that they should help Zhang. ...

This Life of Mine (1950)

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family. ...

A Lad and Two Girls (1948)

Long Live the Mistress! (1947)

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 his wif ...

Night Inn (1947)

Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diǎn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan. The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's The Low ...