Han Tao

Sentinel Under the Neon Lights (1964)

Soldiers act as sentinels in the city center after the liberation of Shanghai and they are facing all kinds of temptations. ...

Two Stage Sisters (1964)

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges. ...

The Peach Blossom Fan (1963)

Based on the Qing dynasty musical play that recounts the death of the Ming dynasty through the love story of its two main characters, young scholar Hou Fangyu and a courtesan named Li Xiangjun. ...

Nie Er (1962)

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. ...

A Withered Tree Meets Spring (1961)

A critical hit during one of China's most politically charged periods, Zheng's follow-up to his 1959 anniversary epics merged Soviet-style socialist realism with his own breakthroughs in film technique, specifically his use of continuous camera movement in ...

The Lin Family Shop (1959)

Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner. ...

New Story of an Old Soldier (1959)

A soldier finds his new role in the transition from war time to the construction era. ...

Shanghai gu niang (1958)

Young technician Lu Ye changes his minds about Shanghai girls during the work with inspector Bai Mei --a girl from Shanghai. ...

Family (1957)

Based on the famous novel of the same name by well-known author Ba Jin, this movie traces the decline of a large, wealthy family in the early part of the twentieth century. The story focuses on three brothers and how they respond to the expectation that th ...

City Without Nights (1957)

A Chinese drama ...

Secret Post in Canton (1957)

A special agent of frontier force in Canton tries to find a spy called aunt Mei. ...

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 ...

Storm on the Border (1942)