Xiucen Yin

Unfinished Comedy (1957)

Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend over into absurdist, self-contained fantasy episodes where the two comics allegorically parody Party propagand ...

Dream of the Red Mansions (1944)

Based on the famous 18th century Chinese novel with the same name. Set during the 1700s in China, a prominent family loses its good luck when one of the sons loses the jade chip that was embedded in his mouth. ...

Colorful (1943)

The Happy Couple (1943)

Cold Mountain Night Rain (1942)

At a hotel near Cold Mountain, travelers find a book titled Cold Mountain Night Rain in the library. The story goes: One stormy night, two officers escorting a young convict arrive at a house seeking shelter. The master, knowing the prisoner was a dutiful ...

Princess Iron Fan (1941)

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desp ...

Home (1941)

Song at Midnight, Part II (1941)

Jiang Danping arrives in a city at night, where often a mysterious man causes panic. ...

Sheng li si bie (1941)

Wife and Concubine (1940)

Empress Wu Zetian (1939)

Historical film based on the life of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history ...

Mulan Joins the Army (1939)

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on. ...

The Angel (1939)

This is one of the rare gems in early Chinese musical films that still exists today. Nancy Chan plays a naïve young woman who can sing and dance. Under the arrangement of her stepfather, she becomes a star and indulges in the glitz and glamour of the ente ...

Lady Meng Jiang (1939)

Poet's Soul in the Cold Moonlight (1938)

When cloth merchant Zhao Dexin passed through the ancient tomb, he met the scholar Qin Qiufan and the girl Hua Hongyu in the underworld. Qiufan was killed by robbers on the way to Beijing, and his body was thrown into Hongyu's cemetery. Wang Jinqing, the n ...

Symphony of Lianhua (1937)

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. ...

Wang Laowu (1937)

Old Shanghai ...

Blood on Wolf Mountain (1936)

Blood on Wolf Mountain tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with the Japanese, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan. ...

It's A Mad Night (1936)

Based on the play The Government Inspector by Nikolay Gogol. ...

A Girl in an Isolated City (1936)

Queen of Sports (1934)

Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and has gradually forgotten the true essence of sports. ...

Playthings (1933)

Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. When Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is attending to him, her son is kidnapped and sold to a wealthy lady in the city of Shanghai. Shortly after, the vi ...

Grief (1932)