Sun Yu

Visions Cinema: Cinema in China - An Account by Tony Rayns

Ron Orders

Tony Rayns, Sun Yu

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; the work of Xie Jin.

Lian hua jiao xiang qu

Youliu Tan, Situ Huimin

Qing Jiang, Xi Mei

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1: Two Yuans (兩毛錢) directed by Situ Huimin / Part 2: Nightmares in Spring Chamber (春閨斷夢) directed by Fei Mu / Part 3: The Stranger (陌生人) directed by Tan Youliu / Part 4: Three Friends (三人行) directed by Shen Fu / Part 5: Landscape Under the Moonlight (月下小景) directed by He Mengfu / Part 6: The Ghost (鬼) directed by Zhu Shilin / Part 7: Rhapsody of a Madman (瘋人狂想曲) directed by Sun Yu / Part 8: Five Little Brothers (小五義) directed by Cai Chusheng

野草閑花

Sun Yu

Ruan Lingyu, Jin Yan

Ill-fated romance of an orphaned flower girl and a young musician, destroyed by his traditional family and the Shanghai underworld.

小玩意

Sun Yu

Ruan Lingyu, Lili Li

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 village is destroyed during an attack between rival warlords, forcing the villagers move to the city, where they continue to make toys. Ten years pass, and Ye's daughter Zhu'er has become a toy designer. While helping the Nationalist army at the rear, Zhu'er is killed in an attack by the Japanese. On New Year's Eve, Sister Ye is dressed in rags, sitting on the curb, selling toys. A young boy buys toys from her, and it is none other than her son, whom she does not recognize.

Huoshan Qingxie

Sun Yu

Lili Li, Zheng Jun-Li

A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The father dies of grief and Song lives with his cousin abroad. The warlord's nephew loses power and also escapes to the same country.

武训传

Sun Yu

Zhao Dan, Huang Chung-Ying

The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.

Spring Dream in the Old Capital

Sun Yu

Chen Yan-Yan, Lin Chu-Chu

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.

天明

Sun Yu

Lili Li, Gao Zhan-Fei

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as he drifts into revolutionary circles. Her access through her trade grants her greater access which she uses to aid her revolutionary lover with tragic results.

野玫瑰

Sun Yu

Wang Renmei, Jin Yan

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.

大路

Sun Yu

Jin Yan, Chen Yan-Yan

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

体育皇后

Sun Yu

Lili Li, Yi Zhang

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.

乘风破浪

Junchao Jiang, Sun Yu

Shuhuang Zhong, Chuan Jin

Об освоении женщинами в новом Китае профессий, которые раньше считались доступными только мужчинам. О том, как после окончания мореходного училища группа девушек прибывает для прохождения практики на судно и как будущих штурманов по-разному встречают.

鲁班的传说

Sun Yu

Lin Er, Ji Feng

Lu Ban, the father of carpentry of China, lived in the Warring States Period more than two thousand years ago. During his travel through the land, he has solved many architectural problems and befriends a young builder. Under the guidance of Lu, the young man slowly turns from an arrogant and imprudent builder into a responsible craftsman able to take on a daunting task assigned by the king.

Chun dao ren jian

Sun Yu

Yu is a village boat-rower who loves smiling. On the contrary, serf girl xiao Hong never smiles because of her miserable life. Yu volunteers to teach her smile.

宋景詩

Zheng Jun-Li, Sun Yu

Wei Cui, Jin Tao

В середине XIX века, в разгар Опиумной войны, китайский народ восстал против феодального строя и маньчжурской династии, капитулировавшей перед иностранными интервентами. … Понурив головы, бредут закованные в кандалы крестьяне, те, кто отказался давать деньги для расправы с восставшими братьями. Неожиданно им преграждают дорогу. Это Сун Цзин-ши со своим отрядом пришёл на выручку. Освобождённые крестьяне присоединились к Сун Цзин-ши. Так образовалось ядро армии «Чёрного знамени». «Их вёл Сун Цзин-ши» — первый исторический фильм, созданный в социалистическом Китае 1950-х годов. Сценарий его основан на достоверном материале, собранном в деревнях провинции Шаньдун. В народе до сих пор живут легенды о жестокости Сэн Гэлиньцина и храбрости Сун Цзин-ши, которого называют «китайским Спартаком».