Bugao Cheng

慈母頑兒

Bugao Cheng

Lee Cheung-Faat, Li Zhendi

Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days wandering the streets where he is lured by a gang to commit crimes. Fortunately, Du has a heart of gold.

梦里乾坤

Bugao Cheng

Ying Tan, Xianzhai Wang

Kuang liu

Bugao Cheng

Jianong Gong, Butterfly Wu

A primary school teacher rallies the citizens of a small town to resist the corruption of the local government and unite to build reinforcements against an oncoming flood.

女儿经

Chen Kengran, Yao Sufeng

Butterfly Wu, Gao Zhan-Fei

A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career. Some led destructive lives, while others contributed to the country.

银幕艳史

Bugao Cheng

Jing Jinglin, Pei-Zhen Xia

Part two of A comedy film set on Shanghai film studio. The background events frequently involve the shooting of other films being made at Mingxing Film Company at the time. This includes a sequence of the 17th episode of the silent wuxia film series Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, which is the only known footage from this historic series to exist.

Chun can

Bugao Cheng

Ying Xiao, Yuexian Yan

This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.

Xinjiu Shanghai

Bugao Cheng

Kung Chiu-Hsia, Meijun Gu

The daily life of ordinary people of Shanghai apartment building: an unemployed person who tries not to lose face by concealing the loss of his job, a singer without an audience, a driver, a teacher, but also the owner of the building and his prodigal son.