Yuexian Yan

难为了妹妹

Li Ping-Qian

Ziming Ding, Li Ping-Qian

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.

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.

脂粉市场

Shichuan Zhang

Butterfly Wu, Ping Hu

A young woman finds employment in a department store, only to attract the unwanted advances of the manager and his son.