
Huang Zuolin
1906 - 1994Ye dian
Zuolin Huang
Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diǎn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan. The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the Cultural Revolution but were popular in the post-Mao period.
Night Inn
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Zuolin Huang
Zhao Qiansun, Yuanyuan Cai
A street-wise and tough orphan called Maverick is arrested for a petty theft and sent to an orphanage, but succeeds in concealing a watch he had stolen from an old shopkeeper just before his arrest. At the orphanage, he is recruited by a crooked warder for further and more serious crimes. But when two more children are admitted to the orphanage -- a boy called "Fatty" and a girl called "Little Mouse" -- he makes the first friends he has ever had. But when Maverick learns the girl is the granddaughter of the old shopkeeper he stole the watch from, and what ruin it brought to her family, he has a crisis of conscience.
The Watch
腐蚀 Corrosion
Zuolin Huang
Zhi Cheng, Chaoming Cui
Homeless country boy Calf lives on the streets of Shanghai with his friends Big Cat and Little Mouse. One day, he steals an expensive watch from an elderly street vendor, a theft which leads to a physical confrontation with his friends and his subsequent arrest.
The Watch
假凤虚凰
Zuolin Huang
Young widow Fan Ruhua feigns the daughter of a tycoon and solicits husbands on papers. But Fan bumped into Yang Xiaomao, a barber, who similarly pretends to be a suiter for a broke businessman to court a daughter from a wealthy family. After a series of misunderstandings, Yang and Fan finally give up vanity and live honest lives.
Phony Phoenixes
Shi qu ji yi de ren
Bili Yan, Zuolin Huang
Chunchao Feng, Guanying Ma
The State Council and the Oil Ministry hold a meeting. They launch false charges about the suicide attempts committed by Ye Quan after his hospital treaty in an attempt by the surgery to cure his memory loss.
Shi qu ji yi de ren
失去记忆的人
Zuolin Huang, Yan Bi-Li
Wu Xi-Qian, Zhao Jia-Yan
Set in 1976, Ye Chuan, the party secretary of a certain city Dongfeng Chemical Equipment General Factory, resolutely implemented the task of trial-manufacturing large-scale chemical equipment issued by the State Council and the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry.
Loss of Memory of the People
美國之窗
Zuolin Huang, Ming Ye
Fei Yu, Hui Shi
A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.
Window to America