Sun Jing
Directing
Biography
Sun Jing (1912---1979, June 14), a native of Shou County, Anhui Province. After 1925, he studied in Bengbu, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and other places in Anhui. In October 1932, he joined Shanghai Star Film Company as an actor. Participated in the filming of "Shanghai Twenty-Four Hours", "Vanilla Beauty", "Girl Classic" customers, "Boat Girl" Kuo Shaoyou, "Peach and Li Zhengyan" Zhang Sheng, "Life and Death Together" Revolutionary, "Night Club", "Cross Street" "The editor of the newspaper, the lawyer of "Angels on the Road" and other films. After 1938, he studied directing under Li Pingqian and worked as a director and screenwriter in film companies such as Shanghai Yihua, Zhonghua, Cathay Pacific, and China Enterprise. In 1938, he joined Yihua Film Company as a director. He has directed films such as "Xiangjiang Singer", "Laughing Marriage", "Forever", "Thief Beauty" and so on. In 1942, he joined the "Zhonglian" as a director, and in 1943 he joined the "Hua Ying" as a director. He has edited and directed films such as "Eternal Regret Song" and "Song Shan Qingsi". After 1947, he directed films such as "The Bells of Hanshan Temple" in China Enterprise Film Company.
Known For
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The Bell-Ring in the Hanshan Temple
In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
Street Angel
Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...
Crossroads
Based on the Qing dynasty musical play that recounts the death of the Ming dynasty through the love story of its two main characters, young scholar Hou Fangyu and a courtesan named Li Xiangjun.
The Peach Blossom Fan
Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to be ruined because of a misplaced fan, is saved by the social butterfly who turns out to be …Unlike typical Chinese scripts on parental love, the understated familial love in the original play is aligned with Li's preference for the undramatic. Motherly love is portrayed indirectly while emotions run strong yet subdued in the film. Poking fun at social culture of the times, this is Li's earliest extant feature film in a modern setting and a showcase of his modernistic and crisp directorial approach.
The Young Mistress' Fan
A Yong is a student at the elementary school of his village.
A Yong
Probably the most sheerly entertaining of all the films made in 1930s Shanghai by 'underground' leftists, this riff on The Prisoner of Zenda is funny and engaging from first to last. The irresistible Yuan Muzhi (director of Street Angel the following year) plays both Li Tao, a revolutionary on the run, and Liu Yuanjie, an American-Chinese teacher visiting China with his fiancée. Liu is mistaken for Li and thrown into jail; Li teams up with the fiancée (Chen Bo'er, Yuan's real life wife) to get him out of prison and into the spirit of revolution. Ying Yunwei (who started out playing female roles in Chinese opera) uses chiaroscuro lighting, highly mobile camerawork and zippy pacing to give it maximum impact, but it's Yuan who really keeps you watching.
Unchanged Heart in Life and Death
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人欢马叫
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雪海银山
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.
The Classic for Girls
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长恨天
Despite opposition from the gymnastics team director, a coach proves the success of a new training plan.