Jin Yan
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 30, 1909
Deathday: December 27, 1983
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Humane
1932-01-01
Humane
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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The Big Road
1935-01-01
The Big Road
Overview: Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army
Genres: Comedy Drama Music War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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武松与潘金莲
1938-01-01
武松与潘金莲
Overview: Wu Song and Pan Jinlian (1938) is a feminist masterpiece. This insular-era production was produced by Zhang Shankun, directed by Wu Cun, photographed by Huang Shaofen, and starring Gu Lanjun, Jin Yan, and Liu Qiong in a gloriously hefty cast. It tells the story of Wu Song who kills his cheating sister-in-law for his brother and avenges his brother's death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Waves Washing the Sand
1936-11-03
Waves Washing the Sand
Overview: Returning home from a long voyage overseas, a man finds his wife and child living with another man. Fuelled by anger, he murders the other man and is forced to flee justice, until he faces death on a deserted island.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-11-03
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The Peach Girl
1931-12-31
The Peach Girl
Overview: An upper-class son of urbane landowners falls in love with a peasant girl. When a pregnancy results, the couple are kept apart by strict societal morays.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Soaring Aspirations
1936-01-01
Soaring Aspirations
Overview:
Genres: History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Wild Rose
1932-04-11
Wild Rose
Overview: A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1932-04-11
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Love and Duty
1931-01-18
Love and Duty
Overview: The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film details the poverty she must endure for breaking with tradition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1931-01-18
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A Spray of Plum Blossoms
1931-04-01
A Spray of Plum Blossoms
Overview: Bai Le De and Hu Lun tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away. Later, Bae Le De is also appointed to a post at the same place. Hu Lun Ting falls in love with Luo Hua, daughter of the local commander.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1931-04-01
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Two Stars in the Milky Way
1931-03-14
Two Stars in the Milky Way
Overview: This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) and Ying (Violet Wong). They meet after hearing Ying sing while another movie is being shot. You, of course, don't get to hear the song, but it catches people's attention. Once they meet and work together, they fall in love. Is it forever?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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The Light of Maternal Instinct
1933-01-01
The Light of Maternal Instinct
Overview: Although Hui-Ying is now married to a husband that offers a life of stability and comfort, over ten years ago her first husband (Jia-Hu) fled from Shanghai to Nanyang (old name for Southeast Asia) to escape capture by a warlord - leaving her and their toddler daughter (Shao-Mei) behind in helpless desperation. Despite the mother's emotional attachment to her absent husband, she has never told the daughter about Jia-Hu so the daughter believes the stepfather is her biological father. But the mother begins to have second thoughts about the stepfather when she sees the teen daughter zealously follow the path paved by him - a path that the mother fears will lead to her daughter's moral decline.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Never Lonesome
1947-01-01
Never Lonesome
Overview: After the end of the war, Mrs. Lu's eldest daughter's fiancé Situ Yan returns to Shanghai from Chongqing. When they meet, they find that he is an impoverished journalist, and cannot provide for them. One day, Situ Yan exposes a corruption case, which implicates many people, including Mrs. Lu's brother.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Wild Flower
1930-12-31
Wild Flower
Overview: Ill-fated romance of an orphaned flower girl and a young musician, destroyed by his traditional family and the Shanghai underworld.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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伟大的起点
1955-01-01
伟大的起点
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Mother
1956-06-13
The Mother
Overview: Based on the novel "Mother" by Maxim Gorky, about the hardships of a peasant laborer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-06-13
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Three Modern Ladies
1933-01-01
Three Modern Ladies
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Lin Chong, the Outlaw
1939-01-01
Lin Chong, the Outlaw
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Chengshi zhi ye
1933-01-01
Chengshi zhi ye
Overview: The daughter of a poor family living in the slums is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, she is forced to give up her body to her landlord's son in exchange for a delay in construction. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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暴风中的雄鹰
1957-01-01
暴风中的雄鹰
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Love and Duty
1938-01-01
Love and Duty
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Return to Nature
1936-09-24
Return to Nature
Overview: General Zhou organized a boat trip with his family and friends, but a storm struck and they were all drifted to a deserted island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-09-24
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