Chen Yan-yan
Also Known As: Chan Yanyan, Chan Yin-Yin, Chen Yen-Yen, Chan Yen-Yen, Линь Чу-чу, Чу-чу Линь , Чучу Линь , Чэнь Янь-янь, Янь-янь Чэнь, Яньянь Чэнь, Chen Yan-yan, 陈燕燕
Biography: Chen Yanyan (Chinese: 陳燕燕; Wade–Giles: Ch'en Yen-yen; 12 January 1916 – 7 May 1999), born Chen Jianyan, was a Chinese actress and film producer in the cinema of Republic of China (1912–1949), British Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Birthday: February 24, 1915
Deathday: May 03, 1999
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The 14 Amazons
Overview: The Yang family, men and women, have served their country loyally for generations. During the war General Yang is ambushed and killed. His widow and the entire family set out to avenge his death and defend the country.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-07-27
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Four Sisters
Overview: Mandarin-era Hong Kong film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1967-05-05
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The Merry Wife
Overview: Under false pretenses, Zhenzhen marries Mr. Lin, who happens to be her teacher. She wants to still study and wants to enroll in his school in Hong Kong. The head of the school agrees to this under the condition that they conceal the fact that they are married. Zhenzhen finds out right away that her husband is fawned over by the girls, they all have a crush on him, as also does the spinster librarian. However, Mr. Lin finds that that the boys in the school (they are late teens, 17 or so) really like Zhenzhen. This leads to hurt feelings, questions about fidelity and even, in Zhenzhen's case, innocuous dates with one of the boys who rides a motorcycle.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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Heads for Sale
Overview: This tale is about a decapitating swordswoman who will let nothing stand in her way when she falls in love with a bandit's son. Chiao Chiao, made famous in One-Armed Swordsman, is the girl who won't let such trifles as craniums keep her from freeing her man from jail.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Humane
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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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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Flower in the Rain
Overview: Lily Ho and Ling Yun are star-crossed lovers who suffer untold agonies before finally being united forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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The Love Eterne
Overview: In this dreamy romance set in China during the fourth-century, a young woman convinces her parents to allow her to dress as a boy and attend university.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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The Deadly Knives
Overview: Plotting to obtain the Yen family's land, dastardly Japanese plutocrat Omura bribes Yen nephew Hsu Chien to steal the family seal and land deed. When Hsu Chien is caught in the act, he viciously beats elderly Master Yen to death to cover his actions. Determined to avenge the wrongs committed on his family and his country, young master Yen Tzu Fei blazes a knife-throwing path of revenge that leads him to his love Yue Hua's father, who has corrupt connections with the Japanese
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-06-29
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Home
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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Tears of a Mother
Overview: A Chinese film
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1937-01-17
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A Girl in an Isolated City
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Spring Blossoms
Overview: Spring Blossoms is a parable about the Chinese youth culture and what's important to the younger generation when it comes to romance. It starred a new wave of seventies, Shaw's beauties, Lily Li, Shu Pei-pei and Essie Lin-chia as single women looking for love. It's a triple-decker romantic bus ride on a road to nowhere speeding toward a low bridge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-04-18
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My Dream Boat
Overview: The film tells a complicated love story. Carmen with Ke, Xiang Yi and Jiyuan. They start as a friend, but somehow a love triangle occur, and the outcome is very tragic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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The Butterfly Chalice
Overview: The story revolves around Tian Yu Quan (Chin Feng) who rushes to the aid of an elderly fisherman who is bullied by an arrogant relative of the Qiu Shan ministry. In the heat of the ensuing battle he kills the said man and is hence chased by the district's officials. Trying to use the waterway to shake off his enemies, Yu Quan finds a true friend in the old fisherman's bark-stearing daughter, Hu Feng Lian (Ting Hung) who becomes his loyal accomplice. As symbol for his gratitude, Yu Quan bestows Feng Lian with a Butterfly Chalice to reflect their eternal friendship bond...
Genres: Action Drama Music History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-03-10
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Too Late for Love
Overview: Su Fen, a young and frail girl, looked forward to her wedding with her fiancé, Li Kuo-liang. The happy couple's bliss was cut short when war broke out. Kuo-liang was summoned to fight at the front lines. In his absence, Su Fen discovered she had tuberculosis.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-29
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Auntie Lan
Overview: The contemporary issue of single mothers is sensitively handled in this melodrama as a young woman must decide whether she will tell the new man in her life the real truth or forever remain the child's auntie Lan? (Celestial Pictures sypnosis)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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The Blue and the Black 2
Overview: Part two of the wartime love story
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-07-20
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The Blue and the Black
Overview: It's a powerful melodrama about a thwarted romance in 1930s Tientsin, China, during the Japanese occupation, and it stars Linda Lin Dai, one of the era's most popular stars. It was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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The West Chamber
Overview: A scholar woos the daughter of an important family, while outwitting rebels who try to capture her.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-11-10
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Valley of the Fangs
Overview: Intrigue in the court means that the wife and daughter of framed scholar Sung have to travel to the capital in disguise, as court agents hunt them down. A righteous swordsman and a group of kiln workers get caught up in the action.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-06-10
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Sons and Daughters
Overview: shaw production
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Sons of the Good Earth
Overview: The year is 1937, just prior to the Japanese invasion of China. Painters Ju Rui and Lao San stumble upon He Hua, a woman sold into the sex industry at a local brothel.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-03-19
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The Crimson Palm
Overview: Ling Bo is Lin, a young man engaged to the daughter of a rich man, who now despises Lin because of his family's declining status. Lin visits his beloved fiancee before he heads towards the imperial city to participate in the civil service examination, only to find her maid lying dead in blood. Lin is then accused of murder. How can Judge Bao prove his innocence?
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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Three Sinners
Overview: Based on one particular storyline from The Water Margin, Three Sinners weaves an intriguing story of romance, treachery, and death, all within the context of the traditional Huangmei Opera. Yan Jun casts his real-life wife, the elegant Li Li Hua, star of such Shaw Brothers films as The Goddess of Mercy and Vermillion Door, as one of the title characters, a woman who finds herself in the middle of a stormy love triangle involving her controlling husband (director Yan Jun serving double duty in a starring role) and a passionate lover (Chen Yan Yan).
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-11-23
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Nobody's Child
Overview: Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-02-17
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The Grand Substitution
Overview: With China under control of a weak Emperor, two officials compete to steer the future destiny of the land. Chiu believes the people are the future of China, while the diabolical Tu wishes to grind the people beneath an iron heel. Tu decides to take out Chiu's family, but one lone infant escapes.
Genres: Music History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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The Young Avenger
Overview: After a career spanning more than forty years and dozens of films as director or writer, Yueh Feng used everything he learned on a final few martial arts epics, of which this is one of the most memorable. It's not easy to forget a hunchbacked, one-armed protagonist, nor the "Poisonous Dragon Sword" style, nor the luminous and lethal Shih Szu as the title swordswoman, who is out to avenge her father's death at the mid-autumn festival.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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The Three Smiles
Overview: The film tells the story of Tang Bohu, a famous scholar who spends most of his time wandering around the countryside.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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The Goddess of Mercy
Overview: With her elegant classic persona, Li Li-hua was the ideal performer for period aristocratic and imperial roles. The Goddess Of Mercy is a good example of her strong empathy and noble presence. The youngest daughter of a brutal king, the princess openly disapproves of the floggings and cruel treatment her royal family heaps on the peasants. As a result, the heartless king turns on his own daughter forcing her into exile. This humanistic tale will inspire and hearten even the most cynical viewer.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-21
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Lady General Hua Mulan
Overview: About a woman who disguises herself as a man to take her father's place in the army.
Genres: Music Action Drama History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-06-15
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A Ghost
Overview: A young woman falls in love with her university classmate but her father is against it. She disappears and soon there are rumours that her spirit haunts her family’s villa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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It Takes a Man to Be Henpecked
Overview: A comedy about three henpecked men and how they cope with not only their wives but a society which says they should rule the roost. A comedy of errors complicates their already complicated lives and wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-03-19
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Center Stage
Overview: Based on the tragic true story of China's first prima donna of the silver screen, Ruan Lingyu, chronicling her rise to fame as a movie actress in Shanghai during the 1930s. Nicknamed the 'Chinese Garbo', Ruan Lingyu began her career at 16 and committed suicide at 24.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-29
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The One-Armed Swordsman
Overview: A noble swordsman, whose arm had been chopped off, returns to his former teacher to defend him from a villainous gang of rival swordsmen.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-07-26
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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 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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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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Vistas of Art
Overview: Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Symphony of Lianhua
Overview: "Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1: Two Yuans (兩毛錢) directed by Situ Huimin / Part 2: Nightmares in Spring Chamber (春閨斷夢) directed by Fei Mu / Part 3: The Stranger (陌生人) directed by Tan Youliu / Part 4: Three Friends (三人行) directed by Shen Fu / Part 5: Landscape Under the Moonlight (月下小景) directed by He Mengfu / Part 6: The Ghost (鬼) directed by Zhu Shilin / Part 7: Rhapsody of a Madman (瘋人狂想曲) directed by Sun Yu / Part 8: Five Little Brothers (小五義) directed by Cai Chusheng
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1937-12-17
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Song of China
Overview: A businessman moves his family from the city to the countryside to open a school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1935-09-06
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Struggling
Overview: A Chinese couple in the 1930s struggle to survive. Things get complicated for them when he enlists to fight the war against Japan.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1932-11-29
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Between Tears and Smiles
Overview: Fan Chia-soo is a kind-hearted student whose heart is captured by the sweet song of Shen Feng-hsien. However, he is not the only one who has eyes for Shen. The General's henchmen are also determined to present the songstress to their superior as a gift. Fan received help from an unexpected quarter to save the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1964-01-17
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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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The Joy of Spring
Overview: Hong Kong musical directed by Lo Chen.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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The Lotus Lamp
Overview: The Goddess of Hua Mountain is imprisoned for falling in love with a mortal, meanwhile her son is raised in secret until he can attempt to free her.
Genres: Music Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Love Without End
Overview: Yu Jiayin falls in love with the father of the girl she tutors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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白蛇传
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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The Young Tiger
Overview: A spoilt rich kid turns up at a fu school to show off, but he gets clobbered by the boastful Little Tiger, who is later framed for the kid's murder when a gang of blackmailers make an example of him. The police allow Tiger to escape, in order to find the real culprits. Tiger hides at his girlfriend's place, but a model she works with does some whoring on the side for the blackmailer, and so the crooks are onto his trail...
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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Mantis Combat
Overview: When a once infamous criminal decides to give up his lifestyle and return the many treasures he has stolen to their rightful owners; he is promptly murdered by his partners in crime. To avenge his death is his son, with the deadly "mantis fist".
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1978-07-21
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Three Modern Ladies
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Bitter Sweet
Overview: A widow of four gave up two of her children to be raised by an uncle in Singapore. Many years later, just when the widow, now a house maid, is feeling contented by good news of her long gone son and daughter, she accidentally runs into his own son, now a lawyer, and ends up being looked down upon by him. It was a story about how traditional Chinese family and its value was impacted by the change of time. The movie depicted Macau in 1945 to Hong Kong in the mid-60s, moving from poverty after WWII to opulence. The human relationships became complicated and fragile. Many elements uniquely "Hong Kong", such as upper class Chinese, western religions, English speaking and a mixed-culture society are used to contrast the traditional, kind, enduring and forgiving love of a mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1963-07-10
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Spring in the South
Overview: To please his dying father, Hong Yu, a college student, is forced to abandon his girlfriend, Little Hong, and marry his cousin, with disastrous results.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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Suspicion
Overview: A war-veteran husband and his wife are slowly consumed with distrust in Xu Changlin’s fascinating hybrid of noir thriller and melodrama.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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The Dream of the Ancient Capital
Overview: This film depicting the lives of ordinary people — street peddlers, poor scholars, and young revolutionaries — reflects the culturally progressive political climate of that pre-War, post-May the 4th era.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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共赴国难
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1932-01-01
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芳华虚度
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Legend of Sui Dynasty
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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自由天地
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Wedding Night
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Chun dao ren jian
Overview: Yu is a village boat-rower who loves smiling. On the contrary, serf girl xiao Hong never smiles because of her miserable life. Yu volunteers to teach her smile.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1937-11-18
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The Long Lane
Overview: The film focuses on a mother (Chen Yanyan) burdened by guilt after abandoning her newborn daughter in a long lane 17 years earlier, so that she could adopt a son to fulfil the traditional belief that only a male heir could continue the family line. However, when her adopted son (King Hu) becomes a disappointment, the mother’s regret deepens. On her deathbed, she confesses her secret to her husband (Wang Yin), who resolves to find their lost daughter.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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New and Old Times
Overview: A rich businessman's family is in straitened circumstances. He has a son and four daughters, but only the youngest daughter lives a positive life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Thunderstorm
Overview: The film tells the story of a rich man who falls in love with his maid.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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