Bu Wan-Cang

Directing

Bu Wan-Cang

Born — Died

1903-08-19 — 1974-12-20

Place of birth

Tianchang, Anhui, China

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

A Spray of Plum Blossoms poster
6.2

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.

A Spray of Plum Blossoms

1931

Dream of the Red Mansions poster
6.8

Based on the famous 18th century Chinese novel with the same name. Set during the 1700s in China, a prominent family loses its good luck when one of the sons loses the jade chip that was embedded in his mouth.

Dream of the Red Mansions

1944

苏武牧羊 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

苏武牧羊

1940

Love and Duty poster
7.3

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.

Love and Duty

1931

No artwork available
8.0

Ostensibly a romantic comedy about mistaken identity, this film stars Kitty Ting Hao in two roles, the first as poor flower girl Fangfang and rich relation of a family in Hong Kong, who arrived in Hong Kong to see if she can feel better with the warmer climate. She meets Xihong, played by Kelly Lai Chen, who is the son in the family in Hong Kong. He is, of course, smitten with her, but when the secret is out, will he still feel the same?

Dreams Come True

1960

No artwork available
7.0

A light-hearted comedy about a struggle between a maverick actress and her stubborn and conservative brother-in-law, which represents a debate between individualistic values and family obligations. Apparently the happy enlightenment of Li represents a triumph of the latter over the former. Li, Zhang and Lei Zhen, who plays the role of Li's husband, all showcase their distinctive personalities in their portraits of the characters.

The Bedside Story

1960

Behind the camera

A Spray of Plum Blossoms poster
6.2

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.

A Spray of Plum Blossoms

1931

Dream of the Red Mansions poster
6.8

Based on the famous 18th century Chinese novel with the same name. Set during the 1700s in China, a prominent family loses its good luck when one of the sons loses the jade chip that was embedded in his mouth.

Dream of the Red Mansions

1944

Dream of the Red Mansions poster
6.8

Based on the famous 18th century Chinese novel with the same name. Set during the 1700s in China, a prominent family loses its good luck when one of the sons loses the jade chip that was embedded in his mouth.

Dream of the Red Mansions

1944

苏武牧羊 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

苏武牧羊

1940

Love and Duty poster
7.3

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.

Love and Duty

1931

No artwork available
8.0

Ostensibly a romantic comedy about mistaken identity, this film stars Kitty Ting Hao in two roles, the first as poor flower girl Fangfang and rich relation of a family in Hong Kong, who arrived in Hong Kong to see if she can feel better with the warmer climate. She meets Xihong, played by Kelly Lai Chen, who is the son in the family in Hong Kong. He is, of course, smitten with her, but when the secret is out, will he still feel the same?

Dreams Come True

1960

No artwork available
7.0

A light-hearted comedy about a struggle between a maverick actress and her stubborn and conservative brother-in-law, which represents a debate between individualistic values and family obligations. Apparently the happy enlightenment of Li represents a triumph of the latter over the former. Li, Zhang and Lei Zhen, who plays the role of Li's husband, all showcase their distinctive personalities in their portraits of the characters.

The Bedside Story

1960

Three Modern Ladies poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Three Modern Ladies

1933

The Lost Love poster
7.0

A romance film by the Shaw Brothers studio.

The Lost Love

1961

Kiss Me Again poster
9.0

A Shaw Brothers production

Kiss Me Again

1960

The Light of Maternal Instinct poster
8.0

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.

The Light of Maternal Instinct

1933

The Light of Maternal Instinct poster
8.0

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.

The Light of Maternal Instinct

1933

The Peach Girl poster
6.3

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.

The Peach Girl

1931

The Peach Girl poster
6.3

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.

The Peach Girl

1931

Love and Duty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love and Duty

1938

Love and Duty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love and Duty

1938

Humane poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Humane

1932

Fiancee poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fiancee

1926

Fiancee poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fiancee

1926

Mulan Joins the Army poster
7.3

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on.

Mulan Joins the Army

1939

Why Not Her poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Why Not Her

1926

Nobody's Child poster
7.0

Melodramatic film about a child prodigy.

Nobody's Child

1960

潇湘秋雨 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

潇湘秋雨

1940

No artwork available
NR

This is a 1952 Hong Kong drama film directed by Bu Wancang, Kuang-Chi Tu, Wang Yin and Shankun Zhang. It stars Chou Man-Hua and Li Li-Hua.

Sweet Memories

1952

The Unforgettable Night poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Unforgettable Night

1958

Sable Cicada poster
6.0

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide behind clouds. Despite being the only Beauty among the four who is not a real historical figure but one conjured by storytelling imagination and embellished by public fascination, her story was nonetheless incorporated by author Luo Guangzhong into his popular and influential novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Her tale is one of Machiavellian intrigue, in which she schemes with her godfather Wang Yun to restore moral order to the land, sowing discord between the corrupt Minister Dong Zhuo and his adopted son Lu Bu, a man of martial and military prowess.

Sable Cicada

1938

Sable Cicada poster
6.0

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide behind clouds. Despite being the only Beauty among the four who is not a real historical figure but one conjured by storytelling imagination and embellished by public fascination, her story was nonetheless incorporated by author Luo Guangzhong into his popular and influential novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Her tale is one of Machiavellian intrigue, in which she schemes with her godfather Wang Yun to restore moral order to the land, sowing discord between the corrupt Minister Dong Zhuo and his adopted son Lu Bu, a man of martial and military prowess.

Sable Cicada

1938

The Stolen Love poster
7.0

Early Shaw Brothers drama

The Stolen Love

1959

A Married Couple in Name Only poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Married Couple in Name Only

1927

Lady with the Lute poster
NR

Zhao’s husband goes to the capital to take the imperial examination but doesn’t come back. Due to famine, Zhao has to leave her hometown and find her husband, playing her lute for a living.

Lady with the Lute

1963

Eternity poster
8.0

The life and story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War.

Eternity

1943

Miss Evening Sweet poster
9.0

A Shaw and Sons production.

Miss Evening Sweet

1957

Revenge of an Actress poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Revenge of an Actress

1929

No artwork available
9.0

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.

The Long Lane

1956

The Fisherman's Daughter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Fisherman's Daughter

1943

The Fisherman's Daughter poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Fisherman's Daughter

1943

Two Generations of Women poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Two Generations of Women

1943

Home poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Home

1941

Smash Up poster
NR

Smash Up (1952 film) (Chinese 蛇蝎美人) also known by the aliases: The Vicious Beauty and Destroy; is a Hong Kong drama film directed by Bu Wan-Cang and produced by Shaw Brothers Studio. It starred Bai Guang, Wong Ho and Yiu Kwang-Chao.

Smash Up

1952

Resurrection poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Resurrection

1926