Guchan Wan

Directing

Guchan Wan

Born 1900-01-18 · Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Brother of Wan Laiming.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Princess Iron Fan poster
5.7

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Specifically, the film focused on the duel between the Monkey King and a vengeful princess, whose fan is desperately needed to quench the flames that surround a peasant village.

Princess Iron Fan

1941

Uproar in an Art Studio poster
NR

Lost film. Commonly regarded as the first animated short film in China. The film was combined with live footage, about an artist working in his studio. Suddenly he is disturbed by a small paper person jumping out of the page causing an uproar. Modeled after the American "Out of the Inkwell" series.

Uproar in an Art Studio

1927

Golden Conch poster
NR

A fishing boy fell in love with a conch girl living on the fairy island. He passed numerous tests and lived with the girl happily ever after.

Golden Conch

1963

Fishing Child poster
6.6

An old fisherman catches a fish bowl from the sea, the fishing child painted on the bowl comes out to reality to catch a lot of pearls for him. A missionary wants to occupy the bowl and is punished by the fishing child.

Fishing Child

1959

Ginseng Baby poster
5.7

The spirit ginseng baby helps a teenage tenant to pay his debts to the greedy landlord with a high quality ginseng, but the landlord wants to catch the ginseng baby and present him as a tribute to the emperor.

Ginseng Baby

1961

Pigsy Eats Watermelon poster
8.0

A paper-cut animation short about Zhu Bajie, the pig from Journey to the West

Pigsy Eats Watermelon

1958

Why is the Crow Black-Coated poster
NR

A gorgeous bird entranced by its own beauty sings and dances all day long in the forest, not caring enough to prepare for the winter. When winter finally comes, the bird has no place to go. After a while, there is a fire, and the freezing animal wants to limber up but in the end all his colorful feathers are singed and turn black as coal. And thus the once so beautiful bird has transformed into a black crow.

Why is the Crow Black-Coated

1955

Songs of the Anti-Japanese War poster
NR

Seven episodes of short animated songs on anti-Japanese war.

Songs of the Anti-Japanese War

1938

Red Scarf poster
NR

Paper-cut animated tale of Xiaohong, who ties a red scarf on the tree at the crossroads to indicate the direction when he was tracking the Kuomintang spy who had violated the mainland.

Red Scarf

1965

Ji Gong’s Cricket Fighting poster
NR

When Mr. Luo was fighting crickets in the mansion, his black cricket won a lot of silver for him. He was so proud that he boasted about the value of the baby. His words were remembered by Zhang Yu, a carpenter who worked next door. The servants put the jar containing the black cricket on the table, and Zhang Yu, who couldn't help being curious, wanted to see the appearance of the "baby", and didn't want the black cricket to escape if he was not careful.

Ji Gong’s Cricket Fighting

1959

Turtle and Monkey Dividing a Banana Tree poster
NR

A banana tree was uprooted by the storm and washed to the shore by flash floods. When the tortoise found out, he called the monkey to help him carry the tree back. The monkey saw the banana and wanted to eat it very much, so he proposed to the tortoise to divide the tree, and the tortoise advised the monkey to wait for the tree to grow before dividing it. The monkey refused, and cut the tree in half with an axe, and carried away the part with the bananas. The tortoise had no choice but to move the section with the roots back and plant it. After careful management, the roots regrown the trunk soon, and a tree full of bananas was formed.

Turtle and Monkey Dividing a Banana Tree

1959