Fei Mu

When the top diva of an opera troupe storms off after not getting money upfront from their manager, a common street performer comes in to replace her.

A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.

A businessman moves his family from the city to the countryside to open a school.

The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various warlords and kings his particular philosophy.

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When the top diva of an opera troupe storms off after not getting money upfront from their manager, a common street performer comes in to replace her.

A married couple living in a desolate small town in post-WWII China are paid a surprise visit by an old friend of the husband's.

In a mansion decimated during World War II, a frustrated, bored housewife, Yuwen, is torn between caring for her ailing husband and her longing for a former sweetheart, a doctor who has come to treat her husband.

A businessman moves his family from the city to the countryside to open a school.

The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various warlords and kings his particular philosophy.

The film depicts Confucius's later life, as he traveled across a China divided by war and strife in an ultimately futile effort to teach various warlords and kings his particular philosophy.

No synopsis available yet.

Blood on Wolf Mountain tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with the Japanese, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan.

Blood on Wolf Mountain tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with the Japanese, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

Adapted from Guy de Maupassant's "Boule de Suif", this satire-cum-thriller transposes its backdrop to wartime China. On a bus crossing a checkpoint, a pretty girl coveted by a Japanese officer sacrifices herself to aid the patriotic cause against the enemy.

"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

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.

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.

The story of two people who were forced to marry each without sincere feelings, resulting in a story of life and death.

A young peasant woman becomes a Buddhist nun twice to return -also twice- to her regular life.

A young peasant woman becomes a Buddhist nun twice to return -also twice- to her regular life.

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Premiering on August 15, 1952, Fei Mu's unfinished posthumous work.

The second short in Symphony of Lianhua. Two women dream of the devil.