Movies: Liu Qiong

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 tell...

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble h...

As most families only want to have boys, women end up becoming rare and precious....

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army...

The government sends caravans to Miao villages periodically to provide goods which facilitate the folks. A detachment protects the caravans from robbery....

The protagonists are mainly Huirong, Zhaobai, and Jikan, who have studied business management in the USA and have returned to their hometown, Shanghai. Huirong and Zhaobai are engaged, and although three of them are close friends, problems arise when...

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflec...

Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution....

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Wenxiang is sent away to the mountains to focus on his studies. He stays in a nunnery, with which his family has a long history, and encounters a strange girl....

Girl on the loose is a 1954 Hong Kong film, directed by Wang Yin....

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"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 ...

Ashima is a brave and beautiful girl of the Sani people, beloved by all. One day as she is down at the lake to fetch water, she hears the sound of a shepherd's flute coming from the hills across the lake. She replies in song....

Feng Suzhen and Li Zhaoting booked a marriage when they were reading together. Soon, Li’s family suffered a disaster and became poor. One day, Li Zhaoting came to Feng Jia to borrow money. Feng Suzhen’s stepmother was so poor that she loved the rich ...

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Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to...

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....