Chinese Culture

Movie

Girl from Hunan

Girl Student's Dormitory

Great River Rushes On

Guerrilla of Honghu Lake

Guerrilla of the Hui Nationality

Guerrilla on the Plain

Genghis Khan(Chengjie Sihan, C-1987,VC)---The epic film chronicle the life of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), founder of the Yuan Dynasty. It has sweeping views of ancient battles. D: Zhan Xiangchi; C: De liger, Siqin Gaowa; M: Inner Mongolia Youth.

Girl from Hunan (Xiang Nu Xiaoxiao, C-1987, VC)--- A love tragedy adapted from the novel" Xiaoxiao" by Shen Congwen. Xiaoxiao is married to a child husband, but later she falls in love with her family's farmhand and becomes pregnant by him. Her husband's family allows her to bring her son up as her husband's younger brother. On her son's wedding day, Xiaoxiao is asked to sleep with her husband, who has just graduated from school. D: Xie Fei, Wu Lan; C: Na Renhua, Deng Xiaoguang; M: Youth.

Girl Students' Dormitory(Nu Daxuesheng Sushe, C-1984, VC)--- The lives of a group of newly enrolled girl students, their joys and their anxieties, are brought to the screen in this Shanghai Film Studio production. In coping with their different values and social attitudes, the girls acquire understanding and tolerance for one another. D:Shi Sjujun; C: Luo Yan, Xu Ya, Chen Hongmei; M: Shanghai.

Gold and Sand(Dalang Taosha, BW-1966, VC)---The last movie made before the "cultural revolution, " this portrays several rural students in the 1992s who are dissatisfied wit life and have fled from their families. They fight against the warlords but follow different roads after 1927 when the Kuomintang and Communist Party split apart. D: Yi Lin; C: Yu Yang, Jian Ruichao, Du Xiongwen; M: Pearl River.

Golden Road(Jingguang Dadao, C-1975)--- This stereotypical radical movie uses the falling out of two brothers to highlight the straggle between socialist and capitalist ideology in the rural area. The brother espousing the capitalist road is cast in a negative role. D: Lin Nong, Sun Yu; C: WangFuli; M: Changchun.

Go Masters(Yipan Meiyou Xiawan De Qi, C-1983, VC )---The vicissitudes in the lives of two go masters and their families during and after the Japanese invasion of China are examined in this Sino-Japanese joint production. One critic siad the film , which won a prize at the Seventh Montreal World Film Festival, " explores the theme of reconciliation and is itself an act of faith between two countries and two different societies. " D: Duan Jishu and Junya Satol C: Sun Daolin , Rentaro Mikuni, shen Danping, Huang Zongying; M: Beijing.

Great River Rushes On (Dahe Benliu, C-1979)---This big budget blockbuster tells the story of a small village in Henan Province over some 20 years. It starts in 1938 when the villagers are forced to flee their homes after the Yellow River dikes are destroyed to block the advancing Japanese invaders. It ends in 1958 when the village collective joins in regional efforts to control the river. It is one of the first movies after the " cultural revolution" to include some new humanistic elements in the story line. S: Li Zhun; D: Xie Tieli and Chen Huaikai; M: Beijing.

Guerrlia of Honghu Lake(Honghu Chiweidui, C-1961, VC)---The story of guerrillas in action around Honghua Lake in Hubei Province is set to music, which became popular for its beautiful songs sung by the female star Wang Yuzhen, D: Xie Tian, chen Fangqian, xu Feng; C: Wang Yuzhen, Xia Kuibin, Xie Tian; M: Beijing

Guerrilla of the Hui Nationality(Huimin Zhidui, C-1959,VC)---Hui nationality hero Ma Benzhai leads a guerrilla force against Japanese invasion troops in this war film set in 1937-1945. D: Feng Yifu, Lijun; C: Li Bo, Jia Liu, Hu Peng; M: August First.

Guerrillas on the plain(Pingyuan Youjidui, BW-1955,VC)---Legendary Li Xiangyang leads a guerrilla band against the Japanese invasion troops in this film , one of the most popular of its genre. Li Xiangyang became a household hero . D: Su Li, Wu Zhaoti; C: Guo Zhenqing, Fang Hua; M: Changchun

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