![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Spring in a Small Town (小城之春)
Seen by many as the greatest Chinese film ever, Spring in a Small Town is different from other films of the era. In a time when most films were colored by the politics of the time, Spring in a Small Town is a story of a woman with a love dilemma. Subtitles: VobSub (Chinese Simplified & Traditional) English
Keywords: China
Downloads: 6,564
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| Scenes of City Life - 都市风光 - Yuan Muzhi
subtitles are available off this site at http://www.archive.org/details/ScenesOfCityLife-SrtSubtitles A heavily didactic 1935 Shanghai movie which plays as a tragic comedy. A poor guy loves a girl but there's another man after her, and her father is also in the way. It starts out like Charlie Chaplin, but it goes on to show the basic moral failures of the Westernized capitalistic city. While it has its problems (one of the biggest being that it has two huge framing devices right at the beginning...
Keywords: Shanghai; China; Drama; Comedy; B&W
Downloads: 15,481
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| Street Angel (馬路天使)
Shanghai, 1935. The beautiful young girl Xiao Hong is a singer at a teahouse. She falls in love with her neighbor, a handsome young musician called Xiao Chen. Their windows face each other, and Xiao Chen often entertains Xiao Hong with magic tricks through the window. When Xiao Hong discovers that her boss indends to sell her to a rich teahouse customer who has taken a liking to her, Xiao Chen and his eccentric bunch of friends do all they can to stop it...
Keywords: China; Shanghai; drama; comedy
Downloads: 14,820
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