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Nahuling Pagsisisi

Poor Mother and Daughter

Spring Silkworms

This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen. (Source:…

Cosmetics of Market

This is a story about a young Chinese woman's struggles to pursue a career over more traditionally-feminine roles in the 1930s. (Source: MUBI)

Two Versus One

A Modern Woman

A woman addicted to love, willing to sell herself, steal and even go to jail for her lover. (Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = kisskh)

Night in the City

This is the story of a poor family living in China's slums. The daughter is forced to work at the docks. When it is learned that the slum's landlord is preparing to demolish the entire tenement, the daughter is forced…

Daybreak

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as he drifts into revolutionary circles. Her access through her trade grants…

Greedy Neighbours

A foolish wealthy inheritor, whose household is dependent on his wife's competence, finds his estate threatened by a bully neighbor in this allegory of the difficulty of dealing with unchecked aggression and treachery,…

Adesugata Kageboshi: Soso Hen

Kutsukake Tokijiro

~~ Adapted from the work by Hasegawa Shin (長谷川伸).

Tadano Bonji: Jinsei Benkyo

Nightmare of Fortune

Tofu vendor Tsang Tsoi dreams of making it rich through the lottery. But his many attempts to persuade his wife to give him money to buy lottery tickets fail. Later, Tsang dreams that he has indeed struck the lottery.…

Breaking Waves

Yuk Ying, a giri from a fishing family, posseses a talent for swimming. She saves Hon Wing, the son of rich man Chow Sui Tin from drowning when the boy is struck by a boat during a boat race. To reward her, Sui Tin sponsors…

Case of the Wedding Night Twin Corpse

A young police detective who cannot satisfy the material desires of his girlfriend. The girl turns her affection towards a rich man. On their wedding night, the girl and the rich man are murdered. As the police investigate…

Jinya no Shotaro

Tenmei Hatamoto Kasa: Kohen ~ Hareru Hi no Maki

~~Adapted from Hasegawa Shin's (長谷川伸) work

Budo Taikan

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