Han Lan-Gen Movies

The entaglement of a deserted child Qiling who start to work for his biological father Menghua’s construction company 24 years later.

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1: Two...

An upper-class son of urbane landowners falls in love with a peasant girl. When a pregnancy results, the couple are kept apart by strict societal mora...

Old Shanghai

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.

Chinese horror movie from 1938.

A mad scientist dresses up as a gorilla to kidnap young girls, so he can use their brains to produce the elixir of life...

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada),one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide...

Historical film based on the life of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history

During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai. Althou...

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character. Spe...

Two famous comedians from pre-Revolution days perform a series of sketches in a theatre for a group of Party cadres. The stage performances blend over...

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...