The Peach Girl
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| The Peach Girl | |
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 DVD cover | |
| Traditional Chinese | 桃花泣血記 |
| Simplified Chinese | 桃花泣血记 |
| Literal meaning | Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Táohuā Qì Xuě Jì |
| Directed by | Bu Wancang |
| Written by | Bu Wancang |
| Produced by | Lay Min Wei |
| Starring |
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| Cinematography | Wong Siao Fen |
Production company | |
Release date | 1931 |
Running time | 100 min. (at 20 frames per second) |
| Country | Republic of China |
| Languages | Silent film, with Chinese and English intertitles |
The Peach Girl, also known as Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood,[1] is a 1931 silent film written and directed by Bu Wancang. The cast included some of the major movie stars of the periods including the Korean born actor Jin Yan and the actresses Ruan Lingyu and Zhou Lili.
The film was produced by the Lianhua Film Company and proved an early success for the studio, in no small part due to the on screen combination of Jin and Ruan, the so-called "Valentino" and "Garbo" of Shanghai cinema, and who starred together in several vehicles before Ruan's suicide in 1935.
A print of the film is currently maintained by the China Film Archives.
Plot[edit]
The film deals with an innocent country girl Miss Lim (Ruan) and her relationship with the landlord's son (Jin).
Cast[edit]
- Ruan Lingyu (credited as Lily Yuen) as Miss Lim [2]
- Jin Yan (credited as Raymond King) as King Teh-en
- S.Y. Li as Teh-en's mother
- Wong Kwai-ling as Loo Chi, Lim's father
- Chow Lee-lee as Lim's Mother
- Y.C. Lay as Chow Chuen Chuen
- Han Lan-ken as Slim
- Liu Chi Chuen as Fatty
- Y.C. Wong as Chow's Mother
- S.M. Shen as A Brave Man
Remake[edit]
The film was remade in 1957 into a Hokkien-language Singaporean-Hong Kong film, Peach Blossom Weeps Blood, which was directed by Chen Huanwen (陳煥文) and starring Kong Fan (江帆), Pai Yun (白雲), Lin Yanyan (林燕燕) and Ivy Ling Po (then using the stage name Xiaojuan 小娟).
References[edit]
- ^ Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago
- ^ "Peach Girl (1931)". csaa.org.au. 26 July 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
External links[edit]
- The Peach Girl at IMDb
- The Peach Girl at the dianuing.com
- The Peach Girl at the 5th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival
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