Sun Yu Movies

History of filmmaking in China from its beginnings in the 1920s to 1982, featuring Shanghai cinema of 1930s; the progressive filmmakers; the...

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. When Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is...

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

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...

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

Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and has...

The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.

General Zhou organized a boat trip with his family and friends, but a storm struck and they were all drifted to a deserted island.

Song Ke lives with his father and younger siblings in the idyllic Willow Blossom Village. Family members pray to Heaven for peace and happiness,...

Ill-fated romance of an orphaned flower girl and a young musician, destroyed by his traditional family and the Shanghai underworld.

Lu Ban, the father of carpentry of China, lived in the Warring States Period more than two thousand years ago. During his travel through the land, he...

A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The...

This film depicting the lives of ordinary people — street peddlers, poor scholars, and young revolutionaries — reflects the culturally...

Yu is a village boat-rower who loves smiling. On the contrary, serf girl xiao Hong never smiles because of her miserable life. Yu volunteers to teach...