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The Stormy Night (1925 film)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
|image=The_Stormy_Night.jpg
|caption=original poster
|native_name=
|director=Zhu Shouju
|writer=Zhu Shouju
|starring=
|country=Republic of China
|language=Silent film, with Chinese and English intertitles
|runtime=~101 minutes
|cinematography=S.M. Chow
|released=December 1925
|studio=Great China Lilium Pictures
}}
'The Stormy Night' is a 1925 Chinese drama film directed and written by novelist Zhu Shouju. Like most Chinese films from this period, it is a black-and-white silent film with both Chinese and English intertitles.
The film was long believed lost, until a print resurfaced in Tokyo, Japan in 2006, which was finally identified in 2011.
Rediscovery
In 2006, descendants of Japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa donated his collection to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In it museum workers discovered a Chinese film (since it had Chinese intertitles), but as the title is missing they were unable to identify it right away. Many years later, Akinari Sato () convincingly confirmed it as 'The Stormy Night' by matching it with reports from old Shanghai newspapers 'Shen Bao' and 'Xinwen Bao' (). Because reports mentioned the film as having 9 reels, and 8 reels are found, Sato believed that no more than 10 minutes could be missing.
The film underwent a digital restoration in 2017 and began screening in China the same year.
Cast
*Han Yunzhen as Mrs. Zhuang
*Zhou Wenzhu
*Wang Shiyan
*Wang Yingzhi
*Yang Jingwo as Yujie
*Bao Mengjiao as Bian Ziming
*Wang Cilong as Doctor
*Li Minghui as Cover girl
*Gong Jianong as Club patron
*Yan Bingheng as Qian Dawei
*Ye Zhongfang as Sleepwalker
*Wang Guoqi as Jiaona
Reception
In 2017, Japanese scholar Fumitoshi Karima () called this film one of the three Chinese films that amazed him, along with silent-era masterpieces 'The Goddess' and 'Love and Duty'. In 2018, Shelly Kraicer called it an "astonishing revelation" on Twitter.
References
Category:1925 films
Category:Films shot in China
Category:Films set in China
Category:Chinese silent films
Category:Chinese drama films
Category:1925 drama films
Category:1920s rediscovered films
Category:Rediscovered Chinese films
Category:Chinese black-and-white films
Category:Silent drama films
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