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The Peach Girl
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Wikipedia article
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|caption=DVD cover
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|director=Bu Wancang
|writer=Bu Wancang
|starring=
|producer=Lay Min Wei
|cinematography=Wong Siao Fen
|studio=Lianhua Film Company
|runtime=100 min. (at 20 frames per second)
|released=1931
|country=Republic of China
|language=Silent film, with Chinese and English intertitles
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'The Peach Girl', also known as 'Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood',[https://ceaslibrary.uchicago.edu/asset.php?assetid=0003434&sort=Status&dir=0 Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago] 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
The film deals with an innocent country girl Miss Lim (Ruan) and her relationship with the landlord's son (Jin).
Cast
* Ruan Lingyu (credited as Lily Yuen) as Miss Lim
* 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
The film was remade in 1957 into a Hokkien-language Singaporean-Hong Kong film, 'Peach Blossom Weeps Blood', which was directed by Chen Huanwen () and starring Kong Fan (), Pai Yun (), Lin Yanyan () and Ivy Ling Po (then using the stage name Xiaojuan ).
References
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