New Women (1935)

1h 46m
Running Time

January 1, 1935
Release Date

New Women (1935)

1h 46m
Running Time

January 1, 1935
Release Date

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Plot.

Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.

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Cast & Crew.

Ruan Lingyu

Ruan Lingyu

Wei Ming

Moqiu Wang

Moqiu Wang

Mrs Wang

Zheng Jun-li

Zheng Jun-li

Yu Haichou

Yin Xu

Yin Xu

Li Aying

Fang Lian-Ying

Fang Lian-Ying

Old neighbor

Tianxiu Tang

Tianxiu Tang

Wei Ming's sister

Zhou Qian-Yun

Zhou Qian-Yun

Old neighbor's daughter

Wang Naidong

Wang Naidong

Dr. Wang

Yiwei Qiu

Yiwei Qiu

Hong Jing-Ling

Hong Jing-Ling

Manager

Tang Tian-Xiu

Tang Tian-Xiu

Wei Ming's sister

Diu Ban-Wah

Diu Ban-Wah

Dance hostess

Chen Juan-Juan

Chen Juan-Juan

Wei Xiaohong, young daughter

Lung Ling

Lung Ling

Wei Ming's husband

Liu Qiong

Liu Qiong

Doctor A

Shang Guan-Wu

Shang Guan-Wu

Doctor B

Fei Bai-Qing

Fei Bai-Qing

Man in cloth cap

Menghe Gu

Menghe Gu

Qi Weide

Junmou Meng

Junmou Meng

Grip

Situ Huimin

Situ Huimin

Sound Recordist

Sun Shi-Yi

Sun Shi-Yi

Writer

Liu Jin-San

Liu Jin-San

Art Direction

Er Nie

Er Nie

Original Music Composer / Sound

Jie Lu

Jie Lu

Production Manager / Producer

Chusheng Cai

Chusheng Cai

Director

Zhou Daming

Zhou Daming

Director of Photography

Can Zhou

Can Zhou

Sound Recordist

Zhuo Mei

Zhuo Mei

Y. C. Wong Kwan-Ching

Y. C. Wong Kwan-Ching

Details.

Release Date
January 1, 1935

Original Name
新女性

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 46m

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

新女性

Wiki.

New Women (Chinese: 新女性; pinyin: Xīn nǚxìng) is a 1935 Chinese silent drama film produced by the United Photoplay Service. It is sometimes translated as New Woman. The film starred Ruan Lingyu (in her penultimate film) and was directed by Cai Chusheng. This film became one of Ruan Lingyu’s better known works. Her suicide on International Women’s day (8 March 1935) drew attention to the controversial status of new women and made this film a sensation in modern China.

The product of "New Women" has been the result of a social economic trend and reform social movement that has been going on for decades. It offered criticism to China's traditional ideology and offered a change in China’s “old women” to “new women” as an alternative social convention. New Women was considered to be a “problem film” in inciting “the woman question”. This question is actually a set of questions which pertain to how the ‘new women’ of China would be considered within society. Questions such as what is the current reality of women’s status in China, who are China’s new women, and what their lives should be like were part of “the woman question”.

New Women was based upon the life of Chinese actress and writer, Ai Xia, who had committed suicide in 1934. Ai Xia's death following her role in A Modern Woman (1933) inspired Cai Chusheng to emulate the tragedy in this film.

A print of New Women is currently maintained by the China Film Archive.

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