The Spring River Flows East (1947)
October 9, 1947Release Date
The Spring River Flows East (1947)
October 9, 1947Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Yang Bai
Sufen
Wu Yin
Mother-in-law
Tao Jin
Zhang Zhongliang
Shu Xiuwen
Lizheng Wang
Shangguan Yunzhu
He Wenyuan
Boxun Zhou
Haogong Pang
Chusheng Cai
Director
Zheng Jun-li
Director
Xia Tian
Old Gong
Shen Xilin
Cinematographer
Shi Lin
何大婶
Weiyun Wu
Cinematographer
Gao Zheng
Zhongmin Zhang
Ge Meiqiang
Kang
Shan Liang
Manager Cui
Wang Jing'an
female worker
Menghe Gu
a section chief
Fu Botang
an officer
Jinming Zhu
Director of Photography
Wu Tingfang
Editor / Cinematography
Shangyi Han
Art Designer
Zhang Zheng-Fan
Music
Zhengyi Fu
Editor
Xu Tao
Assistant Director
Qingyu Yuan
Sound
Baorong Niu
Art Direction
Ming Cao
Costume Design
Sung Hsiao-Chiang
Makeup Artist
Lu Yue
Xiaokeng Ye
Tian Guangcai
Lam Wah
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The Spring River Flows East, also translated as The Tears of Yangtze, is a 1947 epic Chinese film written and directed by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli and produced by the Kunlun Film Company. It is considered one of the most influential and extraordinary Chinese films ever made, and China's equivalent of Gone with the Wind. With both films based on the story of war and chaos, they contain an epic style considered classics in the film history of both China and the United States. The Hong Kong Film Awards ranked it in its list of greatest Chinese-language films ever made at number 27. It ran continuously in theatres for three months and attracted 712,874 viewers during the period, setting a record in post World War II China. The film features two of the biggest stars of the time: Bai Yang and Shangguan Yunzhu.The film is over three hours long and consists of two parts, Eight War-Torn Years (八年離亂) and Before and after the Dawn (天亮前後), released in separate dates in the same year, as it first premiered on October 9. It details the trials and tribulations of a family during and immediately after the Second Sino-Japanese War. Part One, Eight War-Torn Years tells the story of the early life and marriage of a young couple, Sufen (Bai Yang) and Zhang Zhongliang (Tao Jin) and the strain produced when the husband is forced to flee to Chongqing, losing contact with the family he leaves behind in wartime Shanghai. Part Two describes Zhang Zhongliang's return to Shanghai after a second marriage into a wealthy business family among whom by chance his impoverished first wife Sufen has found work as a maid.