"Lianhua Symphony" AKA: The Story of Lianhua (1937)
Directors: Various filmmakers from Lianhua Film Company
Country: China / China HongKong
Style: Shorts Collection
Color: Black and White
Sound: Mono
IMDB: N/A
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2005, this year is the 100th birthday of chinese cinema, since 1905, the first chinese movie -- "Ding Jun Shan" was made, chinese cinema has gone across a whole century.
"The story of Lianhua", is a short collection, made by 8 filmmakers: Shen Fu, Fei Mu, Tan Youliu, Zhu Shilin, Cai Chusheng... all belong to Shanghai Lianhua Film Company, the biggest film company of china at that time. They're the earliest pioneers of chinese film, the "1th generation" chinese filmmakers. Most of them became very famous several years later, Fei Mu's "Spring in the small town" (1948) was considered the NO.1 greatest chinese movie, Cai Chusheng's "The Spring River Flows East" (1947) is the best chinese melodrama ever made, Shen Fu's "The Lights of Ten Thousand Homes" (1949) is also a banned classic... but at 1937, they're all young filmmakers, so Lianhua Film Company decided to gather them make this legendary shorts collection, to show the world their talents and innovations. so the earliest chinese shorts birthed.
Contrasting in film techniques, they're nothing less than those world movie forthgoers like France, Soviet Union, Germany...Fei Mu's "Nightmares in Spring Chamber" is the most avant-garde segment, deeply inflenced by contemporary german expressionistic films like FW Maunu or Franz Lang, symbolic imagery and cinematography earlier than "Citizen Kane" or Felini's "8 1/2"; Shen Fu's "Three Friends" is a vivid comedy about the poor peoples' life in old Shanghai; Zhu Shilin's "The Ghost" is a thriller style short...this short collection is the best heritage from 1930s Shanghai Film Culture, the golden age of chinese cinema.
These Shorts were lost nearly 70 years due to the incessant wars and the Cultural Revolution in china, but now they were rediscovered by China national film cinematheque in 2003. So dont miss this only chance you can see these ultra hard-to-get rarities (i bet you can not find them if you're not living in china. ), in the long long 100 years chinese film history, these are the deepest unknown treasures.
As a side note, this movie was banned in China by Lan Ping (Namely Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, was responsible for launching the catastrophic Cultural Revolution that ruined China, and as a result, she was deeply hated by every Chinese.), cause she played a minor role in Si-Tu Huimin's segment, all her earlier films were banned by herself during Cultural Revolution. She didnt want peoples know her past.
Content:
Fei Mu - "Nightmares in Spring Chamber"
Zhu Shilin - "The Ghost"
Shen Fu - "Three Friends"
Si-Tu Huimin - "Two Yuans"
Tan Youliu - "The Stranger"
He Mengfu - "Landscape Under the Moonlight"
Sun Yu - "Rhapsody of a Madman"
Cai Chusheng - "Five Little Brothers"
He Mengfu - "Landscape Under the Moonlight" (1937)
12 min.
(Lianhua.Short.3).He.Mengfu.-.Landscape.in.the.Moonlight.(1937).avi 
Sun Yu - "Rhapsody of a Madman" (1937)
5 min.
(Lianhua.Short.2).Sun.Yu.-.Rhapsody.of.a.Madman.(1937).avi 
Fei Mu - "Nightmares in Spring Chamber" (1937) (His only survived short, Fei Mu made nearly 20 films but only 4 of them were survived till now.
)11 min.
(Lianhua.Short.1).Fei.Mu.-.Nightmares.in.Spring.Chamber.(1937).very.rare!!.avi 
Si-Tu Huimin - "Two Chiao" (1937)
(11 min. recover version)
A real portrait of poor and needy peoples' life in 30s Shanghai - one of the most luxury city in the world at that time. Very realistic and powerful story.
btw: do you know which role is Jiang qing's performance? that riksha boy's mother. She appeared only 27 seconds, no dialog, but she banned this film nearly 10 years, luckily she only burned a copy, otherwise we can not see this film today...
(Lianhua.Short.4).Si-Tu.Huimin.-.Two.Chiao.(1937).avi Si-Tu.Huimin.-.Two.Chiao. (1937).EN.srt 
Shen Fu - "Three Friends" (1937)
(12 min.)
A vivid satire slapstick about 3 good guys.
(Lianhua.Short.5).Shen.Fu.-.Three.Friends.(1937).avi Shen.Fu.-.Three.Friends.(1937).EN.srt 
Zhu Shilin - "The Ghost" (1937)
(15 min.)
One of the earliest chinese horror film.
(Lianhua.Short.7).Zhu.Shilin.-.The.Ghost.(1937).avi Zhu.Shilin.-.The.Ghost.(1937).EN.srt 
Tan Youliu - "The Stranger" (1937)
(14 min.)
A fable story. Last 3min montage scenes are very symbolic and remarkable.
(Lianhua.Short.6).Tan.Youliu.-.The.Stranger.(1937).avi Tan.Youliu.-.The.Stranger.(1937).EN.srt 
Cai Chusheng - "Five Little Brothers" (1937)
(23 min)
The earliest chinese child film, Cai Chusheng is the first chinese director using nearly 1000 children acts made this film, he's one of the best chinese director, if you still remember his masterworks "Song of a fishman" "New Woman" and "Spring water flows east".
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.Cai.Chusheng.-.Five.Little.Brothers.(1937).avi Cai.Chusheng.-.Five.Little.Brothers.(1937).EN.srt Finally done!
los dejo en pausa y los ire bajando uno a uno, asi que cuenta conmigo 
muchas gracias por todo auess 
