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Li Wei (actor)
Li Wei (李纬 born Li Zhiyuan 李志远 1919 - 21 August 2005) was a Chinese actor. Filmography * 1948 Spring in a Small Town 小城之春 *1964 Two Stage Sisters 舞台姐妹 * 1983 River Without Buoys 没有航标的河流 * 1990 Ju Dou, Yang Jin-Shan as the elderly husband who buys a wife played by Gong Li Gong Li ( Chinese: 巩俐; born 31 December 1965) is a Chinese actress. She starred in three of the four Chinese-language films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. Gong was born in Shenyang, Liaonin ...Cinemaya - Issues 10-13 - Page 34 1991 "Gong Li's sensuous beauty brings a near sado-masochistic twist to all the scenes when she is brutally beaten by her elderly husband, Jin-shan (played by the veteran actor, Li Wei), who desperately wants an heir. Attracted to the old man's ..." References {{authority control Chinese male film actors 1919 births 2005 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring In A Small Town
''Spring in a Small Town'' is a 1948 black-and-white Chinese film, written by Li Tianji () and directed by Fei Mu, a director known for his empathetic portrayal of women.Daruvala, S. (2007). The aesthetics and moral politics of Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 1(3), 171-187. It was produced and funded by Wenhua Film Company, whose great financial deficit at the time led it to produce ''Spring in a Small Town'' on a low budget with a minimalist plot and setting. The film cast only five characters, and it focuses on the struggles of a husband and wife, and the ensuing turmoil when Zhang Zhichen, Liyan's former classmate and, ironically, Yuwen's former lover, pays an unplanned visit to the residence. The original print of the film is now kept in the China Film Archive. In 2005, at the Hong Kong Film Awards to mark a century of Chinese films, ''Spring in a Small Town'' was voted the best Chinese film ever made. Plot The film takes place in a ruined famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Stage Sisters
Two Stage Sisters is a 1964 Chinese drama film produced by Shanghai Tianma Film Studio and directed by Xie Jin, starring Xie Fang and Cao Yindi. Made just before the Cultural Revolution, it tells the story of two female Yue opera practitioners from the same troupe who end up taking very different paths in their lives: "one succumbs to bourgeois affluence and privilege, while the other finds inspiration and fulfilment in the social commitment associated with the May Fourth movement and the thought of Lu Xun.”Zheng, Aili. "The Realism of Compositional Documentary: Jia Zhangke's "I Wish I Knew"." Pacific Coast Philology 48, no. 1,2013, PP.88-108. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41932641. Accessed June 3, 2020. The film documents their journey through abusive feudal conditions in the countryside before achieving success and prestige on the stage, meanwhile historically following Shanghai's experience under Japanese and KMT rule. This original screenplay depicts the socio-political chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Without Buoys
''River Without Buoys'' () is a 1983 Chinese film directed by Wu Tianming about three timber rafters during the Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ... who decide to rescue a former District Director from a labor camp. Plot Rafting down the Xiao River in Hunan, Pan Laowu (Li Wei (actor), Li Wei) warns his fellow rafter Shi Gu (Hu Ronghua) not to take a wife, because "the wives of rafters are widows even while they live." Pan tells the story of a woman he loved, Wu Aihua (Tao Yuling), whom he never returned to after his raft broke up and he fell into debt. The third rafter, Zhao Liang, is revealed to have a large family (a wife and seven daughters). We learn that Shi Gu is upset because his intended, Gaixiu, has been forced to marry the son of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
