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The Stormy Night (1925 Film)
''The Stormy Night'' is a 1925 Chinese drama film directed and written by novelist Zhu Shouju. Like most Chinese films from this period, it is a black-and-white silent film with both Chinese and English intertitles. The film was long believed lost, until a print resurfaced in Tokyo, Japan in 2006, which was finally identified in 2011. Rediscovery In 2006, descendants of Japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa donated his collection to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. In it museum workers discovered a Chinese film (since it had Chinese intertitles), but as the title is missing they were unable to identify it right away. Many years later, Akinari Sato (佐藤秋成) convincingly confirmed it as ''The Stormy Night'' by matching it with reports from old Shanghai newspapers ''Shen Bao'' and ''Xinwen Bao'' (新聞報). Because reports mentioned the film as having 9 reels, and 8 reels are found, Sato believed that no more than 10 minutes could be missing. The film underwent a dig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Shouju
Zhu Shouju (1892 – 31 December 1966), born Zhu Junbo, also known by his pen name Haishang Shuomengren, was a Chinese author and filmmaker based in Shanghai. He began his career as a writer of serialized novels. In 1924 he became the chief editor of ''Movie Magazine'' (電影雜誌) and in the same year founded the Lilium Pictures Company (百合影片公司). In 1925 it merged with another film company to become the Great China Lilium Pictures Company (大中華百合影片公司), with Zhu serving as its general manager. Zhu directed at least 15 films in the 1920s, including at least 3 starring Ruan Lingyu who later became a superstar. The majority of his films have been lost, but his 1925 film '' The Stormy Night'' was accidentally re-discovered in Tokyo Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |