Crossroads (1937 film)
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| Crossroads | |
| Directed by | Shen Xiling |
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| Written by | Shen Xiling |
| Starring | Zhao Dan Bai Yang |
| Cinematography | Zhou Shimu Wang Yuru |
| Distributed by | Mingxing Film Company United States (DVD): Cinema Epoch |
| Release date(s) | 1937 |
| Running time | 110 min |
| Language | Mandarin |
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| Chinese name | |
| Simplified Chinese: | 十字街头 |
| Traditional Chinese: | 十字街頭 |
| Pinyin: | Shízì jiētóu |
Crossroads is a 1937 Chinese tragicomic film directed by Shen Xiling and starring Bai Yang and Zhao Dan. The film exemplified the growing trend of Chinese films by the mid-1930s of incorporating references (both veiled and explicit) to the war with Japan. In this way, Crossroads joins films like Blood on Wolf Mountain by Fei Mu and The Big Road by Sun Yu.
Produced by Mingxing Film Company, the film also represented an expansion by Mingxing into the leftist film market that had been dominated by its rival Lianhua Film Company, due to a flagging financial situation.[1]
In 2001, a sequel was made, despite the half-century gap, entitled "New Crossroads".
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[edit] Plot
The film deals with four college graduates, Zhao, Tang, Liu and Xu, as they make their way in life in 1930s China. The story is driven both by their struggles and by a romantic side-plot wherein Zhao (played by Zhao Dan) falls in love with a young factory technician (played by Bai Yang) without realizing that she is the neighbor with whom he has been feuding with in his cramped apartment building.
With the suicide of one friend, however, and the growing war with Japan, the remaining friends begin to reconsider their lives.
[edit] DVD release
Crossroads was released on Region 0 DVD in the United States on May 8, 2007 by Cinema Epoch. The disc features English subtitles and also includes Sun Yu's Daybreak.
[edit] References
- ^ APT5: Political Landscapes. The 5th Annual Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Retrieved on 2007-04-10.
[edit] External links
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- Crossroads at the Internet Archive (full movie)
- Crossroads at the Internet Movie Database
- Crossroads at Allmovie
- Crossroads summary at the University of California, San Diego
- Crossroads at the Hawaii International Film Festival
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