Blood on Wolf Mountain
Blood on Wolf Mountain | |
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Traditional | 狼山喋血記 |
Simplified | 狼山喋血记 |
Mandarin | Láng shān dié xuě jì |
Directed by | Fei Mu |
Written by | Fei Mu |
Starring | Lan Ping Li Lili Zhang Yi |
Production company | Lianhua Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
Blood on Wolf Mountain, also known as The Wolf Hill, Bloodbath in Langshan, and Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, is a Chinese film directed by acclaimed Shanghainese film director Fei Mu. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with Imperial Japan, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan that had been going on intermittently since the Invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The film was produced by the Lianhua Film Company and was released in November of 1936.[1]
Plot[]
The film tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Though the symbolism was clear, the Japanese themselves refused to acknowledge that they could be represented by blood-thirsty wolves.[2]
Cast[]
Blood on Wolf Mountain starred actresses Li Lili, and Lan Ping (who later in life would adopt the name Jiang Qing and gain notoriety as the wife of Mao Zedong and a member of the Gang of Four).
See also[]
- Second Sino-Japanese War, the political background behind Blood on Wolf Mountain
- Cinema of China
- The first episode of BBC documentary Can't Get You Out of My Head by Adam Curtis is called Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain.
References[]
- ^ "Jiang Qing and the "Year of Nora" 1935: Drama and Politics in the Republican Period". International Conference "Women in Republican China". 6 October 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2007.
- ^ "A Blue Apple in a City for Sale". Time. 27 March 1977. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2007.
External links[]
- Blood on Wolf Mountain at IMDb
- Blood on Wolf Mountain at the Chinese Movie Database
- 1936 films
- Mandarin-language films
- 1936 drama films
- Chinese films
- Chinese drama films
- Chinese black-and-white films
- Second Sino-Japanese War films
- Lianhua Film Company films
- Films directed by Fei Mu
- Chinese film stubs