List of Chinese films before 1930
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This is a list of the earliest films produced and released before 1930 during the Qing Dynasty and Republican China, ordered by year of release.
For an alphabetical listing of Chinese films see Category:Chinese films.
1905-1929[]
Title | Chinese Title | Director | Actors | Genre | Notability | |
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1905 | ||||||
Dingjun Mountain | 定軍山 | Tan Xinpei | Historical Drama | This recording of a Beijing opera performance constitutes the first Chinese film ever made | ||
1913 | ||||||
The Difficult Couple | 難夫難妻 | Zhang Shichuan, Zheng Zhengqiu |
Short | First Chinese short feature film | ||
1917 | ||||||
黑籍冤魂 | Zhang Shichuan, |
Drama/Social Criticism | Based on a novel by Wu Jianren | |||
1921 | ||||||
閻瑞生 | Ren Pengnian | Docudrama | First full-length Chinese film, a dramatized recreation of a 1920 Shanghai murder case | |||
1922 | ||||||
Laborer's Love | 勞工之愛情 | Zhang Shichuan | Silent | Earliest surviving complete film[1][2] | ||
An Empty Dream[3] | ? | Ren Pengnian | ? | Wuxia | ||
海誓 | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu | Drama | |||
紅粉骷髏 | Action/Crime | One of the earliest Chinese films with extensive martial arts scenes. | ||||
張欣生 | Zhang Shichuan | Crime | Early Mingxing Film Company production based on a real-life patricidal case.[4] | |||
1923 | ||||||
清虛夢 | Ren Pengnian | Short | Adapted from a short story in Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio | |||
孝婦羹 | Ren Pengnian | Drama | Adapted from a short story in Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio | |||
蓮花落 | Ren Pengnian | Zhang Huichong | Drama | Adapted from a classic Chinese opera | ||
孤兒救祖記 | Zhang Shichuan | , , |
Drama | First major success by Mingxing[4] | ||
鬆柏緣 | Ren Pengnian | , |
Drama | |||
古井重波記 | Dan Duyu | Drama | ||||
1924 | ||||||
棄兒 | Dan Duyu | Drama | Adaptation of Shakespeare's "Oliver Twist"[clarification needed] | |||
水火鴛鴦 | Cheng Bugao | Romance | Cast consisted of child actors, averaging about 10 years of age | |||
俠義少年 | Crime | Alternate title: A Chivalrous Youth | ||||
好兄弟 | Ren Pengnian | Zhang Huichong | Drama | |||
棄婦 | Li Zeyuan Hou Yao |
Drama | Tragedy advocating greater rights for women | |||
誘婚 | Zhang Shichuan | Zheng Zhengqiu, Maxu Weibang, Yang Naimei |
Drama | Alternate title: Love and Vanity | ||
愛國傘 | Ren Pengnian | Zhang Huichong | Action/Crime | |||
苦儿弱女 | Zhang Shichuan | Yang Naimei |
Drama | |||
人心 | , |
, Zhang Zhiyun, |
Romance | Alternate title: Human Feelings | ||
大義滅親 | Ren Pengnian | Drama | Alternate title: The Edge of Chivalry | |||
玉梨魂 | Zhang Shichuan | Yang Naimei |
Drama/Social Criticism | Adapted from a novel by , an early plea for increased rights for women. | ||
采茶女 | Yang Naimei | Romance | ||||
孽海潮 | Crime | |||||
弟弟 | Dan Duyu | Drama | ||||
1925 | ||||||
盲孤女 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin |
Drama | |||
情天劫 | Ren Pengnian | Drama | ||||
情海風波 | Zhang Huichong | Zhang Huichong |
Crime/Action | |||
人面桃花 | Chen Shouyin | Romance | ||||
可憐的閨女 | Zhang Shichuan | Zhang Zhiyun | Drama | |||
上海一婦人 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin Maxu Weibang |
Drama | |||
一串珍珠 | Li Zeyuan | Drama | Adaptation of Maupassant's "The Necklace" | |||
苦學生 | Drama | |||||
覺悟 | Drama | |||||
戰功 | Zhang Zhiyun |
War/Romance | ||||
摘星之女 | Li Zeyuan |
Romance | ||||
愛伸的玩偶 | Hou Yao |
Drama | ||||
南华梦 | Jiang Naifang |
Drama | Alternate title: South China Dream | |||
南华梦 | Jiang Naifang |
Drama | Alternate title: South China Dream | |||
醉鄉遺恨 | Drama | |||||
好哥哥 | Zhang Shichuan | Yang Naimei |
Drama | |||
女俠李飛飛 | Shao Zuiweng | Action/Romance | ||||
最后之良心 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin |
Drama | |||
小朋友 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin |
Drama | Based on the novel Sans Famille by Hector Malot | ||
劫后緣 | Zhang Huichong | Zhang Huichong |
Action | Alternate title: Lovers From a Den of Thieves | ||
前情 | Zhu Shouju | Drama | ||||
春閨夢裡人 | Li Zeyuan |
War | ||||
立地成佛 | Shao Zuiweng | Drama | ||||
重返故鄉 | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu | Morality Play | Alternate title: Returning Home | ||
The Stormy Night | 風雨之夜 | Zhu Shouju | Comedy | |||
沙場淚 | Cheng Bugao | War/Romance | ||||
花好月圓 | Li Pingqian |
Romance | Alternate title: Conjugal Bliss | |||
真愛 | Chen Tian | Tragedy | ||||
不堪回首 | Li Pingqian |
Drama | ||||
情弦變音記 | Drama | |||||
誰是母親 | Drama | Based on Le Fils Naturel by Alexandre Dumas, fils | ||||
楊花恨 | Shi Dongshan | Wang Naidong |
Alternate title: Catkins | |||
小廠主 | Lu Jie | Drama | ||||
Dan Duyu | Drama | Adapted from Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||||
馮大少爺 | Hong Shen | Alternate title: The Playboy | ||||
1926 | ||||||
夫妻之秘密 | Shao Zuiweng | Hu Die | ||||
多情的女伶 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin |
Drama | |||
Better Go Home | 不如歸 | War | Adapted from a novel by Tokutomi Roka | |||
傳家寶 | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu |
Mystery | |||
地獄天堂 | ||||||
孟姜女 | Shao Zuiweng | Hu Die | Dramatization of a famous folk tale | |||
同居之愛 | Shi Dongshan | |||||
Love and Gold | 愛情與黃金 | Zhang Shichuan Hong Shen |
Hong Shen |
Drama | ||
情場怪人 | Ma-Xu Weibang | Alternate title: Monster in Love. | ||||
呆中福 | Zhu Shouju | Comedy | One of Chinese cinema's first full-length comedies, adapted from a Kunqu opera | |||
Midnight Lovers | 半夜情人 | Drama | ||||
道義之交 | Drama | |||||
Mother's Happiness | 兒孫福 | Shi Dongshan | Drama | |||
電影女明星 | Shao Zuiweng | Hu Die |
Drama | |||
空谷蘭 | Zhang Shichuan | Zhang Zhiyun, Yang Naimei, |
Drama | Released in two parts. Based on the 1900 Japanese novel "No no Hana" (Wildflower) by Kuroiwa Ruikō. | ||
珍珠塔 | Shao Zuiweng | Hu Die | Romance | Adapted from a classic Qing dynasty novel | ||
倡門之子 | Drama | |||||
The Rich Man's Daughter | 富人之女 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin | Drama | ||
奪國寶 | Zhang Huichong | Zhang Huichong |
Action | |||
窗前足影 | ||||||
上海三女子 | Yang Naimei Jiang Naifang |
Alternate title: Shanghai Three Women | ||||
Uproar in the Studio | 大鬧畫室 | Wan brothers | Animation | First Chinese animated short | ||
白蛇傳 | Shao Zuiweng | Hu Die |
Action/Fantasy | Tianyi Film Company production and a significant overseas success in Southeast Asia[4] | ||
玉潔冰清 | Bu Wancang | Zhang Zhiyun | Drama | |||
工人之妻 | Ren Pengnian | Romance | ||||
1927 | ||||||
二八佳人 | Zheng Zhengqiu | Drama | ||||
女兒國 | Li Pingqian |
Hu Die | Based on a section of Journey to the West | |||
挂名的夫妻 | Bu Wancang | Ruan Lingyu | Mingxing Film Company production. Ruan Lingyu's movie debut. | |||
一仇箭 | Yang Aili | Action | Based on a story in Water Margin | |||
浪女窮途 | Yang Aili | Drama | ||||
白芙蓉 | Chen Tian | Action/Romance | ||||
美人計 | Zhu Shouju, et al. | Zhang Zhiyun | Based on two chapters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms | |||
海角詩人 | Hou Yao | Li Dandan Hou Yao Lim Cho Cho |
Drama | |||
The Cave of the Silken Web | 盤絲洞 | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu | Silent. Shenmo | Thought to be lost. Rediscovered in 2013. | |
紅樓夢 | Ren Pengnian | Wen Yimin |
Drama | |||
梅花落 | Zhang Shichuan Zheng Zhengqiu |
Zhang Zhiyun Xuan Jinglin |
Drama | Released in three parts | ||
唐伯虎點秋香 | Shao Zuiweng |
Chen Yumei |
Comedy | |||
For Her Father's Sake | 為親犧牲 | Zhang Shichuan | Zhang Zhiyuan | Drama | ||
薛仁貴征西 | Action | Released in two parts | ||||
大俠白毛腿 | Hu Die | |||||
兒女英雄 | Wen Yimin | Wen Yimin |
Action | First of a five-part series | ||
實業大王 | Drama | Adapted from Les Misérables | ||||
夜明珠 | Chen Tian | Action/Crime | ||||
山東馬永貞 | Zhang Shichuan | Zhang Huichong |
Action | Remade in 1972 as Boxer from Shantung | ||
華麗緣 | Chen Tian | Action | Alternate title: Reunited | |||
車遲國唐僧斗法 | Zhang Shichuan | Adapted from Journey to the West | ||||
桃李爭春 | Romantic Comedy | |||||
月老離婚 | Hou Yao | Romantic Comedy | ||||
可憐的秋香 | Romance | |||||
鐵扇公主 | Li Pingqian | Hu Die Chen Yumei |
Based on the novel Journey to the West | |||
真假千金 | Zhang Shichuan | Xuan Jinglin |
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再造共和 | War | |||||
俠鳳奇緣 | Zhang Shichuan | Yang Naimei | ||||
烏盆記 | Zhu Shouju | Crime | First film made about real-life Chinese magistrate Judge Bao | |||
復活的玫瑰 | Li Minwei | Lim Cho Cho Li Minwei |
Drama | |||
Romance of the Western Chamber | 西廂記 | Hou Yao | Adaption of the classic Chinese dramatic work by Wang Shifu | |||
Cheng Bugao | Drama | |||||
山東響馬 | Action | |||||
湖邊春夢 | Bu Wancang | Yang Naimei |
Drama | |||
血淚碑 | Zheng Zhengqiu | Ruan Lingyu |
Tragedy | |||
Tian Qilang | 田七郎 | Zhang Shichuan | Zhang Huichong | |||
天涯歌女 | Ouyang Yuqian | Li Dandan | Tragedy | |||
女律師 | Hu Die | Drama | Adapted from The Merchant of Venice | |||
楊貴妃 | Dan Duyu | Drama | Story of legendary imperial concubine Yang Guifei | |||
1928 | ||||||
柳暗花明 | Lu Jie | Drama | Released in two parts | |||
夜光珠 | Shao Zuiweng | Chen Yumei | Crime | |||
上海一舞女 | Wang Naidong |
Drama | ||||
奮斗的婚姻 | Cheng Bugao | Hu Die |
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海外奇緣 | Chen Tian | Action/Adventure | ||||
小偵探 | Bu Wancang | Crime | ||||
熱血鴛鴦 | Romance | |||||
美人關 | Bu Wancang | Yang Naimei |
War | |||
意中人 | Romance | |||||
Burning of the Red Lotus Temple | 火燒紅蓮寺 | Zheng Zhengqiu (pt.1) Zhang Shichuan (pts.2-19) |
Hu Die |
Action | 19 parts, adapted from a martial arts novel by | |
紅樓夢 | Yin Mingzhu |
Drama | ||||
妖光俠影 | Yang Aili | Action | Adapted from a section of Journey to the West | |||
荒唐劍客 | Action | |||||
五女復仇 | Lim Cho Cho Li Dandan |
Crime | ||||
航空大俠 | Chen Tian | Action/Adventure | ||||
飛行鞋 | Adapted from a German children's story | |||||
王氏四俠 | Shi Dongshan | Action | ||||
女偵探 | Zhang Shichuan | Hu Die | Crime | |||
大俠復仇記 | Zhang Shichuan | Hu Die |
Action | Remade in Hong Kong in 1949 | ||
觀音得道 | Lim Cho Cho Li Dandan |
The Miao Shan legend version of Guanyin | ||||
江湖情俠 | Wen Yimin | Wen Yimin |
Action | Alternate title: "Jianghu Lovers" | ||
泣荊花 | Wen Yimin |
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大俠甘風池 | Yang Aili |
Action | ||||
黑衣女俠 | Zheng Zhengqiu Cheng Bugao |
Action | ||||
侠女救夫人 | Zheng Zhengqiu | Hu Die | Action | |||
北京楊貴妃 | Zheng Zhengqiu | Yang Naimei Ruan Lingyu |
Drama | The Yang Guifei story, retold in a modern setting | ||
就是我 | Zhu Shouju | Wang Naidong |
Crime | |||
一腳踢出去 | Zhang Shichuan Hong Shen |
Romance | First Chinese film having sports as a background. Alternate title: "Classmates' Romance" | |||
金錢之王 | Crime | |||||
Luoyang Bridge | 蔡狀元建造洛陽橋 | Zhang Shichuan | Ruan Lingyu |
Adapted from the classical opera "Number One Scholar Cai Builds the Luoyang Bridge", the story of early structural engineer Cai Xiang | ||
馬振華 | Zhu Shouju |
Drama | ||||
二度梅 | Zhu Shouju | Historical Drama | ||||
Yang Aili |
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Mulan Joins the Army | 木蘭從軍 | Hou Yao | Li Dandan | War | ||
Ren Pengnian | Action | |||||
愛國魂 | Drama | One of China's first "Resistance films", urging opposition to Japanese encroachment on Chinese territory. | ||||
在世姻緣 | Lim Cho Cho Li Dandan |
Drama | ||||
盧鬢花 | Dan Duyu | Action | Story of the legendary folk hero, transplanted to China. Alternate title: "The Small Swordsman" (小劍客) | |||
盧鬢花 (續集) | Dan Duyu | Action | Sequel. Alternate title: "The Towering Demon" (萬丈魔) | |||
戰地情天 | Li Minwei |
War/Romance | ||||
清宮秘史 | Historical Drama | |||||
古宮魔影 | Adapted from an episode in Journey to the West | |||||
花國大總統 | Yang Naimei | |||||
銀槍盜 | Crime | Alternate title: "Who But Myself Can Do It?" | ||||
蜘蛛黨 | Crime | |||||
漁叉怪俠 | Sun Yu | Yan Yuexian |
Action | |||
奇女子 | Shi Dongshan | Yang Naimei |
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真假孫行者 | Li Zeyuan | Adapted from a section of Journey to the West | ||||
雙劍俠 | Action | |||||
黃天霸招親 | Drama | |||||
白雲塔 | Zheng Zhengqiu | Hu Die Ruan Lingyu |
Drama | Released in two parts | ||
武鬆血濺鴛鴦樓 | Action | Based on a story in Water Margin | ||||
少奶奶的扇子 | Hong Shen, Zhang Shichuan |
Xuan Jinglin | Adapted from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde | |||
1929 | ||||||
聰明笨伯 | Comedy | |||||
雙雄斗劍 | Shi Dongshan | Ma-Xu Weibang |
Action | |||
女盜蘭姑娘 | Crime/Action | |||||
理想中的英雄 | Action/Adventure | |||||
奇俠救國記 | Action/Romance | |||||
情欲寶鑑 | Li Pingqian | Ruan Lingyu | Drama | |||
劫后孤鴻 | Li Pingqian | Ruan Lingyu Li Pingqian |
Tragedy | |||
女伶復仇記 | Bu Wancang | Drama | Alternate title: Blind Love | |||
塵海奇俠 | Action/Romance | |||||
雪中孤雛 | Drama/Action | |||||
刀下美人 | Zheng Zhengqiu | Drama | ||||
愛人的血 | Cheng Bugao | Hu Die |
Drama | |||
黑貓 | Action | |||||
火燒七星樓 | Qian Siying | Action | First of a five-part series, released 1929-30. | |||
糖美人 | Drama | |||||
駱駝王 | ||||||
五十五號偵探 | Crime | |||||
偵探之妻 | Crime | |||||
混世魔王 | Ma-Xu Weibang | Ma-Xu Weibang | Horror | |||
金剛鑽 | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu |
Adventure | |||
離婚 | Cheng Bugao | Hu Die |
Drama | Adapted from the novel of the same name by Lao She. Remade in 1992. | ||
同心劫 | Bu Wancang | |||||
Yan Yuexian Yang Aili |
Action/Romance | |||||
虎口余生 | Action | |||||
荒唐將軍 | Shi Dongshan | Chen Yumei |
Action | Alternate title: The River Hero Stabs the Tiger | ||
銀幕之花 | Ruan Lingyu |
Tragedy | ||||
飛俠呂三娘 | Action | |||||
王氏四俠 (續集) | Jin Yan |
Action | Sequel to the 1928 film of the same title | |||
無敵英雄 | Shao Zuiweng | Zhang Huichong |
Action | |||
半夜飛頭記 | Action | |||||
火裡英雄 | Action | Alternate title: Fireman | ||||
紅俠 | Wen Yimin | Wen Yimin |
Action | |||
熱血男兒 | Yang Aili |
Romance | Alternate title: Her Love | |||
Don't Change Your Husband | 情海重吻 | |||||
富人的生活 | Cheng Bugao | Hu Die |
Drama | |||
Alternate title: The Frame-Up | ||||||
兒子英雄 | Action/Adventure | Alternate title: Poor Daddy. Oldest surviving full-length Chinese film. | ||||
恐怖之夜 | Suspense | |||||
爸爸愛媽媽 | Cheng Bugao | Hu Die |
Drama | |||
Li Pingqian | Ruan Lingyu |
Drama | ||||
小霸王張沖 | Zhang Huichong | Zhang Huichong |
Released in two parts | |||
海上霸王 | Action | |||||
懺悔 | Zhang Shichuan | Drama | ||||
風流劍客 | Sun Yu | Jin Yan |
Action/Romance | Alternate title: The Rose and the Lady. (薔薇與美人) First lead role for Jin Yan, 1930s matinee idol. | ||
隱痛 | ||||||
妹妹我愛你 | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu |
Comedy | |||
荒村怪俠 | Action | |||||
血淚黃花 | Zheng Zhengqiu Cheng Bugao |
Hu Die |
Released in two parts. Alternate title: Huang Lu's Romance | |||
鐵蹄下 | Alternate title: In Hell | |||||
Wang Zhengxin |
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女海盜 | ||||||
戰地小同胞 | Zheng Zhengqiu | |||||
小英雄劉進 | Cheng Bugao | Action |
Mainland Chinese Film Production Totals[]
Year | Total Films[5] |
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1905 | 2 |
1906 | 3 |
1907 | 2 |
1908 | 1 |
1913 | 13 |
1916 | 1 |
1919 | 1 |
1920 | 4 |
1921 | 12 |
1922 | 7 |
1923 | 11 |
1924 | 14 |
1925 | 59 |
1926 | 106 |
1927 | 113 |
1928 | 95 |
1929 | 118 |
See also[]
- Cinema of China
- Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures as chosen by the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards
Sources[]
中国影片大典 Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films. 1905-1930, 故事片·戏曲片. (1996). Zhong guo ying pian da dian: 1905-1930. Beijing: 中国电影出版社 China Movie Publishing House. ISBN 7-106-01155-X
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-06. Retrieved 2007-04-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "实验天地 Experiment——劳工之爱情 Laborer's Love".
- ^ Historical Dictionary of Chinese Cinema - Page 113 0810879131 Tan Ye, Yun Zhu - 2012 And sometimes, but not always, martial arts films appear less excessively imbued with violence and bloodshed. The history of the martial arts film can be traced back to the early 1920s, when some pioneering Chinese filmmakers turned to wuxia, “or swordsmen,” novels and other types of fantasy literature for materials to be filmed. Examples include Ren Pengnian's An Empty Dream (1922, adapted from a story in Strange Stories from Liaozhai), Fu Shunnan's A Chivalrous Boy (1924), ...
- ^ a b c "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-09-07. Retrieved 2008-01-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Chinese Films table of contents
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