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Street Angel (Chinese: 馬路天使; pinyin: Mǎlù tiānshǐ), also known as Street Angels, is a 1937 left-wing Chinese film directed by Yuan Muzhi (袁牧之) and released by Mingxing Film Company.
Mar 30, 2020 · A genre-defying tragicomedy focused on the lives of the lower classes. Watch two brief video lectures about "Street Angels" (1937): Video lecture 1 (16 mins): • Chinese Film Classics - Street...
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- Modern Chinese Cultural Studies
Dec 31, 2014 · The beautiful young girl Xiao Hong is a singer at a teahouse. She falls in love with her neighbor, a handsome young musician called Xiao Chen....
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Street Angels 馬路天使 (1937) The film: A teenager flees war in northeast China (Japan’s 1931 invasion) and ends up working as a songstress in a restaurant in Shanghai.
The film: A teenager flees war in northeast China (Japan’s 1931 invasion) and ends up working as a songstress in a restaurant in Shanghai. When her foster parents decide to sell her to a thug, she runs away with her boyfriend from across the lane.
Street Angel: Directed by Muzhi Yuan. With Dan Zhao, Heling Wei, Xuan Zhou, Jiting Wang. In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, tried to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
Module 7: Street Angels. (1937) Zhou Xuan sings two hit songs in director Yuan Muzhi’s masterpiece. Set in the slums of Shanghai, Street Angels presents the lives of the urban lower classes in a tragicomic mode, showing camaraderie and fun threatened by sexual and economic exploitation.
