Qiu Haitang

19431943
3h 22m

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During the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is mor... Read allDuring the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is moral and upright man. He takes the stage name Qiu Haitang and is invited to dinner by an adm... Read allDuring the Republic of China (1912-1949), a Beijing Opera actor named Wu Yuqin specializes in performing in female roles. Though this tradition has always had a dubious history, Yuqin is moral and upright man. He takes the stage name Qiu Haitang and is invited to dinner by an admiring warlord Yuan. He later meets Luo Xiangqi, a graduate of a female performance school.... Read all

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- Weibang Ma-Xu
- Weibang Ma-Xu(adaptation)
- Shouou Qin(novel)
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Yukun Lu

Qiu Haitang
(as Yukun Lü)

Li Hua Li

Luo Xiangqi
(as Li Lihua)
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Chih-Ching Yang

Zhao Yukun

Naidong Wang

Yuan Shaowen

Tong Qin

Ji Zhaoxiong
(as Qin Tong)

Hongda Guan

Zhao Si

Qi Zhou

Shen Ma Zi

Ying Yan

Liu Yuhua

Gao Mangsheng

Warlord Hu

Jianfei He

Song Shi Fu

Wei Hong

Meng's wife

Xiu Jiang

Minister Ma

Xin Liang

Xiao Gou Zi

Jen-Chieh Liu

Rich playboy C
(as Renjie Liu)

Ji Ma

Shaohua's mother

Wei Qin

Wang Lao Er

Quan Qiu

Yuan Baofan

Guangyou Tan

Shang Lao Er

- Weibang Ma-Xu
- Weibang Ma-Xu(adaptation)
- Shouou Qin(novel)
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The Shanghai film in decline

The opening is promising with the courtyard of children being trained in acrobatics by the opera troop, while the female impersonator lead bewails his lot now that local war lord Zhu has shown lecherous interest in him. Is this character the cinema's first degenerate? Anyway we're on the way to a corrective to FAREWELL to the CONCUBINE.

Unfortunately the plot soon veers into soap opera. The child of the illicit couple grows to be the actress playing her mother, raised by her disfigured dad. The odd moody shot resembles the director's MIDNIGHT SONGS.

The glimpses of Chinese Opera are unremarkable. The sound is like a US film of ten year earlier and the opticals are covered with white negative scratches. This one shows the lively Shanghai film of the thirties in decline but it's still better than more admired Chinese items of the day like THE SPRING RIVER FLOWS EAST.

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