In 1930, two sisters from the countryside, the serious Zhang Lan (Ruan Lingyu) and the frivolous Zhang Tao graduate from the secondary school where their mother Zhang Jie serves as principal. They both love their cousin Zuo, but have ambitions other than marriage. Their lives change dramatically when both attend university in Shanghai and encounter modern urban life and rapidly changing society. The film also depicts the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek's 1934 New Life Movement. Lianhua Film Studio did the film to appease the Nationalist Party which accused it of primarily presenting left-wing films, which was true.
Ming-Yau Lo
Director, Writer
Zhu Shilin
Director
Cho-cho Lam
Zhang Tao
Li Lili
Zhang Jie
Peng Luo
Bo Yang
Ruan Lingyu
Zhang Lan
Zheng Jun-li
Chen Zuo
Y. C. Wong Kwan-Ching
Xu Wen
Jingling Hong
Jiqun Liu
观音山68%
Dancing at Lughnasa59%
Little Women78%
Little Women73%
Sight64%
Howards End69%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl72%
大红灯笼高高挂79%
七月与安生72%
春江水暖73%
To All the Boys I've Loved Before75%
南京照相馆80%
飛渡捲雲山61%
Yoh! Bestie63%
四大名捕大结局61%
Rifkin's Festival61%
Skin64%
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate68%
Stargirl73%
Holler60%
