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- 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.
- Four students in Shanghai have recently finished university. All are unemployed. Xu contemplates suicide but his friend Zhao talks him out of it. Zhao lives in a shabby room with just a flimsy wall of planks separating him from the room behind. Miss Yang, in town to take a factory job, moves in behind. Her nails into the wall knock Zhao's photos down. The unseen neighbours start playing tit for tat... Zhao gets a job as proofreader at a newspaper. He sees that pretty girl on the tram to work every day. He doesn't know her, but it's Miss Yang... Zhao is assigned to cover labour conditions for the paper. He is sent to a factory, the one where Miss Yang works...
- This movie was adapted from a newspaper serial (Strange Tales of the Adventurer in the Wild Country) and released in 18 feature-length parts over a period of 3 years (1928-31). In its entirety it would be 27 hours long.
- Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients. With some creative carpentering, Chang sets about augmenting the doctor's income.
- This early classic of Golden Age Shanghai cinema echoes Visconti's classic La Terra Trema in its beautifully rendered story of a humble silk-farming family struggling to be free of debt to exploitative middlemen.
- Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of her sister, now the pampered wife of a warlord general.
- The first Chinese sound film. It tells the story of Hong Pion (Red Peony), a singer-songwriter who, after her marriage to the depraved Faxiang Chen, not only tormented and suffered, but also endured the decline of her artistic career.
- A primary school teacher rallies the citizens of a small town to resist the corruption of the local government and unite to build reinforcements against an oncoming flood.
- A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career. Some led destructive lives, while others contributed to the country.
- After learning about the Japanese invasion of China, students Wu Xiaowen, Chen Zhong, Zhou Jie, Hua Zhenmin and their girlfriend Bingyu decided to go north to fight against Japan.
- The New Year's Gift is the story of some lucky money gifted to a girl. It then leaves her and passes from hand to hand.
- The daily life of ordinary people of a Shanghai apartment building: an unemployed person, a singer without an audience, a driver, a teacher, but also the owner of the building and his prodigal son.
- Due to lean years and the poverty that followed, Farmer Wang moved to Shanghai with his wife, daughter and younger brother. The whole family got a job at a tobacco factory, where they earned mere pennies, which they barely had enough to live on. Since the factory was unable to compete with foreign tobacco companies, the harsh conditions of competition led to a gradual reduction in production. Many of the employees were fired, Wang's wife was among the first, and his younger brother, who quarreled with his boss over his salary, ended up in prison. After the company closed, Wang's daughter started working on the streets to save her family from starvation. When Wang learned the truth, he kicked his wife and daughter out of the house. The police arrested Wang for breaking the glass of a mall that had foreign cigarettes on display. This film, having been significantly cut, was released on the screen in November 1933, but after the first demonstration it was banned altogether.
- The ambitious young man Guangxin Zhou decided to go to study in the United States, and before leaving, Guangxin asked his fiancee Shouzhen to wait for him for a few years and they exchanged rings, concluding an agreement for life.
- Before her birth, a girl is betrothed by her parents to a dull-witted man. As she grows to adulthood, she makes several unsuccessful attempts to get out of the arranged marriage, but at last gives in to her parents' wishes and moves in with him. But her husband turns out to be quite different than she expected.