Han Lan-Gen Movies

The story was liberally adapted from a short sequence in the popular Chinese folk tale Journey to the West. Princess Iron Fan is a main character....

The story is about a fisherman's family living near to Shanghai. In the beginning, twin babies are born, a boy and a girl. Their growing-up is...

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada), one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to...

During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai....

Historical film based on the life of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor in Chinese history

A young woman must pretend to be a man to visit her grandfather, and gets into some romantic scrapes in the process.

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty.

Sister Ye lives in a rural village, where everyone makes traditional toys. When Sister Ye's husband dies of an unknown illness, and while Ye is...

A country girl and her boyfriend arrive in Shanghai for a better life. They soon find only desperation. She is raped and falls into prostitution as...

Old Shanghai

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

Young sprinter Lin Ying enrolls in a sports college in Shanghai. As she becomes a sports celebrity, she starts to mangle with the upper class and has...

A mad scientist dresses up as a gorilla to kidnap young girls, so he can use their brains to produce the elixir of life...

This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation...

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1: Two...