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Foundation date 1 january 1922
Mingxing Film Company (Chinese: 明星影片公司; pinyin: Míngxīng Yǐngpiān Gōngsī; literally: "Bright Star Film Company") was one of the largest production companies during the 1920s, and 1930s in the Republican era. Founded in Shanghai, the company lasted from 1922 until 1937 when it was closed permanently by the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Filmography of Mingxing Film Company (4 films)
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Street Angel (1937)
, 1h27Directed by Yuan Muzhi
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Zhou Xuan, Ruan Lingyu, Zhao Dan
The film deals with two sisters, Xiao Hong (Zhou Xuan) and Xiao Yun (Zhao Huishen) who have fled from the war in Northeast China to Shanghai, where they are living under the brutal thumb of their adoptive parents. Xiao Yun has already been forced into prostitution while her sister serves as a teahouse singer. Soon the sisters realize that the adoptive parents have decided to sell Xiao Hong to a wealthy patron, whereupon they seek the aid of their neighbors, a street musician, Xiao Chen (Zhao Dan), and his misfit friends.
Crossroads (1937)
, 1h50Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Dan, Wu Yin
The film begins at a dock at Shanghai, where college graduate Xu is contemplating suicide because he cannot find a job. His friend Zhao (Zhao Dan) stops him, and leads him back to their rented apartment. We learn that the four graduate friends are all jobless. Zhao serenades to Xu and dissuades him from thoughts of suicide, asking him to concentrate on his freelance translation job instead. Xu tells Zhao he has decided to sell his degree in order to raise funds to see his mother in the countryside. His other friend Tang comes to celebrate his own birthday with a fourth friend, Liu.
Spring Silkworms (1933)
, 1h36Genres Drama
The film tells the story of a family of poor silk farmers in Zhejiang province, who suffer hardship and deprivation when their crop of silkworm cocoons die off. The film criticizes not only the harsh market conditions that have forced the family into poverty, but the family's own superstitions and selfishness.
Romance of a Fruit Peddler (1922)
, 30minutesGenres Comedy
Actors Zheng Zhengqiu
An unemployed carpenter finds temporary work selling fruit from a pushcart. He meets and falls for a doctor's daughter, but her father opposes the relationship due to the young man's humble station, but he will approve a suitor who helps to rescue his failing medical practice. The carpenter restructures the staircase to a gambling club outside the doctor's office so that it collapses whenever anyone walks on it. The resulting number of injured seeking treatment so increases the doctor's income that he gladly accepts the carpenter as his son-in-law.