Spring in a Small Town 小城之春 (1948)
Director Fei Mu’s lyrical masterpiece shows people coping with loss and longing in the aftermath of the Anti-Japanese War.
Spring River Flows East 一江春水向東流 (1947)
An epic melodrama in two parts. A dutiful wife struggles to keep her family together through eight years of war, only to suffer betrayal.
Princess Iron Fan 鐵扇公主 (1941)
Monkey and companions try to outwit a demon’s wife in this animated feature film, which adapts an episode from Journey to the West.
Hua Mu Lan 木蘭從軍 (1939)
A young woman takes her father’s place in the army and protects the Tang empire from invaders in this wartime adaptation of the Mulan legend.
