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Wanderings of Three Hairs the Orphan 三毛流浪記 (1949)

The film:

One for the kids! Sanmao (Three-Hairs) is a comic strip character come to life in this film, which strings together several episodes from the original work’s depiction of the life of a street urchin in Shanghai. Wanderings of Three-Hairs the Orphan culminates in a bedlam ballroom sequence in a mansion. Working at an historical turning point, the filmmakers tacked on the victory parade ending after the People’s Liberation Army entered Shanghai in May 1949.

Sanmao liulang ji
Alternative English titles: An Orphan on the Streets, The Winter of Three-Hairs, The Adventures of Sanmao the Waif
Directors: Zhao Ming 趙明 and Yan Gong 嚴恭
Original story: Zhang Leping 張樂平
Screenplay: Yang Hansheng
Studio: The Peak Film Industries Corp., Ltd. (Kunlun 崑崙)
Date of release: October 30, 1949
Cast: Wang Longji, Lin Zhen, Du Lei, Cheng Mo, Meng Shufan (with cameos by Shangguan Yunzhu, Huang Zongying, Zhao Dan)
70 minutes
English subtitles translated by Christopher Rea

Learn more:

Wanderings of Three-Hairs the Orphan (1949) is discussed in chapter 13 of the book Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949.

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