Lianhua Film Company

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The film company Lianhua ( Chin.聯華 影業 公司 / 联华 影业 公司, Pinyin Liánhuá Yǐngyè Gōngsī) was one of the two large film production companies in Shanghai , China in the 1930s . The other was the Mingxing Film Company .

Names

The company's original name was Lianhua Productions . It is also known by a large number of translated names, most notably China Film Company , United China Film Company, and United Photoplay Service . Later, the limited liability company's full name was "Lianhua Film Production and Processing Company, Ltd."

history

At the idea of ​​the Hong Kong businessman Luo Mingyou (Law Ming-Yau), Lianhua was officially registered in Hong Kong in March 1930 by Luo and his partner, director Li Minwei (Lai Man-Wai).

However, the entire company was transferred to bustling Shanghai in 1931. In the same year, the Bright Moonlight Song and Dance Troupe , founded by Li Jinhui , was integrated into the film company. It was the first time a Chinese pop music group became part of the film industry. The company was later also responsible for the rise of the first generation of Shidaiqu music.

The studio itself consisted of four studio branches: Minxin (also founded by Li), Dazhonghua Baihe , Shanghai Yingxi and Xianggong Yingye . All four were independent studios in the 1920s before Lou merged them in the early 1930s.

However, by the mid-1930s, Lianhua's success waned as the war with Japan took its toll on both the company and the city. Japanese bombers destroyed many of Lianhua's operations, including their No. 4 studio, and the company was soon losing money with every film it produced. In 1936, Luo left the Lianhua management. Li Min-wei reformed the Minxin Film Company as an independent studio with parts from Lianhua Studio No. 1. When the nationalist forces withdrew from Shanghai in the late summer of 1937, they sealed the company's ultimate collapse. By the end of the war, Lianhua was almost completely displaced by other film companies, most notably the Xinhua film company .

With the end of the war, many Lianhua's directors returned to Shanghai from Chongqing , Hong Kong and other cities. In particular, Cai Chusheng , who returned in 1946, campaigned for the revival of the name Lianhua. So the Lianhua Film Company was founded. Eventually this new Lianhua was renamed the Kunlun Film Company , which produced many of the greatest films of the 1940s, including The Waters of the Spring Current Flowing East (Directed by Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli , 1947) and Crows and Sparrows (Directed by Zheng Junli , 1949).

Movies

Like its competitors, Lianhua employed many directors who were part of the left film movement. During this time they produced and performed some of the most important films of their time, for example:

Talents

Like other early studios, Lianhua had an in-house talent pool of directors, actors, actresses, and screenwriters. In fact, many talents were under contract with one of the four branches while they were still independent (like Ruan Lingyu, was with Dazhonghua Baihe). The following is a partial list of such talents and personalities:

Directors

Actors and actresses

See also

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