Remorse at Death aka A Wedding in the Dream
The story of two people who were forced to marry each without sincere feelings, resulting in a story of life and death.
Fei Mu (费穆, October 10, 1906 Shanghai, China – January 31, 1951, aged 44, Hong Kong) was a prominent Chinese film director in the pre-Communist era.
He was born in Shanghai in 1906 and began his career working as an assistant to film pioneer Hou Yao. Known for his artistic style and costume dramas, he directed his first film, Night in the City, at the age of 27 and received both critical and popular acclaim, although the film is now lost. He continued to make films with the Lianhua Film Company throughout the 1930s and became a major talent in the industry. His 1948 film, Spring in a Small Town, was declared the greatest Chinese film ever made by the Hong Kong Film Critics Society in 2005. After the Communist revolution in 1949, Fei Mu fled to Hong Kong and founded the Longma Film Company, where he produced films until his death in 1951. His work fell into obscurity on the mainland but was rediscovered in the 1980s when the China Film Archive re-opened after the Cultural Revolution.
The story of two people who were forced to marry each without sincere feelings, resulting in a story of life and death.
“Lianhua Symphony” – a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company.
After eight years of marriage to Liyan – once rich but now a shadow of his former self following a long, ruinous war – Yuwen does little except deliver his daily medication. A surprise visit from Liyan’s friend Zhang re-energises the household, but also stirs up dangerously suppressed longings and resentments.
Blood on Wolf Mountain tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with the Japanese, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan.