Women Side by Side
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Women Side by Side (Chinese: 麗人行), also translated as Three Women[1] and Female Fighters,[2] is a 1949 Chinese film directed by Chen Liting, made near the end of the Republican era. It is Chen's most famous directorial work.[2] Denounced as a "poisonous weed" during the Cultural Revolution, the film is now considered a Chinese classic.[3]
Women Side by Side | |
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Traditional Chinese | 麗人行 |
Simplified Chinese | 丽人行 |
Literal meaning | An array of beautiful women |
Hanyu Pinyin | Lìrén xing |
Directed by | Chen Liting |
Written by | Tian Han Chen Liting |
Produced by | Ren Zongde |
Starring | Shangguan Yunzhu Huang Zongying Sha Li Zhao Dan Lan Ma [zh] |
Cinematography | Han Zhongliang Wu Weiyun |
Production company | Kunlun Film Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | China |
Language | Mandarin |
The film is adapted from a play of the same title written by the noted leftist playwright Tian Han, who also wrote the 1932 film Three Modern Women. Tian Han and Chen Liting co-wrote the screenplay. The film tells the story of three women in wartime Shanghai under Japanese occupation: an uneducated factory worker, an intellectual resistance activist, and a bourgeois new woman.[1][4] In many ways it can be seen as a sequel to Cai Chusheng's 1935 film New Women.[1] Produced by the left-wing Kunlun Film Company, the film has a strong anti-Kuomintang government undertone.[4]