The Peach Girl

Not to be confused with Peach Girl (film), a 2017 Japanese film.

The Peach Girl
DVD cover
Literally	Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood
Directed by	Bu Wancang
Written by	Bu Wancang
Produced by	Lay Min Wei
Starring	Ruan Lingyu Jin Yan S.Y. Li Wong Kwai-ling
Cinematography	Wong Siao Fen
Production company	Lianhua Film Company
Release date	1931
Running time	100 min. (at 20 frames per second)
Country	Republic of China
Languages	Silent film, with Chinese and English intertitles

The Peach Girl is a 1931 silent film written and directed by Bu Wancang. The cast included some of the major movie stars of the periods including the Korean born actor Jin Yan and the actresses Ruan Lingyu and Zhou Lili.

The film was produced by the Lianhua Film Company, and proved an early success for the studio, in no small part due to the on screen combination of Jin and Ruan, the so-called "Valentino" and "Garbo" of Shanghai cinema, and who starred together in several vehicles before Ruan's suicide in 1935.

A print of the film is currently maintained by the China Film Archives.

Plot

The film deals with an innocent country girl Miss Lim (Ruan) and her relationship with the landlord's son (Jin).

Cast

• Ruan Lingyu (credited as Lily Yuen) as Miss Lim
• Jin Yan (credited as Raymond King) as King Teh-en
• S.Y. Li as Teh-en's mother
• Wong Kwai-ling as Loo Chi, Lim's father
• Chow Lee-lee as Lim's Mother
• Y.C. Lay as Chow Chuen Chuen
• Han Lan-ken as Slim
• Liu Chi Chuen as Fatty
• Y.C. Wong as Chow's Mother
• S.M. Shen as A Brave Man

Remake

The film was remade in 1957 into a Hokkien-language Singaporean-Hong Kong film, Peach Blossom Weeps Blood, which was directed by Chen Huanwen (陳煥文) and starring Kong Fan (江帆), Pai Yun (白雲), Lin Yanyan (林燕燕) and Ivy Ling Po (then using the stage name Xiaojuan 小娟).

External links

• The Peach Girl at IMDb
• The Peach Girl at the dianuing.com
• The Peach Girl at the 5th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival