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Phony Phoenixes

1947 Movie Comedy

Young widow Fan Ruhua feigns the daughter of a tycoon and solicits husbands on papers. But Fan bumped into Yang Xiaomao, a barber, who similarly pretends to be a suiter for a broke businessman to court a daughter from a wealthy family. After a series of misunderstandings, Yang and Fan finally give up vanity and live honest lives.

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A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.

Window to America

1952 Drama
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The story took place in the spring of 2003. The young and beautiful stewardess returned after a small month flight and called a takeaway at home. The postgraduate student of the history department, Zhao Xiaotian, went to work and sent a takeaway. When he came to Xiaoyue’s home, Xiaoyue was shampooing and would not go downstairs, let him send the takeaway. At this time, just happened to encounter the suspected patient of SARS in the building where Xiaoyue lived, so the entire community was quarantined and Xiaotian could not go. A youthful and beautiful, a fascinating, two people who have never met each other suddenly become a room, isolated, a romantic and witty love story, so in this extraordinary period, very place can not be self-explanatory...

38 Degrees

2003 Comedy
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Chen Shaochang (Shi Hui), a primary school principal widowed at a young age, raises his children alone. His close friend's daughter, Liu Minhua (Zhu Jiachen), whom he hasn't seen for many years, begins working at the primary school through his introduction. Chen Shaochang's son, Jianzhong (Han Fei), and daughter-in-law, Feng Lijun (Li Huanqing), consider Chen's job undignified. After retiring, he is filled with melancholy, understood only by Minhua. Although their relationship deepens, they must contend with the ethical and social norms of Republican-era Shanghai.

Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man

1949 Romance

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A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.

Window to America

1952 Drama

Shares 3 cast members · Same director