Blood on Wolf Mountain

Blood on Wolf Mountain, also known as The Wolf Hill, Bloodbath in Langshan, and Bloodshed on Wolf Mountain, is a Chinese film directed by acclaimed Shanghainese film director Fei Mu. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with Imperial Japan, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan that had been going on intermittently since the Invasion of Manchuria in 1931. The film was produced by the Lianhua Film Company and was released in November of 1936.[1]

Blood on Wolf Mountain
Traditional狼山喋血記
Simplified狼山喋血记
MandarinLáng shān dié xuě jì
Directed byFei Mu
Written byFei Mu
StarringLan Ping
Li Lili
Zhang Yi
Production
company
Release date
  • November 1936 (1936-11)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

Plot

The film tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Though the symbolism was clear, the Japanese themselves refused to acknowledge that they could be represented by blood-thirsty wolves.[2]

Cast

Blood on Wolf Mountain starred actresses Li Lili, and Lan Ping (who later in life would adopt the name Jiang Qing and gain notoriety as the wife of Mao Zedong and a member of the Gang of Four).

See also

References
  1. "Jiang Qing and the "Year of Nora" 1935: Drama and Politics in the Republican Period". International Conference "Women in Republican China". 6 October 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2007.
  2. "A Blue Apple in a City for Sale". Time Magazine. 27 March 1977. Retrieved 15 April 2007.


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