The Peach Girl

The Peach Girl, also known as Peach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood,[1] 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.

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

The Peach Girl
DVD cover
Traditional Chinese桃花泣血記
Simplified Chinese桃花泣血记
Literal meaningPeach Blossom Weeps Tears of Blood
Hanyu PinyinTáohuā Qì Xuě Jì
Directed byBu Wancang
Written byBu Wancang
Produced byLay Min Wei
Starring
CinematographyWong Siao Fen
Production
company
Release date
1931
Running time
100 min. (at 20 frames per second)
CountryRepublic of China
LanguagesSilent film, with Chinese and English intertitles

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 [2]
  • 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).

References
  1. Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago
  2. "Peach Girl (1931)". csaa.org.au. 26 July 2014. Retrieved 21 October 2020.


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