Three Women (1949)
- Original title
- 丽人行
- Directed by
- Chen Liting
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Three women from different social classes navigate life in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation. A factory worker, a resistance activist, and a bourgeois woman each face their own struggles.
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What happens
Women Side by Side (Chinese: 麗人行), also translated as Three Women and Female Fighters, 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. Denounced as a "poisonous weed" during the Cultural Revolution, the film is now considered a Chinese classic. 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. In many ways it can be seen as a sequel to Cai Chusheng's 1935 film New Women. Produced by the left-wing Kunlun Film Company, the film has a strong anti-Kuomintang government undertone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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