The Spring River Flows East
一江春水向東流
1947 · China · 190 min · 1.37:1 · B&W
Directed by Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli
Introduction
The Spring River Flows East is a 1947 Chinese film written and directed by Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli, with Bai Yang as Sufen, Tao Jin as Zhang Zhongliang, and Shu Xiuwen as Wang Lizhen. It is in two parts and covers the years from 1931 to just after the war. Zhang leaves Shanghai for the interior, attaches himself to influential people in Chongqing and starts a second household there, while Sufen remains in the occupied city raising their son and supporting his mother by factory work and relief handouts. The two meet again at a reception after the war, and Sufen drowns herself. It opened in Shanghai in 1947 and ran for about three months. The complete film is roughly a hundred and ninety minutes.
Titles
- Mainland China
- 一江春水向东流
- Hong Kong
- 一江春水向東流
- Taiwan
- 一江春水向東流
- English
- The Spring River Flows East
- Original
- 一江春水向東流
Cast
- Bai Yangas Sufen
- Tao Jinas Zhang Zhongliang
- Shu Xiuwenas Wang Lizhen