Blood on Wolf Mountain

1936 film

Blood on Wolf Mountain

Traditional Chinese	狼山喋血記
Simplified Chinese	狼山喋血记

Hanyu Pinyin	Láng shān dié xuě jì


Directed by	Fei Mu
Written by	Fei Mu
Starring	Lan Ping Li Lili Zhang Yi
Production company	Lianhua Film Company
Release date	November 1936 (1936-11)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin

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 1936.^[1]

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).

References

^ "Jiang Qing and the "Year of Nora" 1935: Drama and Politics in the Republican Period". International Conference "Women in Republican China". 6 October 2002. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 15 April 2007.
^ "A Blue Apple in a City for Sale". Time. 27 March 1977. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2007.