Blood on Wolf Mountain

Infobox Chinese Film


caption = DVD Cover
name = Blood on Wolf Mountain
imdb_id = 0323015
amg_id =
writer = Fei Mu
starring = Jiang Qing
Li Lili
Zhang Yi
director = Fei Mu
cinematography =
producer =
distributor = Lianhua Film Company
runtime = 70 min
released = November, 1936
language = Chinese (Mandarin)
budget =
jianti = 狼山喋血记
fanti = 狼山喋血記
pinyin = Láng shān dié xuě jì

"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 the Japanese, 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. [cite web | url = http://www.ibseninchina.com.cn/Jiangqing.htm#_ftnref30
title = Jiang Qing and the “Year of Nora” 1935: Drama and Politics in the Republican Period | accessdate = 2007-04-15 |date= 2002-10-06 | publisher = International Conference-Women in Republican China]

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. [cite web | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946771-1,00.html
title = A Blue Apple in a City for Sale | accessdate = 2007-04-15 |date= 1977-03-27| | publisher = Time Magazine]

"Blood on Wolf Mountain" starred actresses Li Lili, and Jiang Qing (who later in life would gain notoriety as the wife of Mao Zedong and a member of the Gang of Four). [Jiang Qing used the stage name "Lan Ping," literally "Blue Apple," for the film.]

ee also

*Second Sino-Japanese War- the political background behind "Blood on Wolf Mountain"
*Cinema of China

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0323015|title=Blood on Wolf Mountain
* [http://www.dianying.com/en/title/lsd1936 "Blood on Wolf Mountain"] at the Chinese Movie Database