National Customs

National Customs — Plot

In 1930, two sisters from the countryside, the serious Zhang Lan and the frivolous Zhang Tao graduate from secondary school where their mother Zhang Jie serves as principal. They both love their cousin Zuo, but have ambitions other than marriage. Their lives change dramatically when both attend university in Shanghai and encounter modern urban life and rapidly changing society. The film also depicts the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek's 1934 New Life Movement. Lianhua Film Studio did the film to appease the Nationalist Party which accused it of primarily presenting left-wing films, which was true.

• Release date
• May 13, 1935
• Runtime
• 104 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Zhu Shilin

National Customs — Cast

Cho-cho Lam Zhang Tao Li Lili Zhang Jie Peng Luo Bo Yang Ruan Lingyu Zhang Lan Zheng Jun-li Chen Zuo

Y

Y. C. Wong Kwan-Ching

X

Xu Wen Jingling Hong