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October 28, 2025… #movieoftheday is Two Stage Sisters (full movie) (1964).
“Two Stage Sisters is a 1964 Chinese drama film produced by Shanghai Tianma Film Studio and directed by Xie Jin , starring Xie Fang and Cao Yindi. Made just before the Cultural Revolution , it tells the story of two female Yue opera practitioners from the same troupe who end up taking very different paths in their lives: "one succumbs to bourgeois affluence and privilege, while the other finds inspiration and fulfilment in the social commitment associated with the May Fourth movement and the thought of Lu Xun .”
“The film documents their journey through abusive, feudal conditions in the countryside before achieving success and prestige on the stage, meanwhile historically following Shanghai's experience under Japanese and KMT rule . This original screenplay depicts the socio-political changes encompassing China from 1935 to 1950 (just after the founding of New China ) through the theatrical world of Shaoxing and, accordingly, mixes both a Chinese aesthetic with Hollywood and socialist realist forms. The main protagonist (Zhu Chunhua) is said to be based on the life of Xie Jin's friend and opera-veteran Yuan Xuefen .” - more at Wikipedia
Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated Xie's career. "No films were allowed to be made during the Cultural Revolution. We were unemployed. It was a completely different world," explained Xie when interviewed for The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Ep. 6: Sex & Melodrama. Xie's parents killed themselves in its aftermath and Two Stage Sisters was accused of "Cinemtaic Confucianism." He, himself, was given the job of cleaning the toilets of the movie studio where he was once a leading director. Few lives in movie history have such amplitude.
FULL MOVIE (English subtitles/closed captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_VHOFG_II
#TwoStageSisters #tangled #Wikipedia
“Two Stage Sisters is a 1964 Chinese drama film produced by Shanghai Tianma Film Studio and directed by Xie Jin , starring Xie Fang and Cao Yindi. Made just before the Cultural Revolution , it tells the story of two female Yue opera practitioners from the same troupe who end up taking very different paths in their lives: "one succumbs to bourgeois affluence and privilege, while the other finds inspiration and fulfilment in the social commitment associated with the May Fourth movement and the thought of Lu Xun .”
“The film documents their journey through abusive, feudal conditions in the countryside before achieving success and prestige on the stage, meanwhile historically following Shanghai's experience under Japanese and KMT rule . This original screenplay depicts the socio-political changes encompassing China from 1935 to 1950 (just after the founding of New China ) through the theatrical world of Shaoxing and, accordingly, mixes both a Chinese aesthetic with Hollywood and socialist realist forms. The main protagonist (Zhu Chunhua) is said to be based on the life of Xie Jin's friend and opera-veteran Yuan Xuefen .” - more at Wikipedia
Mao's Cultural Revolution devastated Xie's career. "No films were allowed to be made during the Cultural Revolution. We were unemployed. It was a completely different world," explained Xie when interviewed for The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Ep. 6: Sex & Melodrama. Xie's parents killed themselves in its aftermath and Two Stage Sisters was accused of "Cinemtaic Confucianism." He, himself, was given the job of cleaning the toilets of the movie studio where he was once a leading director. Few lives in movie history have such amplitude.
FULL MOVIE (English subtitles/closed captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_VHOFG_II
#TwoStageSisters #tangled #Wikipedia
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