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Sha jia bang

Sha jia bang

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 24, 1971

Runtime

2h 5m

Genres

Music, War

Original Title

沙家浜

Production Companies

Changchun Film Studio

Director

Jiang Shusen

Description

A Chinese film featuring the Beijing Opera Troupe. The story is set during the War of Resistance in Japanese-occupied territory to the west of Shanghai. Shajiabang is a small market town on the marshy reed-fringed shore of Lake Yangcheng where Aqing, who is secretly a Communist Party member, works in a small tea-house patronised by officers of the puppet "Loyal and Just National Salvation Army". Unbeknown to her patrons, Aqing is helping care for eighteen wounded soldiers of the New Fourth Army who are hiding in the marshes...