Eternity (1943 film)

Eternity Chinese pinyin Wn Sh Li Fng is a controversial 1943 Chinese film made in Japaneseoccupied Shanghai during the Second World War. The film was a collaborative effort between the Japanesecontrolled Manchukuo Film Association and Chinese filmmakers that remained in Shanghai under the Japanesecontrolled Zhonglian Productions United China brand.

In 1939, the Japanese had formed the China Movie Company Zhongdian to make Japanese propaganda shorts. By 1941, Zhongdian signed a deal with the head of the Xinhua Film Company, Zhang Shankun, followed quickly by two other deals with the Yihua Film Company and the Guohua Film Company.The film was cast primarily with Chinese actors out of what remained of the Shanghai studio system now under the control of Zhonglian. One major star cast, however, was the Manchuriaborn Japanese actress Yoshiko taka. Though she had already starred in several Chinese features under her Chinese name of Li Xianglan, taka was a seeming outlier in the cast of Eternity. She was, therefore, an indication of the control the Japanese exercised over the Chinese film industry in Shanghai. ref Her Traces are Found Everywhere 227, Shelly Stevenson, in Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai 19221943 Helped by the massive pop hits, CandyPeddling Song and Quitting opium Song , the film would catapult Li into stardom, as her earlier works had been in films so blatantly proJapanese, as to turn off most of the Chinese audience Shelly, 227. ........

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