The Cave of the Silken Web (1927 film)

The Cave of the Silken Web , Pan Si Dong aka. Journey to the West the Spiders Cave aka. Spiders is a 1927 Chinese film directed by Dan Duyu and starring Yin Mingzhu as the first spider spirit. It is based on an episode of the shenmo fantasy novel Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty.

The film was followed by a sequel in 1930 The Cave of the Silken Web II , Xu Pan Si Dong aka. Spiders II, also directed by Dan Duyu and starring Yin Mingzhu.It was thought to be a lost film, until 2013, when an original copy of The Cave of the Silken Web was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Mo i Rana, Norway. The film was presented at the Films from the South 2013 festival in Oslo. The sequel is believed to be a lost film. ........

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