National Customs

National Customs (1935)

In 1930, two sisters from the countryside, the serious Zhang Lan (Ruan Lingyu) and the frivolous Zhang Tao graduate from the 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.

Directors: Ming-Yau Lo, Zhu Shilin.

Casts

	Cho-cho Lam as Zhang Tao
	Li Lili as Zhang Jie
	Peng Luo as Bo Yang
	Ruan Lingyu as Zhang Lan
	Zheng Jun-li as Chen Zuo
	Y. C. Wong Kwan-Ching as
	Xu Wen as
	Jingling Hong as
	Jiqun Liu as

Crew