Episode 65B - More Ambition Than Restraint

Published: June 12, 2019, 11:02 p.m.

We travel back to 1937 Shanghai for China's first entry into the horror genre: Y\xe8b\xe0n g\u0113sh\u0113ng aka Song at Midnight from director Ma-Xu Weibang.\n\nIt's a loose but very interesting adaptation of Phantom of the Opera starring Jin Shan, Hu Ping and Shi Chao; a film with a Universal horror aesthetic in a Chinese cultural context! \n\nContext setting 00:00; Synopsis 34:27; Discussion 49:15; Ranking 1:03:11