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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 620

Street Angels

193790 minChina

Drama Romance Musical

Video edition: YouTube
Original language: Chinese
This copy runs: 89:59
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Synopsis

A singer and a young musician find affection among the crowded rooms and precarious jobs of Shanghai. Their neighbours form an improvised community, but poverty leaves the women vulnerable to people with money and influence. Playful courtship gradually gives way to a struggle to keep that community together.

Cast

Zhou Xuan

Zhao Dan

Wei Heling

Zhao Huishen

DirectorsYuan Muzhi

Behind the scenes

Yuan Muzhi makes songs, street noise and visual comedy central to his portrait of working people. Zhou Xuan’s performances connect popular music to the emotional life of characters who rarely control the conditions in which they work.

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Virtual Shanghai · CNRS Chinese Film Classics Wikimedia Commons · copyright reference China · Copyright Law, Article 23 US Copyright Office · foreign works Internet Archive · film copy

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Availability checked on September 11, 2026.

Photograph credit

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Zhou Xuan — Unknown photographer, 1940; China.org.cn, via Wikimedia Commons. · Public domain — PD-China and PD-1996

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