Waste not our youth

拼音 :	Mo fu qing chun
年代 :	Period
年份 :	1949
首映时间 :	1949-04-09
语言 :	DialogueinMandarin
片种 :	Comedy films (Genre)
地区 :	Hong Kong
物料 :	79min (9 reels) : sound, b&w
内容介绍 :	Scholar Liu Sheng admires Ah Xiu, who minds her father's grocery store. To get close to Ah Xiu, Liu Sheng constantly visits the store. They fall in love. Both pay worship to the image of the Fairy and privately speak the marriage vows . Discovering this, Liu Sheng's uncle tries to interrupt the liaison and lies to Liu Sheng, telling him that his mother has fallen ill and that he must rush home. Reaching home, Liu Sheng realises his uncle's scheme. He pretends to be ill, forcing his mother to agree to his marraige with Ah Xiu. But when the uncle goes to Ah Xiu's home to propose on the family's behalf, he learns that Ah Xiu has departed to the Zhao family, having agreed to marry the son. Hearing this, Liu Sheng goes broken-hearted to the image of the Fairy. Exhausted, he falls asleep and has a dream. He dreams that he and his servant, Liu Zhong, go travelling in search of Ah Xiu and meet her in a village. However, the girl they meet is not Ah Xiu but is a fairy who is the spitting image of Ah Xiu. Thinking that she is a ghost, both men scurry off and come across a masked bandit. As Liu Zhong struggles with the bandit, Liu Sheng escapes and meets the real Ah Xiu. He brings Ah Xiu home and exchanges marriage vows before Liu Sheng's mother. But that night, Ah Xiu disappears. At this point, Liu Sheng wakes up from his dream and goes off to prevent Ah Xiu from going to the Zhao family, in accordance with the instructions laid down by the Fairy. (Based on viewing the film)
备注 :	Adapted from "Ah Xiu", episode of "Strange tales from a Chinese Studio" (Liaozhai Zhiyi)Thefilm has a prologue and epilogue in which Zhou Xuan appears personally to introduce the story and to provide a coda to the story Zhou also performs three songs in the filmDirector's comment, '"Waste not our youth" is a sketch of the story 'Ah Xiu' from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio There's nothing really profound or outstanding about it I wanted to express a comedic approach; something I wanted to do purely from my imagination' ("A statement on "Waste not our youth"', Wen Wei Po, 1949/4/12)
制作人 :	Director, Wu Zuguang. Scriptwriter, Wu Zuguang ; Producer, Xie Bingjun ; Cinematographer, Wang Jianhan (aka Wang Chien-han) ; Production Asst., Chen Wei ; Editor, Shen Yuqi ; Script Continuity, So Chit-ming ; Music, Chen Gexin ; Sound-Mixing , Sun Bingyun ; Art Director, Yi Guangfu ; Set, Chan Kei-yui ; Costume, Su Zheming ; Processing, Chen Yuquan, Xu Wenhua ; Asst. Cinematographer, Lo Kwan-hung ; Second Production Asst., Chen Biao ; Props, Lin Tianxin ; Composer, Chen Gexin ; Lyricist, Wu Zuguang ; Supervising Art Director, Zhang Guangyu ; Sound Asst., Wang Zhen.
演员 :	Zhou Xuan (as Ah Xiu, Fairy), Lu Yukun (as Liu Sheng), Jiang Ming (as Ah Xiu's father), King Sarr, Zhou Wei (as Liu Sheng's mother), Wu Jiaxiang (aka Wu Chia-hsiang) (as wandering medicine man), Ngai Pang-fei (as neighbour), Chen Biao (as masked bandit).
出品公司 :	Hong Kong : Xingxing Film Company, 1949.
其他机构 :	Hong Kong [Distribution] : Great China Film Company (Dazhonghua) [Distribution], 1949 [Release ].
中文资料 :	Waste not our youth
制作机构 :	Xingxing Film Company, production. Great China Film Company (Dazhonghua), distribution.
台前幕后 :	Wu, Zuguang, 1917-2003/4/9, director. scriptwriter. lyricist. Xie, Bingjun, producer. Wang, Chien-han, 1915- cinematographer. Chen, Wei, production asst. Shen, Yuqi, editor. So, Chit-ming, script continuity. costume. Chen, Gexin, 1914/9/19-1961/1/25, music. composer. Sun, Bingyun, 1909- sound-mixing. Yi, Guangfu, art director. Chan, Kei-yui, 1920- set. Chen, Yuquan, processing. Xu, Wenhua, processing. Lo, Kwan-hung, 1919/9/29- asst. cinematographer. Chen, Biao, second production asst. cast. Lin, Tianxin, props. Zhang, Guangyu, supervising art director. Wang, Zhen, sound asst. Zhou, Xuan, 1918-1957/9/20, cast. Lu, Yukun, cast. Jiang Ming, 1910/6/1-1990/2/9, cast. King Sarr, -1996/3/14, cast. Zhou, Wei, cast. Wu, Chia-hsiang, 1919/7/7-1993/3/20, cast. Ngai, Pang-fei, cast.