"Fishing Light Song" - Gyokokyo

Japanese: 《漁光曲》 - ぎょこうきょく
"Fishing Light Song" - Gyokokyo

...However, in the 1930s, in response to the start of the Japanese invasion, left-wing intellectuals such as Tian Han and Xia Yan entered the film industry and produced a succession of films with anti-imperialist and anti-Japanese ideas, reaching a period of artistic maturity. Most of the films were produced in Shanghai, and masterpieces from this period include Cai Chusheng's "Fishing Song" (1934), China's first full-scale talkie, Yue Feng's "Fugitive" (1935), Sun Yu's "The Great Road" (1935), and Shen Xiling's "Cross Street" (1937). When Japan and China entered into full-scale war in 1937 and the Japanese army reached Shanghai, filmmakers retreated to Hankou and Chongqing with the Nationalist government's troops, and then fled to Yan'an and Hong Kong, where they continued to make anti-Japanese films. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Fishing Song" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし,1930年代には,日本の侵略開始に対して田漢,夏衍らの左翼知識人が映画界入りして反帝国主義・抗日の思想をこめた映画を次々と送り出し,芸術的な成熟期を迎えている。ほとんどが上海で製作されていたこの時期の傑作には,中国初の本格的トーキー作品でもある蔡楚生監督《漁光曲》(1934),岳楓監督《逃亡》(1935),孫瑜監督《大路》(1935),沈西苓監督《十字街頭》(1937)などがある。37年に日本と中国が全面戦争に突入し,上海に日本軍の手が伸びると映画人たちは国民政府の軍とともに漢口,重慶へ退き,また延安,香港へ逃れるなどして抗日映画の製作をつづけた。…

※「《漁光曲》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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