Qingcheng shijiu xia

  • 82'
  • Taiwan
  • 1959
First part of a three-part film series about the orphan girl Sha Yan. Inthis first part she is fourteen and attending lessons at a convent intraditional Chinese martial arts - with eighteen fellow pupils; she istherefore also known by here master as the Nineteenth Sister. Everyone treatsher as a little sister. But when she has completed her course, her mastersends her back to her derelict and deserted home - she is after all an orphan.Her guardian is waiting for her and tells her how the mean bandit Lu hasmurdered her parents and the rest of her family. Sha swears to avenge theirdeaths.
  • 82'
  • Taiwan
  • 1959
Country of production
Taiwan
Year
1959
Festival Edition
IFFR 1995
Length
82'
Medium
16mm
International title
19 Heroes of the Green Mountain
Language
Mandarin
Producer
Tong Yue-juan
Screenplay
Du Guang-nu
Cast
Tang Di
Country of production
Taiwan
Year
1959
Festival Edition
IFFR 1995
Length
82'
Medium
16mm
International title
19 Heroes of the Green Mountain
Language
Mandarin
Producer
Tong Yue-juan
Screenplay
Du Guang-nu
Cast
Tang Di