Cover of Popular Cinema

The first issue of Popular Cinema in 1979 was the first issue of Popular Cinema after the crushing of the Gang of Four. Inside was a congratulatory speech by Mr. Mao Dun, a notice of the memorial service for the famous film performer Shangguan Yunzhu, an introduction to the films Xianglin Sister-in-law, Butterfly Lovers, and Nezha in the Sea, a chronicle of the vindication of the Red River and an open letter to Yang Likun, and so on. The documentary of the vindication of the movie "Red River" and the open letter of Yang Likun. All of these witness the indomitable vitality of Chinese cinema in those days, the persistent pursuit of art by Chinese filmmakers, and the everlasting images.

The second issue of Popular Cinema

The cover of this issue shows Li Rentang as Zhu Keshi in The Trail of Tears, which won him the Hundred Flowers Award for the best actor and the Shanghai Wenhui Award for the best leading role in a movie.

The Trail of Tears is a colorful feature film made by the Beijing Film Studio in 1978, which was released in the Spring Festival of 1979. The film depicts the difficult process of vindicating wrongful convictions by Zhu Keshi, the newly appointed secretary of the county party committee, in the light of the county's grim reality and complex historical problems, and against the heavy resistance set up by the remnants of the Gang of Four. The film takes the "crazy woman" Kong Nina as its main line, and centers on the historical case of the former county party secretary who was persecuted to death, as well as the reality of the "Tushiling Project", which was a large-scale and quick-acting project, and condenses the nationwide efforts of the end of the 1970s to rectify the situation into a single county. It was a representative work of the films with the theme of "Reform and Rehabilitation" at that time.

Popular Cinema No. 3, 1980

The cover of this issue was taken from a still from the movie "Returning to the Arrow". Below is Sichin Gao Wa, playing the role of Yu Zhen, a mountain dweller in the movie.

The film was produced in 1979 by the Bayi Film Studio, and in the winter of 1939, Wei Desheng, a company commander of the Resistance League, was wounded and separated from his comrades during a fierce battle, and was arrested. He manages to escape and goes to work in a gold mine, waiting for an opportunity to find troops. He was later captured by the Japanese and sent to the coal mine to work as a laborer. Wei escapes again and is rescued by a hillbilly, Yuzhen. The two had feelings for each other, but in order to fight the Japanese Wei Desheng resolutely bid farewell to Yu Zhen. He embarked on the road back to the team.

The fourth issue of Popular Cinema

The cover girl of the issue, Cheng Xiaoying, played the lead role of Mitsuko Morishita in the first feature film made by the Beijing Film Academy's Youth Film Studio, and was more successful in portraying the image of a subtle and sentimental Japanese intellectual woman with a rich inner life.

The fifth issue of Popular Cinema in 1980

The cover girl of the issue, Zhang Yu, played the female lead Zhou Yun in "Lushan Love".

The 1980 movie "Lushan Love", which was claimed to be China's first kissing scene, not only perfectly presented the scenery of Mount Lushan, but also set several records. For example, "Lushan Love" is the "Cultural Revolution" after the first domestic performance of the love theme of the movie, and appeared at the time rare kissing scene; heroine Zhang Yu in the film's clothing, changed 43 sets, far more than the "Carnival" Zhang Man-yu's 23 sets of cheongsam; when the newcomer Zhang Yu with the "Lushan Love" has become the audience of the eighties of the last century! The newcomer Zhang Yu also became the "dream girl" in the hearts of the audience in the 1980s with the movie "Lushan Love", and was elected the first Golden Rooster Awards and the Hundred Flowers Awards in the same year, the "double movie queen".

Shao Huifang, the cover girl of the tenth issue of Popular Cinema in 1980, played the lead role of Xia Zhenglan in the movie The Ghost.

The 1980 film "The Ghost" was a sensation in the movie industry, and its heroine, Xia Zhenglan, was played by Shao Huifang. Shao Huifang's figure was tall and frivolous, and the tight bell-bottomed pants she wore accentuated her "devilish figure". It is not an exaggeration to say that in the early 1980s, when there were no clothing models, Shao Huifang was the first to let people know the standard of beauty of the figure. The heroine of Ghost is a persecuted ballerina during the Cultural Revolution, and Shao Huifang portrays the character's unique appearance with her skillful body language and bewildered, sorrowful eyes. In today's terms, the role was a perfect combination of the actor's temperament and appearance and the demands of the role, and it could be said to be Shao Huifang's.

Popular Cinema No. 11, 1980

The cover was taken from a still from the film Bitter Love. From this still we see the young face of actress Huang Meiying.

No one in the public has seen Bitter Love. Because the movie was banned in Zhongnanhai at that time.

The script of "Bitter Love" was written by Bai Hua, and it was about what happened to Weiguang, an overseas painter. In a country in the Americas, Weiguang enjoyed a luxurious life with villas, cars and studios. After the liberation of the motherland, Mr. and Mrs. Weiguang returned to the motherland. When they saw the five-star red flag when the ship entered the territorial waters of the motherland, their daughter was born and named "Star". After a short period of happiness in their home country, the Cultural Revolution began and the Weiguang family was thrown into a dimly lit cell with no windows. The daughter, Xingxing, feels that she can no longer live in this country and decides to go abroad. Weiguang expressed opposition, the daughter asked her father: "You love this country, bitterly in love with this country ...... but this country love you?" Wee light can not answer. Thereafter, wee light was forced to flee, hiding in the reeds, becoming a wilderness savage who lived on raw fish and rats. At the end of the play, when the snow stops falling and the sky clears, the Cultural Revolution has just ended, and the fire of his life has been burned out. With his last bit of strength, he crawls out of the snow with "a huge question mark", and his body is the point of that question mark.

The tone of the movie is somber, with repeated images of geese writing in the sky in the form of human characters, from the beginning through to the death of Morning Glory, like a "movie poem" as subtle and timeless. It was so well received by the film industry that it was recommended on the cover of the then Popular Cinema.

The twelfth issue of Popular Cinema in 1980

The cover girl of the issue, Gao Ying, played the lead role of Lu Yan in the movie The Return of Yan.

The 1980 film "The Return of Yan", a feature film about the rightists, was a tragic indictment of the persecution of intellectuals by the Gang of Four, but it was beautifully shot and immediately received favorable reviews from the audience upon its release. As the leading lady of the movie, Gao Ying's performance was natural, smooth, deep, and delicate, portraying the image of a y persecuted intellectual, thus reaching a new peak in Gao Ying's acting career. Actor Da Shi Chang won the 1981 Hundred Flowers Award as the most successful actor for his role as Lin Hanhua.

The cover of the 11th issue of Popular Cinema in 1981 featured Bai Yang (a still from the movie Blessing)

Blessing, a 1956 movie starring renowned performer Bai Yang, won the Special Jury Prize at the 10th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1957 and the Silver Hat Award at the Mexican International Film Week in 1958. Mexico International Film Week Silver Hat Award in 1958.

Pan Hong on the cover of the first issue of Popular Cinema in 1984, based on the novel of the same name by Ba Jin (1944), in which Wang Wenxuan, a university teacher, flees to Chongqing with his family and works as a clerk to support them. His wife, Zeng Shusheng (Pan Hong), who is not happy with this life of poverty, takes the initiative to go out and work as a "socialite" to supplement the family's income, but ultimately can't stand the cynicism of Wang's mother and leaves home. After winning the war, Zeng Shusheng returned home, but her husband had already died.

The cover of the tenth issue of 1984's Popular Cinema - The Climb

October 1984 was an unforgettable month. On the National Day, Beijing held a grand ceremony to celebrate its 35th anniversary, and my classmates and I trained for half a year to be able to go to the square and perform a group dance on the National Day night. This issue of Popular Cinema also took the unprecedented step of linking the front and back covers together, publishing photos of a group of young and middle-aged actors who were active on the screen at the time.

Song Jia on the cover of the first issue of Popular Film in 1987

Song Jia was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, in 1962. She entered the acting department of Shanghai Theater Academy in 1981. Song Jia won the Best Actress Award at the 13th and 14th Hundred Flowers Awards of Popular Cinema, and went to the United States to study drama at Yale University in 1993, and returned to China in 1998, where she successfully portrayed the role of Zhang Min in the TV series "Sister-in-Law". She was awarded the Best Actress of the 20th Flying Apsaras Award, Golden Eagle Award, Five-one Project Award and Shennong Award. "

Zhang Xiaomin, the cover girl of the fifth issue of Popular Cinema in 1987

Zhang Xiaomin, born on September 13, 1963, is a native of Beijing, and was admitted to the acting department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, where she gave one of her most outstanding performances in the movie "The Very Great President", in which she played Song Ching Ling, the mother of the nation. After the movie was released, the audience actually recognized that Zhang Xiaomin was Song Qingling, and in the 10th Popular Film "Hundred Flowers Award", three of the four acting awards were won by the movie "Hibiscus Town", but the best female supporting actress award went to Zhang Xiaomin. In the 10th "Hundred Flowers Award", three of the four acting awards were won by the film "Hibiscus Town", but the best supporting actress award went to Zhang Xiaomin, who beat the two supporting actresses who had excellent performances in "Hibiscus Town" and had a high reputation for winning the award, which became a legend at that time. 1998, Zhang went to the U.S.

In 1989, Zhang went to the United States.

In 1989, Cherie Chung was featured on the cover of the third issue of Popular Cinema

1986-1989, Cherie Chung starred in the films Autumn Fairytale (1987), Moon, Star, Sun (1988), Golden Years (1989), and Stand by Me (1989). 1989), Stand by Me to the End of the World (1989).

The cover of the fourth issue of Popular Film in 1989--Gai Lili

Gai Lili, born on October 4, 1967, a native of Qingdao, Shandong Province, entered the Shanghai Theatre Academy for further study in 1986, and the film Vast Tide of the Sea (1985) was the first film in which she appeared on the silver screen, and subsequently, she appeared in The Golden Mandarin's Duck (1988) and The Golden Years (1989) respectively.

She played different roles in films such as Golden Mandarin Ducks, Old and Young, Broken Throat Sword, Dusk of Dripping Blood, Mystery of the Heavenly Treasury, Heavenly Bleeding, God of the Mountain, and Moon Falling on the Jade River, etc. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

Chen Chong, the cover girl of the seventh issue of Popular Film in 1989

Chen Chong went to the United States to study in 1981. She ventured to Hollywood alone and appeared in Tai-Pan (1986) and The Last Emperor (1987).

In 1989, Gong Li was featured on the cover of the 10th issue of Popular Cinema

Gong Li starred in Red Sorghum (1987), Generation of Demon Empress (1988), and Code Name Jaguar (1989), and Ancient and Modern War against the Terracotta Army.

Chou Jie, the cover girl of the third issue of Popular Cinema in 1990

Zhou Jie's starring roles in films such as "Yang Guifei", "The Curtain", and "Liberation of the Great Northwest" won her the Hundred Flowers Award and the Best Actress Award of the University Students' Film Festival. The movie won her the "Hundred Flowers Award" and the "Bachelor's Award" for the best actress at the University Student Film Festival.

In 1990, Jia Hongsheng was featured on the cover of the seventh issue of Popular Cinema

In 1990, she starred in the movies Silver Snake Murder and Good Morning Beijing.

1990 Cover Character of the Eighth Issue of Popular Film--Zhang Yanli

In 1990, she played the role of female model Ling in the movie "Officer in the Year of the Dragon"