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Red Guards on Honghu Lake

1961 · 112 min

A staged revolutionary opera, sung through with patriotic fervor, feeling more like a filmed performance than a naturalistic war story.

Genres
Music, War
Overview
Revolutionary Chinese opera in six acts depicting the struggle between Communist guerrillas and a KMT landlord for control of a village.
How it feels
Earnest, tense and dark. Measured and needs your attention.
About
War, class, power, rebellion
Content
Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
Note
Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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Genres
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
Places
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror1
Humour1
Realism6
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

Cast

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Details

Genres
music, war
Directed by
Chen Fang Qian, Tian Xie, Xu Feng
Written by
Ouyang Qianshu
Starring
Xia Kui-Bin, Fu Ling, Cao Zengyin, Chen Jingpeng, Chen Ren-Xuan, Cheng Xueqin, Cheng Xiaofeng, Bing Guo
Music
Ouyang Qianshu, Zhang Jianbin
Cinematography
Chen Guoliang, Qian Jiang
Runtime
112 min
Country
China
Languages
Mandarin

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