Song at Midnight (夜半歌声, 夜半歌聲)

Song at Midnight (simplified Chinese: 夜半歌声; traditional Chinese: 夜半歌聲; pinyin: Yè bàn gē shēng) (also known as Singing at Midnight or literally Voice of Midnight) is a 1937 film directed by MaXu Weibang. Often referred to as the first Chinese horror film, Song at Midnight is a remake, adaptation of Gaston Leroux s Phantom of the Opera, though the film injects a significant political subplot involving the leftist revolutionary movement to the original story. The film stars Gu Menghe, Zhou Wenzhu, and Jin Shan as the disfigured antihero Song Danping. MaXu made one sequel to Song at Midnight in 1941 during the war. Both films resurfaced in the West at the Udine Far East Film Festival in Since then, the film has been shown at various film festivals around the world, notably at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival s Secret History of Chinese Cinema retrospective. Donate for our restoration p