Crossroads (1937 film)

Crossroads
Traditional Chinese	十字街頭
Simplified Chinese	十字街头
Hanyu Pinyin	Shízì jiētóu
Directed by	Shen Xiling
Written by	Shen Xiling
Starring	Zhao Dan Bai Yang
Cinematography	Zhou Shimu Wang Yuru
Edited by	Xiaozhang Qian
Music by	Luting He
Production company	Mingxing Film Company
Release date	15 April 1937 (1937-04-15)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	China
Language	Mandarin Chinese

Crossroads is a 1937 Chinese seriocomedy film directed by Shen Xiling, starring Bai Yang and Zhao Dan. The film exemplified the growing trend of Chinese films by the mid-1930s of incorporating references (both veiled and explicit) to the war with Japan. In this way, Crossroads joins films like Blood on Wolf Mountain by Fei Mu and The Big Road by Sun Yu.

Crossroads has its background in the Great Depression of the 1930s. Produced by Mingxing Film Company, the film also represented an expansion by Mingxing into the leftist film market that had been dominated by its rival Lianhua Film Company, due to a flagging financial situation.^[1]

In 2001, a sequel was made, despite the half-century gap, entitled New Crossroads.