Zhang Zhen (NYU Cinema Studies) Hou Yao's Shadowplays  

piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin

A Poet from the Sea (1927) 35mm, silent, tinted, with Chinese and English intertitles

Surviving fragment runs 20 minutes.

preserved by Cineteca di Bologna

Screen credits: 

China Sun Motion Picture Co., Ltd., Shanghai

Production managers: Y. S. Lee, M. W. Ray

Written & Directed by Y. Hou

Asst. Director: S. M. Shen

Photography: L. K. Liang

Settings: Sophee Rue

Chinese titles: Y. Hou

English titles: W. G. Dju

Art titles: C. Y. Van, H. Y. Tong, S. D. Per

Cast:

Ih Bing (played by the director, Yao Hou)

Ting Bung, Ih Bing's neighbor (Mi-Tsong)

Liu Tsan Ying (Miss D. D. Lee)

Liu Yung, Tsan Ying's younger brother (S. D. Dju)

Chang Tien Pao (Sing-Yee)

Tsian Er, Tien Pao's subordinate (S. M. Ying)