The Cave of the Silken Web (1927 film)
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The Cave of the Silken Web (traditional Chinese: 盤絲洞; simplified Chinese: 盘丝洞; pinyin: Pan Si Dong) a.k.a. Journey to the West - the Spiders Cave (西遊記-盤絲洞; 西游记-盘丝洞) a.k.a. Spiders is a 1927 Chinese film directed by Dan Duyu and starring Yin Mingzhu as the first spider spirit.[1] It is based on an episode of the shenmo fantasy novel Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty.
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Directed by | Dan Duyu |
Screenplay by | Guan Ji'an[1] |
Based on | Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en |
Starring | Yin Mingzhu |
Cinematography | Dan Ganting[1] |
Release date | 2 February 1927; 97 years ago (1927-02-02) |
Running time | 60 min[2] |
Country | Republic of China (1912–1949) |
Language | Silent (Chinese intertitles) |
The ten-reel silent film was produced by Shanghai Yingxi Company.[1]
It was thought to be a lost film, until 2011, when an original copy of The Cave of the Silken Web was discovered in the archives of the National Library in Mo i Rana, Norway.[3][4][5] The film was presented at the Films from the South 2013 festival in Oslo.[2] Roughly three-quarters of the film is preserved, the first reel and a section in the middle is lost.[citation needed] The Norwegian copy has retained the original Chinese intertitles, but includes additional jokes in Norwegian written for the local audience.