Asian Studies

Sunset, Sunrise 日落日出

In 1929, after the tragic death of her parents, the innocent Dujuan (Pang Yilin) decides to move to the big city of Shanghai. Little does she know about the dangers of the spiritually polluted metropolis

View the film fullscreen on YouTube

In the year of 1929, after the tragic death of her parents, the innocent Dujuan (Pang Yilin) decides to move to the big city of Shanghai. She is hosted by her childhood friend Bailu (Wang Yishu), who now lives there with her father. Little does she know about the dangers of the spiritually polluted metropolis. After she managed to find a job in a café in the heart of the modern foreign concession, she soon realises ill-intentioned men are lurking around. But this does not stop her from going to a mundane party with her friend on the invitation of Bailu’s malicious landlord (Shan Siping). That night could change the course of their lives dramatically...

Crew

Directing Jacqueline Wallace, Raquel Cruickshank, Noemi Lemoine
Photography Jacqueline Wallace, Raquel Cruickshank, Noemi Lemoine
Editing Jacqueline Wallace, Noemi Lemoine
Scriptwriter Agnis Belte
Music Yilin Pang
Intertitles Siping Shan

Cast

Bailu Yilin Pang
Dujuan Yishu Wang
Landlord Siping Shan
Father Chris Hu
Western Businessman Agnis Belte