Wenzhu Zhou

The basic story line of this Chinese horror film resembles The Phantom of the Opera. However, by situating the story against the context of warlords, Song at Midnight injects a heavy dose of social criticism.

AKA The Migration Act is a partially-extant silent film that focuses on the lives of people in rural China during the early twentieth century. Wang Guisheng (played by Wang Yuanlong) is an orphan who grew up at his uncle's, working as a farmhand. Since childhood, he has been close with his female cousin, Li Ah Zhen, and they expect to marry. But when her mother dies of illness and overwork, Ah Zhen's father re-marries and the evil stepmother connives to marry Ah Zhen off to the stepmother's neph