Mulan Joins the Army

Mulan Joins the Army is a 1928 Chinese film directed by Hou Yao for the China Sun Motion Picture Company. China Sun invested 30,000 yuan to send a 20-member crew to Northern China to make use of four hundred soldiers during filming. Unfortunately for China Sun, the film was beaten to release in 1927 by competitor Tianyi Film Company's Hua Mulan Joins the Army, which was directed by Li Pingqian and starred Hu Shan, the younger sister of the famed Hu Die.

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