The Cave of the Silken Web (1927)

19271h 01mdir. Dan DuyuRepublic of Chinasilent filmfantasy film

Note: this print runs 61 minutes against a recorded 1 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Yin Mingzhu

Directed by Dan Duyu

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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. It is based on an episode of the shenmo fantasy novel Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty.

Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.

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