Yellow Earth, 黃土地, Huang tudì Image 1

From Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema by Markus Nornes

  • Yellow Earth (Huang tudi, 1984) uses clerical style to infuse a sense of enduring history into the opening of the film, which is set during the Japanese invasion of China. In the first line, the effect of seeing a modern date (一九三七年九月) in ancient script is striking.
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