Midnight
1981, Chinese. Directed by Sang Hu.
In 1930's Shanghai, Wu Sunpu, chief executive of the Shanghai Yuhua Silk Company, faces many struggles: with plant workers, with strikers, others in his industry, and most of all with bourgeois comprador Zhao Botao. Capitalists and other figures in Shanghai's industrial and commercial community come and go. The strategy finally comes down between Wu and Zhao. Zhao plans to take over Wu Sunpu's plant with support from Americans. Wu faces a choice of surrender to Zhao or bankruptcy. He considers suicide, but decides to go on vacation with his wife on Mount Lushan. When they leave Shanghai at midnight, Wu paces the deck of the ship, reviewing his life and fate.
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Chinese
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- Released
- 1 January 1981
- Original title
- 子夜
- Country
- China
- Written by
- Jinggong Fu, Sang Hu
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Midnight isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1981. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Midnight?
Midnight (1981) was directed by Sang Hu and stars Li Rentang, Qiao Qi, Han Fei.