Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon is a 1947 Chinese film directed by Shi Dongshan and Wang Weiyi, starring Bai Yang and Tao Jin, two actors who were the leads in The Spring River Flows East released that same year.

[1] Jiang Lingyu (Bai Yang), a female student who is studying in Shanghai, decides to join the Resistance Acting Troupe after Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937.

The company arrives at Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou and Xuzhou and many other cities to perform for soldiers and ordinary folks alike.

Postwar situation is bad, and they discover Jiang's father has died in the Jiangxi countryside before the war ended.

Indignant at this, Jiang and Gao decide to move out to a smaller, shabbier attic apartment scouted out by their friends.