With the end of the war, several of Lianhua's directors returned to Shanghai from Chongqing, Hong Kong, and other cities. Most notably was Cai Chusheng, who returned in 1946 and set about to revive the Lianhua name. Thus, the "Lianhua Film Society" was formed. Eventually, this new Lianhua would turn into the Kunlun Film Company (崑崙影片公司), which would go on to produce many of the most significant films of the 1940s, including "The Spring River Flows East" (Dir. Cai Chusheng, Zheng Junli, 1947), and "Crows and Sparrows" (Dir. Zheng Junli 1949).