
Directing
Shichuan Zhang
Born 1891-01-21 · Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
Acting credits
9.0Part two of A comedy film set on Shanghai film studio. The background events frequently involve the shooting of other films being made at Mingxing Film Company at the time. This includes a sequence of the 17th episode of the silent wuxia film series Burning of the Red Lotus Temple, which is the only known footage from this historic series to exist.
An Amorous History of the Silver Screen - Part II
1931
6.3A novelist uses all his money to buy gifts for the woman he loves who in turn is also seeing a business man, using him for expensive presents. As a consequence the writer is unable to pay the rent, whilst the womans family goes hungry as her fathers business suffers. A joyful comedy that expresses the dangers of consumerism for the careless spender.
Scenes of City Life
1935
NRHong Kong horror movie from 1947.
Ancient Garden Corpse
1947
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Victims of Opium
1916
Behind the camera
No synopsis available yet.
Orchid in an Empty Valley
1925
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Two Versus One
1933
No synopsis available yet.
The Death of Yuli
1924
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Hunter's Legend
1927
No synopsis available yet.
The Poor Children
1924
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Three Smiles
1940
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Such Paradise
1931
5.6Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients...
Romance of a Fruit Peddler
1922
NRThe film tells the story of a man and woman who don't know each other. After being matched by a matchmaker, after going through a series of red tape, they were sent to the bridal chamber and began a difficult life as a couple. Despite the primitive shooting methods and lack of training of the actors, the film has a very important place in the history of Chinese film.
Wedding Festivities
1913
No synopsis available yet.
Love and Gold
1926
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Last Conscience
1925
No synopsis available yet.
Roses in April
1926
8.0The New Year's Gift is the story of some lucky money gifted to a girl. It then leaves her and passes from hand to hand.
New Year's Coin
1937
No synopsis available yet.
The Unknown Hero
1926
10.0The first Chinese sound film. It tells the story of Hong Pion (Red Peony), a singer-songwriter who, after her marriage to the depraved Faxiang Chen, not only tormented and suffered, but also endured the decline of her artistic career.
Sing-Song Red Peony
1931
NRNo synopsis available yet.
My Dear Brother
1924
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Flower of Society
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Love and Vanity
1924
No synopsis available yet.
Reciprocity
1927
NRIn 1920s Beijing, a young student named Fan Jiashu falls in love with Shen Fengxi, a talented but poor street singer. Their romance is tested by class differences and the unwanted attention of a powerful warlord. Torn between three women from vastly different backgrounds, Fan becomes trapped in a tragic web of love, fate, and social pressure.
Fate in Tears and Laughter
1932
8.0After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them... Purposely destroyed serial film whose 19 full length chapters (averaging 86 minutes each) originally ran 27 hours in length.
Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
1928
8.0After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them... Purposely destroyed serial film whose 19 full length chapters (averaging 86 minutes each) originally ran 27 hours in length.
Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Her Sorrows
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Her Sorrows
1926