Liu Qiong

Acting

Liu Qiong

Born — Died

1913-10-16 — 2002-04-28

Place of birth

中国, 湖南,湘阴

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Liu Qiong (16 October 1913 – 28 April 2002) was a Chinese film director and actor.

Known for

上海沧桑 poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

上海沧桑

1999

Woman-Taxi-Woman poster
4.7

Qing Yao is a botanist. She bumps into Zhang Gaixiu, a taxi driver. First they hate each other and gradually they understand each other and later help each other.

Woman-Taxi-Woman

1991

The Herdsman poster
7.6

In 1980, Xu Jingshan, a wealthy Chinese-American businessman returns to China to find his son, Xu Lingjun, whom he had abandoned over 30 years earlier. Labeled a rightist because of his capitalist father, Lingjun has been forced to live as a humble herdsman on the grasslands. His bitter life has been transformed by a happy marriage to the wise and beautiful Xiuzhi, and more recently by his rehabilitation by the Party. When he goes to Beijing for their reunion, he discovers his father wants him to work for his chemical company in San Francisco. Lingjun tells the story of his life to his father, as he ponders his future.

The Herdsman

1982

The Big Road poster
6.2

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

The Big Road

1935

Woman Basketball Player No. 5 poster
6.2

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflects on his career as a star basketball player before the revolution.

Woman Basketball Player No. 5

1957

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai poster
6.5

The protagonists are mainly Huirong, Zhaobai, and Jikan, who have studied business management in the USA and have returned to their hometown, Shanghai. Huirong and Zhaobai are engaged, and although three of them are close friends, problems arise when they find out that their opinions clash on the matter of what the objective for building a new China should be and what direction it should take.

Once Upon a Time in Shanghai

1998

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 4 titles

1930s · 12 titles

The Big Road poster
6.2

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army

The Big Road

1935

New Women poster
6.7

Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution.

New Women

1935

The Young Mistress' Fan poster
7.0

Lady Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's play on moral values, is adapted for a setting in Shanghai. Young wife Meilin mistakenly believes her husband is having an affair with a social butterfly and decides to leave for a suitor. Her reputation, about to be ruined because of a misplaced fan, is saved by the social butterfly who turns out to be …Unlike typical Chinese scripts on parental love, the understated familial love in the original play is aligned with Li's preference for the undramatic. Motherly love is portrayed indirectly while emotions run strong yet subdued in the film. Poking fun at social culture of the times, this is Li's earliest extant feature film in a modern setting and a showcase of his modernistic and crisp directorial approach.

The Young Mistress' Fan

1939

So Busy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

So Busy

1937

Little Angel poster
6.0

Silent film, with musical accompaniment. Originally released as a silent motion picture in 1935. Directed by Wu Yonggang,

Little Angel

1935

The Front and the Back of the Stage poster
NR

When the top diva of an opera troupe storms off after not getting money upfront from their manager, a common street performer comes in to replace her.

The Front and the Back of the Stage

1937

Vistas of Art poster
7.3

Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class".

Vistas of Art

1938

自由天地 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

自由天地

1937

The Lost Pearl poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Lost Pearl

1937

Blood on Wolf Mountain poster
7.5

Blood on Wolf Mountain tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with the Japanese, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan.

Blood on Wolf Mountain

1936

Wu Song and Pan Jinlian poster
10.0

Wu Song and Pan Jinlian (1938) is a feminist masterpiece. This insular-era production was produced by Zhang Shankun, directed by Wu Cun, photographed by Huang Shaofen, and starring Gu Lanjun, Jin Yan, and Liu Qiong in a gloriously hefty cast. It tells the story of Wu Song who kills his cheating sister-in-law for his brother and avenges his brother's death.

Wu Song and Pan Jinlian

1938

Symphony of Lianhua poster
9.0

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. Part 1: Two Yuans (兩毛錢) directed by Situ Huimin / Part 2: Nightmares in Spring Chamber (春閨斷夢) directed by Fei Mu / Part 3: The Stranger (陌生人) directed by Tan Youliu / Part 4: Three Friends (三人行) directed by Shen Fu / Part 5: Landscape Under the Moonlight (月下小景) directed by He Mengfu / Part 6: The Ghost (鬼) directed by Zhu Shilin / Part 7: Rhapsody of a Madman (瘋人狂想曲) directed by Sun Yu / Part 8: Five Little Brothers (小五義) directed by Cai Chusheng

Symphony of Lianhua

1937

Series credits

Behind the camera