Zhao Benshan

Acting

Zhao Benshan

Born 1957-10-02 · Tieling, Liaoning, China

Zhao Benshan is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor, comedian, television director, and businessman. Originally from Liaoning province, Zhao has appeared on the CCTV New Year's Gala, a widely watched performing arts program, every year from 1990 to 2011.

Acting credits

The Grandmaster poster
6.6

The fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war, is the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Legendary kung fu master Ip Man, who will eventually train Bruce Lee, finds his peaceful life interrupted by vengeance.

The Grandmaster

2013

The Emperor and the Assassin poster
6.9

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

The Emperor and the Assassin

1998

Getting Home poster
7.3

A black comedy about a farmer who tries to bring home the body of his friend, who died far from their town.

Getting Home

2007

Beginning of the Great Revival poster
4.7

A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

Beginning of the Great Revival

2011

Keep Cool poster
7.5

A spurned lover seeks a rich man for revenge. A random onlooker — who witnessed the public assault committed by the rich man against the lover — seeks for monetary compensation for his smashed computer.

Keep Cool

1997

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop poster
4.9

Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought to kill her husband. But Wang is watching their every move. He bribes patrol officer Zhang to murder the illicit couple. It seems like a perfect plan: the affair will come to a cruel, bloody but satisfying end or so he thinks. The equally wicked Zhang has an agenda of his own. As the plot twists, more blood will flow, and ever greater violence will erupt.

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

2009

Happy Times poster
7.1

Zhao is an ageing bachelor, who has not been fortunate in love. Believing that he has finally met the female of his dreams, Zhao makes her believe that he is opulent and consents to a lavish wedding.

Happy Times

2000

Male Sorority Director poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Male Sorority Director

1999

Just Call Me Nobody II poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Just Call Me Nobody II

2012

The New Year's Eve Of Old Lee poster
5.2

Three generations of family butt heads during Chinese New Year celebrations.

The New Year's Eve Of Old Lee

2016

The Lion Roars 2 poster
6.3

A woman is disliked by men in her village because of her bad temper. She uses her martial arts skills to beat up men who are unfaithful to their wives.

The Lion Roars 2

2012

Just Call Me Nobody poster
4.5

Poor young cobbler Wu Di lives with his mother and is crazy about martial-arts picture books. One day he repairs the shoe of wandering swordswoman Yuelou and later helps save her in a fight with wanted criminal Tian Baguang, even though he has no martial-arts training. She tells him she owes him a life and can be found on Qin Mountain if he ever needs her. Yuelou is actually a princess who was due to marry the emperor but ran away after setting fire to her palace quarters. In love, Wu Di sets out to find her, fighting river pirate Dugu and his sidekick on the way, and also meeting a hermit Buddhist monk who offers to take him on as a pupil. Yuelou plans to attend a martial arts tournament to establish her name, little knowing that the emperor's chief eunuch Cheng has arranged for her to be secretly protected by Penal Bureau officer Yang Guo and to win the tournament, so the emperor can award her the prize and persuade her to reconsider marriage.

Just Call Me Nobody

2010

Whoever Comes is a Guest poster
7.0

Since the establishment of the bamboo weaving cooperative, the appearance of Zhulin Village has changed significantly. Visitors seeking to learn, inspectors, interviewers, and tourists placing orders have been coming in an endless stream. They eat all day and all month long, leading to frequent quarrels, fights, and cases of alcohol poisoning, causing the smart and capable cafeteria manager, Xiao Wangfa, to be driven to tears and indescribable suffering. Once, when Vice Secretary Guo of the Provincial Committee came to the village for an inspection, the lunch prepared for him was eaten by the leaders from the county. Xiao Wangfa had no choice but to serve simple home-cooked meals like mung bean porridge, steamed buns, and peanuts, anxiously preparing for punishment. Unexpectedly, Vice Secretary Guo was very pleased with the meal, and the villagers of Zhulin saw hope from this incident.

Whoever Comes is a Guest

1990

Happy New Year poster
NR

As Chinese New Year nears, a community doctor’s planned marriage to a neighbor unravels when a new arrival stirs up trouble; the three work through their issues and reconcile before the holiday.

Happy New Year

2007

现世活宝 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

现世活宝

1990

Bie jiao wo ba li poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bie jiao wo ba li

1987

卖拐 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

卖拐

2001

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

摔三弦

1984

Behind the camera