Huang Zongying

Acting

Huang Zongying

Born 1925-07-13 · Beijing, China

Huang Zongying was a Chinese actress and writer. She starred in many black-and-white films such as Rhapsody of Happiness, Crows and Sparrows, Women Side by Side, and The Life of Wu Xun, all co-starring her third husband Zhao Dan.

Acting credits

Rhapsody of Happiness poster
6.5

Wang, a bankrupt farmer joins his cousin, Wu, in Shanghai, but finds that he is poor too. One day, Wu stops a woman - Zhang, a drug runner - from being run down by a car, and is hospitalized. During his recovery, Wu slims down due to the amount of drugs he is prescribed, which inspires him to create and sell a weight loss medicine.

Rhapsody of Happiness

1947

The Winter of Three Hairs poster
7.3

San mao (3 hairs) was a very popular Chinese comic strip first published in 1935-37, continued from 1948 into the 1990s, about a young orphan boy struggling with life in Shanghai.

The Winter of Three Hairs

1949

The Go Masters poster
6.6

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely described as an Asian version of chess). It soon becomes evident that the Chinese master's son is the most talented player that the Japanese master has ever encountered, and he convinces the boy's father to let him bring the child back to Japan to train him as a professional Go player. Years pass, and as the young Chinese master grows to maturity in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China forces him to choose between his triumphant career and his loyalty to his native country. His decision is complicated by his marriage to the daughter of the Japanese master, with whom he has produced a child. His choice will profoundly alter the lives of two families. Their saga serves as a reflection of the tragic relations between their two great countries, and the possibility of reconciliation and healing.

The Go Masters

1982

Nie Er poster
7.0

Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC’s national anthem.

Nie Er

1962

Le palanquin des larmes poster
7.8

The story of three generations of a family in Shanghai against the backdrop of tumultuous times.

Le palanquin des larmes

1986

Crows and Sparrows poster
6.7

A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street.

Crows and Sparrows

1949

Family poster
7.8

Based on the famous novel of the same name by well-known author Ba Jin, this movie traces the decline of a large, wealthy family in the early part of the twentieth century. The story focuses on three brothers and how they respond to the expectation that they will each marry women whom their grandfather has selected for them. The lure of family money on the one hand and modern individualism on the other plays out differently among the young men. Critics consider this movie an indictment against feudal ideas.

Family

1957

The Life of Wu Xun poster
6.0

The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.

The Life of Wu Xun

1951

The Love Between a Human and a Ghost poster
NR

Hong Kong horror movie from 1958.

The Love Between a Human and a Ghost

1958

Please Remember Me poster
NR

A young actress, successful in her small hometown, seeks fame and fortune in the big city. She goes to live with a friend, who is currently making a film about Zhao Dan. They live in a building about to be destroyed. Can their differing visions of art and love come to pass, or will heartbreak put an end to their relationship, as it does to the old Shanghai?

Please Remember Me

2017

Three Girls poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Three Girls

1949

Behind the camera