
Acting
Yan Han
Born
1908-08-30 (118)
Place of birth
Baoding, Hebei, China
Known for
Acting
Credits
16 titles
Known for
8.2Xiang Zi is a rickshaw boy who has always had a desire to excel and a thirst for freedom. He married Hu Niu who died of dystocia later. After her death, another girl, Xiao Fuzi, falls in love with Xiang Zi but they are separated by poverty. Xiang Zi works very hard in order to change his life, only to find that Xiao Fuzi is dead just as he begins to be hopeful for their future. Finally, Xiang Zi, an unflinching man, surrenders to that dark society.
Rickshaw Boy
1982
7.8An idealistic youth moves to the countryside in search of a purer, more honest society, but finds injustice even in his remote village.
Early Spring
1963
NRMilitiaman in Lü Liang Shan actively organize to fight enemies.
Heroes of Lüliang Mountain
1950
6.1In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast.
New Year Sacrifice
1956
8.0Occurring at the time of the Chinese Civil War, following the victory over Japan, Nationalist agents fail in trying to destroy the student movement in Beijing.
Min zhu qing nian jin xing qu
1951
6.6Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner.
The Lin Family Shop
1959
Film credits
1960s · 2 titles
1950s · 13 titles
NRMilitiaman in Lü Liang Shan actively organize to fight enemies.
Heroes of Lüliang Mountain
1950
6.1In a mountain hamlet in eastern China, a poor woman faces trial after trial. Sold into marriage as a child, she is left a young widow and enslaved by her mother-in-law, who sells her to a poor peasant. Her second marriage turns out to be happy until fate takes away her husband and son. Now seen as a bearer of bad luck, she becomes a social outcast.
New Year Sacrifice
1956
8.0Occurring at the time of the Chinese Civil War, following the victory over Japan, Nationalist agents fail in trying to destroy the student movement in Beijing.
Min zhu qing nian jin xing qu
1951
6.6Financial and political pressures bankrupt a Chinese store owner.
The Lin Family Shop
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
矿灯
1959
NRDuring the early War of Resistance Against Japan in Baiyangdian, Hebei, the Yanling Squad, led by Communist Party member Hei Lao Cai, conducted effective guerrilla warfare. Yang Xiaomei, fleeing abuse from her husband Zhang Jinlong, joined the squad and developed feelings for farmer Niu Dashi. Zhang Jinlong, unable to change, defected to the Japanese. As Japanese sweep operations intensified, Xiaomei, Dashi, and Zhang Jinlong faced different paths in the conflict.
New Heroes and Heroines
1951
9.0A small Chinese village. For centuries, here, as throughout the country, the working peasantry lived with the dream of owning land. They rose up against the landlords many times, but never achieved victory. And then the dream came true... Dramatic episodes from the life of this village show us how land reform was carried out.
Land
1955
6.4Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is really about Communist revolution that won over the hearts and minds of Chinese youth.
Song of Youth
1959
NRA family is persecuted by I-Kuan Tao, a feudal religious organization.
Yi guan hai ren dao
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
锡城的故事
1959
8.5Niu, the chief of the general affairs section of a bureau, who goes to great lengths to renovate the director's office before the new director's arrival, yet dismisses and evades the more down-to-earth issues. When the director finally arrives, everything goes out of control.
Before the New Bureau Director Arrives
1956
8.0No synopsis available yet.
患难之交
1958
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Dragon Beard Ditch
1952

