Zhu Xu

Acting

Zhu Xu

Born 1930-04-15 · 中国,辽宁,沈阳

Zhu Xu (Chinese: 朱旭) is a Chinese actor. He is well known for his roles in Zhang Yang's Shower and Wu Tianming's The King of Masks, the latter film helping him garner a Best Actor prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Acting credits

The Girl in Red poster
9.0

Sixteen-year-old An-ran gets into repeated trouble because she refuses blind obedience to authority, openly challenging and correcting a teacher who makes a mistake in class. She is different.

The Girl in Red

1985

The Message poster
7.4

After a series of assassinations in Nanking, a Japanese spy master gathers a group of suspects in a mansion, then a tense cat-and-mouse game erupts as the Chinese agent tries to keep his or her identity a secret.

The Message

2009

Shower poster
6.9

An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of Shenzhen, abruptly returns one day, it once again puts under stress the long-broken father-son ties. Presented as a light-hearted comedy, Shower explores the value of family, friendship, and tradition.

Shower

1999

The King of Masks poster
7.4

Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.

The King of Masks

1995

Teahouse poster
8.7

An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic.

Teahouse

1982

Lotus Lantern poster
7.7

A young boy named Chen Xiang uses a magical lotus lantern to search for and rescue his mother, a goddess, from the cruel punishment she received from her brother, the king of the gods, for falling in love with a mortal man.

Lotus Lantern

1999

Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch poster
6.3

Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.

Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch

1991

We'll Meet in Heaven poster
7.7

In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten years. She is raised by her grandfather. He introduces her to gymnastics where she does her best to fit in with the others.

We'll Meet in Heaven

2009

推销员之死 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

推销员之死

1983

The Gua Sha Treatment poster
5.7

The painless bruise marks on a child from the traditional Chinese guasha/scraping treatment was mistaken by child protection services as evidence of abuse and neglect, stirring clashes and debates on cultral prejudice and false philanthropy.

The Gua Sha Treatment

2001

高楼边 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

高楼边

1993

The True-Hearted poster
10.0

The film illustrates classical Beijing Opera in different generations and the boy’s process of growing-up.

The True-Hearted

1992

A Narrow Lane Celebrity poster
8.5

A brilliant, blackly comic script and the subtle comic genius of star Zhu Xu mark this as one of the best tragi-comedies of post-liberation Chinese cinema.

A Narrow Lane Celebrity

1985

The Street Players poster
8.0

Based on Lao She’s novel, a story about a street player set in the wartime Chongqing.

The Street Players

1987

Our Tradition poster
8.0

This family tale spans three generations of Chinese trying to understand and come to terms with life's changes. Middlesome relatives stir up a storm. The old and the young find themselves and their values developing and evolving, and new relationships come and go. The eldest family member, Guan, the son of a royal physician of the former Qing Dynasty, has also become a great physician who is able to predict the exact time of a patient's death. His ex-daughter-in-law, Yu, trained by him to be a physician, still stays with the family as his assistant. Her ex-husband, Jin, comes back from the USA with his new girlfriend, Jenny, a beautiful American who is doing a research on the death of Guangxu, the second last Emperor of Qing Dynasty who is Guan's father's patient. Jenny speaks fluent Mandarin, but she has a long way to go before understanding and getting accustomed to the Chinese tradition and mindset. On the other hand, Yu falls in love with her old friend who is a married man.

Our Tradition

2000

咸亨酒店 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

咸亨酒店

1981

哗变 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

哗变

1988

偷来的爱 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

偷来的爱

1987

Sunny Cour Tyard poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sunny Cour Tyard

2004

Descendants of Confucius poster
10.0

The Kong family is restrained by tradition because families named Kong are thought to be direct descendants of Confucius.

Descendants of Confucius

1992