Zhang Fa

Acting

Zhang Fa

Born 1919-01-01 · Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Acting credits

Happiness poster
NR

Wang Jiayou, a young worker at the Shanghai New Machinery Factory, is a man whose life is unorganized, does not pay attention to labor discipline, and often spends his youth in dance halls, skating rinks and cafes. When working during the day, he appears listless and often has accidents.

Happiness

1958

Night Inn poster
6.0

Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diǎn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan. The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the Cultural Revolution but were popular in the post-Mao period.

Night Inn

1947

Mother and Son poster
7.0

After falling in love with Han Liren and giving birth to an "illegitimate child", Han Liren abandoned her and married a rich girl and cheated her out of the child. Huang Su then left the country, changed her name to Lin Luping, and became an actress. Sixteen years later, Huang Su was so popular that she was invited to perform in Shanghai. The young actor she worked with, Han Chen, was withdrawn and hated everyone, and everyone discriminated against him because he was an abandoned "illegitimate child". On stage, Han Chen played Lin Luping's son and was very successful. Later Lin Luping finds out that he turns out to be her biological son who was cheated away by Han Liren years ago. At this point, the theater owner Han Liren appears and wishes to get back together with Lin Luping, but is rejected by Lin Luping's mother and son.

Mother and Son

1947

The Statue of Guanyin poster
NR

Set in southwest China, a spy code-named "old Guanyin" wants to send information hidden in a statue of Guanyin.

The Statue of Guanyin

1984

Long Live the Mistress! poster
7.5

A man who becomes wealthy starts to have an affair and though his wife knows of it, she says nothing. Soon, the affair starts to have consequences and his business falls apart while the man’s sister starts to have a relationship with the brother of his wife.

Long Live the Mistress!

1947

Lan guang shan guo zhi hou poster
7.0

Set in the summer of 1976, people and stories in the disaster relief after a violent earthquake.

Lan guang shan guo zhi hou

1979

Meeting 20 Years Later poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Meeting 20 Years Later

1984

A Great Start poster
NR

An episode from the life of a metallurgical plant collective. Lu Zhong-kui, an advanced worker appointed as head of the smelting shop, initiates the re-equipment of the open-hearth furnace. The plant director and some specialists warn him that the furnace, built by Americans, is operating at maximum capacity. However, many refer to the experience of the Soviet people and support Lu. And then an accident occurs: steel bursts out of the furnace... This episode is full of drama, as is the entire story about the selfless and persistent struggle of a worker-promoter to fulfill the state plan.

A Great Start

1955

大小伙子 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

大小伙子

1983

Happiness of Farmers poster
NR

Set in a village in north China, a veteran leads villagers to raise productivity by scientific methods.

Happiness of Farmers

1950

T Province in 1984 & 1985 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

T Province in 1984 & 1985

1986

Red Flag on the Green Hill poster
7.0

1930s, Jiangxi Soviet Area. Jiang Mengzi bids farewell to his newlywed wife Xiang Wu'er and joins the main force of the Red Army on the Long March. Xiao Zhenkui, the leader of the "Communist Removal Group", took the opportunity to return to the countryside to launch a white terror. Mengzi's father, chairman of the Township Soviet, and his sister were killed at the same time. The pregnant Wu'er gave birth to a child on the way to escape. Wu'er is found out hiding and forced to work as a wet nurse. Will Mengzi return in time to save his family?

Red Flag on the Green Hill

1951

In front of the letter poster
NR

Based on the story of Li Zhong about the struggle of Chinese volunteers on the Korean front on the side of the North Korean defenders of the homeland. In the center of the film is the family of the deceased volunteer Yong Qing.

In front of the letter

1959

The Sunset poster
NR

Three former comrades from a wartime propaganda troupe join to form a senoir choir, and are soon joined by their other comrades, who find that it is an uplifting experience in their old age.

The Sunset

1986

Along The Jinsha River poster
9.0

In 1936, the Long March of the Red Army passed through the Tibetan area by the Jinsha River. The Kuomintang colluded with the great local tyrant Qiu Wanli in an attempt to prevent the Red Army from crossing the river north. Qiu Wanli asks his minions to pretend to be the Red Army and rob the chieftain Sangge's only daughter Zhuma to provoke the relationship between the chieftain and the Red Army. The Red Army adhered to the party's ethnic policy, rescued Zhuma, and crossed the Jinsha River to the border of Tibetan areas. Qiu again sneaked into the Tibetan area. He said that Zhuma had been killed by the Red Army and provided ammunition and weapons for the chieftain to fight the Red Army. In order to expose the enemy's rumors, the Red Army instructor Jin Ming took a squad to escort Zhuma home.

Along The Jinsha River

1963

The Red Sun poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Red Sun

1963

Stories of the Huangpu River poster
NR

The fate of a Chinese worker who devoted his life to the revolutionary struggle, about his family, who gave many years to their native factory, about the victory of people's power in the country.

Stories of the Huangpu River

1959

平鹰坟 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

平鹰坟

1978

Cut the Evil’s Claw poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cut the Evil’s Claw

1954

Dragon Beard Ditch poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Dragon Beard Ditch

1952

Streets and lanes poster
NR

Li Zhongming was originally an elementary school teacher, but lost his job due to the war and was displaced to Shanghai. With no money and no home to return to, he is persuaded by Zhu Laowu, a tricycle driver, to ride a tricycle, and his practicality attracts the attention of Sun Jin'e, the owner of a car dealership, who falls in love with him. By chance, Li Zhongming met a young female teacher named Zhao Shuqiu, and a sympathetic relationship soon developed between the two, which made Sun Jin'e very sad. However, because of the huge difference in social status between Li Zhongming and Zhao Shuqiu, the romance soon caused a lot of gossip. Eventually, Zhao Shuqiu loses her job and her home, and the kind-hearted Li Zhongming agrees to let Zhao Shuqiu live in his house, but the two remain innocent of each other.

Streets and lanes

1948