Lin Zhen

Acting

Lin Zhen

Born 1921-04-17 · Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Lin Zhen (林榛) was a Chinese actress.

Acting credits

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

Ah Fu Looks for Treasure poster
NR

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Ah Fu Looks for Treasure

1957

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

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

Lalan and Dongdong poster
4.0

Kind people help bring little Lan-Lan and her brother Dong-Dong to Beijing to their parents.

Lalan and Dongdong

1958

Phony Phoenixes poster
6.0

Young widow Fan Ruhua feigns the daughter of a tycoon and solicits husbands on papers. But Fan bumped into Yang Xiaomao, a barber, who similarly pretends to be a suiter for a broke businessman to court a daughter from a wealthy family. After a series of misunderstandings, Yang and Fan finally give up vanity and live honest lives.

Phony Phoenixes

1947

Woman Basketball Player No. 5 poster
6.3

Tian Zhenhua arrives in Shanghai to coach a local women's basketball team. Number 5 on the team, Xiaoje, excels at basketball but is unsure of whether to continue playing. As Tian gets to grips with training Xiaoje and the rest of the team, he reflects on his career as a star basketball player before the revolution.

Woman Basketball Player No. 5

1957

Window to America poster
NR

A New York City businessman meets a window washer hoping to commit suicide and decides to market his grief to the highest bidder in this acidic satire on American capitalism, one made even more memorable by the fact that the entire “American” cast are Chinese actors in whiteface. The greedy Mr. Butler (Shi Hui) convinces the suicidal “Charley” that he might as well endorse some cigarettes as he jumps out of his office window, and maybe wear a particular suit too. A true cinematic oddity, this Korean War–era propaganda piece is a satire that Frank Tashlin could envy.

Window to America

1952

This Life of Mine poster
7.4

Fifty years of modern Chinese history (1900-1950), including wars, revolutions and corrupt politics, as seen through the life and times of a simple Beijing policeman and his family.

This Life of Mine

1950