Directing

Zhu Shilin

Born August 30, 1899 · Jiangsu, Cina

Died January 5, 1967 · aged 67

Zhu Shilin (27 July 1899 – 5 January 1967), also romanised as Chu Shek Lin, was a Chinese film director and screenwriter, born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Zhu began his career in the thriving film industry of Shanghai, directing actresses like Ruan Lingyu with the Lianhua Film Company. After the war, Zhu moved to Hong Kong, where he founded the Longma Film Company along with fellow Shanghai emigra…

Known For

Tears of a Mother

Tears of a Mother · 1937

Tears of a Mother

The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night · 1942

The Wedding Night

Tonight and Every Night

Tonight and Every Night · 1958

Tonight and Every Night

MovieDramaRomance

Orphan He Yongnian was brought up by Zheng Mu, the owner of a small shop, and he was childhood sweetheart with Zheng's daughter Jingqin. Yongnian and Jingqin's love roots have been planted early, Jingqin helps everywhere, and Yongnian is very grateful. After Yongnian graduated, he was appreciated by the boss of the trading company, Leung. Jingqin's mother and daughter supported him. Boss Leung's daughter Dai Ni is attracted by Yong Nian and starts pursuing him. Yongnian's heart is attached to Jingqin, but he is afraid of offending Dai Ni, so he reluctantly entertains. Seduced by Dai Ni, Yongnian gradually yearns for a higher life, ignoring Zheng's mother and daughter...

新婚第一夜

新婚第一夜 · 1956

新婚第一夜

Sorrows of the Forbidden City

Sorrows of the Forbidden City · 1948

Sorrows of the Forbidden City

MovieDramaHistory

The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhen Fei.

人约黄昏后

人约黄昏后 · 1942

人约黄昏后

New and Old Times

New and Old Times · 1937

New and Old Times

A rich businessman's family is in straitened circumstances. He has a son and four daughters, but only the youngest daughter lives a positive life.

Vistas of Art

Vistas of Art · 1938

Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class".

Filmography

Sort

Tears of a Mother

Tears of a Mother · 1937

Tears of a Mother

Director

The Wedding Night

The Wedding Night · 1942

The Wedding Night

Director

Tonight and Every Night

Tonight and Every Night · 1958

Tonight and Every Night

MovieDramaRomance

Orphan He Yongnian was brought up by Zheng Mu, the owner of a small shop, and he was childhood sweetheart with Zheng's daughter Jingqin. Yongnian and Jingqin's love roots have been planted early, Jingqin helps everywhere, and Yongnian is very grateful. After Yongnian graduated, he was appreciated by the boss of the trading company, Leung. Jingqin's mother and daughter supported him. Boss Leung's daughter Dai Ni is attracted by Yong Nian and starts pursuing him. Yongnian's heart is attached to Jingqin, but he is afraid of offending Dai Ni, so he reluctantly entertains. Seduced by Dai Ni, Yongnian gradually yearns for a higher life, ignoring Zheng's mother and daughter...

Director

新婚第一夜

新婚第一夜 · 1956

新婚第一夜

Writer

Sorrows of the Forbidden City

Sorrows of the Forbidden City · 1948

Sorrows of the Forbidden City

MovieDramaHistory

The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhen Fei.

Director

人约黄昏后

人约黄昏后 · 1942

人约黄昏后

Director

New and Old Times

New and Old Times · 1937

New and Old Times

A rich businessman's family is in straitened circumstances. He has a son and four daughters, but only the youngest daughter lives a positive life.

Director

Vistas of Art

Vistas of Art · 1938

Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class".

Director

Festival Moon

Festival Moon · 1953

A financially struggling office worker goes into debt in order to afford traditional holiday gifts for his boss and landlord. Part of Hong Kong Film Awards' 100 Best Chinese Movies.

Director

San feng qiu huang

San feng qiu huang · 1963

San feng qiu huang

MovieMusicRomance

Writer

Love and Duty

Love and Duty · 1931

The film tells the story of Yang Naifan (Ruan Lingyu) who runs from her arranged marriage to be with her true love, Li Zuyi (Jin Yan). The film details the poverty she must endure for breaking with tradition.

Writer

A Love Beauty

A Love Beauty · 1941

Director

The Lost Pearl

The Lost Pearl · 1937

MovieDramaRomance

Director

Two Stars in the Milky Way

Two Stars in the Milky Way · 1931

Two Stars in the Milky Way

MovieDramaRomance

This is a silent film from China made in 1931. It is about two leads in a film, Yan (Raymond King) and Ying (Violet Wong). They meet after hearing Ying sing while another movie is being shot. You, of course, don't get to hear the song, but it catches people's attention. Once they meet and work together, they fall in love. Is it forever?

Writer

A Girl in an Isolated City

A Girl in an Isolated City · 1936

A Girl in an Isolated City

Writer

A Widow's Tears

A Widow's Tears · 1956

A Widow's Tears

After her husband's death in a car accident, Fang must endure the fury of her mother-in-law.

Director

Tung Hsiaowen

Tung Hsiaowen · 1963

MovieHistoryRomance

Writer

National Customs

National Customs · 1935

National Customs

In 1930, two sisters from the countryside, the serious Zhang Lan and the frivolous Zhang Tao graduate from secondary school where their mother Zhang Jie serves as principal. They both love their cousin Zuo, but have ambitions other than marriage. Their lives change dramatically when both attend university in Shanghai and encounter modern urban life and rapidly changing society. The film also depicts the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek's 1934 New Life Movement. Lianhua Film Studio did the film to appease the Nationalist Party which accused it of primarily presenting left-wing films, which was true.

Director

Youth

The painter Hu Mai was attracted to the beauty of Mei Lin, a girl in her youth, so Hu did a portrait of her named The Picture of Youth. A wealthy businessman Cao Bin brought this painting and got to know Mei Lin in person. Now Mei Lin has to chose who she should marry to, between the good hearted but poor painter Hu Mai, and the wealthy but ill-natured Cao Bin.

Director

Love at First Sight

Love at First Sight · 1955

Love at First Sight

Two couple doubt their partners are having affairs with another, so they try their best to find out the truth.

Director

The Living Corpse

The Living Corpse · 1958

The Living Corpse

MovieHorrorMystery

Famed director Zhu Shilin tries his hand at a horror film! The beginning of The Living Corpse immediately sets the tone with a folk duet clearly inspired by the popular 1956 musical Songs of the Peach Blossom River. The duet, in addition to Zhu's frequent use of long, empty shots and crisp editing, gives this horror film a traditional poetic charm and a strong folk flavor. Mise-en-scene and sound effects create a terrifying atmosphere, and successfully communicate the ghostliness of a world without ghosts.

Director

Resurrection Incense

Resurrection Incense · 1941

Resurrection Incense

Director

The Eternal Love

The Eternal Love · 1960

The Eternal Love

Tragedy strikes two pairs of lovers and a family, just three days after a happy marriage.

Director

Sweet as Honey

Sweet as Honey · 1959

Zhang Mingyang and Ding Huilan are newlyweds and very much in love. Yang's old lover, Wang Baozhu, pays a surprise visit and asks Yang to help her find her long-lost husband. In order to avoid the same mistake of his father-in-law being pestered by his jealous mother-in-law, Yang has to claim that Zhu is the mistress of his colleague, which causes the wives to be suspicious. After Lan learns the truth, she helps Zhu find her husband and exposes Yang's lies ......

Director