Cheng Zhi

Acting

Cheng Zhi

Born February 3, 1926 · Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Died February 14, 1995 · aged 69

Zhi Cheng Zhi was born on February 3, 1926 in Wuchang, Hubei. Two years later he moved to Shanghai with his grandfather, tenth-ranking scholar. Grandfather was proficient in poetry, calligraphy, and seal engraving. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was the supervisor of the Yuelu Academy in Hunan. He has more than ten albums, and has compiled and published many representative works of the Tan Sch…

Known For

Night InnNight Inn · 1947
Night Inn
★ 6.01947
MovieDrama
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.
The Red Detachment of WomenThe Red Detachment of Women · 1961
The Red Detachment of Women
★ 6.61961
MovieWarDrama
Wu Qionghua, a house maid, is abused by a cruel warlord until she joins a troop of women soldiers.
Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged ManSorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man · 1949
Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man
★ 8.41949
MovieRomanceComedy
Chen Shaochang (Shi Hui), a primary school principal widowed at a young age, raises his children alone. His close friend's daughter, Liu Minhua (Zhu Jiachen), whom he hasn't seen for many years, begins working at the primary school through his introduction. Chen Shaochang's son, Jianzhong (Han Fei), and daughter-in-law, Feng Lijun (Li Huanqing), consider Chen's job undignified. After retiring, he is filled with melancholy, understood only by Minhua. Although their relationship deepens, they must contend with the ethical and social norms of Republican-era Shanghai.
Long Live the Mistress!Long Live the Mistress! · 1947
Long Live the Mistress!
★ 7.51947
MovieComedyDrama
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.
FamilyFamily · 1957
Family
★ 7.81957
MovieDrama
Based on the famous novel of the same name by well-known author Ba Jin, this movie traces the decline of a large, wealthy family in the early part of the twentieth century. The story focuses on three brothers and how they respond to the expectation that they will each marry women whom their grandfather has selected for them. The lure of family money on the one hand and modern individualism on the other plays out differently among the young men. Critics consider this movie an indictment against feudal ideas.
The Red SunThe Red Sun · 1963
The Red Sun
1963
MovieDramaWar
Desert Chasing BanditsDesert Chasing Bandits · 1959
Desert Chasing Bandits
1959
Movie
A squad of PLA traces bandits in the desert.
The WatchThe Watch · 1949
The Watch
1949
MovieDrama
A street-wise and tough orphan called Maverick is arrested for a petty theft and sent to an orphanage, but succeeds in concealing a watch he had stolen from an old shopkeeper just before his arrest. At the orphanage, he is recruited by a crooked warder for further and more serious crimes. But when two more children are admitted to the orphanage -- a boy called "Fatty" and a girl called "Little Mouse" -- he makes the first friends he has ever had. But when Maverick learns the girl is the granddaughter of the old shopkeeper he stole the watch from, and what ruin it brought to her family, he has a crisis of conscience.

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The Horror NightThe Horror Night · 1988
The Horror Night
★ 8.01988
MovieCrimeHorror
The story takes place in the pre-liberation southwestern borderlands, where two well-dressed young men are welcomed on a winding path in the deep mountains. They are Qi Yuanjing and Zhou Luo, spies sent by the police department, disguised as merchants to find out the reality of a group of cunning bandits. As twilight approaches, the two men make their way to the secluded Purple Cloud Taoist Temple. The Taoist master, Shou Jing, shows the two of them in, but the meticulous Qi Yuanjing discovers a series of suspicious things inside the Taoist temple. The Taoist master blinks at the queries raised by Qi. Before long, they saw horrific ghostly figures in a nearby attic. According to the Taoist priest's account, a tragic war once took place here two hundred years ago, so whenever it rained, ghosts would come out and roam around.