Zhu Shilin Trailers
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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 emigrant Fei Mu.
Between 1930 and 1964, he directed 80 films. Two of his films, Sorrows of the Forbidden City (1948) and Festival Moon (1953) were ranked in the Hong Kong Film Awards' Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures.
Most Popular Zhu Shilin Trailers
Total trailers found: 37
01 January 1948
The Goddess (1934) is remade once again. In this version, Zhu Shilin tackles the anxiety concerning the clash of 20th century Chinese traditions and modern Western culture.
23 February 1951
A Chinese drama
13 August 1964
Yang Mengchi is a spoiled, rich do-nothing whose habit of smoking opium has cost him his entire fortune and the family mansion, the Garden of Repose, now due to be sold to Yao Guodong.
20 January 1966
It a story about a foolish king who loved chinese cricket game.
21 December 1956
After her husband's death in a car accident, Fang must endure the fury of her mother-in-law.
01 August 1958
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.
01 January 1938
Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class".
02 April 1958
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.
05 August 1951
A wedding musician fails to wed his own love: Little Trumpet is raring to marry his childhood sweetheart, but a series of setbacks has prevented them from getting their way.
01 June 1943
The life and story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War.
10 November 1948
The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhen Fei.
17 January 1937
A Chinese film
01 January 1941
The film tells the story of Bai Xiongmin's maid, Mei Xiang, who was raped by Bai Xiongmin's father, Bai Jiankang, and who was forced to become a prostitute after the war broke out.
19 December 1952
A 50's Chinese film that reflects the post-war society, expresses idealism and pleads to return to the homeland.
01 January 1934
Coming Home of a dead person
09 February 1947
A love triangle between a wrongfully accused fugitive, a judge's daughter, and her cousin.
17 December 1937
"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company.
18 January 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).
01 January 1937
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.
01 January 1934
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.
01 June 1952
Premiering on August 15, 1952, Fei Mu's unfinished posthumous work.
09 September 1953
A financially struggling office worker goes into debt in order to afford traditional holiday gifts for his boss and landlord.
14 March 1931
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).
14 February 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.
28 May 1955
Two couple doubt their partners are having affairs with another, so they try their best to find out the truth.
13 May 1935
In 1930, two sisters from the countryside, the serious Zhang Lan (Ruan Lingyu) and the frivolous Zhang Tao graduate from the secondary school where their mother Zhang Jie serves as principal.
29 December 1960
Tragedy strikes two pairs of lovers and a family, just three days after a happy marriage.
03 September 1958
In order to avoid young women being selected to enter the imperial palace, the parents hastily arrange marriages for their unmarried daughters with men they deemed suitable.
01 January 1944
This movie is a pre-revolutionary era cultural introspection work that was way too ahead of its time, and consequently, performed poorly in the box office.
