Zheng Zhengqiu

Zheng Zhengqiu

Birth : 1889-01-25, Shanghai, China

Death : 1935-07-16

History

Zheng Zhengqiu (1889-July 16, 1935), formerly known as Zheng Fangze. One of the earliest film writers and directors in China, the father of Chinese film. In 1913, he wrote and co-directed China's first short feature film "Die for Marriage". In 1922, with Zhang Shichuan and others, he founded the Star Film Company. On the morning of July 16, 1935, Zheng Zhengqiu died of illness in Shanghai at the age of 46.

Profile

Zheng Zhengqiu

Movies

Peach Blossom Lake
Writer
Peach Blossom Lake
Director
The Classic for Girls
Screenplay
A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career. Some led destructive lives, while others contributed to the country.
The Classic for Girls
Director
A hostess in Shanghai invites her secondary schoolmates to a reunion. They each reminisce about their lives, with some having difficulties in marriage or career. Some led destructive lives, while others contributed to the country.
Twin Sisters
Screenplay
Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of her sister, now the pampered wife of a warlord general.
Twin Sisters
Novel
Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of her sister, now the pampered wife of a warlord general.
Twin Sisters
Director
Twin girls separated at birth are reunited when the one raised in poverty becomes a servant in the household of her sister, now the pampered wife of a warlord general.
The Flower of Freedom
Writer
The Flower of Freedom
Director
The Shadow of Red Tears
Director
The Shadow of Red Tears
Writer
Burning of the Red Lotus Monastery
Writer
After being defeated in a fight by a local gang, local official Lu Fengyang sends his weak and sickly son Lu Xiaoqing to study with a master of the Kunlun school of martial arts. Recovered and strong, he comes upon the Red Lotus Temple, and puts up there for the night. Unable to sleep, he begins looking around the palatial temple, and discovers a room decorated with many images of Buddhist demons, and an altar to worship them. Entering to look around, he finds the entrance to a deep cave from which an oppressive, foul odor emanates. (https://web.archive.org/web/20131015062919/http://www.chinesemirror.com/index/2009/07/1928-31-burning-of-red-lotus-temple.html) This wuxia serial was adapted from a newspaper serial (Strange Tales of the Adventurer in the Wild Country) and released in 18 feature-length parts over a period of 3 years. In its entirety it would be 27 hours long. Considered lost.
Ashes of the Lotus
Writer
A Married Couple in Name Only
Writer
A Beauty of 16
Writer
A Beauty of 16
Director
Reciprocity
Writer
Imperial Concubine Yang of Beijing
Writer
Imperial Concubine Yang of Beijing
Director
Xiao Qing Ren
Writer
Xiao Qing Ren
Director
The Last Conscience
Writer
My Dear Brother
Writer
Love and Vanity
The Poor Children
Writer
The Poor Children
The Death of Yuli
Writer
An Orphan Rescues His Grandpa
Writer
Romance of a Fruit Peddler
Doctor Zhu
Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients...
Romance of a Fruit Peddler
Writer
Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients...
滑稽大王游沪记
滑稽大王游沪记
Writer
Wedding Festivities
Writer
Wedding Festivities
Director