Cheng Zhi

Cheng Zhi

Birth : 1926-02-03, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Death : 1995-02-14

History

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 School. He was employed as a librarian in the Shanghai Museum of Cultural History in the late 1950s. Young Zhi Cheng has loved Peking Opera since he was young. He returned to La Jinghu without a teacher at the age of six. He broadcasted on the radio at the age of eight and sang Peking opera. At the age of eleven, he produced the Peking Opera record "Yu Guo Yuan". After graduating from high school in 1944, Cheng was admitted to the Fudan Department of Economics. Because of his passion for acting, he participated in a charity fundraising event sponsored by Shen Bao at the time during his studies in Fudan. The repertoire for the free performance is "Rich Clouds", directed by Huang Zuolin. On January 1, 1945, Cheng Zhi dropped out of school to perform a drama. He joined the hard work troupe led by Huang Zuolin and has since embarked on an acting career that he has worked for all his life. In 1947, Cheng Zhi entered Mandarin Pictures. The first film he participated in was "Fake Phoenix", in which he played "Hairdresser No.5". In the film, the hairdresser No.5 sang a popular song of self-singing and singing, which left a deep impression on the audience. impression. After succesuful debut Zhi Cheng shot more than a dozen films such as "Night Club" and "Corrosion". In 1952, eight private film companies in Shanghai merged to form the Shanghai United Film Studio. In 1953 "Lianying" was incorporated into the Shanghai Film Studio. During this period, Zhi Cheng has participated in the filming of "My Life" and "Related Directors". In the mid-fifties, Cheng Zhi donated airplane cannons to perform Beijing opera "Empty City Plan" and "Capturing Cao", etc., and recorded the radio programs Peking Opera chanting and cross talk for Taiwan People's Broadcasting Station and Fujian People's Broadcasting Station. To enable the people of Taiwan to understand the motherland and contribute to the exchanges across the Taiwan Straits. The Cultural Revolution began in 1966, Zhi Cheng was not spared, and the revolutionary masses became "objects of revolution" overnight. In July 1967, he was ordered to stay in the factory to inspect and participate in the so-called "study class", that is, the "isolation review" in disguise. One pass was ten months. In May 1968, the class ended. In 1969, a large number of people in the film system were decentralized to work in the "May 7th" cadre school in Fengxian. Zhi Cheng was still the "censorship object" and worked in the "cadre school" for four years.

Profile

Cheng Zhi

Movies

Duo guan xian shi
钟有德
Shen mao yu tie zhi zhu
The Horror Night
多情的帽子
风流局长
尤老运
愁眉笑脸
Romance of a Calligrapher
Shen Qi
Love story of a young calligrapher and the daughter of a supreme government official in ancient China.
What Is Love?
Lin Cheng
Set in the period just after ten years of chaos, several love stories associated with the tourists on a bus indicate more meanings of love.
Troubled Laughter
Nai Qing is one of them left behind by her husband, who goes to San Francisco. She meets Jia Dong, a taxi driver whose wife is in Japan. They feel lonely and fall in love with each other...Nai Qing is pregnant, she in eager to let Jia Dong know this and call him.
Jian mian li
Son, Grandson and Seeds
A story about promotion of the birth control policy in a traditional Chinese rural village.
Nan wang de zhan dou
In 1949, as the country celebrates liberation, KMT agents are ploting.
The Red Sun
The Knife-Thrower
The Magician's Adventures
Xiaoliuzi Wang
A magician comes back to Shanghai to find his son separated twenty-five years ago.
The Red Detachment of Women
Old army doctor
Qiong Hua is a slave girl of Nan Batian, a big landlord in Yelinzhai Village on Hainan Island. She has tried many times but cannot escape from the landlord's cruel oppression. Later, Nan Batian jails her in a water dungeon. Hong Changqing is the Party representative of a red detachment of women. He disguises himself as a wealthy businessman residing abroad and comes to her rescue. He pretends to buy Qiong Hua to be his slave, saves her from the abyss of sufferings, and instructs her to join the red detachment of women. At the outset, Qiong Hua joins the revolutionary rank to settle her personal grudge. Educated by Hong Changqing, she becomes a conscientious revolutionary fighter.
地下航线
Manager Zhu
Desert Chasing Bandits
A squad of PLA traces bandits in the desert.
铁窗烈火
Yuehan Sheng
兰兰和冬冬
Ke Xizhuang
Cowboy Joining the Army
Chief of staff of enemy
乘风破浪
Doctor Niu
A small story in a big storm
钱教授
Family
Gao, Kean (Fourth Young Master)
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.
Li Shizhen
This biography film is based on the life of the real historical figure Li Shizhen.The story focuses on the social injustices suffered by Li as well as the difficulties he overcame in writing the famous Encyclopedia of Herbs.
The Old Man and the Fairy
The story about an old man and a peony fairy.
哈森与加米拉
Dai Da
Caravans with Ring
Bi Gen
The government sends caravans to Miao villages periodically to provide goods which facilitate the folks. A detachment protects the caravans from robbery.
Ji mao xin
Zui Wai
Fu Shi
During the war against Japan, a young woman fell into the enemy's spy organization, and engaged in a series of espionage activities, before being inspired by members of the Communist Pary.
Life of a Beijing Policeman
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.
The Watch
Homeless country boy Calf lives on the streets of Shanghai with his friends Big Cat and Little Mouse. One day, he steals an expensive watch from an elderly street vendor, a theft which leads to a physical confrontation with his friends and his subsequent arrest.
Sorrows and Joys of a Middle-Aged Man
In pre-communism China, a widowed man falls in love with a young colleague who's the same age as his own children.
The Watch
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.
Long Live the Mistress!
Shi Guang
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.