Xuan Zhou
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 01, 1920
Deathday: September 22, 1957
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Known For
Sorrows of the Forbidden City
1948-11-10
Sorrows of the Forbidden City
Overview: The film focused on a conflict between Empress Dowager Cixi, her son Guangxi (the nominal emperor) and his wife, Zhenfei.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-11-10
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The Happy Couple
1943-01-01
The Happy Couple
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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An All-Consuming Love
1947-01-07
An All-Consuming Love
Overview: Gao Zhijian is the good friend of married couple Li Xiangmei and Hou Xinming. They live in the foreign settlement quarter of Shanghai. zhijian is a teacher,Xinming is involved in underground work against the Jpanese, while Xiangmei is a musician. The Pacific War erupts; the Japanese occupy the foreign settlements. Xinming is called off to work for the war effort, leaving behind his wife and blind mother. Zhijian aids Xiangmei and her mother-in-law with financial assistance. To earn money, Xiangmei becomes a song girl in a dance hall through the recommendation of her friend Liu Qing, arousing anger in Zhijian. Zhijian is soon arrested for teaching anti-Jpanese propaganda to his students and it is due to Xiangmei and Liu qing's efforts that he is released. From this,Zhijian learns of Xiangmei's difficulties and feelings of love grow between the two friends. The war ends. Xinming, minus an arm, returns to his wife and mother. Seeing his friend reunited with his family, Zhijian leaves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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Waste Not Our Youth
1948-04-30
Waste Not Our Youth
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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The Night
1941-01-01
The Night
Overview: Yuerong is an downtrodden orphan girl. She is taken in by Erhe, a rickshaw driver, whose neighbors, recognizing her intelligence and singing talent, recommend her for opera lessons. However, the manager Liu soon begins to take advantage of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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It's A Mad Night
1936-10-09
It's A Mad Night
Overview: Based on the play The Government Inspector by Nikolay Gogol.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-10-09
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The Flower Street
1950-05-19
The Flower Street
Overview: Flower Street is a place where people from the jungle live, and the street is a place where people from the marketplace gather. Zhaogou and his wife, Bai Lanhua, make a living as singers in the House of Delight and have a daughter, Daping. Daping enrolls in school, and her best friend Lian Bao is also helped by Zhaogou to learn the art, and later moves on to work as an apprentice in a factory. During the war, Zhaoxu's family fled, but his grandmother insisted on staying behind. Zhaogou is separated from his wife and daughter on the road; Daping wanders around with his mother and sells songs, and after a few twists and turns, he and his mother are able to return to Flower Street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1950-05-19
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The Wealthy Woman
1937-01-01
The Wealthy Woman
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Dream of the Red Mansions
1944-01-01
Dream of the Red Mansions
Overview: Based on the famous 18th century Chinese novel with the same name. Set during the 1700s in China, a prominent family loses its good luck when one of the sons loses the jade chip that was embedded in his mouth.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Children of Troubled Times
1935-05-24
Children of Troubled Times
Overview: The young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized widow in Qingdao. After hearing that Liang has been killed, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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Street Angel
1937-07-24
Street Angel
Overview: In old Shanghai, two sisters, a prostitute and a singer, try to escape from the local scoundrels with the help of a trumpet player and a newspaper seller.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1937-07-24
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各有千秋
1947-02-20
各有千秋
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-02-20
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Song of a Songstress
1948-08-13
Song of a Songstress
Overview: Starring in numerous singing films, Zhou Xuan was one of the most beloved singers in both cinema and recording industries for her 'golden voice'. Popular nightclub singer Zhu Lan (Zhou) is originally in love with impoverished painter Fang Zhiwei (Gu Yelu), but is taken advantage of by rich playboy Ye Chunhua (Wang Hao) at her most vulnerable time. To add to her misfortune, Zhu discovers her being an adoptee. She also learns the heartbreaking truth about her birth parents which intertwines with her own life across generations. Eventually, irreversible tragedy awaits with revenge exacted for past wrongs. In a case of art imitating life, the songstress's life and upbringing resemble Zhou Xuan's own, making the film even more heart-wrenching. The 'Song Fairy' Chen Gexin composed the film's entire music with six songs sung by Zhou. 'Song of a Songstress', sung towards the end of the film, adds poignancy to the film with its discourse on the joy and sorrow in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-08-13
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Romance of the Western Chamber
1940-01-01
Romance of the Western Chamber
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Song of a Songstress
1948-08-13
Song of a Songstress
Overview: Starring in numerous singing films, Zhou Xuan was one of the most beloved singers in both cinema and recording industries for her 'golden voice'. Popular nightclub singer Zhu Lan (Zhou) is originally in love with impoverished painter Fang Zhiwei (Gu Yelu), but is taken advantage of by rich playboy Ye Chunhua (Wang Hao) at her most vulnerable time. To add to her misfortune, Zhu discovers her being an adoptee. She also learns the heartbreaking truth about her birth parents which intertwines with her own life across generations. Eventually, irreversible tragedy awaits with revenge exacted for past wrongs. In a case of art imitating life, the songstress's life and upbringing resemble Zhou Xuan's own, making the film even more heart-wrenching. The 'Song Fairy' Chen Gexin composed the film's entire music with six songs sung by Zhou. 'Song of a Songstress', sung towards the end of the film, adds poignancy to the film with its discourse on the joy and sorrow in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-08-13
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The Fisherman's Daughter
1943-01-02
The Fisherman's Daughter
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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Orioles Banished from the Flowers
1948-07-21
Orioles Banished from the Flowers
Overview: "Among the many filmmakers who immigrated to Hong Kong after WWII was theater tycoon Jiang Boying, who established the company Great China in 1946, inviting fellow migrants to work on the first post-war Mandarin films of Hong Kong. Their hearts still anchored in Shanghai, they made films catered to the mainland market, with production modes of the former glory days. Fan Peilin, a virtuoso in musicals, was invited south to make Orioles Banished from the Flowers, dying in the crash of the returning flight. The only two films Fan made in Hong Kong–the other one Song of the Songstress–are thus his last. Both star the singing-acting superstar Zhou Xuan. In this MusCom–musical comedy–Zhou plays not the hapless songstress but a vivacious, willful youngster, rollicking between a young man and his girlfriend, resulting in a series of embarrassing but amusing situations. A remarkable sample of transplanted Shanghai-style entertainment."-- Hong Kong Film Archive
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Tomboy
1936-01-01
Tomboy
Overview: A young woman must pretend to be a man to visit her grandfather, and gets into some romantic scrapes in the process.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Feng Huang Yu Fei
1944-01-01
Feng Huang Yu Fei
Overview: May be lost.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Three Smiles
1940-01-01
The Three Smiles
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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孟姜女
1939-01-01
孟姜女
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Night Inn
1947-01-01
Night Inn
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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长相思
1947-01-07
长相思
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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