Zhou Dongyu
Also Known As: 周冬雨, Dongyu Zhou, Zhou Dong Yu, 주동우, 저우동위, Châu Đông Vũ, ژو دونگیو
Biography: Zhou Dongyu is a celebrated Chinese actress, born on January 31, 1992, in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China. She gained prominence for her role in Zhang Yimou's film "Under the Hawthorn Tree" (2010), which marked her debut in acting despite having no prior experience. Her performance earned her critical acclaim and several awards, establishing her as a rising star in Chinese cinema. Zhou has since starred in numerous successful films, including "Soul Mate" (2016), which won her the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress, and "Better Days" (2019), which earned her both the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress. She is recognized as one of the "Four Dan Actresses of the Post-90s Generation" in China, alongside Zheng Shuang, Guan Xiaotong, and Yang Zi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China
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Birthday: January 31, 1992
Age: 33 years old
Gender: Female
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A New Awakening
Overview: Burberry's special film in celebration of the Chinese New Year. The film celebrates the arrival of spring bringing a sense of new beginnings and a yearning to explore the unknown
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-01-18
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Tainted Love
Overview: Following a woman’s search for truth after being cheated in a romance scam.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Art College 1994
Overview: In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-02-18
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The Year of the Everlasting Storm
Overview: Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.
Genres: Drama Mystery Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-03
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Life Unplugged
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-05-15
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Embrace Again
Overview: A series of interconnected stories, set against the backdrop of the early days of the pandemic. Here, individual souls realize the world is changing, sometimes yielding heartbreak, sometimes yielding happiness, always leading to a deeper understanding of their fellow human beings. From finding love, to connecting through music, heroes emerge, each contributing in small ways to a very new world around them, however dangerous.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-12-31
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The Breaking Ice
Overview: In cold wintry Yanji, a city on China's northern border, young urbanite Haofeng, visiting from Shanghai, feels lost and adrift. By chance, he goes on a tour led by Nana, a charming tour guide who instantly fascinates him. She introduces him to Xiao, a personable but frustrated restaurant worker. The three bond quickly over a drunken weekend. Confronting their individual traumas, their frozen desires slowly thaw as they seek to liberate themselves from an icy world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-08-22
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Young People and Their Youth of China
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-05-01
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The Road Of Exploring
Overview: The story of a group of revolutionary leaders in their youth and the friendship between them.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-06-10
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Everybody's Fine
Overview: When all four of his children cancel their yearly visits, a widower travels to the far corners of the country to see them and discovers the hidden sides of their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Youth China hits headlines
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-09-27
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Tale of the Night
Overview: The story takes place on a wonderful night in Changsha. Nightbird Jing Weiwei met He Xixi, who was about to leave her hometown tomorrow morning at a bookstore, and they arranged to take a night trip together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-04-28
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The Palace
Overview: In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted to be famous whereas Chen Xiang just wanted to live a normal life. Liuli attempted to change her life by knowing the prince, even at the cost of betraying Chen Xiang.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-08-13
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The Allure of Tears
Overview: The Romance film by Barbara Wong tells three touching love stories which are named the :three teardrops.” Each story portrayed by different actors explores the hidden emotions, confusion and desire of today’s young people.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-12-22
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My Old Classmate
Overview: In the summer of 1993, timid and shy Zhou Xiao Zhi meets her table partner. Sitting in the classroom’s infamous back row is troublemaker Lin Yi. They go through junior high, high school, and college years together. Lin Yi said to Zhou Xiaozhi: "One day, I’ll take you to a place that only belongs to us." Fast forward ten years...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-04-25
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Born to Fly
Overview: A talented trainee pilot is given the opportunity to virtually test the latest fighter jet, which pushes him to his limits.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-04-28
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Breakup Buddies
Overview: Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road - and the bar - with his all-too-helpful best bud, in this hilarious romantic comedy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-09-26
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Under the Hawthorn Tree
Overview: The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class divide and parental disapproval, romance blooms against turbulent times.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-09-16
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Trending Topic
Overview: Chen Miao, an editor in chief of a grassroots journalism platform, encountered a series of follow-up events after publishing a popular article.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-11-30
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2022年中央广播电视总台中秋晚会
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Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-09-10
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The Break Away
Overview: Over the course of 45 days, a relationship begins to break apart as confinement tests its bonds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-05-03
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Shanghai Noir
Overview: Fan Ruyi, a detective, finds himself framed after getting a top secret mission. Along the way he meets a blind performer and a powerful warlord's daughter that further complicates his quest to clear his name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-01-16
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Animal World 2
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Genres: Action Adventure Mystery Drama
Original Language: zh
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Miao Shan and the Minotaur
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Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-16
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Run for Love
Overview: A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan Norway, where the sun is brought down where the can't shine by large mirrors.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-02-14
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Lost in White
Overview: Lost in White takes places in the north-east of China, where two bodies have been found under the ice of a frozen lake, their remains made unidentifiable by carnivorous fish, but still bearing the mark of having been dragged with an ice hook. In charge of the investigation is Captain Zhou (Tony Leung Ka Fai), a dedicated cop who's dragging along his teenage daughter Xinyi (Zhou Dongyu). Soon he's joined by Wang Hao (Tong Dawei) a young Shanghai detective who's on a missing person case that has led him to the same village where the murders happened. The two cases prove to be connected: the missing person and the two victims were part of a quartet of businessmen who ten years ago opened a refinery in the region, and disposed of chemical waste in an unethical way that has poisoned the waters and led to malformed babies in the following decade. Is the missing businessman the killer, the next victim or a red herring?
Genres: Action Mystery Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-04-15
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Never Said Goodbye
Overview: Junhao declares to go to Sicily to learn opera and ends the relationship with his fiancée, Xiaoyou. In disbelief, she determines to learn the truth behind his sudden decision. Lee Joon-gi has teamed up with Lin for his first Chinese film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-08-09
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SoulMate
Overview: The films spans two decades as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became inseparable until they met a boy who ended up tearing their lives apart.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-09-23
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This Is Not What I Expected
Overview: Lu Jin is a handsome, wealthy hotel executive whose drive for perfection is matched only by his taste for fine cuisine. When he checks into the Rosebud, he's dissatisfied with everything he sees and is ready to take action... until flamboyant female sous chef Gu Shengnan creates the perfectionist what may be a perfect meal. Now, these bitter rivals find themselves brought together in the kitchen in this light-hearted romantic comedy, infused with fun and flavors to create a delicious dish that foodies around the world wouldn't dare to miss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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A Nail Clipper Romance
Overview: After being released from hospital after a surfing accident, Sean meets a girl at a party and falls in love. She draws him into her strange world and confesses that she follows an unusual diet: she only eats... nail clippers! Sean loses his head and decides to help her realize her dream of opening a bar for other nail-clipper eaters.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-04-14
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The Thousand Faces of Dunjia
Overview: The world is on the brink of catastrophe in a chaotic age where evil demons roam. In order to keep evil at bay, a mysterious organisation from the pugilist world emerges. A new constable and a young girl with a mysterious past are also drawn into this group, and the group embarks on an incredible adventure.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-12-15
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The New Year's Eve Of Old Lee
Overview: Three generations of family butt heads during Chinese New Year celebrations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-02-01
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City of Rock
Overview: When his community's Rock Park is up for destruction for redevelopment, a young musician organizes a charity concert to save it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-09-30
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Us and Them
Overview: Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-04-28
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The Ark Of Mr. Chow
Overview: A group of bright teenagers are recruited for a special college program for young geniuses only to find themselves socially awkward among their more normal peers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-06-19
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Animal World
Overview: Backed into a corner by mounting debts, a youth agrees to submit himself to a high stakes game of chance in international waters aboard a disused warship.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-06-29
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On the Balcony
Overview: Zhang Yingxiong’s father died due to a fight with demolition worker Lu Zhiqiang, so Zhang Yingxiong decided to revenge for his father. But during the “revenge”, he gradually start to have a special feeling for Lu Shanshan, Lu Zhiqiang’s daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-03-15
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Mr. Nian
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Genres: Animation Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-02-08
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The Founding of an Army
Overview: The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-08-01
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Kung Fu Monster
Overview: In the waning years of the Ming Dynasty, the Bruneian Empire offers a rare creature to the nation as a gift. Ocean, a member of the Imperial Secret Police, has been tasked to tame the beast. Though the furry beast appears ferocious on the outside, Ocean discovers that it is kind by nature. Not wanting to turn the beast into a killing machine on the battlefield, Ocean secretly releases the beast into the wild and elopes with Frigid, the daughter of a man executed on false charges.
Genres: Action Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-12-21
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Better Days
Overview: A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-10-25
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Goldbuster
Overview: A quirky internet star, a pair of retired gangsters, and the black sheep of a prolific family of herbalists are a few of the oddball tenants that call the dilapidated apartments of Humble Grove home. Fearful of being locked out by a ruthless property developer with his eye on the building, they’ve stayed inside for years. So, when supernatural incidents befall them all on one night, instead of running, they turn to flamboyant ghost hunter Golden Ling to perform a most unusual exorcism.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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Goddesses In The Flames Of War
Overview: A group of heroic women from various walks of life in a village near the Yangtze River stand up and confront Japanese invaders during WWII. The movie is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese War to commemorate the history and promote peace. More than 100 movie stars and artists were involved in the production of the movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-09-03
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Under the Light
Overview: Officers Su Jianming and Li Huilin investigate a crime involving wealthy businessman Li Zhitian. As clues emerge, the investigation becomes more and more like a game of chess.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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My People, My Country
Overview: Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Unspeakable Love
Overview: A pair of deaf-mute lovers who met through the Internet. The two share each other's lives through mobile phones, and finally meet at the train station through the sea of people.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-12-10
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Strangers When We Meet
Overview: After serving 30 years in prison, Lao Qin starts a new life with 1.5 million compensation from the government for demolition and relocation. He just wants to marry a wife and have children to live in peace, but his life is completely changed with the intrusion of the eccentric 24-year-old girl Chang Juan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-05-17
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Ode to the Spring
Overview: This film tells five independent and intertwined stories, presenting the anti-epidemic life with laughter and tears from the point of view of doctors, patients, volunteers in Hubei, grassroots staff and ordinary people. They pay tribute to the "ordinary heroes" in the epidemic and pass on the endless force of "spring".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-07-01
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A Fangirl's Romance
Overview: Young zoomer Gao Ge is a technology geek full of fantastic ideas. In order to prevent her mother from telling the world that his father is a singer Luo Dayou, she took her mother to Shenzhen to confront Luo Dayou. However, after arriving in Shenzhen, unfortunately lost with her mother, she and her friend Doudou and Xiaobian, not only met her mother's old coworkers, but also found her mother's crazy youth and legendary love story. Gao Ge finally eliminated the misunderstanding of his mother and embarked on a journey of finding his father with his mother.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-05-28
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Fire on the Plain
Overview: A series of murders strikes the city of Fentun. The crimes mysteriously stop without the authorities having been able to find the perpetrator. Eight years later, a young police officer, close to one of the victims, decides to reopen the investigation.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-03-08
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