Zheng Jun-li

Vistas of Art (1938)

Three stories about art stages. "Film City", "Drama Group" and "Dance Class". ...

Symphony of Lianhua (1937)

"Lianhua Symphony" - a small collection, consisting of eight short films shot in 1937 by young filmmakers Shanghai Lianhua Film Company. ...

Tears of a Mother (1937)

A Chinese film ...

A Girl in an Isolated City (1936)

Lost Lambs (1936)

A silent Chinese feature film ...

National Customs (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. They both love their cousin Zuo, but have ambitions other than m ...

New Women (1935)

Overnight, the sexy Wei Ming will become a successful novelist. But, desperate to get the money that she needs to cure her little daughter (and harassed by a rich, unscrupulous rake), she will end up eventually engage in luxury prostitution. ...

The Big Road (1935)

Six young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army ...

Life (1934)

Loving Blood of the Volcano (1932)

A warlord's nephew lusts for farmer Song Ke's sister. When Song refuses, the whole family is thrown into jail and the sister commits suicide. The father dies of grief and Song lives with his cousin abroad. The warlord's nephew loses power and also escapes ...

A Rosy Dream (1932)

Pink Dream tells the story of a young novelist who is supported by a loving and hard-working wife. The novelist, however, is drawn to the decadent life of a socialite who introduces him to the dance halls that dot Shanghai. As the film progresses, the nove ...

Struggling (1932)

A Chinese couple in the 1930s struggle to survive. Things get complicated for them when he enlists to fight the war against Japan. ...

Wild Rose (1932)

A wild country girl moves to Shanghai with her painter boyfriend and experiences exploitation and poverty. ...

Nie Er (1962)

Shot in gorgeous color, this fascinating communist flipside to fifties Hollywood music biopics chronicles the life and tragic early death of Nie Er, the composer of the PRC's national anthem. ...

A Withered Tree Meets Spring (1961)

A critical hit during one of China's most politically charged periods, Zheng's follow-up to his 1959 anniversary epics merged Soviet-style socialist realism with his own breakthroughs in film technique, specifically his use of continuous camera movement in ...

The Opium Wars (1959)

China 1839. Because the British imports of opium into Southern China are creating such widespread medical and economic problems, the weak Manchu emperor Tao Kuang is forced to take action that precipitates the 'Opium War'. ...

Song Jing Shi (1955)

In the mid-19th century, at the height of the Opium War, the Chinese people rose up against the feudal system and the Manchu dynasty, which had capitulated to foreign invaders. ... With their heads bowed, peasants in chains trudge along, those who refused ...

People's New Hangzhou (1953)

A propaganda documentary on Hangzhou before and after the liberation. ...

Husband and Wife (1951)

An absorbing example of genre filmmaking in the People's Republic of China, Husband and Wife could at first glance be mistaken for any other romantic melodrama chronicling the rise and decline of a married couple's love; here, though, that love takes place ...

Crows and Sparrows (1949)

A story of a corrupt party official who attempts to sell an apartment building he has appropriated from the original owner and the struggles of the tenants to prevent themselves being thrown onto the street. ...

The Spring River Flows East (1947)

1930's China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. One son, Zhongliang, leaves his wife and young son to join a medic group for the Chinese Army. The other son, Zhangmin goes into hiding to protect his family. The focu ...

Long Live the Chinese Nation (1940)

A documentary on the anti-Japanese war, once thought to be lost but eventually a print was discovered in the archive of Taiwan. ...