Lü Yulai

Lü Yulai

Born: April 8, 1982
in Longchang, Sichuan Province, China
Actor, director and showrunner from Mainland China. Lu Yulai was born on April 8, 1982 in Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Department of Drama and Literature at the Central Academy of Drama, and graduated from the Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy. During student years Lu starred in the film debut "Peacock" and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in the Chinese Media Film Awards. In 2006 he was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in the 7th Chinese Film Media Awards with his starring movie " The Courthouse on Horseback". In 2009 Lu was awarded the 4th Chinese Forum Emerging Actor and Best Actor in Madrid Film Festival for starring in the movie "Soundless Wind Chimes". In 2010, he won the best TV movie actor in the 17th Beijing University Student Film Festival with the movie "Summer Without Cicadas". In 2012 Lu Yulai appeared in the historical film "The Last Supper".

Movies for Lü Yulai...

Title: The Bionic Life
Released: October 18, 2023
Type: TV
Set in the year 2035, humanoid robots that are indistinguishable from humans have raised public concerns due to their rapid advancement. The members of "Mingmou" organization, Cheng Nuo, a level-headed individual, and An Qiu, who excels in empathy, join forces to unravel the mysteries behind the continuous murders of humanoid robots. Amidst the complexities of life, the boundary between humans and humanoid robots blurs. The fate of both humans and humanoid robots is being silently rewritten...
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The Darker the Lake
Title: The Darker the Lake
Character: Ming
Released: March 10, 2022
Type: Movie
When strange, supernatural murders suddenly become the talk a peaceful town, two detectives must solve a deadly game, but will the myth of this game reveal secrets too close to home.
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Fire on the Plain
Title: Fire on the Plain
Released: December 24, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower
Character: Xie Bao Luo / 谢保罗
Released: August 19, 2020
Type: TV
A beautiful coffee shop owner Zhong Meibao suddenly dies in a condominium at the Horizon Tower. When she died, her face still wore a doll-like makeup, hence the case was referred to as the "Doll Murder Case". This case shocks the whole tower, and after investigation the clues point to three suspects - security guard Xie Baoluo, architect Lin Dasen and property manager Lin Mengyu. All three suspects were enthralled by Zhong Meibao's beauty, and all had an intimate relationship with her. All the clue seem to point to the possibility of a love crime. However in the midst of investigation, new clues begin to emerge, and turns the focus to Zhong Meibao's complicated and painful youth. Her family, consisting of her step-father, mother, younger brother and foster mother, were implicated into the case. Just who could be the real murderer?
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Title: Missing Persons
Character: 陈建
Released: June 3, 2020
Type: TV
Six survivors of a car accident are trapped in a mysterious river valley where hair-raising events ensue. What is the shocking secret in the valley? The lone survivors of a deadly accident have their own secrets to hide. Unable to treat each other with sincerity, they become increasingly suspicious as tensions rise. As they try to find a way out of their ordeal, they experience strange circumstances. Escape may seem impossible yet they continue to make a desperate attempt in the hopes of salvation.
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Complicity
Title: Complicity
Character: Chen Liang
Released: January 17, 2020
Type: Movie
A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.
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Begin, Again
Title: Begin, Again
Released: December 31, 2019
Type: Movie
The story tells about a 35-year old woman who has been struggling in the city for over 10 years. She meets a younger woman who dreams of a life in the city and a 7-years younger colleague and with the help of the two, her family and friends, she gradually finds her way back to herself again.
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Blue Amber
Title: Blue Amber
Character: Āfēng
Released: December 17, 2018
Type: Movie
When a traffic accident claims the life of He Jie's husband, a substantial life insurance payment does little to heal the wound. One day, a museum tour guide's joke of a rare piece of blue ...
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Iceman: The Time Traveler
Title: Iceman: The Time Traveler
Character: Patriot
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
The imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later pass and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.
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Dawn Breaking
Title: Dawn Breaking
Released: March 24, 2018
Type: Movie
A large-scale solo exhibition by Chinese contemporary video artist Yang Fudong — grandly opened in the West Bund of Shanghai Art Museum. Yang collaborated with actors including Tan Zhuo, Lu Yulai, Xu Caigen, etc., and showed a 30-day art museum 'new film plan' for the audience at the museum. The Northern Song Dynasty Church and Nietzsche texts are the solemn philosophical language randomly selected by the director as a dialogue in the shooting scenes, and accompanied by the incomparable tone, gestures and facial expressions of the performers. Through this abstraction, stimulation breeds suspense, absurdity, and confusion. To be sure, Yang Fudong has once again found a strong personal style in recycling history.
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Signature
Title: Signature
Released: August 12, 2017
Type: Movie
A naive young man from China is anxiously memorizing “his hope” in the middle of the noisy crowd in Shibuya.
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Inside: A Chinese Horror Story
Title: Inside: A Chinese Horror Story
Character: Cui Kai
Released: July 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Cui Kai is a has-been writer and lives in his distressed apartment, unemployed. One day he receives an exciting job offer from an editor-to create a horror series. Kai has finally completed the horror series. The book becomes an immediate hit. However, fame does not make Kai any happier. Every story in his book is inextricably intertwined with his own life. He himself has a personality split and the obese man is in fact his other self that he is afraid of. Kai is able to eventually defeat his dark side and obtain a complete and wholesome personality. All the characters Cui Kai created are the split personalities of himself during his time in the asylum.
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大漠青春
Title: 大漠青春
Character: 田英普
Released: May 4, 2017
Type: Movie
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Thailand's Love
Title: Thailand's Love
Released: May 27, 2016
Type: Movie
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The Road
Title: The Road
Released: November 19, 2015
Type: Movie
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Tomb Mystery
Title: Tomb Mystery
Character: Gu Ye
Released: September 18, 2015
Type: Movie
TGu Ye was born in a family of intellectuals, from small to generate a strong interest in history, especially during the Tang Dynasty princess Gao Yang is particularly obsessed with the legend. Because of his father's paranoia, he has entered the University of Gu Ye have been unable to enter their favorite historical archeology. By chance, Gu Ye Xie Chunan and friend for many years led the expedition club also sponsors mysterious boss Qiu went into a deserted tomb of the Tang Dynasty ...... a vajra, a piece of jade Jue, a few broken incomplete Tomb diary, actually opened a period of thousands of years of love and hatred disputes, it will also be the tomb of a pedestrian into an unprecedented crisis
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Who Is Undercover
Title: Who Is Undercover
Character: Xiao Xiao
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
In 1934, agents of the Kuomintang government round up suspects and torture them to find out which one is an undercover communist spy.
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Boss I Love You!
Title: Boss I Love You!
Released: March 27, 2014
Type: Movie
This short film explores same-sex attraction within the context of power relationships in contemporary China where oppression stems from the socio-economic inequality that leaves the disenfranchised pining for what they cannot have, as a young chauffeur finds himself attracted to his contemptuous and callous boss – without a single word being exchanged between the two men.
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Forever Young
Title: Forever Young
Released: January 10, 2014
Type: Movie
“Forever Young” tells the story of a middle aged man who finds life boring. All his youthful dreams seem to have amounted to nothing. That is until he decides one day that it’s still not too late and he starts to pursue them once again. The film won the Golden Knight Award for Best Original Song at the First China International Film Festival in London.
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A Poet in Exile
Title: A Poet in Exile
Character: Gu Cheng (voice)
Released: December 29, 2013
Type: Movie
The dark night has given me dark eyes, yet I use them to search for light. A documentary about the controversial poet Gu Cheng.
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Trap Street
Title: Trap Street
Character: Li Qiuming
Released: September 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Qiuming is a trainee at a digital mapping company. His job is to survey the streets of the ever-changing city and keep the mapping system up to date. Typical of his generation, Qiuming is upbeat, energetic, and totally immersed in the world of Internet and video games. To make ends meet, he installs video cameras at public venues, but hides his side job from his strict father who is a senior editor of a government-run magazine. One day while out surveying, Qiuming has a brief encounter with an attractive woman who disappears into a secluded alley. He soon learns that the data he collected of this alley cannot register in his company's mapping system. He goes back to the area for a second survey...
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Beijing Flickers
Title: Beijing Flickers
Character: Wang Ming
Released: September 10, 2012
Type: Movie
Beijing is happening these days, but not everyone is living the golden life. Dumped, fired, evicted and abandoned by everyone (including his dog), a down-on-his-luck man finds solace with a circle of equally ill-fated friends, in this touching and lighthearted drama from independent Chinese auteur Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards). (TIFF.)
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The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Character: Zi Ying
Released: May 7, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
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Ten Years from Now
Title: Ten Years from Now
Character: Wu Yao Song
Released: October 23, 2011
Type: Movie
Two lifelong friends jeopardize their relationship when one insists they sleep with each other.
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Here, There
Title: Here, There
Released: October 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Three interwoven stories of contemporary China. In the snowy forests of northern China, a lonely man herds reindeer and busies himself with his daily tasks, looking forward to visits from his wife and son. In Shanghai, a young restaurant worker becomes drawn to a troubled young woman and tries to care for her. In Paris, a young Chinese student is robbed of his passport. He receives unexpected help from an elderly compatriot who knows the ins and outs of their new city.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Young Lam San
Released: November 11, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of two women, two generations apart, who coincidentally return to Hong Kong from San Francisco where they had their first, fleeting encounter on the streets as strangers.
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11度青春之夕花朝拾
Title: 11度青春之夕花朝拾
Character: 王凯
Released: September 2, 2010
Type: Movie
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At That Summer
Title: At That Summer
Character: 谈阳
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
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No Matter What
Title: No Matter What
Character: Du Lei
Released: August 11, 2009
Type: Movie
One day young countryside girl Han Bing decides that she had enough. She packs her bag and takes the train to Shanghai to pursue her dream of becoming a pop star. She moves in with her uncle who is not at all happy with his niece getting into the competitive music industry. But Han Bing can't resist the temptations of fame and success. She starts working her way up to the top, not realizing she's becoming someone she is not. Finally she sees that she's failed the ones who really care for her, but is there a way back.
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Soundless Wind Chime
Title: Soundless Wind Chime
Character: Ricky
Released: February 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Ricky leaves Hong Kong for Switzerland to look for the lost soul and the past of his deceased Swiss lover, Pascal. Ricky struggles with the confusion of memories, reality and illusion.
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Shanghai Trance
Title: Shanghai Trance
Released: October 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Young Dutch director made an (almost) entirely Chinese film. In a city where everything is new, an outsider is in any case no more out of place than the locals. Cinematographic portrait of modern life in the mega-city of Shanghai is made up of three separate stories about dreams and loves of twentysomethings.
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Knitting
Title: Knitting
Character: Chen Jin
Released: June 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Daiping hates Haili. Haili came out of nowhere into her apartment, her life, and her romising relationship with Chen Jin and she bullies Daiping mercilessly. Then one day, Chen Jin disappears, leaving Daiping pregnant again. Haili has also experienced many difficulties in her life, and might be the right person to help Daping in these troubled times. Although her mocking attitude doesn't change, there's still a chance for a bond to form between these two women's hearts.
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To Each His Own Cinema
Title: To Each His Own Cinema
Character: The projectionist (segment "En Regardent le Film")
Released: October 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.
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The Red Awn
Title: The Red Awn
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A father and son meet after five years of the father's absence and they go on a trip to rebuild their relationship.
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Courthouse on Horseback
Title: Courthouse on Horseback
Character: 阿洛
Released: September 6, 2006
Type: Movie
The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai).
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Peacock
Title: Peacock
Character: Di Di
Released: February 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Brings viewers into a small Chinese city and inspires familiarity with the rhythms of everyday existence, with people's dreams, shortcomings and illusions in a way that is universal.