Wu Yanshu

Wu Yanshu

Born: October 6, 1938
in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Wu Yanshu, born in 1938, is a national first-class actor. Since the early 1960s, Wu Yanshu has been working in the Shanxi Theater. He has been invited many times to perform the drama "Liu Hulan" in the Great Hall of the People, and has been cordially received by Premier Zhou Enlai and many other leaders. Retired in 2003.

Movies for Wu Yanshu...

Title: Best Choice Ever
Character: Chen Shuzhen / Grandma Mai
Released: April 9, 2024
Type: TV
Mai Chenghuan, a post-95 girl born into an ordinary family in Shanghai, agrees to marry her boyfriend, Xin Jialiang, under her mother’s urging. However, the economic gap between them creates an imbalance in their relationship, ultimately leading to its end. Mai Chenghuan then gains her grandmother's approval and is entrusted with the heavy responsibility of managing a hotel. Through cooperation, Mai Chenghuan and the professional hotel manager Yao Zhiming become working partners and go hand in hand. Mai Chenghuan transitions from being under her family's control to achieving self-fulfillment, forging her own path.
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Title: Our Interpreter
Character: Li Qiu Yi
Released: January 8, 2024
Type: TV
Lin Xi who's known as the "witch" in the translation industry reunites with ex-boyfriend Xia Yicheng. Eight years ago, she broke up with him for the sake of fulfilling her mother's wish for her to become a professional interpreter for the United Nations. Eight years later, Lin Xi has become the youngest chief interpreter at Huasheng while her ex Xiao Yicheng has become the chief technology officer of a communications company, which also makes him her potential client. In order to land a contract with Xiao Yicheng, Lin Xi has no choice but to keep dealing with him. She helps his company go public and even though it seems that Xiao Yicheng is out to get revenge on Lin Xi, he actually doesn't have the heart to be mean to her. Work rekindles their passionate relationship and Xiao Yicheng gradually comes to understand that reason she broke up with him. Together, they work hard to realize their dream of "speaking for the country".
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Love Can't Be Said
Title: Love Can't Be Said
Character: Ms. Guo
Released: June 30, 2023
Type: Movie
Tong Zhi, a fourth-year veterinary student, has a crush on Gu Bin, a landscape student from Taipei. She never had the courage to confess, and for the past four years, she wrote all her feelings into unsent letters. With graduation approaching, an unexpected mailing makes Gu Bin misunderstand her intentions, making him think that she likes his good friend instead. As it turns out, she is not the only one who holds secrets and cannot confess. Will she succeed in confessing? A story spanning between two eras and the two cities of Guangzhou and Taipei kicks off.
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Too Beautiful To Lie
Title: Too Beautiful To Lie
Released: May 20, 2023
Type: Movie
A Chinese adaptation of the Korean film, Too Beautiful to Lie (2004). A romantic comedy about a con-woman claims to be the girlfriend of the village chief's son. The family is convinced, and are happy to invite her in.
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Five Hundred Miles
Title: Five Hundred Miles
Character: 陆小谷奶奶 / Lu Xiaogu's grandmother
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: Movie
If exchanging lives would exchange family members, would you still be willing? After Zhong Da and Jin Hao went on a blind date, he accidentally changed bodies with Lu Xiaogu, a boy who had a crush on Jin Hao, and exchanged family members by mistake, opening a story that is hilarious and tearful.
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Title: Meet Yourself
Character: Granny Xie
Released: January 3, 2023
Type: TV
Because of the death of her best friend, Xu Hongdou's life and work falls into a slump. She goes to the "windy courtyard" in Yun Miao Village, Dali, to recuperate by herself. There, she meets Xie Zhiyao, a local who quit his high-paying job and has returned to his hometown to start a business, with a group of peers from big cities. Xie Zhiyao begins to see Xu Hongdou's kindness and seriousness. He invites her to use her years of experience in the hotel industry to help local employees improve their service awareness and help develop Yun Miao Village's cultural tourism business. At the same time, Xu Hongdou is moved by Xie Zhiyao's ideal of building a hometown so that the villagers can be independent and lead a purposeful life. The two fall in love and finally came together. As they work together they re-examin their past, help and inspire each other, start to heal and gain the strength to begin their lives again in this "windy place".
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Nostalgia
Title: Nostalgia
Released: September 20, 2022
Type: Movie
At the age of 25, Qinghe returns from Shenzhen to her hometown, which has taken on a new look, prompting her to start a business. During the days spent with her grandmother in the countryside, Qinghe recalls what happened in the old house. She remembers her father, who died early, forgives her mother, who remarried, and finds comfort in her two friends.
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Song of Spring
Title: Song of Spring
Character: Mother (Jiang Yuzhi)
Released: September 10, 2022
Type: Movie
Tells the family story of an 85-year-old mother taking care of her 65-year-old daughter with Alzheimer's disease, using a delicate female perspective to show the infinite power of love and family at the end of life.
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Title: A Robot in the Orange Orchard
Character: 唐奶奶
Released: May 20, 2022
Type: TV
As the chairman of a successful technology company, Lu Kun often finds himself in large group settings. While he has no problem addressing any number of people, he has incredible difficulty with any sort of direct, physical contact. Suffering from a strange allergy which is only triggered by direct skin-to-skin contact, something as simple as a handshake could prove deadly. Without the ability to directly come into contact with others, Lu Kun is intrigued when he learns a doctor by the name of Fu Yang has created an incredibly lifelike robot companion dubbed Friday.
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Title: Life is a Long Quiet River
Character: Mrs. Zhang
Released: March 17, 2022
Type: TV
It has been ten years since Feng Xiaoqin, a foreign daughter-in-law married with a big belly, to the Gu family, but Gu Qingyu, the eldest aunt, has always been wary of this woman who wrote "change her destiny" on her face. Feng Xiaoqin urged her husband Gu Lei to borrow money from her twin sister Gu Qingyu to buy a house, but Gu Qingyu deftly resolved her and revealed her plan to buy a luxury house. After Gu Lei's unexpected death, the conflict between aunts and sisters continued to escalate, and the single mother Feng Xiaoqin was almost desperate. For the dream of her youth, Gu Qingyu reshaped her cognition of life in reality and dreams, from flash marriage to flash divorce. The two women have gone from confrontation to mutual understanding. No matter how stormy the future may be, they will carry the family together.
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Embrace Again
Title: Embrace Again
Character: Xie Yongqin
Released: December 31, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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The Bamboo Hat
Title: The Bamboo Hat
Released: October 14, 2021
Type: Movie
A heartwarming story about a grandma-grandson bond that has to withstand the ravages of time, fate and truths. Through grandma's patience and devotion, 7-year-old Huolong learns to embrace empathy, humility and the importance of family.
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All About My Mother
Title: All About My Mother
Character: grandmother
Released: September 19, 2021
Type: Movie
Mother Ji Peizhen (Xu Fan) is the soul of this family. She takes care of the family so well, it seems there is clones of her. The home looks orderly under her gaze, but that is not the whole truth. Ji Peizhen thinks her daughter, Li Xiaomei, is the best, however there is other side of Xiaomei while she works and lives in Beijing. Peizhen's husband, doctor Li Wengfan, has been unable to pick up the scalpel due to mistake a few years earlier. With all this, Peizhen thinks she will be able to relax after retirement... But she is diagnosed with cancer. If the mother has only four months to live, how can the family's life continue?
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Title: The Train Life
Character: Jiang Shi
Released: June 3, 2021
Type: TV
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Tracing Her Shadow
Title: Tracing Her Shadow
Released: March 19, 2021
Type: Movie
An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and a retired Japanese policeman join her search.
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A Hustle Bustle New Year
Title: A Hustle Bustle New Year
Character: Song Baozhen
Released: January 15, 2021
Type: Movie
The new year is approaching, the middle-aged screenwriter Wang Ziliang (Wu Gang) alone is burdened by layers of stress, dealing with multiple issues such as career, family, and interpersonal relationships, feeling "sad in the new year". The biggest wish of his mother (Wu Yanshu) is to go back to her hometown for New Year's Eve dinner with her four children. However, the complicated adult world involves the children. When mother is injured in an accident, the family's relationship dropped to a freezing point, and the conflicts between the three generations were pushed to the forefront... After choices and trials, the children returned to family's love and realized that "home is where mother is." No matter how difficult life is, there will be no years that can't be passed.
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Title: My Best Friend's Story
Character: Granny Jiang
Released: December 28, 2020
Type: TV
Set in 21st century Shanghai, it revolves around two women with different backgrounds and personalities who forge a deep friendship as they support each other through hard times in life.
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Title: 高兴的酸甜苦辣
Character: [Grandma]
Released: June 14, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Fairyland Lovers
Character: Grandmother Li
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
The play tells the story of Bai Qi, whose background is mysterious, and an urban girl named Lin Xia. And also various stories of Sadness and joy, love and hatred in the strange fantasy world.
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The Whistleblower
Title: The Whistleblower
Released: December 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Following a fatal accident, a Chinese expatriate working for a mining company in Australia discovers that new technology developed by the company may be a health risk, and investigates a web of conspiracies in his search for the truth.
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Fagara
Title: Fagara
Character: Liu Fang
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
After her father died, a Hong Kong girl discovers she has two hitherto unknown sisters, one in Taiwan and one in China. To settle her father's debt, she must reunite with them to run the family's hot pot restaurant.
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Grace of Porridge
Title: Grace of Porridge
Released: January 9, 2019
Type: Movie
Grace of Porridge
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Last Letter
Title: Last Letter
Character: Chen Guizhi
Released: November 9, 2018
Type: Movie
All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked, and correspondences travel through different contexts and times, Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.
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Animal World
Title: Animal World
Character: Old Lady
Released: June 29, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Love Education
Title: Love Education
Character: Granny
Released: October 27, 2017
Type: Movie
When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared for by his first wife. A conflict ensues, and Huiying's daughter, an intrepid reporter, breaks the story as the three women search for proof of love.
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Finding Mr. Right 2
Title: Finding Mr. Right 2
Character: Grandma
Released: April 29, 2016
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of Beijing Meets Seattle I from 2013, the new movie has the couple fall in love again.
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Title: Family Portrait
Character: 李老师
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
After the demise of the feudal dynasty and half a century of war and turmoil, the ancient land of China finally ushered in a long-lost peace. The founding of New China has greatly changed the fate of the most ordinary people in the imperial city. The upright and honest Wang Mantang is a craftsman who grew up in the old society. With his unique skills in restoring ancient buildings, he leads his partners to shoulder the revolutionary task of restoring ancient buildings for the new society.
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Title: Police Fan
Character: Fan's mother / 党母
Released: September 9, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Journey to the West
Character: Pirampo Bodhisattva
Released: January 30, 2012
Type: TV
Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title. Production for the 66 episodes long series started on 12 September 2009, and it was first broadcast in mainland China on 28 July 2011 on TVS. The series was produced by Zhang Jizhong and was released a year later than another television series of the same title, but with a different cast and crew.
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Tree Days in Xiamen
Title: Tree Days in Xiamen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
"Three Days in Xiamen" is produced by Yeshan Ming Pictures, starring Nick Shan, Pan Binlong, Wu Yanshu and others. The film takes the family ties and friendships across the Taiwan Strait as its theme, runs through the main thread of contemporary Taiwanese youth starting their own businesses and pursuing their dreams in Xiamen, and opens up a century of love and roots between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. The movie "Three Days in Xiamen" tells the story of Zhang Yeshan, who has been passionate about painting since he was a child. Under the "promotion" of Li Sihai, he decided to go from Taiwan to Xiamen, mainland China, to seek new artistic breakthroughs. After three days of setbacks, when he was about to return, luckily... With the guidance of a friend, he prepared to hold a unique painting exhibition in Xiamen, but unexpectedly met Grandpa Zhang Yeshan's lover in Xiamen in 1949, and thus uncovered a distant love past.