If someone asks you: Who is China's first international film queen?
I believe many people will answer: Gong Li.
But in fact, Gong Li is not China's first international film queen.
In 1992, Gong Li won the Best Actress Award at the 49th Venice International Film Festival with "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit" and became an international film queen.
In the same year, Maggie Cheung won the Best Actress Award at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival with "Ruan Lingyu" and became an international film queen.
But what many people don't know is that at the 4th Tokyo International Film Festival in 1991, Zhao Lirong, a chinese critic actress, won the Best Actress Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for her film "New Year", becoming an international film queen.
Therefore, Teacher Zhao Lirong is the first international film queen in China.
To say that Teacher Zhao Lirong is definitely a representative of the late stage, learning drama at the age of 12 and debuting on stage at the age of 15.
It was not until the age of 58 that he acted in a TV series for the first time, that is, the queen of Che Chiguo in "Journey to the West".
On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1990, "New Year" was officially launched in Xinlin Village, Huanxi Township, Chuanying District, Jilin City, Jilin Province.
The 62-year-old teacher Zhao plays the female protagonist of the film, playing a rural woman in the film, and the male protagonist is the powerful actor Li Baotian.
Liu Xiaotong, Hu Yajie and Liang Tian played the three brothers in the family; Ding Jiali, Tan Xiaoyan and Ma Xiaoqing played the sister-in-law and the girlfriends of several brothers respectively; Wang Liyun and Shi Lanya played the two sisters in the family; Ge You and Shen Junyi played the two brothers-in-law.
Such a strong cast, and they are all powerful, whether it was then or now is rare, but unfortunately, the box office of this film that year was not ideal.
It is worth mentioning that this is the second cooperation between teacher Zhao Lirong and the six-year-old child Zhang Jinlai, and the two are quite close, so Teacher Zhao recognizes Zhang Jinlai as a dry son and achieves a mother-son relationship.