Shanghai actor and director whose comedy 泰囧 (Lost in Thailand, 2012) became the top-grossing Chinese film of its time. He also starred in 我不是药神 (Dying to Survive) and first won fame as 猪八戒 on TV.
Xú Zhēng de 《 Tài Jiǒng 》 shì Zhōngguó diànyǐng piàofáng de lǐchéngbēi.
Xu Zheng's Lost in Thailand was a milestone in Chinese box-office history.
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The 囧 in his titles, from 《人在囧途》 to 《囧妈》, is an old character for a bright window. Online it came to mean 'awkward, at a loss', because it looks like a dismayed face and sounds like 窘 'embarrassed'.
