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Chen Kaige
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
Yellow Earth (1984)
- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Quiang Liu, Tuo Tan, Xueyin Wang… - This spearheaded the wave of modern Chinese cinema to be seen outside the People's Republic. A communist soldier visits a backwards village in 1939…
Life On a String (1991)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu - A richly poetic chronicle of a blind man who devotes himself to music. Like the director's subsequent FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE, some messages may be…
Farewell My Concubine (1993)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Leslie Cheung - Lavish, episodic journey through 20th Century Chinese history, encompassing more revolutions than a 45. Joint winner of the Palm D'Or at Cannes is…
Temptress Moon (1996)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Leslie Cheung - Chen Kaige elevates the sumptuous Chinese epoch of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE with this visually rapturous, though far less coherent saga of epic…
Emperor and the Assassin, The (Jing Ke Ci Qin Wang) (1999)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Gong Li, Zhang Fenyi - Vast, gilded historical spectacle set in the 3rd Century BC, centred on China's legendary first Qin emperor's struggle to consolidate a unified…
Together (He Ni Zaiyiqi) (2002)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, Chen Kaige - Touching story of a father and his 13–year–old son, a shy violin prodigy, who scrape up their meagre savings and set off from their…
Killing Me Softly (2002)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Heather Graham, Joseph Fiennes, Natascha McElhone… - The first and only English language film from respected Chinese director Chen Kaige (TOGETHER) is this erotic thriller based on the 1999 novel of the…
Promise, The (Wu ji) (2005)- Dir. Chen Kaige
Feat. Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang, Cecilia Cheung… - Visually exquisite, if utterly frivolous Golden Globe–nominated romantic epic from the director of FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE relays the story of…
Chacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007)- Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August
- 35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
Founding of a Republic, The (Jian guo da ye) (2009)- Dir. Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Feat. Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu… - The People’s Republic of China rolls out the big guns for this 60th anniversary epic, chronicling in big, sweeping gestures, the uprising of Mao…
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