Cast: Gong Li

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Jin Shuyuan · Cao Cuifen · He Caifei

Synopsis China in the 1920's. After her father's death, 19 year-old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerfull family. 50 year-old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in a separate house within the...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Ge You · Jiang Wu · Niu Ben

Synopsis Fugui is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er. Fugui's wife abandons him, and he finds himself working as a...

Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang

Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Cong Zhijun · Li Wei

Synopsis A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this...

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Chang Chen · Gong Li · Tien Feng · Jianjun Zhou

Synopsis The Hand stars Gong Li as a 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible love affair with her tailor.

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Zhang Fengyi · Lu Qi

Synopsis "Farewell, My Concubine" is a movie with two parallel, intertwined stories. It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Lei Kesheng · Zhijun Ge · Liu Peiqi

Synopsis A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther...

Direction Wong Kar-Wai

Cast Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Zhang Ziyi · Faye Wong · Gong Li

Synopsis He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Jiang Wen · Teng Rujun · Liu Jia

Synopsis In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Chen Daoming · Zhang Huiwen · Guo Tao

Synopsis Lu Yanshi and Feng Wanyu are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days...

Direction Rob Marshall

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Suzuka Ohgo · Gong Li · Samantha Futerman

Synopsis Based on the internationally acclaimed best-selling novel by Arthur Golden. In the years before World War II, a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Zhang Fengyi · Li Xuejian · Zhou Sun

Synopsis In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Gong Li · Li Baotian · Li Xuejian · Sun Chun

Synopsis Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for 'Boss,' the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930's. Shuisheng, a simple country boy is awed and overwhelmed by the opulence and immense wealth he is suddenly surrounded...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Chow Yun-Fat · Gong Li · Jay Chou · Qin Junjie

Synopsis The plot concerns the volatile balance of power between the King (Chow Yun Fat) and the Queen (Gong Li) and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion, pitting the King against Queen and father against sons.

Direction Zhou Sun

Cast Gong Li · Tony Leung Ka-Fai · Sun Honglei · Li Zhixiong

Synopsis Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until...

Direction Wayne Wang

Cast Jeremy Irons · Gong Li · Maggie Cheung · Ricky Hui

Synopsis New Year's Eve 1996. John (Jeremy Iron) is an English journalist moving among the Chinese business elite and British officials at expensive nightclubs. However, the politics of transition are seen through the prism of his personal relationships. He is in...

Direction Lou Ye

Cast Gong Li · Mark Chao · Jô Odagiri · Pascal Greggory

Synopsis An actress working undercover for the Allies in 1941 Shanghai discovers the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor.

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gong Li · Leslie Cheung · Kevin Lin · He Caifei

Synopsis Not far from Shanghai, in a country twon stands the palatial home of the Pang family. Old Master Pang is an addict who brings up his beautiful daughter Ruyi on opium smoke. Her older brother, Zhengda, is addicted as well,...

Direction Andrew Rossi

Cast Andrew Bolton · John Galliano · Jean-Paul Gaultier · Karl Lagerfeld

Synopsis A behind the scenes look at the preparations for the 2015 art exhibit, China: Through the Looking Glass held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, commonly referred to as the Met Gala, which has become one of the hottest...

Direction Peter Webber

Cast Gaspard Ulliel · Gong Li · Rhys Ifans · Dominic West

Synopsis Based on Thomas Harris' upcoming new book of the same name, this prequel shows a young Hannibal Lechter in three different phases of his life from childhood in Lithuania to his ten years in England up to his time in...

Direction Wong Kar-Wai · Steven Soderbergh · Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Gong Li · Chang Chen · Robert Downey Jr. · Alan Arkin

Synopsis Wong Kar wai’s "Shou" (The Hand) is the story of a young tailor’s long-unrequired love for a beautiful Hong Kong courtesan. Over many years, he lovingly crafts the clothes she wears for other men. Over time, the seemingly unattainable fantasy...