Direction: Zhang Yimou

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Sun Honglei · Hao Zheng · Yuelin Zhao

Plot A man returns to the village where he was raised to help his mother arrange his father's funeral in this romantic drama about the courtship of his parents and the...

Direction Zhang Yimou · Yang Fengliang

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Wei Minzhi · Zhang Huike · Tian Zhenda · Gao Enman

Plot In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhou Dongyu · Shawn Dou · Chen Taisheng · Rina Sa

Plot Romance sparks between a young woman and a young man from different economic backgrounds during China's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Jet Li · Tony Leung Chiu-Wai · Maggie Cheung · Zhang Ziyi

Plot 2003 Foreign Language Oscar nominee. At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years,...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Christian Bale · Ni Ni · Xinyi Zhang · Shigeo Kobayashi

Plot In 1937 China, during the second Sino-Japanese war, a mortician, John (Christian Bale) arrives at a Catholic church in Nanjing to prepare a priest for burial. Upon arrival he finds...

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Jan Peter Balkenende · Barbara Bush · George W. Bush · George Bush

Plot Coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhang Ziyi · Takeshi Kaneshiro · Andy Lau · Song Dandan

Plot It is 859AD, and the Tang Dynasty, one of the most enlightened empires in Chinese history at its height, is in decline. The Emperor is incompetent and the government is...

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Zhao Benshan · Angela Dong · Dong Lihua · Fu Biao

Plot Zhao (Zhao Benshan), a retired man of humble means who doesnt want to be lonely anymore, proposes marriage to a fat lady (Dong Lihua) who he believes will be easily...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Ken Takakura · Shinobu Terajima · Kiichi Nakai · Ken Nakamoto

Plot From three-time Academy Award nominated director Zhang Yimou comes a moving story of one man's journey across China's heartland. For the first time in many years, TAKATA Gou-ichi (TAKAKURA Ken)...

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

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

Plot 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...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Deng Chao · Sun Li · Ryan Zheng · Guan Xiaotong

Plot Pei is ruled by a wild, dangerous king (Zheng Kai). The king's military commander (Deng Chao) has fought bravely on the battlefield, but needs unique strategies to survive treachery in...

Direction Zhang Yimou

Cast Yi Zhang · Fan Wei · Li Xiaochuan · Yu Ailei

Plot A prisoner is sent to a labour camp in China’s desolate northwest during the country’s Cultural Revolution. Using his wit, and with the sole purpose of seeing a newsreel containing...

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...