Screenplay: Chen Kaige

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Tang Yun · Liu Peiqi · Chen Hong · Wang Zhiwen

Plot A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.

Direction Chen Kaige

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

Plot 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...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Xie Yuan · Yang Xuewen · Chen Shaohua · Zhang Caimei

Plot In "King of the Children," the tale of a young man, exiled during the Cultural Revolution to Yunnan and chosen (despite his own minimal education) to teach a class of...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Wang Xueqi · Bai Xue · Quiang Liu · Tuo Tan

Plot A haunting, evocative film set in the barren wilderness of Northern Shaanxi province in 1939. The life of a fourteen year-old peasant girl is changed forever by the arrival of...

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...

Direction Chen Kaige

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

Plot 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...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Ge You · Huang Xiaoming · Zhang Fengyi · Wang Xueqi

Plot To save the only child of the Zhao Family, whose entire clan was massacred at the hands of a nefarious minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son; after the Zhao...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Gao Yuanyuan · Mark Chao · Chen Hong · Wang Xueqi

Plot A young woman's act of defiance becomes a flashpoint for controversy when a video of the incident goes viral, in this prescient drama about cyber-bullying from celebrated director Chen Kaige

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Leon Lai · Zhang Ziyi · Sun Honglei · Chen Hong

Plot A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. Bertolt Brecht was one of his admirers, as was Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein, who even filmed him. Chinese actor...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Huang Xuan · Shôta Sometani · Kitty Zhang · Eric Qin

Plot Taking place in the Tang Dynasty, a demon cat appears and breaks the peace of Chang'an City, causing a series of strange events. Poet Bai Letian and Monk Kukai join...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Jang Dong-gun · Cecilia Cheung · Nicholas Tse

Plot A romantic tale of love, loyalty, ambition and destiny, THE PROMISE marks acclaimed director Chen Kaige’s foray into the martial arts fantasy genre. Richly imagined and breathtakingly realized, the film...

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Aaron Kwok · Chang Chen · Wang Baoqiang · Fan Wei

Direction Chen Kaige

Cast Liu Zhongyuan · Huang Lei · Summer Xu · Ling Zhong

Plot Two blind men pursue ephemeral and unlikely hopes. One is an aged master, a wandering troubador venerated as a saint, in physical decline, waiting to break his 1,000th banjo string,...