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Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red Lantern (1992) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Gong Li, He Caifei, Ma Jingwu, Cao Cuifeng, Jin Shuyuan, Kong Lin

The phenomenal success and international acclaim of Raise the Red Lantern, cemented Zhang Yimou's status as a leading figure in world cinema and reaffirmed the vibrancy of Chinese cinema. Though the film was the topic of great political controversy in China upon its release, it received armfuls of awards from Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom ...

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Hero

Hero (2002) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi

Hero is two-time Academy Award nominee Zhang Yimou's directorial attempt at exploring the concept of a Chinese hero. During the peak of their Warring States period, China was divided into seven kingdoms all fighting for supremacy. Most determined to dominate China was the kingdom of Qin, whose king (Chen Daoming) was wholly obsessed with becoming ...

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House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers (2004) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Andy Lau Tak-wah, Song Dandan

Chinese director Zhang Yimou fuses a martial arts action-drama with a tragic romance in this elegant period piece. In the year 859 A.D., as the Tang dynasty is beset by rebellion, Leo (Andy Lau) and Jin (Takeshi Kaneshiro) are a pair of lawmen who have been given the task of ferreting out the leaders of a revolutionary faction known as the Flying ...

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Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye, Chen Jin

A dying love between two powerful people leads to deceit, infidelity, and conspiracy in this epic-scale historical drama from director Zhang Yimou. During the latter days of the Tang dynasty, the Emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) returns home from the war with his son Prince Jai (Jay Chou) in tow. However, the monarch gets a chilly reception from the Empress ...

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Not One Less

Not One Less (2000) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Li Fanfan, Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike, Tian Zhenda, Gao Enman, Sun Zhimei

In a village in China mired in poverty, Gao (Gao Enman) is the lone teacher in a school so threadbare he must ration chalk to make sure he has enough for the day. The destitution of the village is not limited to the school; some of the children sleep in the schoolhouse because they have nowhere else to go, and many students have already dropped ...

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To Live

To Live (1994) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben, Guo Tao, Jiang Wu

Zhang Yimou, often regarded as China's leading contemporary filmmaker, directed this drama chronicling the ebb and flow of one family's fortunes, set against the backdrop of China's tumultuous history between the 1940s and the 1970s. Fugui (Ge You) is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him ...

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Ju Dou

Ju Dou (1991) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei, Zhang Yi, Zheng Jian

A dark, sensual, and visually sumptuous drama, Ju Dou centers on the title character, the third wife of a wealthy silk dyer in 1920s China. Forced into marriage by poverty, Ju Dou is repeatedly mistreated and cruelly disciplined by her husband, Jin-shan, for failing to bear him an heir. Her suffering attracts the sympathy of Jin-shan's younger, ...

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The Story of Qiu Ju

The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Gong Li, Ge Zhijun, Liu Peiqi

With The Story of Qiu Ju, internationally acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yimou shifts his attention from powerful historical dramas (Raise the Red Lantern and Ju Dou) to contemporary life. Gong Li plays the titular heroine, an average woman in a rural village whose life is unexceptional until her husband is physically attacked by the village ...

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The Road Home

The Road Home (2001) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Hao Zheng, Sun Hong-Lei, Zhang Ziyi, Li Bin

Following on the heels of director Zhang Yimou's Not One Less (1999), which won the top prize at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, comes this sensitively-wrought portrait of a young woman's unshakable love. The film opens in the present, shot in gritty black and white, as businessman Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) returns to his hometown in the rural ...

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Shanghai Triad

Shanghai Triad (1995) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun, Wang Xiaoxiao, Jiang Baoying

Country boy Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle who wants the boy to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian). In fact, Shuisheng will serve Tang's capricious mistress Bijou (Gong Li), a nightclub singer whom the boss proclaimed "the Queen of Shanghai." When the boy's uncle and ...

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Happy Times (2002) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Ling Qibin, Zhao Benshan, Dong Jie, Li Xuejian, Dong Lifan

A man stretching the truth for his own sake soon begins doing the same for someone else, with increasingly complicated results, in this gentle comedy from China. Zhao (Zhao Benshan) is a guy in his early fifties who's out of work but still wants to marry his girlfriend (Dong Lifan). However, his often cranky sweetheart thinks he runs a hotel, and ...

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Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terashima, Li Jiamin, Qiu Lin, Jiang Wen

On the heels of such extravagant historical swordplay epics as Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou returns to the reins to tell this intimate tale of an aging father who attempts to remedy a longstanding rift with his grown son. Summoned to Tokyo by his daughter-in-law, Rie (Shinobu Terajima), village fisherman ...

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