Chen Kun
Also Known As: Aloys Chen, Kun Chen, چن کون
Biography: Chen Kun (Chinese: 陳坤; pinyin: Chén Kūn) born February 4, 1976 in Chongqing, Sichuan), is a Chinese actor and singer. He also goes by another name, Aloys. He showed early talent in singing and was strongly recommended by his vocal trainer and mentor to join the famous China Oriental Song and Dance Ensemble(now China National Song and Dance Ensemble) at Beijing in 1995. In 1996, he was admitted to Beijing Film Academy where he took off as a promising young actor. As the leading man in "A West Lake Moment", Chen Kun won a nomination for the best actor at Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards in 2005. His performance in "The Knot" brought him a Huabiao Film Award (the main national film award in China) as best actor in 2007. His recent portrait of Chiang Ching-kuo in the 2009's mega blockbuster "The Founding of a Republic" received high remarks from critics and brought him sweeping popularity among audiences.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chongqing, China
Birthday: February 04, 1976
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Overview: During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-05-16
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1921
Overview: Tells the story of a Communist Party's early history during the turbulent era, examining the remarkable Chinese revolutionary leaders' zeal and contrition for the ascension of the Chinese people.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-07-01
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Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
Overview: When barbarian hordes threaten her homeland, the brave and cunning Mulan disguises herself as a male soldier to swell the ranks in her aging father's stead. The warrior's remarkable courage drives her through powerful battle scenes and brutal wartime strategy. Mulan loses dear friends to the enemy's blade as she rises to become one of her country's most valuable leaders — but can she win the war before her secret is exposed?
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-11-26
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Baober in Love
Overview: Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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Painted Skin
Overview: Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general.
Genres: Fantasy Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-09-25
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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Overview: Three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-12-15
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Beginning of the Great Revival
Overview: A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Genres: Drama Action History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-06-23
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Playboy Cops
Overview: Two off-the-wall detectives go in search for a killer, while vying for the affections of a young woman.
Genres: Action Romance Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2008-02-28
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Rest on Your Shoulder
Overview: In an unspecified time when epidemics run rampant, botanist Yan Guo and his fiance-assistant Baobao move to Moon Island, a nature reserve, to research the curing properties of rare plants. As is customary, they pray to the magical Eros Tree to cement their love, unaware that they have to undergo a severe trial, in which Baobao must remain unseen to Yan for three years in exchange for his life.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-07-08
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Painted Skin: The Resurrection
Overview: According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-06-28
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Creation of the Gods III: Creation Under Heaven
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Genres: Action Fantasy War
Original Language: zh
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The Knot
Overview: They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Qiushui married Jindi and settled in Tibet. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. Flashback to modern time, Biyun is living in New York. Her niece played by Isabella Leong, a writer, has travelled to Tibet to find out what happened to Qiushui. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun finally gets to see the familiar face once again.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-11-26
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Bends
Overview: A wealthy Hong Kong housewife, Anna, lives a spoiled, bored life. When her husband suddenly leaves, taking the money and prestige with him, she refuses to accept her changed circumstances. Her chauffeur, Fai, who lives in an ugly barrack across the border in Shenzhen, is trying to get his wife—whose second pregnancy is a violation of the Chinese one-child policy—over the border so she can give birth in Hong Kong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-10-16
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A West Lake Moment
Overview: Xiao Yu (Zhou), a barista and cake maker in a teahouse-café by Westlake in Hangzhou. Since a car crash long ago, she had been leading a peaceful life with her kind-hearted best friend and fellow car crash survivor Tong (Yim) who is unabashed in admitting that his feelings for Xiao Yu have developed into love. One day A Qin (Chen) celebrates his birthday alone in her café. Xiao Yu's curiosity sparks off their dialogues and both discover they have many parallels. But A Qin is a player who is escaping to Hangzhou from the pressures of his relationships in Beijing and Xiao Yu is pursued by Tong ... What will be their choices?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2005-02-14
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The Founding of a Republic
Overview: The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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Let the Bullets Fly
Overview: When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Hood figure finds himself in a showdown with the local godfather.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-12-20
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Love on Credit
Overview: Xiaoqing and Xiaohong are twins with distinctive, different personalities. Xiaoqing believes in true love while Xiaohong only cares about money. Drama ensues when they both start pursuing love for the sake of money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-07-05
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Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon
Overview: Young Dee Renjie arrives in the empire's capital to join the Supreme Court as police judge of his region. He wants to become a prosecutor. Empress Wu, who is at the beginning of her reign, has commissioned the fierce detective Yuchi to investigate a sea monster that stalks the city at night and makes it unsafe.
Genres: Action Crime Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-09-27
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Full Circle
Overview: The residents of a nursing home sneak past security guards to compete in a nationally televised talent contest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-05-08
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Kung Fu Girls
Overview: Four fearless and intrepid girls get selected by a recording company to undergo martial arts training in China to prepare themselves as a pop group. However, they are forced to disband one year later after their recording company goes under. Will these girls have the courage to stand up against all odds to fight for what they really believe in?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-09-12
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The Knot
Overview: They fell in love; Chen Qiushui was 20. Wang Biyun was 18. When Qiushui fled Taiwan after the 228 Massacre, Biyun gave him a gold engagement ring and they promised to meet again. Qiushui served as an army doctor during the Korean War, where he met Wang Jindi, a nurse from Shanghai who fell in love with him instantly. Years had gone by, Qiushui married Jindi and settled in Tibet. While in Taiwan, Biyun buried Qiushui's mother and continued to pray for his return. Flashback to modern time, Biyun is living in New York. Her niece played by Isabella Leong, a writer, has travelled to Tibet to find out what happened to Qiushui. Through the pictures she sends back via internet, Biyun finally gets to see the familiar face once again.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-11-26
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Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
Overview: The story of Chinese legendary anti-hero Zhong Kui, a young man endowed with mysterious powers who is forced into a battle among the realms of Heaven, Earth and Hell in the course of his attempt to save his countrymen and the woman he loves.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-02-19
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Mojin: The Lost Legend
Overview: At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-12-18
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The Door
Overview: The horror story set in the contemporary China centers on a young intellectual’s ominous journey to find his lost girlfriend and the truth behind the breakup.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-01-18
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Decent Things
Overview: In 1931, a famous person borrowed an ancient painting to appreciate, but he refused to return it. The owner of the painting was embarrassed to ask for it, so he entrusted an elementary school martial arts teacher to contact the celebrity's bodyguard, Tie Backer, hoping to accommodate him. By means of painting, it shows the sophistication of martial arts practitioners.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
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As Spring Comes Along
Overview: A couple who haven't seen each other for many years revisited their hometown in the early spring of the Summer Palace due to a suddenly discovered love letter. They seemed to see each other in the past, and they also seemed to see the future in the past. In the overlap of time and space, life continues
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2024-04-21
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Chongqing Hot Pot
Overview: When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. While deciding to take the easy money or go to the police, they find out one of the bank’s employees is a former classmate and look to enlist her in deciding their future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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The Star and the Sea
Overview: The film is a moving portrayal of renowned Chinese composer Xian Xinghai's impoverished childhood in a lowly "Danjia" fishing village in Macau at the turn of the century, and his mother's struggles to bring him up with love despite the hardship. It is also a heartening tale of young Xinghai's fight for success, from the awakening of his musical talent at the bottom of Macau society, to the blossoming of his musical flair in Singapore.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-12-07
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Beautiful Accident
Overview: When a single, successful female lawyer is involved in a highway car accident, she wakes up to find herself in an alternate reality where she's forced take on the responsibility of a full time mother and wife, dealing with her demanding architect husband and two difficult children.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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Yi Ge Cheng Ren Dian Ying Gong Zuo Zhe De Zi Bai
Overview: An ordinary adult film staff uses seventeen minutes to talk about the chaotic market in today's Chinese film industry and how to revitalize Chinese films.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-15
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My Ex-Wife's Wedding
Overview: Divorcé Ma Yong is in love with his new girlfriend Zhao Hui. However, he has a hang-up about his ex-wife, Xiaohong who puts obstacles in the way of him and his girlfriend. So he decides to introduce his best friend to his ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2010-10-22
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The Music Box
Overview: In the late 1930s, the Japanese army occupies Shanghai. Barber Lu Ping kills a Japanese officer by accident and then escapes from Shanghai to the residence of his master's brother, Song Fengnian. When he arrives at the small town, he falls in love with Song's daughter Jiayi at the first sight. However, Jiayi has had the engagement with an officer for a decent life in the wartime, even as concubine. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Lu is sentenced to death as a traitor because Song, his boss, has worked for the Japanese. When he closes his eyes and waits for the sound of shot, Jiayi rescues him. Arranged by her husband, Lu becomes an officer. However, he can never forget Jiayi and his barber life. After the end of the Civil War, Lu is sent to work on a farm in the northwest. There he learns that Jiayi doesn't leave with her husband and has been waiting for him at the small town where they meet for the first time. Lu decides to look for Jiayu.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Man on the Police Gazette
Overview: The notorious bandit, Shi Wen Lung breaks out of a California jail and flees back to China to carry on his life of crime. Eventually the Country sheriff catches up with him looking for the bounty on his head.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1972-08-19
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Children from the Distant Planet
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-03-30
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The Weary Poet
Overview: Another wuxia tale from Xu Haofeng, this one set against the backdrop of a rebellion during the Yuan Dynasty.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
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The National Anthem
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1999-10-07
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Hsue-shen Tsien
Overview: This is a story of a scientist who made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2012-03-02
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The Yin Yang Master
Overview: The world is on the verge of a devastating war with monsters who are coming to retrieve the Scaling Stone. Yin Yang Master Qingming's life is in danger and he travels to different worlds to prepare for the upcoming assaults. On his journey, Qingming finds that the key to all the calamities is embracing his hybrid identity of both human and monster.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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Angry Kid
Overview: Angry Kid is a Chinese Comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2013-01-29
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Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
Overview: Based on the most well-known classical fantasy novel of China, Fengshenyanyi, the trilogy is a magnificent eastern high fantasy epic that recreates the prolonged mythical wars between humans, immortals and monsters, which happened more than three thousand years ago.
Genres: Action Fantasy War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2023-07-15
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Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force
Overview: Taishi Wen Zhong led the army of Shang Dynasty including Deng Chanyu and four generals of the Mo Family to Xiqi. With the help of Kunlun immortals such as Jiang Ziya, Ji Fa led the army and civilians of Xiqi to defend their homeland.
Genres: Action Fantasy War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2025-01-29
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