Takeshi Kaneshiro
Also Known As: 금성무, Gum Sing Mo, Kaneshiro Takeshi, Aniki Jin, Kam Shing Miu, Takashi Kaneshiro, Gam Sing-mo, Jin Cheng-wu, Kim Thành Vũ
Biography: Takeshi Kaneshiro, born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwanese and Japanese actor of mixed heritage – his father is Ryukyuan and his mother is Taiwanese. He speaks Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese Hokkien and English. Known for his versatile roles in Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Japanese cinema, he gained international recognition for his performances in films like "Chungking Express" (1994), "Fallen Angels" (1995), and "House of Flying Daggers" (2004). In addition to his acting career, Kaneshiro has also released several music albums and has been involved in numerous commercial endorsements. Despite maintaining a relatively private personal life, his talent and enduring popularity have made him a prominent figure in Asian entertainment.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taipei, Taiwan
Birthday: October 11, 1973
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Gender: Male
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Returner
Overview: A young woman from the future forces a local gunman to help her stop an impending alien invasion which will wipe out the human race.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-31
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Fallen Angels
Overview: An assassin goes through obstacles as he attempts to escape his violent lifestyle despite the opposition of his partner, who is secretly attracted to him.
Genres: Action Romance Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-09-06
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Chungking Express
Overview: Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-07-14
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Dr. Wai in the Scripture with No Words
Overview: A serial adventure writer with problems in his personal life lives out the adventures of his literary hero, King of Adventurers.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-02-10
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K-20: The Fiend with Twenty Faces
Overview: In an alternate version of 1949 Japan in which World War II never happened, the Japanese capital of Teito is home to both an ultra rich upper class and the dirt poor masses. The city is thrown into a state of panic when a phantom thief called “The Kaijin (Fiend) with 20 Faces” (K-20 for short) begins to use his mysterious abilities to steal from the rich and give to the poor. One day a circus acrobat named Heikichi Endo (Takeshi Kaneshiro) is framed for K-20’s crimes and becomes determined to clear his name. He teams up with K-20’s next target, a wealthy duchess named Yoko Hashiba (Takako Matsu) and her detective fiancé (Toru Nakamura), to take K-20 down once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-12-20
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Red Cliff
Overview: In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Action War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2008-07-10
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House of Flying Daggers
Overview: In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-05-19
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Hero
Overview: Ma Wing Jing and his older brother Ma Tai Chueng arrive in Shanghai to make their fortune at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Be-friending a powerful mobster Wing Jing is given his nightclub in return for saving Tam Sei's life. Unfortunately, another Gangster wants the territory a well. Corruption and violence rule the streets as Wing Jing and Tam Sei must battle not only the rival gangs but the corrupt police officials as well.
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-06-17
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Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death
Overview: Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-22
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The Odd One Dies
Overview: A failure of a Triad who is desperate for money decides to accept an assassination mission. With his advance in money he decides to risk it in gambling, he becomes lucky and wins a fortune. With all this money he is not so sure that he wishes to do the murder anymore, he looks for a hitman to take his place. He finds a women willing to take the job but she ends up more trouble than he expected.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-05-10
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Turn Left, Turn Right
Overview: An aspiring violinist and a professional translator live parallel lives and appear to be perfect for each other, but somehow fate seems to keep them apart. Living in different units of the same apartment building, they never meet, because when they leave, one turns left, and one turns right.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2003-08-11
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The Warlords
Overview: The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is saved by a beautiful young woman along with two other men. Together they vow to eradicate the rebels.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Red Cliff II
Overview: The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-01-07
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Perhaps Love
Overview: A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2005-12-01
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Downtown Torpedoes
Overview: Jackal, Cash and Sam form the core of ATM (Available Tactical Mercenaries), an industrial espionage unit that utilizes high-tech gadgetry to steal technology and fence it on the black market. However, they're blackmailed by the Hong Kong government to snatch some counterfeit plates called SN2 from the British MI5. Naturally stuff goes wrong, our heroes are framed for SN2’s disappearance, and then they must set about clearing their names with whatever hi-tech gadgets they have leftover.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-08-09
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Fuji Colours of Amours
Overview: Summer - "Free Carnival" A story of a love affair between men and women. - Winter - "Warm affection" A tale of a couple and grandmother. - Autumn - "A Midnight Nightmare" A story of a nightmare surrounding men and women. - Spring - "Romantic date" A story about the love and friendship involving one man and three women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-06-01
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Space Travelers
Overview: Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...
Genres: Fantasy Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-08
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Takeshi Kaneshiro's Antarctic Adventure
Overview: Taiwanese entertainment star Takeshi Kaneshiro accepted an invitation from a Japanese TV station to go on an 11-day expedition to the Antarctic continent.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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Confession of Pain
Overview: In a city of love and prosperity, a city of lost hope and premature death, veteran detective Hei feels it all: the hurt, the helplessness, the horror. When his father-in-law, the billionaire benefactor Kim, is gruesomely murdered in his palatial mansion, he enlists the assistance of his former partner turned private detective.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2006-12-21
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Sleepless Town
Overview: Kenichi is a half-Japanese, half-Chinese man of the underworld. You can sell him anything except children's organs. His domain is in Kabukicho, a gangland controlled by various Shanghai gangs intent on taking control. His former partner-in-crime, Fu-Chun, is rumored to have returned to Kabukicho, having fled years earlier after killing the number two of gangland boss, Yuan. Yuan wants to get even and attempts to do so by using Kenichi.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-27
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Dragon
Overview: A sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-07-04
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Trouble Maker
Overview: A meek, middle-aged schoolteacher is put in charge of a class of trouble makers. Unable to withstand the torments they put him through, he runs away to a Shaolin temple. At the temple, he studies martial arts under the guidance of an old master. With his new skills, he returns to school and whips his misbehaving students into shape.
Genres: Action Family Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-04-01
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Heroic Trio 2: Executioners
Overview: The city has been devastated by a nuclear attack. An evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply, exerting influence over a popular leader and a militarist colonel.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-09-30
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Anna Magdalena
Overview: Two young men fall for the woman staying upstairs when she practises J.S. Bach's "Notebook for Anna Magdalena".
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1998-05-28
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Don't Give a Damn
Overview: Sammo Hung plays a cop on the trail of drug dealers. Customs officer Yuen Biao is investigating the same gang. Sammo's new partner is eager-beaver Takeshi Kaneshiro. Despite each having their own ideas on how best to proceed, they are teamed together and must put aside their differences in order to crack the case. Romance, plot twists, comedic asides, and, of course, plenty of fights bring the film to a climatic and bruising conclusion
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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Jail in Burning Island
Overview: A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-04-25
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First Love: The Litter on the Breeze
Overview: Faced with the task of creating a film about first love for his producer Wong Kar-wai, Kot ruminates on his creative process, his rejected ideas, and finally his two chosen tales, about a sleepwalker guided through the night by a lonely admirer, and a married convenience store owner faced with the vengeful first love that he once rejected.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-12-13
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One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
Overview: Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features never-before-seen materials, including deleted scenes, behind-the-scene footage, and selected narration by Wong Kar Wai.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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Tempting Heart
Overview: A female director decides to make a autobiographical film on her love life and we see it through the use of flashbacks and brilliant intercutting.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1999-09-23
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Lavender
Overview: A young woman's life is changed when an angel with a broken wing lands on her balcony.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2000-12-22
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Shaolin Popey III: China Dragon
Overview: Two agile Hong Kong martial arts kids join up with a pair of bungling Chinese-immigrant beach bums on the sunny shores of Hawaii, where they divide their time between sophomoric kung-fu kid hijinks and their designated mission--tracking down a missing book whose secrets have fallen into the hands of a power-hungry villain.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-01-28
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The Wrath of Silence
Overview: A mortician seeks revenge against a serial killer who has murdered her sister. However, there is a case of mistaken identity and she begins to target her psychiatrist instead.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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The Crossing I
Overview: At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-12-02
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聖夜の奇跡 あなたの好きな愛はどれ?
Overview: A foreign student from Taiwan, Mr. Bell, attends language school in Japan and meets Miss Sato there. He falls in love with her, but doesn't dare to open his heart to her. Nevertheless, on Christmas night miracles do happen.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-12-23
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Lost and Found
Overview: A rich girl diagnosed with leukemia wants to follow a sailor friend to St Kilda, Scotland to find out. but first she must search him out, who is missing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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Young Policemen in Love
Overview: A high school loser dreams of winning the heart of the principal's daughter, but his chances are slim as long as her bruiser boyfriend's around. Fortunately, a chance meeting with Garlic and Gimmick, renegade cops who cause nothing but headaches for their superiors. Chief Wong Yat Fei decides to send his boys undercover in Wong Fei Hong College to protect a general's daughter from Mainland China, but that's where their problems begin. Their boyish good looks may fool their classmates, but how will the two undisciplined cops pass their classes, let alone protect a girl who's tougher than they are?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-11-01
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Too Tired to Die
Overview: Kenji is a Japanese twenty-something who is followed by Death in various disguises. When he finally faces her, Death tells him that he has only 12 hours to live and he needs to make the most of it.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-20
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The Crossing II
Overview: A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2015-07-30
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Mermaid Got Married
Overview: A water-phobic teacher is saved by a mermaid and accidentally swallows her magical pearl, trapping her on land. She enrolls in his school to retrieve it, and they fall in love, but their romance is threatened when the school principal uncovers her secret.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-11-10
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Misty
Overview: Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-03
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No Sir
Overview: Hilarious sequel to the movies 'Yes Sir' and 'Yes Sir 2,' about the Nationalist soldiers of the Taiwan Army. This is equivalent in the US as M*A*S*H 3.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-06-25
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School Days
Overview: Hui Chi-Ho (Jimmy Lin) is a secondary college student, coming from a rich family. It causes the dissatisfaction of "Crow", the big brother in the class, and he always finds ways to challenge Ho. Then enters a new student, , "Eagle" (Takeshi Kaneshiro) who takes Hui under his wings. Ho is really grateful to what Eagle has done. At the same time, the assassins from the underworld are revenging "Eagle"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-04-27
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Forever Friends
Overview: A couple of friends join the Taiwanese army to fight the Mainland Chinese. But life in the army isn't all that they dreamed off....
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-08-11
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See You Tomorrow
Overview: Chen Mo, a bar owner, listens to his customers' heartbreaks and helps them navigate their lives during their hard times while dealing with his own tragedy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2016-12-23
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Feeling of Love
Overview: A business man (Tekeshi Kaneshiro) follows a woman (Athena Chu) who tells him not to follow him but he does anyway. Then he learns that the woman is his boss and step-sister.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1996-09-21
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This Is Not What I Expected
Overview: Lu Jin is a handsome, wealthy hotel executive whose drive for perfection is matched only by his taste for fine cuisine. When he checks into the Rosebud, he's dissatisfied with everything he sees and is ready to take action... until flamboyant female sous chef Gu Shengnan creates the perfectionist what may be a perfect meal. Now, these bitter rivals find themselves brought together in the kitchen in this light-hearted romantic comedy, infused with fun and flavors to create a delicious dish that foodies around the world wouldn't dare to miss.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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Sons of the Neon Night
Overview: A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2025-04-10
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The Star
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Original Language: cn
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