Gong Li
Also Known As: 공리, Lei Gung, Γκονγκ Λι, 巩俐, Củng Lợi, コン・リー, گُنگ لی, 鞏俐
Biography: Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States. She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup. She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Adult: No
Birthday: December 31, 1965
Age: 59 years old
Gender: Female
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Miami Vice
Overview: A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Hannibal Rising
Overview: The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-02-06
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Curse of the Golden Flower
Overview: During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2006-12-14
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2046
Overview: Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-10-29
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Overview: In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-06
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The Emperor and the Assassin
Overview: 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 her loyalty faltering.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1998-10-08
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Raise the Red Lantern
Overview: In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1991-12-18
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Chinese Box
Overview: The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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To Live
Overview: Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Ju Dou
Overview: 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 as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1990-04-21
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Red Sorghum
Overview: An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Zhou Yu's Train
Overview: Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-08-01
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Shanghai Triad
Overview: Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-09-14
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Flirting Scholar
Overview: A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1993-07-01
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A Soul Haunted by Painting
Overview: A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-03-12
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What Women Want
Overview: After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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The Story of Qiu Ju
Overview: When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1992-08-31
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Shanghai
Overview: An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-10
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The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
Overview: Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-03-05
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Eros
Overview: A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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Temptress Moon
Overview: Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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The Great Conqueror's Concubine
Overview: Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang Yu's weakness for Lady Yu combine with Liu Pang's treachery result in Liu founding the legendary Han dynasty
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1994-06-04
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Farewell My Concubine
Overview: Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
Overview: While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.
Genres: Action Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-08-21
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The Banquet
Overview: Developer Tsang Siu Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1991-11-30
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A Terra-Cotta Warrior
Overview: An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Adventure Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-12-18
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Breaking the Silence
Overview: Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces her. After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates, Sun Liying sets out to raise 5,000 yuan (a small fortune) to buy him a replacement. A friend helps her set up an unauthorized bookstall, which soon gets raided by the police. Later she splits her time delivering newspapers and cleaning house for a rich businessman. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2000-05-26
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西楚霸王II 楚漢爭霸
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1994-06-09
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Code Name: Cougar
Overview: A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, but agree to cooperate with Taiwanese authorities to defuse the tense situation.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-11-29
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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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The Empress Dowager
Overview: Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ruler of China for nearly 50 years.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1989-03-02
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Mary from Beijing
Overview: Ma Lei which sounds like "Mary" is a Chinese citizen, living in Hong Kong as the kept woman of a jeweler. She wishes for two things: to get her Hong Kong Identity Card, which will enable her to get work as a legal immigrant; and to marry her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1992-12-24
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Coming Home
Overview: Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-05-16
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The Monkey King 2
Overview: Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world!
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-01-22
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Saturday Fiction
Overview: Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave danger.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Mulan
Overview: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-04
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Leap
Overview: After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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The Hand
Overview: Hong Kong, 1960s. Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he will truly remember her when designing her garments. After this intimate first encounter, a rapport develops between the two. Entry is for the theatrically released extended version, not the segment from the Eros anthology.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-05-20
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Big Fish in China
Overview: Recording of the documentary 'Big Fish in China', a film looking at the work and life of Zhang Yimou, one of China's most famous film directors, and his leading lady and partner, Gong Li.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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