Jiang Wen
Also Known As: 姜文, Γουέν Ζιανγκ, 강문, 姜小军
Biography: Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tangshan, Hebei, China
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Birthday: January 05, 1963
Age: 62 years old
Gender: Male
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Master Rabbit Comes Home
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Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Devils on the Doorstep
Overview: During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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The Emperor's Shadow
Overview: Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-10-31
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Green Tea
Overview: A mysterious woman frequents tea shops and other places looking for the right man. A cup of green tea will show you the way to find your true love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-08-18
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Chinese Zodiac
Overview: Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student & a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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The Soong Sisters
Overview: The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1997-05-01
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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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Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Overview: A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-09-23
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The Lost Bladesman
Overview: During the warring period of the three kingdoms, ancient China is in turmoil. To unify the country, general Cao Cao, the real power behind the Emperor, enlists the aid of the greatest warrior in the land, Guan Yu. However, Guan Yu is a loyal friend of Cao Cao's enemy Liu Bei so to persuade the peerless warrior to fight, Cao Cao takes his beloved Qi Lan hostage. After leading Cao Cao's forces to victory Guan Yu sets out with Qi Lan to rejoin Liu Bei. Now Cao Cao has deemed him too great a threat to live, and on the journey he must face all the forces at the Emperor's command sent to destroy him.
Genres: History Drama Action War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-04-28
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Keep Cool
Overview: China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1997-09-02
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Jasmine Women
Overview: Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-06-13
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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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The Sun Also Rises
Overview: A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2007-09-20
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The Missing Gun
Overview: After a policeman gets drunk and loses his service weapon, he frantically searches for his revolver and the killer who murdered his former lover.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2002-05-09
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The Last Empress
Overview: There were three women lived with Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, during 1922 and 1924. Wan-jung, the Queen, ended up with being insane. Tan Yuling died. Wenxiu, a concubine, was eliminated from the Royal family. This is the story of the fate of three women, including the wife and cousin of who have a lesbian relationship
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-11-05
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In the Heat of the Sun
Overview: Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1995-08-21
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Overview: Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2004-09-01
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My Father and I
Overview: After Xiao Yu's mother died in an accident, she moved back to live with her birth father who she knows little about. Gradually, they grew to know each other and to accept each other for who they are.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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Black Snow
Overview: A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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Le palanquin des larmes
Overview: The story of three generations of a family in Shanghai against the backdrop of tumultuous times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1986-12-31
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Hibiscus Town
Overview: Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1987-03-05
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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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Gone with the Bullets
Overview: Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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A Woman For Two
Overview: In Beijing 1930s, a young woman is torn between her lover and her disabled husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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20 Years of Original Chinese Music
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Overview: A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-14
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The Trail
Overview: Officer Lei tracks down embezzler Chen Ziliang in Mongolia. Although Chen insists he was innocent, Lei must escort him across China to bring him to justice, but it soon becomes apparent that an unknown organization wants Chen killed.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Love for Life
Overview: Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find love with each other by their misfortunes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2011-05-10
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Let the Wind Carry Me
Overview: Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply observant and philosophical artist and the tolls that his profession takes on his family life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2009-11-23
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Hidden Man
Overview: A martial arts-infused spy thriller set in 1937 Beijing. A time when China was lurching between revolution, prosperity, and chaos.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2018-07-13
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The Curse of Turandot
Overview: The plot follows Princess Turandot who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. These bracelets’ life-draining effects cause the princess to becomes cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity.
Genres: Action Fantasy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Lotus Lantern
Overview: A young boy named Chen Xiang uses a magical lotus lantern to search for and rescue his mother, a goddess, from the cruel punishment she received from her brother, the king of the gods, for falling in love with a mortal man.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1999-07-30
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The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
Overview: In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film is that it's not an ode to celebrities but about the role cinema plays in ordinary people's lives. It's a love letter to cinema, filmmakers and audiences.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2016-03-04
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The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Overview: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-04
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Flavor of Happiness
Overview: Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-11
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Let the Music Fly
Overview: In order to realize his music dream, the young man left home to study with his father since childhood. Facing the uncertain future, the whole family remained true to their original intention, accumulated in adversity, and broke through from difficulties. One day, the heroic leopard changed, and at the age of seventeen, he ascended to the top art palace and conquered the world with his peak performance.
Genres: Drama Music Comedy
Original Language: zh
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