List of the best Yimou Zhang movies: To Live(1994), Raise the Red Lantern(1991), Ju Dou(1990), The Story of Qiu Ju(1992), House of Flying Daggers(2004), Happy Times(2001), Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles(2005), Curse of the Golden Flower(2006), Shadow(2018), The Great Wall(2016), A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop(2009), Red Sorghum(1988) ... ...
8.3/10
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
125 Minutes
Director
You Ge Gong Li Niu Ben Tao Guo Jiang Wu Ni Dabong Liu Tianchi Deng Fei
chinese man gambler wife peasant soldier daughter bleak emotional tender china village house field war zone chinese cultural revolution starting over family poverty tragedy gambling
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
8.1/10
Drama
China|Hong Kong|Taiwan
1991
125 Minutes
Director
Gong Li Ma Jingwu Saifei He Cao Cuifeng Jin Shuyuan Kong Lin Ding Weimin Cui Zhihgang
concubine wife husband servant bleak melodramatic china palace marriage gossip lying rivalry wretched excess 1920s
A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.
7.6/10
Drama
China|Japan
1990
98 Minutes
Director
Gong Li Baotian Li Wei Li Zhang Yi Zhen Ji-an
husband wife nephew illegitimate son lover dark tense moving china household funeral infidelity family dysfunction abusive marriage deception pregnancy forbidden love temptation revenge 1920s
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.
7.6/10
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1992
100 Minutes
Director
Gong Li Lei Laosheng Liu Peiqi Yang Liuchun Zhu Qanqing Cui Luowen Yang Huiqin Wang Jianfa Lin Zi
peasant pregnant woman villager husband wife bureaucrat moving powerful gutsy spirited china countryside big city city vs. country injustice corruption husband/wife relationship quest underdog sacrifice
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »
7.5/10
Action, Sports & Fitness
China|Hong Kong
2004
119 Minutes
Director
Takeshi Kaneshiro Andy Lau Zhang Ziyi Dandan Song Hongfei Zhao Jun Guo Shu Zhang Jiusheng Wang
police officer dancer thief dreamy thrilling spectacular china brothel headquarters revolution crime forbidden love love triangle love quest sacrifice 9th century
A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
7.4/10
Comedy
China
2001
95 Minutes
Director
Benshan Zhao Jie Dong Lifan Dong Biao Fu Xuejian Li Qibin Leng Ben Niu Jinghua Gong Hongjie Zhang Bingkun Zhao
Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, Zhao leads her to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his ... See full summary »
7.3/10
Drama
China|Japan|Hong Kong
2005
107 Minutes
Director
Ken Takakura Shinobu Terajima Kiichi Nakai Qiu Lin Yang Zhenbo Ken Nakamoto
fisherman son wife singer father moving dark tokyo mountain village hospital family illness father/son relationship friendship movie making redemption discovery sacrifice quest
A Japanese father travels to China's Yunnan province in the place of his ailing son to film a folk-opera singer.
7.0/10
Romance, Drama, History
China|Hong Kong
2006
114 Minutes
Director
Chow Yun-Fat Gong Li Jay Chou Ye Liu Chen Jin Ni Dahong Li Man Qin Junjie
emperor empress prince young girl passionate powerful china royal court forbidden love deception poison adultery royalty revenge temptation 10th century
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
7.0/10
Sports & Fitness, Adventure, Action
China|Hong Kong|USA
2018
116 Minutes
Director
Chao Deng Li Sun Ryan Zheng Qianyuan Wang Wang Jingchun Jun Hu Xiaotong Guan Lei Wu
general enemy wife warrior gripping intense powerful china battlefield kingdom power battle victory redemption struggle discovery quest rise rivalry 1st century
Life and intrigue in an ancient Chinese court.
5.9/10
Adventure, Fantasy, Action
USA|China|Hong Kong|Australia|Canada
2016
104 Minutes
Director
Matt Damon Jing Tian Pedro Pascal Willem Dafoe Andy Lau Hanyu Zhang Eddie Peng Lu Han Gengxin Lin Junkai Wang Zheng Kai
mercenary prisoner beast warrior friend brooding emotional intense china fortress prison battlefield tower mountain chinese mythology war wall creatures danger survival
In ancient China, a group of European mercenaries encounters a secret army that maintains and defends the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
5.6/10
Comedy, Drama
China|Hong Kong
2009
90 Minutes
Director
Honglei Sun Xiaoshenyang Ni Yan Ni Dahong Cheng Ye Mao Mao Benshan Zhao Julien Gaudfroy
owner lover employee amusing noodle shop city murder secret affair underdog 19th century
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
Drama
1988
91 Minutes
Director
son leper bethrothed laborer soldier bandit brooding endearing emotional china farm arranged marriage rape communism world war ii agriculture forbidden love growing up 1940s
The narrator tells a folk tale of his grandparents (Gong Li, Wen Jiang), their distillery and Japanese invaders in China.
Drama
1999
90 Minutes
Director
Zhang Ziyi Honglei Sun Yulian Zhao Bin Li Guifa Chang Wencheng Sung Qi Liu Bo Ji Zhongxi Zhang
businessman father teacher mother student communist passionate gripping melodramatic china city rural community road school funeral family teaching reunion tradition father/son relationship
A Chinese businessman (Honglei Sun) recalls the story of the courtship of his mother (Ziyi Zhang) and father (Yulian Zhao), on the occasion of the old man's death.
War, Drama, History
2011
141 Minutes
Director
Christian Bale Ni Ni Huang Tianyuan Zhang Xinyi Han Xiting Zhang Doudou Dawei Tong Atsuro Watabe
american soldiers civilian emotional refuge convent flowers women second sino-japanese war love 19th century
An American (Christian Bale) tries to protect a group of Chinese students and prostitutes from Japanese soldiers in 1937 Nanjing.
Sports & Fitness, Action, Drama, History
2002
93 Minutes
Director
Jet Li Tony Leung Maggie Cheung Donnie Yen Chen Daoming Zhang Ziyi Liu Zhongyuan Tianyong Zheng
king warrior assassin gripping incredible spectacular rousing china palace desert love assassination betrayal revenge quest adventure rivalry 2nd century b.c.
Flashbacks reveal how a warrior (Jet Li) stopped the elusive assassins (Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) who tried to kill the emperor of China.
Romance, Drama
2010
114 Minutes
Director
Meijuan Xi Xuejian Li Taisheng Chen Liping Lu Haiying Sun Dongyu Zhou Shawn Dou Rina Sa Ruijia Jiang Xinbo Yu Xinyun Xi
Crime, Drama
1995
108 Minutes
Director
Gong Li Baotian Li Li Xuejian Chun Sun Wang Xiaoxiao Cuihua Jiang Baoying
teenager criminal singer uncle rival striking intense sad gritty shanghai nightclub island crime betrayal violence coming of age growing up revenge 1930s
Director Zhang Yimou's tale of a Chinese boy's eye-opening experiences during a week in the realm of organized crime.
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