List of the best Zhao Tao movies: Mountains May Depart(2015), Ash Is Purest White(2018), Unknown Pleasures(2002), I Wish I Knew(2010), Platform(2000), A Touch of Sin(2013), 24 City(2008) ... ...
Drama
China|France|Japan
2015
132 Minutes
Zhao Tao Yi Zhang Zijian Dong Sylvia Chang Jing Dong Liang Han Sanming Patrick Harvey Yee Yang
suitor young woman laborer business owner son tender uneasy solemn sad engaging brooding china small town australia changing times generation gap marriage growing up discovery love
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Romance, Drama
2018
141 Minutes
Zhao Tao Liao Fan Feng Xiaogang Diao Yi-nan Zheng Xu Zhang Yibai
gang leader girlfriend gang members boyfriend ex-girlfriend bleak cool disheartening gripping intense uneasy china sacrifice gangsters relationships china chinese triad fall sacrifice 2010s
In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Drama
2002
113 Minutes
Zhao Tao Zhao Wei Wei Wu Qiong Zhou Qing Feng Bai Ru Liu Xi An
An unemployed slacker (Zhao Wei Wei) grows apart from his girlfriend, while his like-minded pal (Wu Qiong) chases a woman.
Documentary
China
2010
125 Minutes
Rebecca Pan Zhao Tao Dan-qing Chen Han Han
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
Drama
China|Japan|France
2013
129 Minutes
Xiao Yu
Jiang Wu Baoqiang Wang Zhao Tao Vivien Li Lanshan Luo Jia-yi Zhang Li Meng Dong Han
prostitute melodramatic channel sin outcasts rage transformation 2010s
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
Documentary, Drama
2008
112 Minutes
Su Na
Documentary focusing on the lives of eight people affected after a thriving factory in China that provides hundreds of jobs is replaced by an apartment complex.