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Chen Kaige
Director 73 years old

Chen Kaige

Beijing, China

Chen Kaige (陈凯歌) is a Chinese film director born on born August 12, 1952. He is a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

18 titles
Chang jin hu: Shui men qiao

Chang jin hu: Shui men qiao

Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige 2022 2h 29m

Commander Wu Qianli leads the 7th Infantry Company soldiers to Funchilin Pass where they are tasked to destroy a bridge to stop enemy troops from retreating.

Chang jin hu

Chang jin hu

Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige 2021 2h 58m

Korean War, winter 1950. In the frozen and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle is about to begin between the elite troops of the United States and China.

Wo he wo de zu guo

Wo he wo de zu guo

Chen Kaige, Ning Hao 2019 2h 34m

Anthology of short films directed by several different directors.

Kûkai

Kûkai

Chen Kaige 2017 2h 9m

During the Late Tang Dynasty, a manor is invaded by a demon cat and a sense of unrest befalls the capital of Changan. A poet is charged with investigating the case and meets up with a monk. The two work together and pull apart the thread of clues to reveal a history of truths leading to the events.

Dao shi xia shan

Dao shi xia shan

Chen Kaige 2015 1h 53m

A monk leaves his monastery and ventures out into the real world for the first time in his life, and ends up in an adventure with a kung-fu master who is guarding a special artifact.

Zhao Shi Gu Er

Zhao Shi Gu Er

Chen Kaige 2010 2h 8m

For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him.

Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence

Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s'éteint et que le film commence

Takeshi Kitano, David Cronenberg 2007 1h 40m 7.4

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about Cinema.

Wu ji

Wu ji

Chen Kaige 2005 2h 1m 6.4

An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life.

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch 2002 1h 32m

This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.

Killing Me Softly

Killing Me Softly

Chen Kaige 2002 1h 40m 4.4

A woman faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer.

He ni zai yi qi

He ni zai yi qi

Chen Kaige 2002 1h 56m 6.0

A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.

Jing ke ci qin wang

Jing ke ci qin wang

Chen Kaige 1998 2h 42m 7.3

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.

Feng yue

Feng yue

Chen Kaige 1996 2h 10m

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.

Ba wang bie ji

Ba wang bie ji

Chen Kaige 1993 2h 51m 7.4

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.

Bian zou bian chang

Bian zou bian chang

Chen Kaige 1991 1h 50m

A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years he broke the 1000th string.

Hai zi wang

Hai zi wang

Chen Kaige 1987 1h 47m

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

Da yue bing

Da yue bing

Chen Kaige 1986 1h 43m

Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.

Huang tu di

Huang tu di

Chen Kaige 1984 1h 31m

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust.

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