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Chen Kaige
Writer 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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