Leap / Duo guan (2020)
Drama | Sport
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
Starring: Li Gong, Bo Huang, Gang Wu, Yuchang Peng, Bai Lang
Director: Peter Chan
Farewell My Concubine / Ba wang bie ji (1993)
Drama | Music | Romance
Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, You Ge, Da Ying, Wenli Jiang, David Wu
Director: Kaige Chen
Mulan (2020)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Family
A young Chinese maiden disguises herself as a male warrior in order to save her father.
Starring: Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jason Scott Lee, Li Gong, Jet Li, Yoson An
Director: Niki Caro
Ju Dou (1990)
Drama | Romance
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. This tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
Starring: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wei Li, Zhijun Cong, Xingli Niu
Director: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Chinese Box (1997)
Drama | Romance
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Li Gong, Maggie Cheung, Michael Hui, Rubén Blades, Jared Harris
Director: Wayne Wang
To Live / Living / Lifetimes / Huo zhe (1994)
Drama | War
After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Starring: You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Wu Jiang, Deng Fei, Tao Guo
Director: Yimou Zhang
Red Sorghum / Hong gao liang (1988)
Drama | History | Romance | War
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Starring: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Chunhua Ji
Director: Yimou Zhang
The Dragon Chronicles: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains / San tin lung baat biu chi tin saan tung liu (1994)
Action | Drama | Fantasy
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Man Cheung, Li Gong
Director: Andy Chin
The Monkey King 2 / The Monkey King the Legend Begins / Xi you ji zhi: sun wu kong san da bai gu jing (2016)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy
The Monkey King: The Legend Begins is the re imagined version by Hollywood of the release The Monkey King: Havoc in Heavens Palace. The Origin and Birth Place of The Monkey King Story.
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Li Gong, Shaofeng Feng, Xiao Shen-Yang, Chung Him Law, Fei Xiang, Kelly Chen
Director: Pou-Soi Cheang
Coming Home / Gui lai (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.
Starring: Li Gong, Daoming Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai / Dou hap II: Seung Hoi taam dou sing (1991)
Comedy | Fantasy
This film focuses on the disciple of the God of Gamblers, Chow Sing Cho, also known as the "Saint of Gamblers". A group of people with telekinetic powers matching his attack him and his uncle, accidentally sending him to the year 1937, in Shanghai. This is a year crucial in Sing's family history, and he must use his powers play a part that has irrevocable effects on his present and future, while trying to find a way back to home, the year 1991.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Li Gong, Ray Lui, Man Tat Ng, Charles Heung, Sandra Ng
Director: Jing Wong
Flirting Scholar / Tang Bohu dian Qiuxiang (1993)
Comedy | Romance
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
Starring: Stephen Chow, Li Gong, Pak-Cheung Chan, Pei-pei Cheng, Mimi Zhu
Director: Lik-Chi Lee
The Story of Qiu Ju / Qiu Ju da guan si (1992)
Comedy | Drama
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 the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society.
Starring: Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei, Zhijun Ge
Director: Yimou Zhang
Shanghai Triad / Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao (1995)
Crime | Drama
Shanghai, 1930. Mr. Tang, the godfather chief of the Tang family-run underground Green dynasty, controls the city's lucrative opium and prostitution trade. He has also acquired the services of Xiao Jinbao, the most beautiful prostitute-singer in Shanghai. Fourteen-year-old Tang Shuisheng has been recruited by his uncle to watch Xiao Jinbao. Ultimately, Shuisheng becomes the only person to whom she can talk openly and whose relationship with her is not motivated by power or greed. In secret, Xiao Jinbao has become the mistress of Song, the Greens' number two man, and together they conspire against Mr. Tang.
Starring: Li Gong, Baotian Li, Wang Xiaoxiao, Xuejian Li, Chun Sun, Biao Fu, Shu Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
Eros (2004)
Drama | Romance
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Starring: Li Gong, Chen Chang, Robert Downey Jr., Alan Arkin
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Kar Wai Wong
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Miami Vice (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris) as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell), who may seem unorthodox, but is actually procedurally sound, is charismatic and flirtatious until he gets romantically entangled with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one–especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Working deeply undercover is dangerous and alluring…especially when Crockett and Tubbs go where their badges don't count…
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Li Gong, Naomie Harris, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Towles
Director: Michael Mann
Hannibal Rising (2007)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller | War
After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his beautiful aunt and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.
Starring: Aaran Thomas, Gaspard Ulliel, Li Gong, Dominic West, Rhys Ifans, Richard Brake
Director: Peter Webber
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Drama | Romance
Set in a mysterious and exotic world which still casts a potent spell today, the story begins in the years before World War II, when a Japanese child is torn from her penniless family to work as a servant in a geisha house. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri (Ziyi Zhang). Beautiful and accomplished, Sayuri captivates the most powerful men of her day, but is haunted by her secret love for the one man (Ken Watanabe) who is out of her reach. Based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Arthur Golden.
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Li Gong, Tsai Chin, Kaori Momoi
Director: Rob Marshall
Raise the Red Lantern / Da hong deng long gao gao gua (1991)
Drama
China in the 1920's. After her father's death, nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord of a powerful family. Fifty year old Chen has already three wives, each of them living in separate houses within the great castle. The competition between the wives is tough, as their master's attention carries power, status and privilege. Each night Chen must decide with which wife to spend the night and a red lantern is lit in front of the house of his choice. And each wife schemes and plots to make sure it's hers. However, things get out of hand…
Starring: Li Gong, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He, Cuifen Cao, Qi Zhao, Lin Kong, Shuyuan Jin, Weimin Ding, Zhihgang Cui, Chu Xiao, Zhengyin Cao
Director: Yimou Zhang
