The Emperor's Shadow / Qin song (1996)
Drama | History
Epic drama about China's first emperor who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
Starring: Wen Jiang, You Ge, Qing Xu
Director: Xiaowen Zhou
The Wasted Times / Luo man di ke xiao wang shi (2016)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Over the course of several decades, a deal between the Japanese army and criminals in Shanghai plays out with violence and betrayal.
Starring: You Ge, Ziyi Zhang, Tadanobu Asano, Chun Du, Gillian Chung
Director: Er Cheng
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
Big Shot's Funeral / Da wan (2001)
Comedy | Drama
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Japanese media company. But YoYo is determined to upstage the whole production by granting the director's wish to have a grand "comedy funeral". To raise the money for it, he auctions off advertising and sponsorships for the funeral to companies around the world. But wait…is Don getting better?
Starring: You Ge, Rosamund Kwan, Donald Sutherland, Da Ying, Paul Mazursky
Director: Xiaogang Feng
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
Cook Up a Storm / Jue zhan shi shen (2017)
Comedy | Drama
A Cantonese street cook and his chief rival, a French-trained Michelin-starred chef, discover they have a lot in common as they prepare for a world-famous culinary competition. An international culinary competition becomes a battleground between rival cooks, one famous for his Cantonese street food and the other a Michelin-starred chef trained in France. But their rivalry takes an unexpected turn when they discover a common foe and combine their skills in a fusion of East and West.
Starring: Nicholas Tse, Yong-hwa Jung, Yan Tang, Bing Bai, You Ge, Haitao Du, Anthony Wong
Director: Wai Man Yip
Personal Tailor / Si ren ding zhi (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A story centered on a company that grants wishes to people looking for a day away from their ordinary lives.
Starring: You Ge, Baihe Bai, Xiaolu Li, Kai Zheng, Wei Fan, Dandan Song, Chengru Li
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Sorry Baby / Mei wan mei liao (1999)
Comedy
Han is a minibus driver working for the Ruan, the boss of a small travel company. Ruan owes Han 98,000rmb in wages and constantly delays paying Han back. In desperation, Han kidnaps Ruan’s girlfriend Liu to force Ruan to pay him. Unable to follow through with the kidnapping, Han lets Ruan go. Ruan decides to help Han get his money back and at the same time see if Ruan values money or her more.
Starring: Biao Fu, You Ge, Chien-lien Wu, Hanyu Zhang, Honglei Sun, Fan Xu
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Be There or Be Square / Bu jian bu san (1998)
Comedy | Romance
Liu is a carefree Beijing native living in the US in a caravan while making a living doing odd jobs such as working for a film company and selling life insurance. He comes across Li who is an old acquaintance and just arrived in the US. Li cannot speak any English and appears to be totally out of her depth so Liu buys her a ticket back to Beijing and sees her off at the airport. A year later Liu has a small car crash in a supermarket car park and to his surprise, the other driver is Li. Unbeknown to Liu, Li could not bear to leave the US so she refund her ticket at the airport and has been working hard to build a good life in the US for the last year. Their relationship appears to be cursed because Liu takes Li to a restaurant while it is being held up and they are both robbed. He then arranges for Li to work with him at his friend’s travel agency only to find out after they are arrested that the agency is smuggling Chinese in the US. Unable to face any more bad luck, Li thanks Liu and asks him to forget her and never contact her again. Another year passes and Liu meets Li again after she responds to an add Liu placed in a local newspaper trying to find her. Liu makes his affection and desire for Li very clear to her but she maintains a distance and does not let their relationship progress beyond work and friendship. Liu is determined to win Li’s heart and resorts to desperate measures with predictable consequences.
Starring: You Ge, Fan Xu
Director: Xiaogang Feng
The Dream Factory / Jiafang yifang (1997)
Comedy
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
Starring: You Ge, Xiaogang Feng, Biao Fu, Bing He, Bin Li, Qi Li, Pei Liu, Fan Xu, Da Ying
Director: Xiaogang Feng
Let The Bullets Fly / Rang zidan fei (2010)
Action | Comedy | Western
Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Wen Jiang, Xiaogang Feng, You Ge, Carina Lau
Director: Wen Jiang
