Wang Hongwei
Actor · b. 1969
Wang Hongwei is a Chinese actor. Wang is perhaps best known for his work with director Jia Zhangke. The two men were classmates at the Beijing Film Academy when they began their professional relationship, with Wang starring in Jia's breakthrough short film Xiao Shan Going Home in 1995.
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Movie7.2DramaRomanceA town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Movie7.2CrimeDramaFour people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.
Movie6.6AnimationComedyIn the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become.
Movie6.7DramaCrimeThree parents who have lost their children are involved with each other because of a deal; they have no soul in their eyes and hatred in their hearts, and each of them, with their own purposes, set out on the road of seeking revenge for their children, and staged a bizarre and dangerous killing in the barren land.
Movie7.0DramaFive shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Movie6.8DramaRomanceDuring the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Movie7.1DramaHistoryChina’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.
Movie6.7DramaGu Wentong learns the whereabouts of his father, who lost contact with him more than 40 years ago. Encouraged by new friend, photographer Ouyang Wenhui, Gu Wentong decides to face his father and rebuild the long-lost father-son relationship.
Movie5.2DramaA mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green tea-farming landscape.
Movie7.2DramaA small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
Movie7.0DramaAt Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
Movie6.5ComedyDramaTwo disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
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MovieDramaEvery parent wants to secure the best possible future for their child. For Sun and Li, that means getting their six-year-old son, Yu, admitted to an elite international school. However, after the interview, whispers of rejection emerge, prompting the couple to meet with their trusted "helpers" – a board member and an admissions agent – in a hotel room to find out who is to blame. As suspicion mounts, hidden motives and quiet frustrations begin to surface, revealing that the school admission process is merely a reflection of deeper anxieties concerning success, security and self-worth.
Movie6.3DramaA voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.
Movie6.9DocumentaryChinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
Movie1.0DramaComedyZuo Shouquan is the director of the morning paper in a north-eastern city. He has a daughter, Zuo Mingming, who lives with his ex-wife. The girl is neglecting her studies. She is not particularly interested in her education. Her father wants her to move and start working at his newspaper. Zuo Mingming won’t have it; she plays in a band and her only dream is to pursue a musical career in the south. Father versus daughter, north versus south – a deeply rooted conflict between different systems of values in a contemporary Chinese comedy.
Movie6.0DramaRomanceAn ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two couples of men and women, former lovers, meet again one year later. The yesterday's breath of youth is still perceptible in their conversations. Is it still possible for us to love? Does youth really have an end? Like the networks linking the old city, what type of ecological existence does their culture require?
MovieActionCrimeShanghai Bund in years of isolation. Zhou Qifang, president of the Sea Breeze Chamber of Commerce, and his protégé, Lu Nansheng, fight to the death against Saito, a Japanese young general, in a life-and-death battle.
Movie5.0ComedyRomance
Movie6.9DramaThrillerWhen a drunken passenger causes taxi driver Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, he stops to help the victim. As no ambulance arrives he drives him to the hospital, but soon has to face the rules of today's Kafkaesque China. With his family and life endangered, he desperately seeks a way out.