Acting

Gong Li

Born December 31, 1965 · Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China (age 60)

Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States. She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Rev…

Known For

Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine · 1993

Farewell My Concubine

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.

Mulan

MovieAdventureFantasy

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.

Miami Vice

Miami Vice · 2006

MovieActionCrime

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha · 2005

Memoirs of a Geisha

MovieDramaRomance

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower · 2006

Curse of the Golden Flower

MovieActionDrama

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

2046

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

To Live

To Live · 1994

MovieDramaRomance

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red Lantern · 1991

Raise the Red Lantern

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

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Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine · 1993

Farewell My Concubine

In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.

Juxian

Mulan

MovieAdventureFantasy

When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.

Xian Niang

Miami Vice

Miami Vice · 2006

MovieActionCrime

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.

Isabella

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha · 2005

Memoirs of a Geisha

MovieDramaRomance

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

Hatsumomo

Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower · 2006

Curse of the Golden Flower

MovieActionDrama

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Empress Phoenix

2046

MovieDramaScience Fiction

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.

Black Spider / Su Li-zhen

To Live

To Live · 1994

MovieDramaRomance

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

Xu Jiazhen

Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red Lantern · 1991

Raise the Red Lantern

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

Songlian

The Emperor and the Assassin

The Emperor and the Assassin · 1998

The Emperor and the Assassin

MovieHistoryDrama

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.

Lady Zhao

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai · 1991

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

MovieActionComedy

While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.

Yu San / Yu Mong

Chinese Box

Chinese Box · 1997

MovieDramaRomance

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.

Vivian

The Monkey King 2

The Monkey King 2 · 2016

The Monkey King 2

MovieActionAdventure

Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world!

Lady White

Eros

MovieDramaRomance

A three-part anthology 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; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Miss Hua

Flirting Scholar

Flirting Scholar · 1993

Flirting Scholar

MovieDramaComedy

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.

Chou Heung

Coming Home

Coming Home · 2014

MovieDramaRomance

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

Feng Wanyu

Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum · 1988

MovieDramaRomance

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Jiu'er

Shanghai Triad

Shanghai Triad · 1995

MovieDramaCrime

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Bijou / Xiao Jinbao

Ju Dou

Tianqing falls in love with Ju Dou, his uncle's wife who is tortured for being childless. However, after they have an affair, they discover that his uncle is impotent and try to conceal the truth.

Ju Dou

Shanghai

Shanghai · 2010

MovieDramaThriller

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

Anna Lan-Ting

The Story of Qiu Ju

The Story of Qiu Ju · 1992

The Story of Qiu Ju

MovieComedyDrama

When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.

Qiu Ju

Hannibal Rising

Hannibal Rising · 2007

Hannibal Rising

MovieCrimeThriller

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

Lady Murasaki

Temptress Moon

Temptress Moon · 1996

MovieDramaRomance

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. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.

Pang Ruyi

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains · 1994

The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains

MovieActionFantasy

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.

Mou Hang-wan

A Terra-Cotta Warrior

A Terra-Cotta Warrior · 1989

A Terra-Cotta Warrior

MovieAdventureComedy

An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old.

Dong Er / Zhu Lili

Celebrity Talk Show

Celebrity Talk Show · 1989

Celebrity Talk Show

巩俐

最佳女主角

最佳女主角 · 2013

最佳女主角