Liu Ye Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A Chinese actor who specialized in quietly effective, psychologically complex roles (nearly always in dramas), Liu Ye first took his onscreen bow during the late '90s, but didn't achieve international crossover success until 2005, with the U.S. release of Dai Sijie's period comedy drama-cum-film à...Read More

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Dark Matter

Actors: Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn, Meryl Streep, Blair Brown, Chi Peng

Synopsis: Inspired by actual events, director Chen Shi-Zheng's socially conscious psychological drama follows the journey of an ambitious Chinese scientist working towards his Ph.D. in America, only to be marginalized to the extent that he ultimately loses his way. All Liu Xing (Liu Ye) ever wanted was to Read More

4/11/08
Blood Brothers

Actors: Liu Ye, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen, Shu Qi, Tony Yang

Synopsis: Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen in the small village of Zhujiajiao depart to seek their fate in Shanghai in director Alexi Tan's reworking of the John Woo action classic Bullet in the Head. Feeling trapped by circumstance in the only place they have ever known, Kang, his Read More

2007
Curse of the Golden Flower

Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Liu Ye, Chen Jin

Synopsis: A dying love between two powerful people leads to deceit, infidelity, and conspiracy in this epic-scale historical drama from director Zhang Yimou. During the latter days of the Tang dynasty, the Emperor (Chow Yun-Fat) returns home from the war with his son Prince Jai (Jay Chou) in tow. However Read More

12/22/06
The Promise

Actors: Hiroyuki Sanada, Jang Dong-gun, Cecilia Cheung, Nicholas Tse, Liu Ye

Synopsis: Love and war conspire to create a romantic triangle in this lavish historical epic from director Chen Kaige. A young girl who has lost her parents to the violence of war bravely refuses to obey the orders of a warrior's son, and is approached by a spirit who offers her a life of wealth and power Read More

5/5/06
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Actors: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Shuangbao, Chung Zhijun

Synopsis: Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who Read More

8/26/05
Purple Butterfly

Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye, Feng Yuanzheng, Toru Nakamura

Synopsis: Directed by Lou Ye, Zi Hudie revolves around the underground faction of anti-Nipponese fighters in 1930s Shanghai, just prior to the onset of the Sino-Japanese war. It's only the beginning when Cynthia (Zhang Ziyi), a young Chinese woman, learns the news of her lover Itami's (Toru Nakamura) Read More

11/26/04
The Foliage

Actors: Liu Ye

Synopsis: The Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1970s -- in which urban intellectuals were relocated either by choice or through force to rural areas in the interest of educating the poor or aiding farm labor -- provides the backdrop for this romantic drama from filmmaker Lu Yue. Ye Xingyu (Shu Qi) is an Read More

2004
Jasmine Woman

Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Joan Chen, Jiang Wen, Liu Ye, Lu Yin Pei

2004
Sky Lover

Actors: Liu Ye, Dong Jie, Tao Hong

Synopsis: Director Jiang Qinmin's sweeping romantic drama Sky Lover opens amid a time of great tumult in Guangxi, rural China, with the Communists taking over the region. An older gentleman (Feng Enhe) - the father of Jia Kuan (Liu Ye)) - fiddles with a rifle and accidentally shoots himself blind, prompting Read More

1999