Liu YeFilmography

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

  • City of Life and Death

    Actors: John Paisley

    Synopsis: Within the scope of Asian history, few events carry the ugly and sickening connotations of the Rape of Nanking. Japanese forces invaded that Chinese city on December 9, 1937, and in the six weeks to follow, soldiers raped thousands of women and annihilated hundreds of thousands of innocent Read More

    5/7/09

  • 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

  • Connected

    Actors: Louis Koo, Barbie Hsu, Liu Ye, Nick Cheung

    Synopsis: Invisible Target director Benny Chan draws inspiration from the 2004 English-language thriller Cellular for this tense tale of a self-centered debt-collector who risks his life to rescue a desperate mother and her young daughter. Bob (Louis Koo) is a single father with a dead-end job as a debt Read More

    2008

  • 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

  • Jasmine Woman

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

    2004

  • 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

  • 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

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