Wang Hong Wei Filmography

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Still Life

Actors: Zhao Tao, Han Sanming, Wang Hong Wei, Li Zhubin, Xiang Haiyu, Zhou Lin

Synopsis: Jia Zhang Ke's haunting minimalist drama Still Life (aka Sanxia Haoren) takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges Hydro Project and it accompanying massive dam over the Yangtze River in China (allegedly the largest manmade dam in the world) -- a project that required Read More

1/18/08
The State of the World

Actors: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Jansuda, Nophakraw Ngawvichai, Prasit Donsung, Paschoal Vilaboim

Synopsis: The Portuguese-produced, Gulbenkian Foundation-funded omnibus film The State of the World (O Estado do Mundo, 2007) joins September 11 (2003), Paris, Je T'Aime (2006), and other feature-length works made around the same time that resurrect the form and structure of the classic "episode picture." Read More

2007
The Case

Actors: Wu Gang, Wu Yujuan, Wang Sifei, Wang Hong Wei, Tang Wei

Synopsis: Actress-turned-director Wang Fen takes the helm for this black comedy concerning a bed and breakfast owner who discovers a mysterious suitcase filled with frozen body parts. Henpecked He Dashang (Wu Gang) and his wife run a modest but comfortable riverside inn that has become particularly popular Read More

2007
One Foot Off the Ground

Actors: Xu Fan, Li Yixiang, Xiao Xiangyu, Jin Hong, Yao Lu

Synopsis: Chinese filmmaker Chen Daming's premier directorial outing, the ensemble drama One Foot off the Ground, opens with the plight a celebrated opera company, buckling under the weight of financial difficulties. When the troupe collapses for good, Daming cross-cuts between the lives of the laid-off Read More

2006
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
The World

Actors: Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jing Jue, Jiang Zhong-wei, Wang Yi-qun

Synopsis: Chinese writer/director Jia Zhang Ke's The World is his fourth feature, but it's his first set in a major city, and the first film he's made with the cooperation of the Chinese government. The World is set at the eponymous amusement park in Beijing. Tao (Zhao Tao, who played the Mongolian King Read More

7/1/05
Unknown Pleasures

Actors: Zhao Tao, Zhao Wei Wei, Wu Qiong, Zhou Qing Feng, Wang Hong Wei

Synopsis: Unknown Pleasures takes place in China, in the small city of Datong, in 2001, where disaffected teenagers look for any kind of excitement to enliven their dreary existence. Bin Bin (Zhao Wei Wei) dates a quiet student, Yuan Yuan (Zhou Qing Feng) who's thinking of going to university in Beijing. Read More

3/26/03
Platform

Actors: Wang Hong Wei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jing-dong

Synopsis: The political and social changes that swept China during the 1980s are reflected in the lives of a troupe of musicians in this drama from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke. In 1979, China is beginning to reinvent itself in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, and change is slowly but surely Read More

2000
Xiao Wu

Actors: Wang Hong Wei, Hao Hong Jian, Zu Baitao

Synopsis: Jia Zhang Ke made his directorial debut with this low-budget 16mm film shot in his hometown with non-professional actors. Small time Fenyang thief and pickpocket Xiao Wu is insulted when a now-respectable former thief doesn't send him a wedding invitation. At a karaoke bar, Xiao Wu meets Mei Mei Read More

1998