Zhao Tao Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Producer

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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
24 City

Actors: Joan Chen, Lu Liping, Zhao Tao

Synopsis: When the state owned factory 420 becomes a luxury apartment complex known as "24 City," the stories of three generations and eight characters meld together to offer an intimate glimpse into the history of China. Joan Chen, Lu Liping, and Zhao Tao star in director Jia Zhang Ke's entry into the 2008 Read More

2008
Useless

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ma Ke

Synopsis: Having previously explored the art of Liu Xiao-dong in his 2006 documentary Dong, filmmaker Jia Zhang Ke turns his lens on the Chinese fashion industry in order to explore the toll that time and money have taken on creativity to offer a compassionate look at the world's largest exporter of Read More

2007
Ten Years

Actors: Zhao Tao, Tian Yuan, Liang Jing-dong

2007
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