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The Emperor and the Assassin review by A customer from Bradford

Slow but beautiful 20 September 2003
...Chen Kaige gives us magnificent depth of atmosphere. Yes, it's a 'period piece', but Chen's artistic use of imagery makes it something more. The actors often behave like ... Read customer review

Chen Kaige - filmography

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot (2008)
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
Zubin Mehta leads the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in this production of Puccini's final opera staged at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in May, 2008. This visually spectacular production from Chinese film director Chen Kaige features performances from Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia ..read more »

70% from 23 members
Not available for rental

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot - Blu-ray (2008)
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
Zubin Mehta leads the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in this production of Puccini's final opera staged at Valencia's Palau de les Arts in May, 2008. This visually spectacular production from Chinese film director Chen Kaige features performances from Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia ..read more »

46% from 8 members
Not available for rental

The Promise (2005)
Starring: Ye Liu, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
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Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

57% from 224 members

The Promise on DVD (2005)
Starring: Ye Liu, Hiroyuki Sanada, Dong-Kun Jang
Director: Chen Kaige
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Empowered by the love of a slave (Jang), a royal concubine (Cheung) is given the chance to make an extraordinary decision.

62% from 508 members

Killing Me Softly on DVD (2002)
Starring: Natascha McElhone, Joseph Fiennes, Heather Graham
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
An erotic thriller starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. Alice (Graham) bumps into famous mountaineer Adam (Fiennes) on a street in London and within days is engaged to him. Adam's apparent only skeleton in his closet is that his previous girlfriend died whilst climbing with him. However, ..read more »

51% from 3,031 members

Together With You on DVD (2002)
Starring: Chen Hong, Tang Yun, Peiqi Liu
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
Xiaochun has been playing the violin ever since was able to hold it. Now, a prodigy at 13, with several awards to his name, he is the pride and joy of his father, a chef who has put all of his hopes on his son's success. Father and son set out for Beijing, where the boy will further his studies. ..read more »

72% from 989 members

The Emperor and the Assassin on DVD (1999)
Starring: Xiaohe Lu, Fengyi Zhang, Zhiwen Wang
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
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3rd century ruler Ying Zheng has a vision of bringing the seven Chinese kingdoms under his leadership. To achieve this he sends his concubine Zhao (Gong Li) to spy on the neighbouring Jan kingdom, and to recruit an assassin who will help him fulfil his ambitions. Zhao finds the man for the job in ..read more »

59% from 1,610 member

Temptress Moon (1996)
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Gong Li, Kevin Lin
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
A seductive new film so provocative it was banned in its own country.

56% from 48 members
Currently unavailable

Farewell My Concubine (1993)
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
The story of two men, who met as apprentices in the Peking Opera, and stayed friends for over 50 years.

76% from 1,007 member
Currently unavailable

Life On A String (1991)
Starring: Zhongyuan Liu, Lei Huang, Qing Xu
Director: Chen Kaige
Certificate:
Chen Kaige's LIFE ON A STRING, based on a story by Tiesheng Shi, tells the tale of an old blind musician who, when he was a young boy, was told that he would be cured of his affliction after he broke 1000 strings on his instrument. The old master (Liu Zhongyuan) has become a grizzled, saintly ..read more »

65% from 20 members
Currently unavailable

Chen Kaige facts

5 most recent films

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot - 3.5 stars
Giacomo Puccini - Turandot - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
The Promise - 3.0 stars
The Promise - 3.0 stars
Killing Me Softly - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Farewell My Concubine - 4.0 stars
Together With You - 3.5 stars
The Promise - 3.0 stars
The Emperor and the Assassin - 3.0 stars
The Promise - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Giacomo Puccini - Turandot - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Life On A String - 3.0 stars
Giacomo Puccini - Turandot - 3.5 stars
Killing Me Softly - 2.5 stars
Temptress Moon - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gong Li - 5 times - show films
Fengyi Zhang - 4 times - show films
Cecilia Cheung - 3 times - show films
Zhiwen Wang - 3 times - show films
Cheng Qian - 3 times - show films

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