11 Movies Starring Wei Zhao

East Palace West Palace

East Palace West Palace

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1998-07-24

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China

Runtime:

90 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (730 Reviews)

Director:

Yuan Zhang

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Wang Xiaobo

Yuan Zhang

Fullplot:

In China, homosexuality isn't illegal, but homosexuals are routinely persecuted by police and arrested for "hooliganism". The film focuses on a young gay writer A-Lan who, being attracted to a young policeman, manages to have himself interrogated for a whole night. His life-story which he tells during the interrogation reflects the general repression of the Chinese society. The policeman's attitude shifts from the initial revulsion to fascination and, finally, to attraction.

Shaolin Soccer

Shaolin Soccer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-07-12

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong, China

Runtime:

87 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (51791 Reviews)

Director:

Stephen Chow

Cast:

Writer:

Stephen Chow

Kan-Cheung Tsang

Min Hun Fung

Chi Keung Fung

Marc Handler (dubbed version)

Wei Lu

Fullplot:

After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist.

So Close

So Close

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-09-12

Languages:

Mandarin, Cantonese, English

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

111 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (6209 Reviews)

Director:

Corey Yuen

Fullplot:

The brothers Chow Nunn and Chow Lui's giant computer company is facing a tense crisis - a powerful computer virus is rapidly wiping out their computer network. At the last minute a cyber-friend arrives to join the battle. The mysterious 'Angel.com' battles the virus and saves the company. Invited by Chow Lui for a visit in person, Angel.com arrives in the form of the beautiful Lynn. But it turns out Lynn is a professional assassin with amazing high-tech and kung fu skills. She kills Chow Lui with cyanide hidden in a pair of sunglasses. She's aided by her sister Sue, who operates the pair's World Panorama surveillance system, which allows them to tap into any video security system in the world. Young cop Kong Yat Hong and her partner Mark are put on the case. Hong has a brilliant mind and immediately senses she's dealing with a killer with very special skills. Realizing they are facing a tough adversary, Lynn and Sue become fascinated with Hong as well. Lynn runs into Yan, the cousin of an old friend who died. Lynn and Yan shared an unspoken love in the past which is now rekindled in the open, and Lynn begins to question whether she wants to continue to be an assassin. Chow Nunn was behind his older brother's death. He hired Angel.com to kill Lui because Lui opposed Nunn's business plans, and also because Nunn is carrying on a secret affair with Lui's wife. But when Hong's investigation starts to point to Nunn, Nunn becomes worried and decides to hire Angel.com for another hit ^è only so he can double-cross them, wipe them out and prevent them from leading the police back to him. Yan tells Lynn he loves her and wants to marry her. After battling an attack by robbers with her amazing martial arts skills, she tells Yan her family's history. Her father invented the World Panorama for use by the authorities, but was turned down. Suspiciously, word of the device got out to the underworld and both parents were brutally killed in front of the girls' eyes by criminals eager to get their hands on the invention. Bereft at the loss of their parents and disillusioned with the law, the sisters turned professional assassins, killing criminals for other criminals. Lynn tells Sue she wants to stop their criminal life and get married ^è she won't accept Chow Nunn's order for the second killing. But Sue, angry and feeling abandoned by Lynn, decides to carry out the killing herself. Lynn realizes what's happening and rushes to save Sue, who doesn't have the skills to carry out the hit. They are attacked by Chow's men but escape. Now the assassin and the cop must join forces - so Sue can avenge her sister's death and Hong can prove her innocence in a spectacular confrontation at Chow Nunn's headquarters...

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Chinese Odyssey 2002

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-02-06

Languages:

Cantonese, Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong

Runtime:

97 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1927 Reviews)

Director:

Jeffrey Lau

Cast:

Writer:

Jeffrey Lau (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In Ming Dynasty China, two pairs of siblings are destined for each other. But fate throws countless obstacles in the path of their happiness. One pair is high-born: the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang, both confined to the Imperial Palace and very much under the thumb of their mother, the Empress Dowager. The other pair is decidedly lowborn: the wanderer Li Yilong (known as King Bully for the way he terrorized the town of Meilong in his youth) and his sister Phoenix, who still runs a restaurant in Meilong. When both the young Emperor and his sister Wushuang contrive to leave the Palace and head south, they meet the loves of their lives in Meilong. But Wushuang has disguised herself as a man, and the Emperor is incognito. Numerous confusions, complications and misunderstandings ensue: genders and gender-roles are reversed, class differences prove hard to negotiate and identities and egos block the promptings of desire. It takes the interventions of a goddess to get everyone back on the right road. But it may be already too late to heal the wounds of disappointment and separation.

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

Warriors of Heaven and Earth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-09-23

Languages:

Mandarin, Japanese

Countries:

China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (3704 Reviews)

Director:

Ping He

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Epcar (dubbed version)

Ping He

Rui Zhang

Fullplot:

North of the vast 8th century Tang dynasty Chinese empire, the commercially and culturally priceless silk route is controlled by 36 friendly Buddhist kingdoms. Their are threatened by Turkic nomad tribes, the caravans also by brigand bands. Japanese scholar Lai Qimay not return home until the emperor is satisfied with his missions to retrieve refugees from the barren border lands. The last is competent imperial lieutenant Li, who was proscribed for refusing to execute Turkic prisoners. He now lives among fellow warriors for hire as caravan escorts. Lai Qi and Li reach a gentleman's agreement to postpone their lethal duel till after the safe arrival of a caravan including a young Buddhist monk and his mysterious freight. When Turkic warlord Khan's daughter's hand seals an alliance with brigand sword master An, the only way out is trough the grimly dry Gobi desert.

Green Tea

Green Tea

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2003-08-18

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (620 Reviews)

Director:

Yuan Zhang

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Danian Tang

Yuan Zhang

Fullplot:

Painted Skin

Painted Skin

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-09-25

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

Singapore, China, Hong Kong

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (3202 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ho Leung Lau (screenplay)

Abe Kwong (screenplay)

Gordon Chan (screenplay)

Songling Pu (novel)

Fullplot:

Where there is trouble, there is solution. This time, the troubles comes from two myth spirits that take the form of a human. Disguise in human skin and clothes, the two continues to take the heart of human to stay alive and young. But one of them leads to the wrong path and fall in love with a married man. What will happen to the live of this man and his wife after saving the her from the barbarians?

Mulan: Rise of a Warrior

Mulan: Rise of a Warrior

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-11-27

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

USA, China

Runtime:

114 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (3719 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Ting Zhang (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father.

14 Blades

14 Blades

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-08-22

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

Hong Kong, China, Singapore

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (5496 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Lee

Cast:

Writer:

Daniel Lee (screenplay)

Abe Kwong (screenplay)

Tin Shu Mak (screenplay)

Ho Leung Lau (screenplay)

Daniel Lee (original story)

Siu Cheung Chan

Fullplot:

A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent (Donnie Yen) in the emperor's court who is betrayed and then hunted by his colleagues.

Love

Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-02-10

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

Taiwan, China

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (907 Reviews)

Director:

Doze Niu

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Doze Niu (screenplay)

Li-ting Tseng (screenplay)

Wang Qian (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Eight people try to end their loneliness by searching for that one person to love, who can make their life complete.

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

Painted Skin: The Resurrection

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-08-17

Languages:

Mandarin

Countries:

China

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2185 Reviews)

Director:

Wuershan

Fullplot:

An ancient fox spirit embarks on a diabolical quest to become human after escaping an icy prison, and becomes bound to a disfigured princess who seeks the love of a noble guard as her kingdom crumbles in this lavish supernatural epic. Confined to a frozen cell for centuries, malevolent fox spirit Xiaowei (Xun Zhou) regains her freedom and seeks to preserve her beauty by seducing men and consuming their hearts. Should a man offer her his heart willingly, Xiaowei will become mortal, breaking free of the underworld and experiencing living among the living. Meanwhile, as a dark cloud falls over her kingdom, Princess Jing (Wei Zhao) flees, hiding her deep facial scars under a mask of pure gold while seeking the love of her former protector, who remains haunted by his failure to save her years prior. When destiny brings Xiaowei and Princess Jing together, the battle for the princess' heart begins.

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