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Crownless Queen Carina
Carina Lau was in the running for Best Actress, at last week's Taiwan Golden Horse Awards. The prize was ultimately snatched by Zhou Xun. But Carina has put in so many excellent performances in her twenty year career, that tops today's The List. 　 |
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Aaron Kwok - More Than An Idol, An Actor
At last Hong Kong's Aaron Kwok, famed as a singer, dancer and great-looking guy, has proved he can act. He won laurels for his portrayal of an angry, negligent father who trains his son as a thief. 　 |
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Shining Gong Li Chimes Louder
Hollywood blockbuster Miami Vice finally made it into the Chinese mainland cinemas yesterday, three months after the film premiered in the United States. |
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Leaving on A Jet Plane
Like Nixon's career at that moment in 1974, Jet Li's film career is near a turning point – or is it? The publicity campaign for Fearless, which came out in early 2006, trumpeted that it would be Li's last martial arts outing. In person, however, Li is less certain. "I have retired from traditional martial arts movies," he says. "I will still make action movies though." |
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Man Behind The Banquet Aspires to Be 'Chinese Warner Bros.'
Twelve years ago, Wang Zhongjun was on his way back to China from America. In his pocket he had his university diploma as well as US$100,000 he had earned working as a part-time cartoon artist and photographer. His heart was swirling with dreams of fame and success. |
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Film Company Shoots for Global Role
In his light blue short-sleeved shirt and dark trousers, the slim and athletic Ren Zhonglun looks more like a university don than a movie producer and the senior executive of an entertainment empire in Shanghai, the nation's most cosmopolitan city. |
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Five Questions for Wang Chao, Director of Luxury Car
After serving as an assistant to Chen Kaige for three years, Wang Chao started independent directing in 2000, debuting with The Orphan of Anyang. |
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Director Wang Haowei
Born in Chongqing in 1940, Wang Haowei is considered to be the leading female director of the so-called Fourth Generation filmmakers of |
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Huang Shuqin
If women hold up half the sky, Huang Shuqin must hold up a good bit of that half – in the cinematic world, at least. Huang says she is interested in illustrating grand themes through ordinary figures and events. |
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Ruan Lingyu-Tragic Goddess
Ruan Lingyu, a silent-film actress still remembered by many, left behind 29 films and the final message, 'gossip can kill,' when she committed suicide in Shanghai on March 8, 1935. |
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Leslie Cheung, Legend of HK Showbiz
Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing is perhaps not as well known as Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat in Hollywood, but he is a legend in Hong Kong, a super star whose color never fades. |
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Xie Fei; The Wise Man of Chinese Cinema
Xie Fei is a name familiar to moviegoers both in China and abroad. The director was born in Yan'an in 1937 and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the 1960s. Today he is a professor at the academy. |
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Director Fredric Mao
Fredric Mao obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in Theater Arts from the University of Iowa, and then launched his acting and directing career with professional theater companies and film and television works in the United States. |
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Director Ma Liwen
Ma Liwen has picked up kudos in recent years for her two low-budget movies, You and Me and The One Who Loved Me Most Has Gone. |
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Ang Lee: Blending East and West
Ang Lee, the director of the much talked-about cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain is one of the biggest winners of the just-released 78th Academy Awards. |
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Silver Bear for HK Music: an Interview with Pang Ho-cheung
If Hong Kongers had reason to be proud with the inclusion of Pang Ho-cheung's Isabella in the official competition at this year's Berlinale, they now have even more reason to celebrate. |
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Yu Nan: from Peking to Paris
Yu Nan is a rare breed of Chinese actress. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1999, her debut performance in Lunar Eclipse (2001) caught the attention of French film producers, who readily cast her in Rage (2003). |
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Jet Li: King of the Kung-Fu Stars
From Shaolin Temple, to the series of Once Upon a Time in China, to the recent Danny the Dog and Fearless, Jet Li is a name closely connected with action movie, kung fu, and wushu (or martial arts). |
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Andrew Lau Wai-keung
Producer and director Andrew Lau Wai-keung started his film career as a cinematographer working on films such as Ringo Lam's City on Fire and Wong Kar-wai As Tears Go By and Chungking Express. |
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Alex Man Chi-leung
Alex Man was born in Hong Kong in 1957. He enrolled in RTV training class and acted in many TV drama & action series. His film debut was Ann Hui's The Secret. |
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Alan Tam Wing-lun
Alan Tam Wing-lun was born in Hong Kong in 1950. Tam's father Tam Kong-pak is a renowned soccer player. Tam became passionate about music in his secondary school years, and formed a band called "Looser" with his friends. |
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Alan Mak
Creative sparks flew when Alan Mak collaborated with Andrew Lau. Both are directors with a visual flair, and their co-directing project, Infernal Affairs (2002), walked away at the Hong Kong Film Awards with seven major prizes. |
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Aaron Kwok Fu-shing
Aaron Kwok was born in Hong Kong in 1965. He enrolled in TVB's dance training course and became a background dancer on TVB in 1984, but later switched to the actors' training course and starred in a few of TV drama series. |
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Danny Pang
Danny Pang is a seasoned film veteran but an emerging director who had quickly established himself as a major filmmaker of Hong Kong.
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Cecilia Cheung
Cecilia Cheung was first handpicked by comedic actor Stephen Chow to appear in his film King of Comedy in 1999. After established herself as a formidable new force in Hong Kong cinema, she made a transition to the music industry. |
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Actor Anthony Wong
As a three-time winner of the prestigious Hong Kong Film Awards, actor Anthony Wong has built himself a solid career in the world of Asian cinema. His unique presence on the big screen makes his roles unforgettable for many moviegoers. |
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Qin Hailu
Qin Hailu, the star of Durian Durian, Loving Him, Chicken Poets, Hidden Heroes, Love Battlefield and The Coldest Day came out with her own album Happiness in May this year.
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One Take Donnie
Martial artist, actor, director and filmmaker Donnie Yen is said to be the "last dragon" to emerge from the fading lineage of the old school Hong Kong martial artists. While the hard-core filming of martial arts films is gone, Yen is just warming up.
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Interview with Miriam Yeung
Miriam Yueng, the star of Dry Wood, Fierce Fire, My Lucky Star, Love Undercover I and II, Sound of Colours and Anna in Kungfu-land, was interviewed by The Malay Mail, in advance of touring in Malaysia this coming April. |
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Debut Director Is as Proud as a Peacock
Peacock is Gu Changwei's big-screen directorial debut and is hailed by many critics as "an epic depicting the inner world of the Chinese." Weeks away from its massive release on the Chinese mainland, the film has attracted intense attention from film circles, the media and the public. |
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Q&A with Director/Actor Chen Daming
After seven years in Hollywood, Chen Daming returned to China in 1997 where he has embarked on a promising career as a director. Chen discusses seeing movies from different points of view with cityweekend. |
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Love Interest Steers Hu's Direction
Beijing-born filmmaker Ann Hu can hardly be faulted for her lack of ambition. For her 2000 directing debut Shadow Magic, she pulled off a major international coproduction. For her comeback, she may have done even better. |
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The Seafarer of the Desert
In young director Lu Chuan's maiden work, The Missing Gun, his realistic style won him wide acclaim and box office success. In his latest film Kekexili, Lu offers something a little different, something reflecting his masculine side. |
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Xu Jinglei Goes from Actress to Director
Actress Xu Jinglei is currently in post-production for her second film Letter from an Unknown Woman which is slated to premiere at the upcoming San Sebastian Film Festival. She took time out to discuss how movies have inspired her. |
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Gong Li to Star in Spielberg's New Film
Gong Li, one of the most acclaimed, popular, and to many, beautiful actresses, will star in Hollywood director Steven Spielberg's new film Memoirs of a Geisha. Gong won her fame in the film Raise the Red Lantern by leading Chinese director Zhang Yimou. |
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Feng Xiaogang Named Asian Star
One of China's most celebrated filmmakers, Feng Xiaogang, has been named as one of the "Asian Stars of 2004" by popular American magazine "Business Week". |
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Tian Zhuangzhuang a Rare Insight Director
In an exclusive interview with eastday.com, director Tian Zhuangzhuang talks about the making of his latest documentary film Delamu. |
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Urban Rustic Zhang Jiarui
Zhang Jiarui is a veteran director of Chinese television movies and dramas. He also was the assistant director of 1988's The Big Thief. When Rouma Was Seventeen is his first feature film as a director. |
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The Quiet Filmmaker
Inspired by the unprecedented box office success of Zhang Yimou's Hero, many Chinese filmmakers are now focusing on commercial epics with superstars. But Huo Jianqi seems to be going in exactly the opposite direction -- telling simple stories about ordinary people. |
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Sylvia Chang: from Actress to Director
Taiwan director Sylvia Chang's latest work, 20,30,40 is the only Chinese entry at this year's Berlin Film Festival. With the film's recent premieres in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Chang has once again taken the spotlight. |
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Stephen Chow Asia's Top Box Office Draw
If you were to ask Western fans of Hong Kong movies who the most popular star in Asia is, names such as Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-Fat would probably come up. However, it is Stephen Chow that is Asia's top box office draw. |
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A Director's New Wings
Li Shaohong was born in 1955. Studied at Beijing Film Academy. After directing several commissioned films as well as documentaries she made her first feature film in 1988. |
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Kung Fu King Bruce Lee
Lee Jun Fan was born November 27, 1940. Since he was born in San Francisco, his parents wanted to also give him an "American" name. It would be this name by which Fan would become known worldwide -- Bruce Lee. The Lee family soon moved back to their native Hong Kong, where the young Bruce began appearing in films. |
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Wong Jing: I Change Vulgarity into Art
One of Hong Kong's most prolific and controversial filmmakers, Wong Jing (sometimes credited as Wong Ching or Wang Jing) was born in 1956 in Hong Kong and got his start in the entertainment industry early, since his father Wong Tin Lam was a TV drama director. |
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Zhang Ziyi: Rising Movie Star
Zhang was raised in Beijing under the aegis of her mother, a retired kindergarten teacher, and her father, an economist. She began her brief six-year stint as a dancer at the age of 11, and although she was able to gain a few awards and win a few contests, it gradually became apparent to her that her future in the field of dancing was not bright. |
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Tony Leung Born to Be An Actor
Tony Leung Chiu-wai has become the most sought-after actor in East Asia. After completing his studies, Tony Leung worked under contract to the television channel TVB. He began by hosting a children's program, then attained popularity by appearing on several television series. |
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Hong Kong Actress Maggie Cheung
Born on September 20, 1964 in Hong Kong. Moved at the age of 8 with her family to England, UK. Upon finishing secondary school she returned to Hong Kong where she began modeling and appearing in commercials. |
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Films of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Since his emergence two decades ago as a director, Hou Hsiao-Hsien has been in the forefront of the New Taiwanese Cinema and contemporary Asian cinema. |
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Kung Fu and the Big Kid
With no mission or set formula, Tsui Hark takes an unorthodox approach to filmmaking. Through many failures, the 52-year-old Tsui has finally distinguished himself as one of China's finest directors. |
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A Trip Through Wang Xiaoshuai's Film World
Film director Wang Xiaoshuai, a graduate of Beijing Film Academy, was born January 1, 1966. From his early work The Days (1993) to his latest Drifters (2003), he has gradually formed a personal cinematic "auteur" style, which is critical, silent and delicate. |
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