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Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. In the West, Zhang is best known for her appearances in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and... more

Zhang Ziyi (Chinese: 章子怡; born 9 February 1979) is a Chinese actress. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later achieved fame for her role in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards.

In the West, Zhang is best known for her appearances in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), 2046 (2004) and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded actress for a single film.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
(2000)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Ang Lee
Cast:
Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen
7.8
97%
94
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Hero
(2002)
Action, Adventure, Drama, History
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Zhang Yimou
Cast:
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Chen Daoming
7.9
N/A
85
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Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005)
Drama, History, Romance
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Runtime:
146 min
Director:
Rob Marshall
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, Youki Kudoh, Tsai Chin, Ken Watanabe
7.4
35%
54
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House of Flying Daggers
(2004)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Zhang Yimou
Cast:
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Song Dandan, Andy Lau, Zhao Hongfei
7.5
87%
89
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2046
(2004)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Wong Kar-wai
Cast:
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Zhang Ziyi, Faye Wong, Takuya Kimura, Gong Li
7.4
86%
78
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Rush Hour 2
(2001)
Action, Comedy, Crime
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot. ...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Brett Ratner
Cast:
Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi, Roselyn Sánchez, Ernie Reyes, Jr.
6.6
52%
48
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Godzilla vs. Kong
(2021)
Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
Runtime:
114 min
Cast:
Millie Bobby Brown, Alexander Skarsgård, Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Julian Dennison
6.3
75%
59
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
(2019)
Action, Science Fiction
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vi...
Runtime:
132 min
Director:
Gareth Edwards
Cast:
Vera Farmiga, Kyle Chandler, Kyle Chandler, Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins
6.0
43%
48
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TMNT
(2007)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Kevin Munroe
Cast:
Chris Evans, Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Kevin Smith
6.2
34%
41
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The Road Home
(1999)
Drama, Romance
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Zhang Yimou
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Zheng Hao, Yulian Zhao, Sun Honglei, Bin Li
7.8
89%
71
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The Grandmaster
(2013)
Action, Drama, History
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses th...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Wong Kar-wai
Cast:
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Zhang Ziyi, Song Hye-kyo, Chang Chen, Zhao Benshan
6.5
78%
73
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The Cloverfield Paradox
(2018)
Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Runtime:
102 min
Cast:
Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Chris O'Dowd, David Oyelowo, John Ortiz
5.5
19%
37
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The Warrior
(2001)
Action, Drama, History
In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.
Runtime:
155 min
Director:
Kim Sung-soo
Cast:
Jung Woo-sung, Ahn Sung-ki, Joo Jin-mo, Park Yong-woo, Park Yong-woo
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Horsemen
(2009)
Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Jonas Åkerlund
Cast:
Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr., Barry Shabaka Henley
5.6
33%
N/A
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The Banquet
(2006)
Action, Drama, Fantasy, History
In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan, but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile, studying dance and music. His uncle murders his father, taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes deat...
Runtime:
131 min
Director:
Feng Xiaogang
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Ma Jingwu
6.4
42%
N/A
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Forever Enthralled
(2008)
Drama, History, Romance
A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Runtime:
147 min
Director:
Chen Kaige
Cast:
Leon Lai Ming, Zhang Ziyi, Sun Hong-Lei, Hong Chen, Bin Li
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Zu Warriors
(2001)
Action, Fantasy
King Sky, the sole disciple of the Kun Lun Sect, falls in love with his master Dawn. Dawn is killed when Insomnia destroys the Kin Lun Mountain. King Sky waits for two hundred years and meets Enigma, who is the reincarnation of Dawn, and in love with her again. However, Insomnia's Blood Clouds is ready to destroy Zu...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Tsui Hark
Cast:
Ekin Cheng, Cecilia Cheung, Louis Koo, Patrick Tam, Kelly Lin
5.2
20%
N/A
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Dangerous Liaisons
(2012)
Drama, Romance
Dangerous Liaisons is a Chinese film by Hur Jin-ho based on the novel with the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Hur Jin-Ho
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-gun, Shawn Dou, Lisa Lu
5.9
71%
59
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The Founding of a Republic
(2009)
Drama, History
The Founding of a Republic is a Chinese historical film commissioned by China's film regulator and made by the state-owned China Film Group (CFG) to mark the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. The film retells the tale of the Communist ascendancy and triumph.
Runtime:
138 min
Director:
Huang Jianxin, Han Sanping
Cast:
唐国强, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Zhang Guoli, Andy Lau
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Sophie's Revenge
(2009)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's. The two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two bes...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Eva Jin
Cast:
Peter Ho, Zhang Ziyi, Fan Bingbing, So Ji-sub, Peter Ho
5.9
N/A
N/A
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My Wife Is A Gangster 2
(2003)
Action, Comedy
Former Scissor Gang leader Eun-jin (Shin Eun-kyung), who now suffers from amnesia, nevertheless defends Jae-cheol (Jun Gyu Park), a restaurateur who employs her, from a gangster who wants his business.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Chung Hung-soon
Cast:
Shin Eun-kyung, Park Jun-gyu, Jang Se-jin, Joo Hyun, Hong Soo-a
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Purple Butterfly
(2003)
Drama, History, War
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover... and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Runtime:
127 min
Director:
Lou Ye
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Toru Nakamura, Li Bingbing, Feng Yuanzheng, Kin Ei
6.0
45%
68
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Jasmine Women
(2004)
Drama, Family, Romance
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Hou Yong
Cast:
Joan Chen, Jiang Wen, Lu Yi, Liu Ye, Zhang Ziyi
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The Crossing
(2014)
Drama
During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, three couples flee from China to an island of Taiwan.
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
John Woo
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Song Hye-kyo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Huang Xiaoming, Masami Nagasawa
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Princess Raccoon
(2005)
Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Seijun Suzuki
Cast:
Joe Odagiri, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Mikijiro Hira, Federico Aletta, Zhang Ziyi
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Love for Life
(2011)
Drama, Romance
Set in a small Chinese village where HIV virus is spreading rapidly as a result of illicit blood trade, Mo shu wai zhuan revolves around De Yi and Qinqin are both estranged from their respective family because of their disease and unexpectedly find love with each other by their misfortunes.
Runtime:
101 min
6.4
N/A
N/A
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Magic
(2014)
Music video for the song, "Magic," by Coldplay, an award winning British band.
Runtime:
5 min
7.4
N/A
N/A
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My Lucky Star
(2013)
Comedy, Romance
My Lucky Star is a 2013 Chinese romance film directed by Dennie Gordon and starring Zhang Ziyi and Leehom Wang. The film also serves as a prequel to the 2009 film Sophie's Revenge.
Runtime:
114 min
5.2
50%
33
Cause: The Birth of Hero
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Cause: The Birth of Hero
(2002)
Documentary
The movie follows director Zhang Yimou as he is preparing to make the movie Hero.
Runtime:
165 min
Director:
Gan Lu
Cast:
Jet Li, Zhang Yimou, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen
6.6
N/A
N/A
Together
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Together
(2010)
Documentary
Zhao Liang’s film portrays AIDS sufferers of both genders; they are all people with very different biographies. As if it wasn’t bad enough being infected by HIV, their suffering is compounded by the fact that in the People’s Republic of China the disease is hushed up and people living with AIDS are ostracised. In China, the public at l...
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Liang Zhao
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, 郭富城, Gu Changwei
7.5
N/A
N/A
Touching Starlight
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Touching Starlight
(1996)
Touching Starlight is a true story about a young girl, Chen Wei, an aspiring dancer whose hopes and dreams for the future are dashed when her leg is amputated due to cancer. To encourage others to overcome their handicaps and to live successful and productive lives, Chen Wei starts a local radio talk program, "Starlight," which also wo...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Sun Wenxue
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi
4.9
N/A
N/A
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Forever Young
(2018)
Drama, Romance, War
From World War, to revolution and ultimately rebirth, Forever Young is the story of four generations spanning a hundred years of modern Chinese history. Each generation faces its own unique set of challenges. Up against corporate corruption, the trials and tribulations of the cultural revolution, and one's duty to nation in time of war...
Runtime:
138 min
Director:
Fangfang Li
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, Leehom Wang, Chang Chen, Chusheng Chen
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Run for Love
(2016)
Drama, Romance
Run for Love is a Chinese romance anthology film featuring five love stories respectively in Japan, United States, Norway, Turkey and Saipan.
Runtime:
137 min
Director:
Hua-Tao Teng, Gao Qunshu, Guan Hu, Zhang Meng, Zhang Yibai
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Eddie Peng, Tong Liya, Zhou Dong Yu, Michelle Chen
4.3
N/A
N/A
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太平轮 2 - 彼岸
Cast:
Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Ziyi, Song Hye-kyo
N/A
N/A
N/A
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All About Faces
(2017)
Short film presented by Vogue Film.
Runtime:
2 min
Director:
Kurt Iswarienko
Cast:
Zhang Ziyi, Zhang Ziyi
N/A
N/A
N/A