Liu Ye

Liu Ye

Born: March 23, 1978
in Jilin, China
Liu Ye (Chinese: 刘烨; pinyin: Líu Yè, born March 23, 1978 in Jilin, China) is a Chinese film and television actor.

Beginning his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a young postman in his first movie, Postmen in the Mountains, at China's Golden Rooster Awards in 1999. Shortly after his graduation, Liu Ye won Best Actor at Taiwan’s 38th Golden Horse Awards for his performance as a young gay man in the movie Lan Yu . Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in the movie The Foliage at the 24th Golden Rooster Awards. In addition, several of Liu Ye’s movies have also featured in many international film festivals, for example Lan Yu, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Purple Butterfly and The Floating Landscape.

Instead of making use of his good physical appearance to become a teen idol, Liu Ye has chosen the path of continuously challenging himself by taking on difficult roles. From simple, honest, and down-to-earth "peasant-like" roles, introvert and melancholic personas, to manly and Casanova roles, Liu Ye has not only convinced the audience, but also well-established international directors, of his remarkable acting skills. He has been openly praised and roped in by famous directors, such as Stanley Kwan (Lan Yu), Chen Kaige (The Promise), Zhang Yimou (Curse of the Golden Flower) and John Woo (Blood Brothers), to take part in their major movie productions.

Liu Ye's first Hollywood movie Dark Matter, inspired by a true story in the early 1990s, was screened at major international film festivals in 2007. Starring with actress Meryl Streep, Liu Ye stars as the brilliant physics postgraduate "Liu Xing" from China. This movie won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and has been released in America in April 2008. Ye's first villainous role was in 2008 film Connected (where he appears a lot older than he is now), a remake of the American film Cellular.

Liu Ye plays the lead character in City of Life and Death, a movie paying tribute to the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Directed by 6th Generation Mainland Director Lu Chuan, City of Life and Death, filmed in Tianjin and in other Chinese cities such as Changchun, was released in 2009.

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Movies for Liu Ye...

Moon le Panda
Title: Moon le Panda
Released: April 9, 2025
Type: Movie
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抗战中的文艺
Title: 抗战中的文艺
Released: April 19, 2024
Type: Movie
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Title: 我是大美人
Character: 刘烨
Released: December 24, 2023
Type: TV
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Manifesto
Title: Manifesto
Released: March 24, 2023
Type: Movie
Chen Wangdao returns from his studies in Japan and takes on the task of translating the Communist Manifesto, which changes the course of his life.
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Steel Will
Title: Steel Will
Character: Zhao Tiechi
Released: September 30, 2022
Type: Movie
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The EOD Squad
Title: The EOD Squad
Character: Lu Yang
Released: July 30, 2022
Type: Movie
  Told a special force in the armed police force - detonators, in a life-and-death battle with drug traffickers at the border, while in the "silent battlefield" and the heroic race against time ......
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Island Keeper
Title: Island Keeper
Character: Wang Jicai
Released: June 18, 2021
Type: Movie
Wang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border for 32 years.
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2020湖南卫视拼多多双十二超拼夜
Title: 2020湖南卫视拼多多双十二超拼夜
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: Movie
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Title: The Great Wall
Released: January 4, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: China in the Story
Released: October 13, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: On the Road
Character: Yao Yuan
Released: September 22, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: National Treasure’s Extraordinary Journey
Character: Ren Hong Yi
Released: February 6, 2019
Type: TV
A story about a group of intellectuals on a mission to protect priceless treasures in order to preserve their national heritage. After the Mukden Incident on September 18, 1931, North China was pushed to a desperate situation. Ren Hong Yi, a Kuomintang military officer, and Zhou Ruo Si who works at the cultural section of the Forbidden City are given the task of safely transporting national treasures further South to ensure that they do not fall into the wrong hands. No matter the challenges they face, they hold on to the belief that as long as its cultural roots remain, China will not fall. (Source: ChineseDrama.info)
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Air Strike
Title: Air Strike
Character: Xue Gangtou
Released: October 26, 2018
Type: Movie
An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
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Title: Old Boy
Character: Wu Zheng
Released: March 4, 2018
Type: TV
Old Boy revolves around Wu Zheng, a pilot with a high-flying job and enviable good looks. He is more than capable of taking responsibility for the lives of countless passengers but outside of work, he is tameless and free spirited and basically a child at heart. His son named Xiao Han turns up out of the blue followed by teacher Lin Xiao Ou who’s more than eager to help out. Needless to say,their arrival shakes up the life of a jet setter especially since Pilot and Teacher had met once before, when they were abroad, and it wasn’t pretty
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The Founding of an Army
Title: The Founding of an Army
Character: Mao Zedong
Released: August 1, 2017
Type: Movie
The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
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Title: 我们的挑战
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2016
Type: TV
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Title: Bite Me!
Character: himself
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: TV
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Cock and Bull
Title: Cock and Bull
Character: Song Lao'er
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: Movie
When a murder occurs in a small town in Southeast China, a local mechanic, known for his honesty, comes under suspicion. When the police target him to take the fall, he’s forced to try and exonerate himself, uncovering a number of disturbing facts, most much bigger than the initial crime.
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My War
Title: My War
Character: Sun Bei Chuan
Released: September 15, 2016
Type: Movie
Historical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US where they experienced life and death and established profound revolutionary feelings.
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Night Peacock
Title: Night Peacock
Character: Ma Jianmin
Released: May 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Liu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is compared to the one of a night peacock, an eternal conflict between life and death, love and time. A night peacock, by Fabre’s definition, is a moth with the life goal of finding their soul mate.
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Saving Mr. Wu
Title: Saving Mr. Wu
Character: Xing Feng
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Mr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly form a task force and begin the search, ignoring that detectives in charge have only twenty hours before the deadline.
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Title: Love & Sword
Released: April 12, 2015
Type: TV
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Beijing, New York
Title: Beijing, New York
Character: Lenny
Released: March 6, 2015
Type: Movie
BEIJING, NEW YORK is a touching and complex love story that bridges time, distance and culture, intertwining the lives of two Chinese childhood friends and an American artist. It is set against the backdrop of economic power shift between China and America. As the film's complex love triangle takes the audience on a wild ride, interweaving its way through the plot and each character's unique existence, it ultimately forces each of them to face life's eternal questions head-on. BEIJING, NEW YORK is a truthful and thrilling look into the journey to find true happiness and the joy, pain and adventure that ensues when one is forced to integrate their dreams into reality.
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The Boundary
Title: The Boundary
Released: November 6, 2014
Type: Movie
The story starts from pile murder, murderer exactly ten years ago, a woman was shot dead by police. A decade ago, it has not found an important clue surfaced, what old things associated with the murder a decade ago after a decade of existence in the end? All this seems to be back to square one again. Liu Ye plays Justin was forced to intervene series of investigations, throws a period spanning 10 years of disputes, he played with Chiu ??? what will happen to the story, the same two men who have lost a loved one, the final showdown, behind, relating to a shocking secret, life and death, love and hate, good and evil, black and white, good and evil, truth and lies a major reversal in
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Title: All Quiet in Peking
Character: 方孟敖
Released: October 6, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: 花样爷爷
Released: June 15, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Red Channel
Released: May 18, 2014
Type: TV
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Police Story: Lockdown
Title: Police Story: Lockdown
Character: Wu Jiang
Released: December 24, 2013
Type: Movie
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
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Title: Where Are We Going, Dad?
Released: October 11, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Troubled Times Three Brothers
Released: July 1, 2013
Type: TV
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Redemption
Title: Redemption
Character: Xiao Likun
Released: June 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Xiao Likun, handsome, sensitive, is fond of poetry.He has a strong ego, but his butcher family background makes him ashamed. Jiang Yue'e is a kinder-garden music teacher, sexy , craving for romance. They meet across, get a crush for each other and get a marriage very soon. However, this happy marriage buries a tragic seed. The conflict due to their different social backgrounds and status intensifies. Unsurprisingly, they get a divorce and Xiao loses everything but the guardianship for his son, Xiao Lei. He revenges Jiang by hiding their son from her. Eventually, Jiang asks for paternity test on the son, and announces this child doesn't belong to Xiao biologically. Xiao is overwhelmed. He wants to revenge Jiang by killing her on his won...
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The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
Title: The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
Character: The Chef
Released: March 29, 2013
Type: Movie
World War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese intelligence agents kidnap a Japanese general and biochemist who may hold the antidote.
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Happy Hotel
Title: Happy Hotel
Released: August 2, 2012
Type: Movie
The film is a black comedy about a group of people who try and work their way out of an unfortunate set of circumstances.
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The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Character: Liu Bang
Released: May 7, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
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The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
Title: The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
Character: 托塔李天王
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King. Mythical ancient China. Born from some magic stones that fell to Earth a long time ago when Goddess Nüwa mended the sky, Sun Wukong, aka Monkey King, sets off on his first adventure to gain a worthy weapon. This earns the attention of the Jade Emperor of Heaven.
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Beginning of the Great Revival
Title: Beginning of the Great Revival
Character: Mao Zedong
Released: June 23, 2011
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
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A Beautiful Life
Title: A Beautiful Life
Character: Fang Zhen Dong
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Fang Zhen Dong is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru while singing karaoke at the KTV place. Li Pei Ru is a real estate agent from Hong Kong who has vowed to make her fortune in the cosmoplitan Beijing, but is caught up in the complexities of life and ends up becoming a mistress of a married man.
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Underdog Knight 2
Title: Underdog Knight 2
Character: Lao San / Wang Tao
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Lao San, is a retired Marine veteran who lives in his world of innocence and optimism due to a brain injury. He assumes the role of a dedicated vigilante and fights people whom he considers bad.
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Color Me Love
Title: Color Me Love
Released: October 28, 2010
Type: Movie
The plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor who has to deal with her female boss and boyfriend, an arrogant young painter who has a chaotic past with other girls.
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Title: China's Got Talent
Released: July 25, 2010
Type: TV
China's Got Talent is a Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got Talent franchise, hosted by Cheng Lei. It is a talent show that features all different kinds of performances of all ages competing for performing contract with Fremantle Media and Sony Music Entertainment. The show is a joint production between FremantleMedia, Shanghai Media Group, Radio and TV Shanghai and Syco. On January 17, 2011, DragonTV announced that series 2 of the show has been launched. DragonTV also announced that there will be two series of the show in 2011.
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Driverless
Title: Driverless
Character: Zhi Xiong
Released: July 2, 2010
Type: Movie
Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with several relationship issues, including the infamous seven year itch, reuniting with a first love, one night stands, an old husband with a young wife, and extramarital affairs.
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We'll Meet in Heaven
Title: We'll Meet in Heaven
Released: October 9, 2009
Type: Movie
In China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten years. She is raised by her grandfather. He introduces her to gymnastics where she does her best to fit in with the others.
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The Founding of a Republic
Title: The Founding of a Republic
Character: Old Red Army soldiers
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: Movie
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
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Iron Men
Title: Iron Men
Character: 刘思成
Released: April 23, 2009
Type: Movie
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City of Life and Death
Title: City of Life and Death
Character: Lu Jianxiong
Released: April 22, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
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Title: 一个女人的史诗
Released: January 10, 2009
Type: TV
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The Underdog Knight
Title: The Underdog Knight
Character: Lao San/Wang Tao
Released: November 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
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Connected
Title: Connected
Character: Senior Inspector Fok
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: Movie
A debt collector receives a call from a woman who is kidnapped by an unknown gang. He thinks it is a joke but soon, he realises that it is not a prank.
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Title: 我们生活的年代
Character: 袁浩东
Released: September 24, 2008
Type: TV
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Dark Matter
Title: Dark Matter
Character: Liu Xing
Released: April 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.
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Mini
Title: Mini
Character: Kang
Released: August 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Tenacious and optimistic, Mini (Angelica Lee) is an acrobat at a Shanghai circus troupe. Having lost both her parents at a young age, Mini has never had a real family, and her greatest dream is to find a love that she can rely on, a love that will make her fly. Kang (Liu Ye) works at a music store called Go With the Flow, which just about sums up his aimless lifestyle. Raised in an overly strict family, Kang grew up into a rebellious young man who likes to challenge social norms. These two very different young people meet by chance in the bustle of modern Shanghai, and spark a story of pure love and vertigo as their confused worlds collide.
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Blood Brothers
Title: Blood Brothers
Character: Gang
Released: August 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Three best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai. Upon arriving in the bustling city, the naïve trio gradually find their innocence corrupted as they fall into the deepest depths of the criminal underworld.
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Curse of the Golden Flower
Title: Curse of the Golden Flower
Character: Crown Prince Wan
Released: December 14, 2006
Type: Movie
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
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Title: 向天真女生投降
Character: 披头
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: TV
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Title: 一针见血
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: TV
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The Promise
Title: The Promise
Character: Snow Wolf
Released: December 15, 2005
Type: Movie
An orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In return for beauty and the admiration of every man, she will never be with the man she loves. This spell cannot be broken unless the impossible happens: snow falling in spring and the dead coming back to life. Now a grown and beautiful princess, she regrets her promise, for all of the men she's loved has always been met with tragedy.
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Mob Sister
Title: Mob Sister
Character: Pilot
Released: August 4, 2005
Type: Movie
In the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is there for a defenseless girl? The only exception to the rule is if you earn your respect as 'Ah Sou' - the big boss' wife. Ah Sou tells the extraordinary story of an innocent girl who becomes appointed successor to Hong Kong's ruling triad. This role becomes a double-edged sword for our young heroine, who is sucked into a maelstrom of vicious gang wars, hair-raising assassination attempts and ruthless power struggles and betrayals. Through numerous violent episodes and unexpected reversals, she discovers her own inner strength and re-writes the laws of the triad kingdom.
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Sudden Lover
Title: Sudden Lover
Released: May 19, 2005
Type: Movie
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The Ghost Inside
Title: The Ghost Inside
Character: Fang Cheng
Released: May 6, 2005
Type: Movie
A young mother and runs from her abusive husband with her daughter only to discover that their new apartment may be haunted by the spirit of a woman who suffered a similar fate.
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Title: 荆轲传奇
Released: December 21, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Romantic Life
Character: 钟跃民
Released: November 30, 2004
Type: TV
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Jasmine Women
Title: Jasmine Women
Character: Xia Du
Released: June 13, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: 天和局
Character: 闵华堂
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
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The Floating Landscape
Title: The Floating Landscape
Character: Lit
Released: October 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Maan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease. Before his death, he was remembering a beautiful landscape from the days when he was still a boy living in Qingdao in China. Maan goes to Qingdao to find this landscape. There, she meets Lit (Liu Ye), a postman who will help her to find that place. A relationship grows between Maan and Lit but she can't forget the love she had for Sam.
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Purple Butterfly
Title: Purple Butterfly
Character: Szeto
Released: July 4, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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The Foliage
Title: The Foliage
Released: January 28, 2003
Type: Movie
On her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu meets the equally young and rebellious Si-Mong and the two fall in love. When Xing-Yu's childhood friend and lover Yuan gets into a fight with Si-Mong, Xing-Yu tries to make peace between the two jealous rivals. Her attempts for truce further draw her into a forbidden and passionate relationship instead.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Character: Ma Jianling
Released: May 16, 2002
Type: Movie
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
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Title: How can I rescue my Love
Character: 龙小羽
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
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Sky Lovers
Title: Sky Lovers
Character: Jiakuan
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Flowers
Title: Flowers
Released: December 31, 2001
Type: Movie
Chinese film directed by Mao Xiaorui.
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Lan Yu
Title: Lan Yu
Character: Lan Yu
Released: May 18, 2001
Type: Movie
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
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Female Coach & Male Player
Title: Female Coach & Male Player
Released: August 30, 2000
Type: Movie
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Postmen in the Mountains
Title: Postmen in the Mountains
Character: Son
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden his father has to bear as postman for the villagers, and the old postman is also deeply moved as his son relates his mother's anxiety as she waits for him to return home from every trip.
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A Century's Dream
Title: A Century's Dream
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Story of the Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze River.
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Title: Golden Horse Awards
Character: Self
Released: October 31, 1962
Type: TV
The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a film festival and awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. It was founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The awards ceremony is usually held in November or December in Taipei, although the event has also been held in other locations in Taiwan in recent times
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Tiger Wolf Road
Title: Tiger Wolf Road
Character: 赵子山
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The person who loses their child must become a tiger and a wolf, with a heart as hard as iron. Otherwise, you will destroy it and achieve nothing.