Gong Li

Gong Li

Born: December 31, 1965
in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China
Gong Li is a Chinese-born Singaporean film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States.

She has twice been awarded the Golden Rooster and the Hundred Flowers Awards as well as the Berlinale Camera, Cannes Festival Trophy, National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Award, and Volpi Cup.

She married Singaporean businessman Ooi Hoe Soeng in 1996, and became a Singaporean citizen in 2008.

Movies for Gong Li...

Saturday Fiction
Title: Saturday Fiction
Character: Yu Jin
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave danger.
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One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
Title: One-Tenth of a Millimeter Apart
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Tracing the beginnings of Jet Tone Films, which was founded in 1991 by Wong Kar Wai for the production of Ashes of Time (1994), the film features never-before-seen materials, including deleted scenes, behind-the-scene footage, and selected narration by Wong Kar Wai.
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Leap
Title: Leap
Character: Lang Ping
Released: September 25, 2020
Type: Movie
After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.
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Mulan
Title: Mulan
Character: Xian Niang
Released: September 4, 2020
Type: Movie
When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve in the Imperial Chinese Army to defend the country from Huns, Hua Mulan, the eldest daughter of an honored warrior, steps in to take the place of her ailing father. She is spirited, determined and quick on her feet. Disguised as a man by the name of Hua Jun, she is tested every step of the way and must harness her innermost strength and embrace her true potential.
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The Hand
Title: The Hand
Character: Miss Hua
Released: April 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Hong Kong, 1960s. Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he will truly remember her when designing her garments. After this intimate first encounter, a rapport develops between the two. Entry is for the theatrically released extended version, not the segment from the Eros anthology.
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The Monkey King 2
Title: The Monkey King 2
Character: Lady White
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world!
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Coming Home
Title: Coming Home
Character: Feng Wanyu
Released: May 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
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What Women Want
Title: What Women Want
Character: Li Yilong
Released: February 3, 2011
Type: Movie
After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
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Shanghai
Title: Shanghai
Character: Anna Lan-Ting
Released: June 10, 2010
Type: Movie
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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Hannibal Rising
Title: Hannibal Rising
Character: Lady Murasaki
Released: February 6, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a med student he hones his appetite for the kill.
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Curse of the Golden Flower
Title: Curse of the Golden Flower
Character: Empress Phoenix
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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Miami Vice
Title: Miami Vice
Character: Isabella
Released: July 27, 2006
Type: Movie
A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Title: Memoirs of a Geisha
Character: Hatsumomo
Released: December 6, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Eros
Title: Eros
Character: Miss Hua
Released: December 3, 2004
Type: Movie
A three-part anthology film about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
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2046
Title: 2046
Character: Su Li-Zhen
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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Zhou Yu's Train
Title: Zhou Yu's Train
Character: Zhou Yu / Xiu
Released: August 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.
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Title: 黃香蓮歌仔戲之唐伯虎點秋香
Character: 秋香
Released: June 6, 2000
Type: TV
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Breaking the Silence
Title: Breaking the Silence
Character: Sun Liying
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Gong Li stars in this low-key drama about a single mother who will do anything to provide for her son. Sun Liying (Li) struggles to care for her hearing-impaired child Zheng Da (Gao Xin) after her taxi driver husband divorces her. After Zheng Da gets his hearing aid smashed in a fight with classmates, Sun Liying sets out to raise 5,000 yuan (a small fortune) to buy him a replacement. A friend helps her set up an unauthorized bookstall, which soon gets raided by the police. Later she splits her time delivering newspapers and cleaning house for a rich businessman. This film was screened at the 2000 Berlin Film Festival.
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The Emperor and the Assassin
Title: The Emperor and the Assassin
Character: Lady Zhao
Released: October 8, 1998
Type: Movie
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.
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Chinese Box
Title: Chinese Box
Character: Vivian
Released: November 14, 1997
Type: Movie
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
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Temptress Moon
Title: Temptress Moon
Character: Pang Ruyi
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
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Shanghai Triad
Title: Shanghai Triad
Character: Bijou / Xiao Jinbao
Released: September 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.
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西楚霸王II 楚漢爭霸
Title: 西楚霸王II 楚漢爭霸
Released: June 9, 1994
Type: Movie
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The Great Conqueror's Concubine
Title: The Great Conqueror's Concubine
Character: Lu Zhi
Released: June 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Insurrection deposes the tyrannical first emperor of China during the evil Qin Dynasty. Warrior/general Xiang Yu and the cunning peasant Liu Pang join forces to win through civil war. Xiang Yu's weakness for Lady Yu combine with Liu Pang's treachery result in Liu founding the legendary Han dynasty
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To Live
Title: To Live
Character: Xu Jiazhen
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work.
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A Soul Haunted by Painting
Title: A Soul Haunted by Painting
Character: Pan Yuliang
Released: March 12, 1994
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Yu-liang leaves a brothel in a small Chinese town, to become the second wife of Mr. Pan. While Pan is away at the revolution in Yunnan, Yu-liang learns to paint and takes art classes at the Shanghai Art Institute, until it is closed for painting nudes. Because she cannot bear him a son, Yu-liang leaves Pan to his first wife, and studies art in Paris, where she wins an award for a nude self-portrait. She returns to join Pan in Nanking in the 1930's, and becomes a Professor until it is discovered that she came from a brothel. She returns to Paris to live the rest of her life there, and finally gains a major exhibition of her work.
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The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
Title: The Maidens of Heavenly Mountains
Character: Mou Hang-wan
Released: March 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Legend has it that in a faraway place beyond the edge of the earth, there exists a broken-hearted man with infinite power. Abandoned by his loved ones, the inheritance of the old man's chi power becomes a battleground for evil outsiders.
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Flirting Scholar
Title: Flirting Scholar
Character: Chou Heung
Released: July 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.
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Farewell My Concubine
Title: Farewell My Concubine
Character: Juxian
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his prostitute mother in 1920, Douzi was raised by a theater troupe. There he meets Shitou and over the following years the two develop an act entitled "Farewell My Concubine" that brings them fame and fortune. When Shitou marries Juxian, Douzi becomes jealous, the beginnings of the acting duo's explosive breakup and tragic fall take root.
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Mary from Beijing
Title: Mary from Beijing
Character: Mary
Released: December 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Ma Lei which sounds like "Mary" is a Chinese citizen, living in Hong Kong as the kept woman of a jeweler. She wishes for two things: to get her Hong Kong Identity Card, which will enable her to get work as a legal immigrant; and to marry her boyfriend.
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The Story of Qiu Ju
Title: The Story of Qiu Ju
Character: Qiu Ju
Released: September 7, 1992
Type: Movie
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
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Raise the Red Lantern
Title: Raise the Red Lantern
Character: Song Lian
Released: December 18, 1991
Type: Movie
In 1920s China, a nineteen year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family and compete with his three wives for his attention, slowly uncovering the dark truths that lie within their gilded cage.
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The Banquet
Title: The Banquet
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 1991
Type: Movie
Developer Tsang Siu-Chi and his agent have bought two of a group of four properties. Rival developer, Boss Hung has secured the other two properties. Both aim to buy all four so they can knock them down and build hotels.
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God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
Title: God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai
Character: Yu San / Yu Mong
Released: August 21, 1991
Type: Movie
While battling a psychic gambler, Sing hurtles back in time to 1937 Shanghai. Now he must come to grips with his family history and get back to 1991.
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Ju Dou
Title: Ju Dou
Character: Ju Dou
Released: April 21, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.
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A Terra-Cotta Warrior
Title: A Terra-Cotta Warrior
Character: Dong Er/ Zhu Lili
Released: December 18, 1989
Type: Movie
China 3000 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned. This is the time Mong Tiang Fong and court lady Twon fall deeply in love. Such a thing is not tolerated at the court and when their relationship is discovered both are sentenced to death. In the meantime the alchemists have discovered the formula of immortality, but decide to destroy their work. However Twon gets possession of one immortality pill which she manages to give to Tiang Fong before he's made a terracotta warrior too. China 1930. While on location a film crew discovers parts of the grave of emperor Qin guarded by the terracotta warriors. Tiang Fong, being immortal, awakes...
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Code Name: Cougar
Title: Code Name: Cougar
Character: Ah Li
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army Front. Chinese authorities cannot seize the plane because of the presence of an important business figure on board, but agree to cooperate with Taiwanese authorities to defuse the tense situation.
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The Empress Dowager
Title: The Empress Dowager
Character: Guilian
Released: March 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Han Hsiang Li's lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of Emperor Xianfeng's many concubines to become the de facto ruler of China for nearly 50 years.
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Red Sorghum
Title: Red Sorghum
Character: Jiu'er
Released: October 10, 1988
Type: Movie
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.