Jiang Wen

Jiang Wen

Born: January 5, 1963
in Tangshan,Hebei Province,China
Jiang Wen (born 5 January 1963) is a Chinese film actor, screenwriter, and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "Sixth Generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum (1986), and more recently as Baze Malbus in the Star Wars film Rogue One (2016). He is the older brother of fellow actor Jiang Wu.

Movies for Jiang Wen...

Master Rabbit Comes Home
Title: Master Rabbit Comes Home
Released: December 22, 2022
Type: Movie
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The Curse of Turandot
Title: The Curse of Turandot
Character: The Great Khan
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
The plot follows Princess Turandot who is cursed by a mysterious power emanating from three Mazovian bracelets that were given to her as birthday gifts. These bracelets’ life-draining effects cause the princess to becomes cruel, and gradually she loses her humanity.
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Hidden Man
Title: Hidden Man
Character: Lan Qingfeng
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: Movie
A martial arts-infused spy thriller set in 1937 Beijing. A time when China was lurching between revolution, prosperity, and chaos.
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Title: 圆桌讲究派
Released: July 9, 2018
Type: TV
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The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Title: The Stories: The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
Character: Himself
Released: April 4, 2017
Type: Movie
The Making of 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Title: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Character: Baze Malbus
Released: December 14, 2016
Type: Movie
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
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Title: Star Wars: Go Rogue
Character: Baze Malbus (voice)
Released: August 30, 2016
Type: TV
A stop motion animated Star Wars series, created by fans and Lucasfilm, to introduce the new Rogue One action figures from Tongal. The shorts follow the Rogue One character’s adventures throughout the galaxy as they battle the Empire.
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The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
Title: The Moment: Fifty Years of Golden Horse
Character: Himself
Released: March 4, 2016
Type: Movie
In 2013, the Golden Horse Film Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. The ministry of Culture commissioned director Yang Li-chou to make a documentary about the history of Golden Horse. What is unique to this film is that it's not an ode to celebrities but about the role cinema plays in ordinary people's lives. It's a love letter to cinema, filmmakers and audiences.
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Gone with the Bullets
Title: Gone with the Bullets
Character: Ma Zouri
Released: December 18, 2014
Type: Movie
Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanyan Ying unexpectedly wins, it sets into motion a series of tragic events that change their destinies.
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Title: Marriage Cuisine
Character: Teacher
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: TV
Professor Yang Shu forget to accompany his daughter to school during his participate in drug research and development of small rise in early examination. The daughter fainted due to heat stroke in the school room. The mother, a five-star hotel after lunch chef Ar Chen in this situation was very angry when she found her husband already secretly resigned to make drug development joint venture after more dissatisfaction and resolute A divorce . However Yang Shu research results have been successful, all of a sudden fame and fortune. But despite that, Yang Shu wants nothing more but to have back his family again.
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Chinese Zodiac
Title: Chinese Zodiac
Character: Narrator
Released: December 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student & a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
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Love for Life
Title: Love for Life
Released: May 10, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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The Lost Bladesman
Title: The Lost Bladesman
Character: Cao Cao
Released: April 28, 2011
Type: Movie
During the warring period of the three kingdoms, ancient China is in turmoil. To unify the country, general Cao Cao, the real power behind the Emperor, enlists the aid of the greatest warrior in the land, Guan Yu. However, Guan Yu is a loyal friend of Cao Cao's enemy Liu Bei so to persuade the peerless warrior to fight, Cao Cao takes his beloved Qi Lan hostage. After leading Cao Cao's forces to victory Guan Yu sets out with Qi Lan to rejoin Liu Bei. Now Cao Cao has deemed him too great a threat to live, and on the journey he must face all the forces at the Emperor's command sent to destroy him.
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20 Years of Original Chinese Music
Title: 20 Years of Original Chinese Music
Released: March 1, 2011
Type: Movie
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Let the Bullets Fly
Title: Let the Bullets Fly
Character: Pocky Zhang
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: Movie
When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Hood figure finds himself in a showdown with the local godfather.
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Title: Golden Wedding
Character: 军长
Released: December 1, 2010
Type: TV
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Let the Wind Carry Me
Title: Let the Wind Carry Me
Character: Himself
Released: November 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Focusing on Mark Lee Ping-bin, one of the most talented and prolific cinematographers in Asia, the movie details the itinerant lifestyle of a deeply observant and philosophical artist and the tolls that his profession takes on his family life.
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The Founding of a Republic
Title: The Founding of a Republic
Character: Mao Renfeng
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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Flavor of Happiness
Title: Flavor of Happiness
Character: Suo
Released: October 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an in-store branch. The owner of the restaurant, Wang Qingkuo from Shanghai, who does all the cooking by himself, gives Takako the brush-off. One day, however, Wang collapses due to overwork, and is left with partial paralysis. Hearing the rumor of the restaurant’s closure, Takako resigns from the department store and becomes an apprentice to Wang.
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Title: 长河东流
Character: 朱常瀛
Released: February 2, 2008
Type: TV
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The Sun Also Rises
Title: The Sun Also Rises
Character: Tang
Released: September 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
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Title: Heroic Legend of the Chin Dynasty
Character: Emperor Taiji
Released: September 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
Title: Letter from an Unknown Woman
Character: Mr. Xu
Released: September 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Peking, 1948. A winter night. A man returns home to find a letter awaiting him written by a woman before her death. in the letter she tells him the story of her love for him -a life-long passion that has not diminished over time, but one that he has never known. her story spans 18 years from the moment she -then a 13 year-old girl- sets her eyes on her new neighbor. she tells their brief but passionate love in her youthi the hardship she goes through raising their child alone, and their final encounter after the war, during which the man fails tor ecognize her and one which leaves her in despair. Now having lost her son, she no longer has the courage to live on. Only in a letter is she capable of telling him everything, for the first and the last time. shaken by the letter, the man searches his memory for the nameless woman.
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Jasmine Women
Title: Jasmine Women
Character: Mr. Meng
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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Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Title: Warriors of Heaven and Earth
Character: Lieutenant Li
Released: September 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.
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My Father and I
Title: My Father and I
Character: Police Officer
Released: September 10, 2003
Type: Movie
After Xiao Yu's mother died in an accident, she moved back to live with her birth father who she knows little about. Gradually, they grew to know each other and to accept each other for who they are.
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Green Tea
Title: Green Tea
Character: Chen Mingliang
Released: August 18, 2003
Type: Movie
A mysterious woman frequents tea shops and other places looking for the right man. A cup of green tea will show you the way to find your true love.
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The Missing Gun
Title: The Missing Gun
Character: Ma Shan
Released: May 9, 2002
Type: Movie
In this tense thriller, Ma Shan (Wen Jiang) is a Chinese police detective who awakes one morning after a night of heavy drinking at his sister's wedding reception to discover that his gun has been stolen. Since only police officers are allowed to carry firearms, Ma Shan is alarmed about the deadly possibilities of the theft, and he sets out to find his weapon; however, the memories of Ma Shan's friends are as hazy as his own regarding the wedding, and no one can tell who drove him home. The situation comes to a head when Ma Shan's former girlfriend arrives in town for a visit and is soon found shot dead with the bullets matching those used in his gun.
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Devils on the Doorstep
Title: Devils on the Doorstep
Character: Ma Dasan
Released: October 26, 2001
Type: Movie
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
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Title: The Grand Mansion Gate
Character: 府台大人
Released: April 14, 2001
Type: TV
This Chinese period drama series follows the fortunes of a prominent merchant family engaged in Traditional Chinese Medicine during the waning years of the Ching dynasty. The affairs of this family of doctors/pharmacists (which in those days were one and the same) are intimately linked with social upheavals of the time such as the encroachment of Christian missionaries and foreign imperialism as well as conflicts that inevitably emerge in a large upper class family. Comparable in scope and production value to such recent titles as "Downton Abbey", the lives and character of both masters and servants intertwine in plot lines that spans more than a generation.
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Lotus Lantern
Title: Lotus Lantern
Character: Niro Go (voice)
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
A young boy named Chen Xiang uses a magical lotus lantern to search for and rescue his mother, a goddess, from the cruel punishment she received from her brother, the king of the gods, for falling in love with a mortal man.
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Keep Cool
Title: Keep Cool
Character: Zhao Xiaoshuai
Released: May 16, 1997
Type: Movie
China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice?
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The Soong Sisters
Title: The Soong Sisters
Character: Charlie Soong
Released: May 1, 1997
Type: Movie
The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
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The Emperor's Shadow
Title: The Emperor's Shadow
Character: Ying Zheng
Released: October 31, 1996
Type: Movie
Epic drama about China's first emperor (221 BC) who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
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In the Heat of the Sun
Title: In the Heat of the Sun
Character: Adult Ma Xiaojun
Released: September 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
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The Trail
Title: The Trail
Released: December 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Officer Lei tracks down embezzler Chen Ziliang in Mongolia. Although Chen insists he was innocent, Lei must escort him across China to bring him to justice, but it soon becomes apparent that an unknown organization wants Chen killed.
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Title: 北京人在纽约
Character: Wang Qiming
Released: September 26, 1993
Type: TV
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Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch
Title: Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch
Character: Li Lianying
Released: April 12, 1991
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion and the takeover of the Forbidden City by foreign powers, the empress-dowager Cixi and her notorious chief eunuch fight a losing battle to preserve their corrupt and autocratic regime.
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Black Snow
Title: Black Snow
Character: Li Huiquan
Released: April 13, 1990
Type: Movie
A man returns to his native Beijing after serving in a labor camp, to find that he has no family or prospects or friends. He tries to make a living, but his old underworld contacts drag him back into a life of crime.
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Red Sorghum
Title: Red Sorghum
Character: Yu
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.
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A Woman For Two
Title: A Woman For Two
Character: 刘向高
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
In Beijing 1930s, a young woman is torn between her lover and her disabled husband.
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The Last Empress
Title: The Last Empress
Character: Pu Yi
Released: November 5, 1987
Type: Movie
There were three women lived with Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, during 1922 and 1924. Wan-jung, the Queen, ended up with being insane. Tan Yuling died. Wenxiu, a concubine, was eliminated from the Royal family. This is the story of the fate of three women, including the wife and cousin of who have a lesbian relationship
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Hibiscus Town
Title: Hibiscus Town
Character: 秦书田
Released: March 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
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Le palanquin des larmes
Title: Le palanquin des larmes
Character: Wei Hi
Released: December 31, 1986
Type: Movie
The story of three generations of a family in Shanghai against the backdrop of tumultuous times.
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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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Title: 曹操传
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV