
Directing
Han Tao
Born
1979-02-16 (47)
Place of birth
Ji'nan,Shandong Province,China
Known for
Directing
Credits
11 titles
Known for
NRPoet Wolf (Lang) chose to starve himself to death, in a beautiful flower blossoming Spring. This is a poetic, aesthetic and brutal film that adapted from the true stoy of Poet Wo Fu's suicide.
Wolf
2019
NRChong er and San yuan, who are gangsters, lived in a small city northeast of China. They felt lost and confused about the future. San worked at a factory. He and Chong helped Qi ge, the gang leader, to collect debt. Chong despised his vocation and wanted to become a cross talk actor. Lei fu, an entrepreneur, looked down upon Qi. Qi did nothing considered the scale and influence of Lei's company. Lei's project failed thanks to San. He was furious. The dispute was ended through the mediation of his old friends. San was beaten, and his hatred grew deeper. Chong's life was not as good as expected. The money he saved for learning cross talk was not in use. Qi finally got a chance to defeat Lei. However, there was no real winner in this battle. Lei's company went bankrupt. San kept on living an aimless life, while Chong left the small city and kept on pursuing his cross talk dream.
Tiger in the Zoo
2017
8.0Han Tao’s latest film is set in a textile factory of the 1970s. Chong Er, a worker there, is in love with newcomer Xiao Lan and pursues her. They get married, but the happy time does not last long. Chong Er was executed, allegedly for breaking the law. More than 30 years later, the textile factory is closed down. The truth behind the case is finally revealed, but time has diluted everything and changed everyone’s visage. The film attempts to reconstruct the mental state of that generation, even though the workers and everything in the factory have been forgotten. Once upon a time, there were so many energetic lives that worked and lived there. The confining space was everything they had – where life began and ended, becoming eternally trapped in memories.
Weave A Period Of Time
2019
NRBaobao is a member of the floating population of Jinan city, he works diligently, from managing a small restaurant to running a tea house and bar. This film documents Baobao is part of the gay community of Jinan city.
Bao Bao
2005
NRThe story of a girl attempted suicide for love and finally returned to religion.
WHO IS MY LORD
2017
NRLiu Renwang, a villager in Yaoyang Village, Zhongyang County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, was wrongly sentenced to prison for being shot dead with the former deputy director of the village village committee.
MAN'S WORLD
2017
Behind the camera
NRPoet Wolf (Lang) chose to starve himself to death, in a beautiful flower blossoming Spring. This is a poetic, aesthetic and brutal film that adapted from the true stoy of Poet Wo Fu's suicide.
Wolf
2019
NRChong er and San yuan, who are gangsters, lived in a small city northeast of China. They felt lost and confused about the future. San worked at a factory. He and Chong helped Qi ge, the gang leader, to collect debt. Chong despised his vocation and wanted to become a cross talk actor. Lei fu, an entrepreneur, looked down upon Qi. Qi did nothing considered the scale and influence of Lei's company. Lei's project failed thanks to San. He was furious. The dispute was ended through the mediation of his old friends. San was beaten, and his hatred grew deeper. Chong's life was not as good as expected. The money he saved for learning cross talk was not in use. Qi finally got a chance to defeat Lei. However, there was no real winner in this battle. Lei's company went bankrupt. San kept on living an aimless life, while Chong left the small city and kept on pursuing his cross talk dream.
Tiger in the Zoo
2017
8.0Han Tao’s latest film is set in a textile factory of the 1970s. Chong Er, a worker there, is in love with newcomer Xiao Lan and pursues her. They get married, but the happy time does not last long. Chong Er was executed, allegedly for breaking the law. More than 30 years later, the textile factory is closed down. The truth behind the case is finally revealed, but time has diluted everything and changed everyone’s visage. The film attempts to reconstruct the mental state of that generation, even though the workers and everything in the factory have been forgotten. Once upon a time, there were so many energetic lives that worked and lived there. The confining space was everything they had – where life began and ended, becoming eternally trapped in memories.
Weave A Period Of Time
2019
NRBaobao is a member of the floating population of Jinan city, he works diligently, from managing a small restaurant to running a tea house and bar. This film documents Baobao is part of the gay community of Jinan city.
Bao Bao
2005
NRThe story of a girl attempted suicide for love and finally returned to religion.
WHO IS MY LORD
2017
NRLiu Renwang, a villager in Yaoyang Village, Zhongyang County, Luliang City, Shanxi Province, was wrongly sentenced to prison for being shot dead with the former deputy director of the village village committee.
MAN'S WORLD
2017
NRThe baby is a temporary floating population. He works diligently, from a small restaurant owner to a tea shop manager to a bar manager. This film records the survival state of children centered and gay comrades: trivial, messy, boring, and entertaining themselves. The camera calmly captures every bit of their daily life for more than two years, and as time goes by, the changes the baby presents are more ordinary. The film calmly explains the relationship between "comrades" and "society", and the various small details interpenetrated in the film also metaphorically reflect the changes of today's society
Baby
2003
NRThis story is about the group's marvellous life without money.The film tell this story from six points of view: the screenwriter, the recording, the photography, the art, the performer and the director.
MAGUEY
2016
NRScars, which are unfortunate or unexpected results, are also signs of healing. This new connective tissue replaces the process of injured tissues, and at the same time it becomes a metaphor for the pain and frustration of life: the sadness of the body, the union of pain... In short, scars have become a proof, a proof of existence, a proof of alive, a proof of pain, and a proof of a certain age. Beginning in 1949, in this vast land, these various scars, these healing marks, patterns, sad shapes, bring personal memories, collective pains, the marks of history, and come together Gaze, the meaning of the record. This film is the first part of the "Scar" project, the story of 110 Chinese scars.
SCAR
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
WILD GRASS
2017
NRNon-narrative series of shots: in factory, sex workers etc.
大雾
2008
