Han Sanming

Acting

Han Sanming

Born

1971-05-20 (55)

Place of birth

Lüliang, Shanxi Province, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Han Sanming (Chinese: 韩三明; born 1971) is a Chinese actor and coal miner, known for his roles in films directed by his cousin Jia Zhangke. Initially, he was seen only in small roles or cameos, but was then cast in one of the lead roles, as a coal miner looking for his wife and daughter, in Still Life. The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and went on to win a Golden Lion award. Of note, his characters are also named "Han Sanming" in the films.

Known for

Still Life poster
7.2

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

Still Life

2006

A Touch of Sin poster
7.2

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.

A Touch of Sin

2013

Platform poster
7.1

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Platform

2001

The Hedonists poster
7.2

The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search for employment elsewhere.

The Hedonists

2016

One Night on the Wharf poster
NR

Han Dong adapts his own 1998 novel, about a group of young poets accidentally caught up in an inexplicable dispute with local hoodlums and security guards.

One Night on the Wharf

2017

Dong poster
5.6

Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social turmoil. Liu Xiaodong is well-known for his monumental canvases, particularly those inspired by China's Three Gorges Dam project. Jia Zhangke visits Liu on the banks of Fengjie, a city about to be swallowed up by the Yangtze River. The area is in the process of being "de-constructed" by armies of shirtless male workers who form the subject of Liu's paintings. Liu and Jia next travel to Bangkok, where Liu paints Thai sex workers languishing in brothels. The two sets of paintings are united in their subjects' shared sense of malaise in the face of the dehumanizing labor afforded them.

Dong

2006

Film credits

2020s · 19 titles

The Dark Mysteries poster
NR

After a countryside party, several friends vanish and Lin Man is the only witness. A psychiatrist, Fang Ziqing, slowly opens her up unraveling a long-buried secret and a moral struggle where one thought for good or evil decides the outcome.

The Dark Mysteries

2025

207B poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

207B

2025

鲁西儿女 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

鲁西儿女

2026

Big Deal poster
NR

A community police officer is assigned as first party secretary to push an old-neighborhood renewal. He wins residents’ trust but collapses from overwork; his family honors his wish to donate organs, turning “small” neighborly issues into a truly big deal.

Big Deal

2025

His Redemption poster
NR

Middle-aged Liu Mu, worn down by relentless work and life pressure, stumbles into a private realm of his own—a space that becomes his spiritual anchor. There, he endlessly reconnects and "converses" with his past, encountering people and events that feel eerily familiar, each seemingly tied to his own history

His Redemption

2025

朝花夕拾 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

朝花夕拾

2024

No artwork available
NR

A phone call from his old friend Luo Zi shatters the peaceful life of Dacheng, a livestreamer. What exactly has his long-missing friend experienced? The search for Luo Zi is fraught with hardship, and Dacheng never imagined that Luo Zi had already become a key figure in a pyramid scheme. When AI becomes the hottest investment project for pyramid schemes, what challenges will humanity face?

Seeking The Friend Betrayed

2026

Midnight Elevator poster
3.5

No synopsis available yet.

Midnight Elevator

2026

一出婚礼 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

一出婚礼

2023

The Vessel's Isle poster
NR

At an unknown time, people who had never been masked, met in the town of Qinghongli. The boy from the city, looking for something lost, accidentally meets a mysterious girl holding a camera and falls into a short and drowsy dream. The young people in the town have illusions and impulses about love, and wantonly respond to life; the hotel owner occasionally immerses himself in his neon world and is not disturbed; the dumb drunken man has an insight into this field, as if he has a connection with the heaven .The old lady is still sitting on the bench, the old train shuttles through the valley jungle, and the whistle sounds every morning and night, entering the dreams of countless people.

The Vessel's Isle

2024

Border poster
NR

In a forgotten town where men have learned to survive by keeping their feelings buried and their words few, a broke young miner quietly drifts through a life he barely feels. His numb routine fractures with the arrival of an enigmatic young woman, who sparks a dormant curiosity and the promise of something new. He follows her down a dark path, leaving behind the quiet safety of the only world he knows, unaware that this stranger is not all she seems to be.

Border

2026

疯狂的酒局 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

疯狂的酒局

2025

爱人之谜 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

爱人之谜

2022

Black Cotton poster
NR

A slave sold to a cotton factory by his own brother, with the help of the dead, returned for revenge with silent rage.

Black Cotton

2025

Lu Jianjiang poster
NR

Lv Jianjiang went to the first day of the ancient village police office in the village, decided to first come to a "micro-visit" to objectively understand the general situation of the ancient village. Because of his excellent work, Lv Jianjiang was transferred to Anjianqiao police station as director.

Lu Jianjiang

2020

How to Rebury Your Friend poster
NR

When a factory acquires their hometown’s graveyard, two men return to rebury their dead friend—only to dig straight into a tug-of-war between locals and the factory.

How to Rebury Your Friend

2026

The Affechonateness in the Canyon poster
NR

Chen Na, a young female teacher in the northwest, learned that the children have to cross a "ghostly gorge" on their way to school, which is very dangerous, and some of them have to give up their studies because of this. Through the Internet, she let people outside the mountains know about the children's situation, and with the assistance of people from all walks of life and the government, they built a "bridge of love" for the children.

The Affechonateness in the Canyon

2020

A Whale-Riding Teenager poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Whale-Riding Teenager

2024

Bald Sheep poster
NR

Sanming and his wife You Hua in a village to raise sheep for a living, You Hua and health is not good, Sanming has always wanted to apply for subsidies with the village, a phone call, the daughter He Ye informed Sanming to get his son-in-law Xiao Wang home, the story from Sanming to buy a suit...

Bald Sheep

2024

2010s · 11 titles

A Touch of Sin poster
7.2

Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.

A Touch of Sin

2013

The Hedonists poster
7.2

The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search for employment elsewhere.

The Hedonists

2016

One Night on the Wharf poster
NR

Han Dong adapts his own 1998 novel, about a group of young poets accidentally caught up in an inexplicable dispute with local hoodlums and security guards.

One Night on the Wharf

2017

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang poster
6.9

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang

2016

The Lost Land poster
5.8

At a small town in the west of China in 1935, the county magistrate's funny accent raised a series of misguided affairs, deduced a bizarre and absurd story with one and another climaxes.

The Lost Land

2018

Tiger in the Zoo poster
NR

Chong 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

冬哥的春天 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

冬哥的春天

2014

Drifting poster
4.5

Yan is an illegal second child born during the One-Child policy. To avoid government punishment, Yan's parents hid their oldest daughter in the countryside and raised Yan as a girl. Now a young adult, Yan struggles with his gender identity and being treated as an outcast in a conservative society. His sole escape is drifting his father's old taxi through abandoned parking lots.

Drifting

2019

Wolf poster
NR

Poet 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

Rolling Steel Eggs poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rolling Steel Eggs

2019

The Class of One poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Class of One

2018

2000s · 4 titles