
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
7.2A 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
7.2Four 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
7.1China’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
7.2The 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
NRHan 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
5.6Jia 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
NRAfter 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
5.0No synopsis available yet.
207B
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
鲁西儿女
2026
NRA 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
NRMiddle-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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
朝花夕拾
2024
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
3.5No synopsis available yet.
Midnight Elevator
2026
NRNo synopsis available yet.
一出婚礼
2023
NRAt 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
NRIn 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
疯狂的酒局
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
爱人之谜
2022
NRA 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
NRLv 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
NRWhen 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
NRChen 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Whale-Riding Teenager
2024
NRSanming 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
7.2Four 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
7.2The 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
NRHan 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
6.9Chinese 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
5.8At 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
冬哥的春天
2014
4.5Yan 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
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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rolling Steel Eggs
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Class of One
2018
2000s · 4 titles
7.2A 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
7.1China’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
5.6Jia 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
7.0At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
The World
2004
