
Directing
Wu Tianming
Born 1939-12-05 · Xianyang,Shanxi Province,China
Wu Tianming (December 5, 1939 – March 4, 2014) was a director, screenwriter, actor, producer, and art director. In 1974, he entered the film director professional class of the Central May 7th University of the Arts (later the director training class of Beijing Film Academy).
Acting credits
7.2Through a series of flashbacks, four Chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China explore their pasts.
The Joy Luck Club
1993
6.6An awakened immortal warrior struggles between defending the emperor and the actress he believes to be his love of old.
A Terra-Cotta Warrior
1989
NRTony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.
New Chinese Cinema
1989
6.4The residents of a nursing home sneak past security guards to compete in a nationally televised talent contest.
Full Circle
2012
5.4Reflecting on Mao's famous saying, "Let a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend," Trinh T. Minh-ha's film — whose title refers in part to a Chinese guessing game — is a unique excursion into the maze of allegorical naming and storytelling in China.
Shoot for the Contents
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Red Tide on Ba Mountains
1961
Behind the camera
7.2An 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.
Red Sorghum
1988
7.4Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
The King of Masks
1995
7.6A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.
The Black Cannon Incident
1985
5.5Zhou Heung Kong (Anthony Wong) runs the film projector in a Hong Kong cinema and staunchly embraces a left-wing viewpoint. Dedicated to his work, he screens movies over the course of decades, while also witnessing turbulent events of the times, including riots and other indicators of social change.
Mr. Cinema
2007
7.1A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.
Old Well
1986
5.9Adapted from the novel with the same title. This is a tragedy that occurs in modern China. By a vivid description of the frustrated life story of Gao Jialin, a high school graduate who is first dismissed from teaching post and then enrolled as a journalist in the city and finally dismissed from the post and become a farmer again, this movie presents the young man as a serious issue of how to deal with their life.
Life
1984
6.6Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.
The Horse Thief
1986
6.7The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are declining in Chinese society.
Song of the Phoenix
2016
6.7The life and trials of You Tianming, a young suona apprentice who forms his own suona troupe at a time when the traditions of suona music are declining in Chinese society.
Song of the Phoenix
2016
6.5Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.
C.E.O.
2002
6.5Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.
C.E.O.
2002
NRThe film mainly tells the story of a couple of urban men and women who embarked on a road of escape due to an accident.
Out of Control
2008
7.5The day before his wedding, Tian gets into a serious accident, and falls into a coma. He will probably be a vegetable for the rest of his life. His fiancee, Shu, dedicates her life to caring for him, but after many years begins to be swayed and tempted by the romantic advances of his best friend. Will she continue to stand by her man, literally as his lifeline?
An Unusual Love
2000
6.8Three men steer timber rafts on the Xiaohui river. Fifty-something Pan Laowu is still single. Thirty years ago, he was in love with a girl. He talks about memory of this love affair with regret.
The River Without Buoys
1984
9.0Chen Yunxuan and his daughter Xiujuan escape from China to Taiwan in 1949 but leave Chen's pregnant wife behind. 30 years later Xiujuan meets her mother and a brother she never knew.
The Kinship
1980
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Thrill of Life
1979
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Something About Kids
2010