Acting
Cui Jian
Born
1961-08-02 (65)
Place of birth
Beijing, China
Known for
Acting
Credits
33 titles
Cui Jian, a famous rock artist and a leader of Chinese rock music, is known as the father of Chinese rock music. The famous song is "Nothing to My Name" in 1986.
Known for
7.0Intimate musical performances, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
2008
6.0SINGER, formerly known as I AM A SINGER, is a large-scale singing competition program co-produced by Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) and Mango TV. The first four seasons were adapted from the Korean reality show I Am a Singer produced by MBC. Beginning with the 2017 season, the program was rebranded as SINGER. The series brings together established vocalists from the Chinese music industry as well as internationally renowned artists to compete on stage. In each episode, the results are determined by a panel of 500 in-studio audience judges who vote to decide the singers’ rankings and eliminations. Starting with the 2024 season, the show shifted from pre-recorded broadcasts to fully live performances and introduced an additional panel of 500 online international audience judges.
SINGER
2013
9.0This is a chat variety show for dinner, created by Dou Wentao, a famous media person and cultural celebrity, and Youku "Looking at the Ideal". The initiator Dou Wentao invites three old friends and guests to restore the chatting scenes in real life. The topics are all-encompassing, look at the world, and inspire infinite thinking.
Round Table
2016
No synopsis available yet.
China Star
2015
7.5A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
The Sun Also Rises
2007
7.2In 1985, WHAM! made history as the first Western pop act to perform in communist China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou were a cultural milestone – East meets West, music meets politics. Now, newly restored footage reveals the untold story of the iconic tour that helped launch WHAM! to global superstardom.
Wham! 10 Days in China
2026
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
7.2In 1985, WHAM! made history as the first Western pop act to perform in communist China. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s concerts in Beijing and Guangzhou were a cultural milestone – East meets West, music meets politics. Now, newly restored footage reveals the untold story of the iconic tour that helped launch WHAM! to global superstardom.
Wham! 10 Days in China
2026
NRIn 2006 the Rolling Stones made their debut performance in mainland China, bringing one of the most renowned Rock and Roll live acts to the other side of the world. Featuring interviews with long-time production manager Dale “Opie” Skjerseth and the godfather of Chinese rock Cui Juan, ‘From London To Shanghai’ explores behind the scenes of the historic concert.
From London to Shanghai
2024
10.0No synopsis available yet.
踏上新征程2024北京卫视跨年之夜
2023
2010s · 6 titles
6.4Chang-ho, 12, becomes friends with a North-Korean immigrant about the same age who just crossed the Dooman river, border between North-Korea and China. His mute sister and his wise grandfather accompany him through a series of misfortunes.
Dooman River
2010
10.0No synopsis available yet.
20 Years of Original Chinese Music
2011
7.0Highlights the rebellious young generation of artists in China fighting for political emancipation, artistic freedom and creating a cultural golden age during the 1980s - a significant decade of transformational change. Interweaving six main characters' memories with the director's personal narration, the film embarks on an emotional journey and tells a story of being passionate and idealistic before dreams are dashed to pieces.
My 1980's
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
崔健摇滚交响音乐会
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Transcendence
2013
10.0No synopsis available yet.
崔健“滚动三十”2016工体演唱会
2016
2000s · 8 titles
7.5A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
The Sun Also Rises
2007
NRThis documentary is made up of three threads that provide a major retrospective of a decade of Chinese rock.
Night of an Era
2009
6.2A voyage through modern day Beijing in the taxi of the womanising Dezi. His aimless drifting between destinations and women is much like Beijing's own search for identity between perishing ancient values and an uncertain future.
I Love Beijing
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
China Rock on the Road
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
崔健2006北京不插电演唱会
2006
7.3Sitian, a Chinese American conductor, returns to China to give a concert and to find her three siblings again, after having been separated from them for years after the death of their parents.
Roots and Branches
2001
Crowned as the “godfather of China rock” and yet banned from large-scale performances in Beijing over the past thirteen years, Cui Jian has made his come back in 2005 and remained an icon of the artist versus the State in the hearts of millions. Although the rocker has been reluctant to be identified with any specific political movement, whenever a new democratic voice has emerged (in media forms from underground film to the Internet), it has always found a way to embrace him, thus reconfirming Cui’s “outlaw” status. This documentary reviews his life and career paths from his early days and documents his crew and fans to three very different cities in Wuhan, Inner Mongolia and Beijing. Broadcast on HK Cable TV in summer 2006, the purpose of the video is to review Cui Jian’s career at the point of his new album release after a 6 year gap. The album is titled “Give You Color”.
Cui Jian: Rocking China
2006
NRNo synopsis available yet.
崔健 - 音乐现场运动《2006北京不插电演唱会》
2006
1990s · 6 titles
6.5A rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.
Beijing Bastards
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rock in Berlin "THE CHINESE AVANT-GARDE"
1993
NRNo synopsis available yet.
崔健92年北展演唱会
1992
NRNo synopsis available yet.
中国摇滚在柏林（北京摇滚实况93）
1993
NRThe one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation of a popular novel, Chicken Feathers, after the Chinese Film Bureau announced that Zhang could no longer direct the film due to submitting his previous independent feature, 1992's Beijing Bastards, to a film festival in Japan without receiving the proper authorization to do so. Ning's documentary features anguished meetings between the Chicken Feather's production crew as they debate replacing Zhang with another director, along with testimonials on the state of censorship in Chinese independent cinema of the early '90s from Wu Wenguang, Tang Danian, He Jianjun, Cui Jian, and others.
A Film Is Stopped
1994
NRNo synopsis available yet.
崔健 - 1992年北展演唱会
1992
Series credits
7.0Intimate musical performances, recorded live at the desk of All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen.
NPR Tiny Desk Concerts
2008
6.0SINGER, formerly known as I AM A SINGER, is a large-scale singing competition program co-produced by Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) and Mango TV. The first four seasons were adapted from the Korean reality show I Am a Singer produced by MBC. Beginning with the 2017 season, the program was rebranded as SINGER. The series brings together established vocalists from the Chinese music industry as well as internationally renowned artists to compete on stage. In each episode, the results are determined by a panel of 500 in-studio audience judges who vote to decide the singers’ rankings and eliminations. Starting with the 2024 season, the show shifted from pre-recorded broadcasts to fully live performances and introduced an additional panel of 500 online international audience judges.
SINGER
2013
9.0This is a chat variety show for dinner, created by Dou Wentao, a famous media person and cultural celebrity, and Youku "Looking at the Ideal". The initiator Dou Wentao invites three old friends and guests to restore the chatting scenes in real life. The topics are all-encompassing, look at the world, and inspire infinite thinking.
Round Table
2016
No synopsis available yet.
China Star
2015
Behind the camera
NRNo synopsis available yet.
故事无双
2006
6.5A rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.
Beijing Bastards
1993
7.1An unhappy love story under the Cultural Revolution in China seen from the son who was born from that romance - who is now a Chinese rock star
Blue Sky Bones
2013
10.0A satirical comedy set during the 1976 earthquake of Tangshan, which then zips forward to 2009 offering a Matrix-like science fiction story of contemporary China.
Chengdu, I Love You
2009