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Zhao Tao
Zhao Tao (born 28 January 1977) is a Chinese actress. She works in China and occasionally Europe, and has appeared in 10 films and several shorts since starting her career in 1999. She is best known for her collaborations with her husband, director Jia Zhangke, including ''Platform (2000 film), Platform'' (2000) and ''Still Life (2006 film), Still Life'' (2006). With ''Shun Li and the Poet'' (2011), she became the first Asian actress to win a prize at David di Donatello. She received two Golden Horse Award nominations for ''Mountains May Depart'' (2015) and ''Ash Is Purest White'' (2018). In 2020, ''The New York Times'' ranked her #8 on its list of the 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century. Biography Zhao was born 28 January 1977 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, which is also the hometown of the heroine in ''Still Life (2006 film), Still Life''. As a child, she studied classical Chinese dance. In 1996, she enrolled in the folk dance department at Beijing Dance Academy. After graduation, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiyuan
Taiyuan; Mandarin pronunciation: (Jin Chinese, Taiyuan Jin: /tʰai˦˥ ye˩˩/) is the capital of Shanxi, China. Taiyuan is the political, economic, cultural and international exchange center of Shanxi Province. It is an industrial base focusing on energy and heavy chemicals. Throughout its long history, Taiyuan was the capital or provisional capital of many dynasties in China, hence the name ( zh, s=龙城, p=Dragon City, labels=no). As of 2021, the city governs 6 districts, 3 counties, and hosts a county-level city with a total area of 6,988 square kilometers and a permanent population of 5,390,957. Taiyuan is located roughly in the centre of Shanxi, with the Fen River flowing through the central city. Etymology and names The two Chinese characters of the city's name are (, "great") and (, "plain"), referring to the location where the Fen River leaves the mountains and enters a relatively flat plain. Throughout its long history, the city had various names, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unknown Pleasures (film)
''Unknown Pleasures'' () is a 2002 Cinema of China, Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke, starring Wu Qiong, Zhao Weiwei and Zhao Tao as three disaffected youths living in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation. Fed on a steady diet of popular culture, both Western and Chinese, the characters of ''Unknown Pleasures'' represent a new breed in the People's Republic of China, one detached from reality through the screen of media and the internet. The film was a co-production of four countries: Japan's Office Kitano and T-Mark, China's Hu Tong Communications, France's Lumen Films, and South Korea's E-Pictures. It competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival but would eventually lose to director Roman Polanski's Holocaust film, ''The Pianist (2002 film), The Pianist''. ''Unknown Pleasures'' is Jia's third feature film after 1997's ''Xiao Wu'' and 2000s ''Platform (2000 film), Platform'', and it is sometimes considered the final film of an informal tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Chinese Actresses
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Living People
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Caught By The Tides
''Caught by the Tides'' () is a 2024 Chinese drama film directed by Jia Zhangke, and written by Wan Jianhuan and Zhangke, based on footage across 22 years, some from Jia's previous films, in an impressionistic non-linear blend of fiction and non-fiction. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where had its world premiere on 18 May 2024. Plot In 2001, in the northern Chinese city of Datong, a working-class woman named Qiao Qiao has a romantic relationship with her manager Guao Bin as she hustles to make a living as a singer, model, and club girl. Bin leaves Datong to try to earn a living in another province, sending Qiao Qiao a text message that says he will bring her when he has money. After a stretch, Qiao Qiao decides to go looking for him, passing though communities that are being displaced by the Three Gorges Dam, as well as through Guangdong Province. Meanwhile, Bin tries his hand at a number of businesses, including entering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Pacific Screen Award For Best Performance By An Actress
The Asia Pacific Screen Award for Performance by an Actress is a former category in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, between 2007 and 2021. It was retired after that, along with the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor, both being collapsed into Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance from 2022. Winners and nominees 2000s 2010s See also * Asian Film Award for Best Actress References External links * {{Asia Pacific Screen Awards Best Performance by an Actress Lists of films by award Awards for actresses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Hugo Award For Best Actress
The Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress is one of the awards presented annually by the Chicago International Film Festival to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance. The jury chooses the winner from the films competing at the festival. It was first awarded in 1965; the award for Best Actress was given under the Golden Plaque section for a few years in the 1980s, and its winners are included in this category. List of winners Notes See also *Chicago International Film Festival The Chicago International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every fall. Founded in 1964 by Michael Kutza, it is the longest-running competitive film festival in North America. Its logo is a stark, black and white close up of the comp ... References External links Chicago International Film FestivalIMDb {{DEFAULTSORT:Silver Hugo Award For Best Actress Film awards for lead actress Lists of films by award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Horse Award For Best Leading Actress
The Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress is given at the Golden Horse Film Awards The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Taipei Golden Horse Awards () are a film festival and associated awards ceremony held annually in Taiwan. The festival and ceremony were founded in 1962 by the Government Information Office of the Republ .... Superlatives The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards: The following individuals received four or more Best Actress nominations: Winners and nominees 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References External links * * {{GoldenHorseAwardBestActress Golden Horse Film Awards Film awards for lead actress Awards established in 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Touch Of Sin
''A Touch of Sin'' () is a 2013 Chinese anthology thriller film written and directed by Jia Zhangke and starring Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang, Luo Lanshan, and Zhao Tao, Jia's wife and longtime collaborator. The film consists of four loosely interconnected tableaus set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China, based on recent events while also drawing from wuxia stories and Chinese opera. The English title references ''A Touch of Zen''. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, with Jia winning the award for Best Screenplay. Plot The film consists of four loosely interconnected vignettes that are depicted chronologically, each set in a different location in China and based on then newsworthy events and incidents in China. Prologue San'er travels on a motorbike across rural Shanxi. He is accosted by three thugs who attempt to rob him. Unfazed, San'er pulls out a pistol and kills them all. Dahai (Shanxi) Dahai is the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ten Thousand Waves
Ten, TEN or 10 may refer to: * 10, an even natural number following 9 and preceding 11 * one of the years 10 BC, AD 10, 1910, 2010, 2110 * October, the tenth month of the year Places * Mount Ten, in Vietnam * Tongren Fenghuang Airport (IATA code), China * TEN Atlantic City, Casino hotel resort in New Jersey Transportation * 10 (Los Angeles Railway), two streetcar lines in Los Angeles, California * Line 10 (other), various metro lines * Tatra 10, an Edwardian era automobile * Rover 10, a small family car * Sunbeam-Talbot Ten, originally Talbot Ten, a compact executive car * ARO 10, also known as the Dacia 10, an off-road vehicle People and characters * Tussenvoegsel prefix in Dutch surnames * Denis Ten (1993–2018), Kazakhstani competitive figure skater and Olympic bronze medalist * Jeremy Ten (born 1989), Canadian competitive figure skater * Sergey Ten (born 1976), Russian politician * Vicente Ten (born 1966), Spanish politician * Ten Miyagi (born 2001), Japa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cry Me A River (film)
''Cry Me a River'' ( ''Heshang de aiqing'', literally "love on the river") is a 2008 short film directed by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film is a romance recounting the reunion of four college friends and lovers after ten years. The leads are played by Jia regulars Zhao Tao and Wang Hongwei, and Hao Lei and Guo Xiaodong, who starred together in Lou Ye's 2006 film ''Summer Palace''. Jia has stated that he was inspired by the classic Chinese film '' Spring in a Small Town'', also about the reuniting of former lovers in a rural river town in eastern China. The film was produced by Jia's own Xstream Pictures. Release The film premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival out-of-competition as one of two Chinese films in the lineup (Yu Lik-wai's '' Plastic City'' was the other). The short film also screened with Jia's feature length '' 24 City'' as a companion piece at the BFI London Film Festival The BFI London Film Festival is an annual film festival held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dada's Dance
''Dada's Dance'' () is a 2008 Chinese film directed by the leading sixth generation director, Zhang Yuan. Unlike earlier films in his career, ''Dada's Dance'' successfully negotiated the Chinese censorship apparatus and emerged unedited and unchanged from Zhang's original cut. The film stars Li Xinyun as the titular Dada and was produced by Zhang's own Zhang Yuan Cultural Studios and the Beijing Century Good-Tidings Cultural Development Company. The film screened once in Beijing, China during the Beijing Screenings event on 25 September 2008 and had its international premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival on 3 October 2008. Plot Dada ( Li Xinyun) is a young woman living in an unnamed central China city (filming took place in Wuhan) with her divorced mother (Gai Ke) and her mother's leering boyfriend ( Wu Lanhui). Her neighbor, Zhao Ye (Li Xiaofeng) spies on her through her open window each morning as she dances to salsa music and gets ready for the day. Dada, kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
