Chen Kaige Movies

The story of three women whose worlds collide - a social commentary about the 'sound bite' society we are becoming, where perception becomes reality...

A blind man's master told him that after he has broken 1000 strings on his Banjo, he can open the Banjo to get a script for his eyes. After 60 years...

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively...

An unschooled young man, one of the countless victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution, is laboring in the countryside when he is assigned to teach in a...

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small...

A coming-of-age story about the lives of two teenage boys set in Beijing during the 1960s.

A documentary on the making of China's war epic "The Battle at Lake Changjin".

At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent...

Tony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.

The warm daily life of a harmonious family in a Siheyuan is on stage, and a dusty and beautiful memory in the long river is about to open.

short films

Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.

Meet Wang Yuelun, a young and ambitious Chinese who dreams of becoming a film director. Filmmaker Elisabeth O. Sjaastad follows an eventful year in...

Two-part TV film made by Chen Kaige for Air Force Political Department Drama Troupe.

Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by...

Albert Lin and National Geographic Channel unearth the terrible secrets that lie hidden in the tomb of China's first Emperor. The Terracotta Warriors...

Focus on 18th century classical music composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky's critical failure, persecution for his sexuality and mysterious death .

The rural memories, the lost places, and the crazy modernization in Beijing.