Chen Kaige — Playwright (14)

Movie

The Volunteers: Peace at Last (2025)
志愿军:浴血和平 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 4.9 12 ratings
other title: 志愿军第三部 / 志愿军:雄兵出击3 …
Set during the final phase of the War to Resist U.S. and Aid Korea, the film depicts the tense final battles and simultaneous peace negotiations leading to the armistice, capturing the spirit of perseverance and sacrifice on both the battlefield and the diplomatic front.

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The Volunteers: The Battle of Life and Death (2024)
志愿军:存亡之战 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 5.6 27 ratings
other title: 志愿军:存亡之战 / 抗美援朝(第二部) …
The movie focuses on the battle of Cheolwon, where the 63rd Army of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (CPVA) was ordered to enter the battlefield of Cheolwon in May 1951, just after a month-long battle, to fight against four divisions of the United Nations Army (UNA). The volunteers fought with bloodshed and finally brought the enemy to the negotiation table.

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淑贞 (2020)
Douban
★ 4.4 9 ratings
陈凯歌 actor: 苇青 / 史彭元 …
故事发生在北京的一个四合院里。主人公淑贞年近九十,与曾孙齐马一家一起生活。平时爱偷喝个冰牛奶,身体健朗。平淡从容的生活本应一直继续,然而最近,齐马却察觉到祖奶的一些不同寻常……随着祖奶秘密的展开,一段与另一个淑贞的往事也浮出水面……

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Life on a String (1991)
边走边唱 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 6.0 14 ratings
陈凯歌 actor: 刘仲元 / 许晴 …
other title: 边走边唱 / 断了的弦 …
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 he broke the 1000th string.

Movie

King of the Children (1987)
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★ 8.3 239 ratings
陈凯歌 actor: 谢园 / 杨学文 …
other title: 아이들의 왕 / 孩子王 …
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 nearby school. Gradually, he abandons the Maoist textbook and encourages the barely literate kids to write about their own lives and feelings.

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The Emperor and the Assassin (1998)
荆轲刺秦王 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
★ 8.1 249 ratings
陈凯歌 actor: 巩俐 / 张丰毅 …
other title: 시황제 암살 / 荆轲刺秦王 …
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king's cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering.

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Sacrifice (2010)
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★ 5.6 379 ratings
陈凯歌 actor: 葛优 / 王学圻 …
other title: 천하영웅 / 赵氏孤儿 …
For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When Tu’an Gu learns of the baby’s escape he seizes every infant in the city, vowing to kill them all unless the Zhao baby is surrendered. As the tyrant’s soldiers arrive at Cheng Ying’s home the frantic doctor hides his wife with their own baby whilst surrendering the Zhao child as his own. But his family is discovered; his baby is presumed to be the Zhao heir and murdered along with his wife for harboring the infant. Now set on revenge Cheng Ying enrolls the Zhao orphan into the service of the Tu’an Gu household, plotting to use him as an instrument of vengeance when he comes of age.