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Zhao Tao
Zhao Tao is a Chinese actress and dancer. She is best known for collaborating with her longtime partner and director Jia Zhangke on various acclaimed films, including Platform, Unknown Pleasures, Still Life, A Touch of Sin, and Ash Is Purest White. Her performances have garnered international recognition, earning her awards at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals.
Titles credited to Zhao Tao
三峡好人
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the soc...
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Io sono Li
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon.
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天注定
Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.
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二十四城记
24 City chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned factory in Chengdu, southwest China and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Three generations, eight char...
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江湖儿女
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find h...
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Jia Zhangke, Um Homem de Fenyang
Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platfo...
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海上传奇
Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.
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山河故人
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
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