TV Guide: Gong Li

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Video: The Emperor and the Assassin

iTunes — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:11:20 -0400

From the acclaimed director of Farewell, My Concubine comes The Emperor and the Assassin a visually stunning epic, exploring the devastating price one country pays for peace and one man pays for power. Ying Zheng, the King of Qin, has one driving ambition: to unify China's seven kingdoms into one magnificent empire. Impressed by her lover's convictions, Lady Zhao (Gong Li) helps Ying Zheng concoct an assassination plot that would justify the conquest of Qin's most powerful enemy. When Ying Zheng's peaceful mission explodes into a brutal holocaust, a disillusioned Lady Zhao is forced to question her loyalty and her lover's destiny.

Video: Coming home to Beijing

MSNBC — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:03:53 -0400

July 28: Gong Li is a Beijing native who pursued graduate studies in the U.K. and then an IT career in the U.S. In 2001, he returned to a radically changed Chinese capital and told NBC News Producer Adrienne Mong how it took him a couple of years to readjust to home.

Video: Memoirs of a Geisha

iTunes — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:29:05 -0400

"... a visually stunning adaptation of Arthur Golden's best-selling novel." (Barry Caine, Oakland Tribune) The director of Chicago, Rob Marshall, transports us into a mysterious and exotic world that casts a potent spell. A Cinderella story like no other, Memoirs of a Geisha stars Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh and Gong Li. "Gorgeously photographed, meticulously directed and hypnotically acted. Memoirs of a Geisha is luxurious, ethereal and intoxicating. It will leave you breathless." (Rex Reed, New York Observer)

Video: Miami Vice -clip#1

AOL Moviefone — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:48:10 -0400

Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy (Naomie Harris) as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) is charismatic and flirtatious until -- while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group -- he gets romantically involved with Isabella (Gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. The intensity of the case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one -- especially for Crockett, in his romance with Isabella, and for Tubbs, in the provocation of an assault on those he loves. Directed by Michael Mann ('Collateral,' 'Heat'). -

Video: 'Miami Vice' - Behind the Scenes Clip 04

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Video: 'Miami Vice' - Behind the Scenes Clip 03

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Video: 'Miami Vice' - Behind the Scenes Clip 02

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Video: 'Miami Vice' - Behind the Scenes Clip 01

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Video: 'Miami Vice' - DVD Clip No. 1

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Video: Miami Vice Trailer No. 1

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Video: Miami Vice - Trailer

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Video: 'Curse of the Golden Flower' - Gong Li - Q&A

AOL Moviefone — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:22:25 -0400

China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The EMPEROR (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, PRINCE JAI (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing EMPRESS (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and CROWN PRINCE WAN (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love CHAN (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor s daughter. Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress s health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the IMPERIAL DOCTOR (NI DAHONG) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor s family from the Palace to a remote area. While

Video: Curse of the Golden Flower - Trailer #1b

AOL Moviefone — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:22:24 -0400

Video: Chinese Box

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:53:18 -0400

Hong Kong emigrant Wayne Wang directed and co-wrote (with Paul Theroux, Jean-Claude Carriere and Larry Gross) this story set in the Pearl of the Orient as the British government prepared to hand over the city to China in 1997. John (Jeremy Irons) is an English journalist who has lived in the city for some time; while in some ways he still feels like an outsider, he's come to think of Hong Kong as a home and has close friends there. John is also in love with Vivian (Gong Li), a one-time prostitute who now runs a bar owned by her fianc , Chang (Michael Hui). John is struggling with the realization that he can never have Vivian as his own, when he learns that he has leukemia; the British are to give the reigns of power back to the Chinese in six months, but John's doctors tell him he isn't likely to live long enough to see it happen. He quits his job and begins wandering the streets, recording his observations of the city on videotape when he meets Jean (Maggie Cheung), a young woman who makes her way selling w

Video: Eros

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:46:33 -0400

Three of the world's most gifted filmmakers offer their own unique perspectives on love and lust in this omnibus film. The initial episode, The Hand, was directed by Wong Kar-Wai, and tells the story of Zhang (Chang Chen), a young, virginal dressmaker's assistant who finds it difficult to control his desire when he is sent to the home of Hua (Gong Li), a beautiful and refined prostitute, for a fitting. Steven Soderbergh directed the film's second story, Equilibrium, in which Nick Penrose (Robert Downey Jr.) spends a session with his analyst (Alan Arkin) discussing a recurring dream of a beautiful naked woman in his apartment, but he keeps wandering off on tangents about alarm clocks and hair loss. Finally, Italian virtuoso Michelangelo Antonioni brings his short story {-The Dangerous Thread of Things} to the screen, a story of a jaded couple, Christopher (Christopher Buchholz) and Chlo (Regina Nemni), whose relationship comes to a crossroads when both husband and wife become infatuated with the same woman,

Video: Hannibal Rising

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:32:22 -0400

Curious filmgoers looking to get better acquainted with the silver screen's most notorious cannibalistic serial killer are sure to get their fair share of shocks and thrills as director Peter Webber teams with author Thomas Harris to explore the early life of well-read psychopath Hannibal Lecter. Based on author Harris' gruesome novel of the same name, Hannibal Rising travels back in time to World War II-era Lithuania, where an impressionable, well-to-do young boy named Hannibal (Gaspard Ulliel) was forced to watch helplessly as his family was massacred and his young sister suffered a terrifying fate at the hands of desperate, famished soldiers. After seeking temporary shelter at the Soviet orphanage that was once his family's home, Hannibal later flees to Paris in search of his long-lost uncle. Though his uncle has passed away, his uncle's beautiful Japanese widow, Lady Murasaki (Gong Li), warmly accepts the frightened orphan into her home. But even the love and kindness of this generous stranger isn't enoug

Video: Shanghai Triad

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:57:59 -0400

Country boy Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle who wants the boy to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian). In fact, Shuisheng will serve Tang's capricious mistress Bijou (Gong Li), a nightclub singer whom the boss proclaimed the Queen of Shanghai. When the boy's uncle and the gang's several other members die during a rival gang's unsuccessful attempt on Tang's life, the latter retreats to a remote small island, taking both Bijou and Shuisheng with him and thinking of revenge. The film's English-language title is a little bit deceiving (the original Chinese title translates to Row, Row, Row to Grandmother's Bridge, a line in Tang's favorite song performed by Bijou), as this drama centers more on the boy's coming of age and Bijou's disillusionment than on Shanghai gang wars. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide.

Video: To Live

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:46:57 -0400

Zhang Yimou, often regarded as China's leading contemporary filmmaker, directed this drama chronicling the ebb and flow of one family's fortunes, set against the backdrop of China's tumultuous history between the 1940s and the 1970s. Fugui (Ge You) is the father of a once-wealthy family whose addiction to gambling and chronic bad luck causes him to lose his home in a game of dice with Long'er (Ni Dabong). Fugui's wife Jiazhen (Gong Li) abandons him, and he finds himself working as a peddler, until the man who now owns his home gives him a pair of shadow puppets. Fugui learns the art of puppetry and travels as a performer; while on the road, he is arrested by Nationalist forces, until he is liberated by advancing Red Army factions, and he comes him home to his wife and children as they adapt to the nation's new leadership. While once a lazy spendthrift, Fugui vows to change his ways, and he struggles to become a better worker and citizen. But Fugui and his family soon realize that there is adversity waiting fo

Video: Ju Dou

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:15:02 -0400

A dark, sensual, and visually sumptuous drama, Ju Dou centers on the title character, the third wife of a wealthy silk dyer in 1920s China. Forced into marriage by poverty, Ju Dou is repeatedly mistreated and cruelly disciplined by her husband, Jin-shan, for failing to bear him an heir. Her suffering attracts the sympathy of Jin-shan's younger, kinder nephew, Tian-qing, and the two begin a secret affair that could have tragic consequences. Spanning the course of many years, the film's narrative takes several surprising turns, defying expectations and complicating audience sympathies. None of the film's characters is wholly heroic or evil, allowing all three central performers -- Li Bao-tian as Tian-qing, Li Wei as Jin-shan, and the luminous Gong Li as Ju Dou -- to fashion memorable, complex portrayals. Director Zhang Yimou, a former cinematographer, uses gorgeously saturated images that emphasize his story's elemental nature, which often recalls classical tragedy. Met with controversy in China due to supposed

Video: Emperor And The Assassin, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:47:15 -0400

A lavishly produced historical drama from China, Jing Ke Ci Qin Wang/The Emperor and the Assassin tells the complex, multi-facetted story of the man who became the first Emperor of a unified China, another man who has sworn to kill him, and a woman who is loved by both men. Late in the Third Century B.C., when China was comprised of seven rival kingdoms, Ying Zheng (Li Xuejian) was the leader of Qin. Ying Zheng had a dream in which he joined together the seven kingdoms into a single utopian state, and taking this as a mandate from God, he invaded the nearby state of Han as the first step toward this goal. However, not everyone in the neighboring states was happy with Ying Zheng's crusade, which seemed to indicate a lengthy war with many casualties. Lady Zhao (Gong Li), Ying's lover, devised a scheme to help Ying Zheng take over the nearby and uncooperative state of Yan; she fabricated a fake assassination plot against him, and framed the leader of Yan, once Ying Zheng's childhood friend, as the man behind the

Photo: Gong Li and Gaspard Ulliel - screening of "Hannibal Rising" January 26, 2007

courtesy Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:00:00 -0400

gaspard ulliel, Gong Li

Photo: Colin Farrell and Gong Li - The "Miami Vice" premiere, July 20, 2006

courtesy Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400

Colin Farrell, Gong Li

Photo: Gong Li - 2007 Cannes Film Festival - Premiere of "My Blueberry Nights" - May 2007