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Gong Li was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China, she is the youngest of five children. Her father was a professor of economics and her mother was a teacher. [6] She grew up in Jinan, the capital of Shandong. She has been fond of singing and dancing since childhood, and dreamt of becoming a singer.
May 2, 2024 · Gong Li, popular Chinese actress, widely associated with movies by Chinese director Zhang Yimou but perhaps best known to a broad Western audience for her role as a 1930s Japanese geisha in the film Memoirs of a Geisha (2005). Learn more about Gong’s life and work.
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- ‘Ju Dou’ (1990) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 100% Gong played the titular character in Ju Dou, a drama film directed by Zhang Yimou. The film follows Ju Dou who is trapped in an arranged marriage to an older and abusive textile factory owner.
- ‘The Monkey King 2’ (2016) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 100% The Monkey King 2 is loosely based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West and serves as a sequel to the 2014 film The Monkey King.
- ‘Raise the Red Lantern’ (1991) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 97% Raise the Red Lantern is set in 1920s China and tells the story of Songlian, played by Gong, a young woman who becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy man in a polygamous household.
- ‘Shanghai Triad’ (1995) Rotten Tomatoes Scores: 90% Set in Shanghai during the 1930s, Shanghai Triad centers around a young boy named Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) who is sent to the city to work as a servant for his uncle, Tang (Li Baotian).
Feb 5, 2021 · By Tim Gray. Courtesy of We Distribution. Gong Li became a star in Zhang Yimou’s 1988 “Red Sorghum,” her film debut. Since then, she has headlined dozens of films from China, Hollywood and...
Nov 15, 2006 · But Gong Li isn't returning the same actress that left two years ago to try an English-language film. Armed with new life lessons and a language or two, Gong Li re-energizes mainland filmmaking with a hypnotic new performance and reminds her fellow countrymen why Chinese cinema can't do without her.
Sep 4, 2020 · The witch, played by screen legend Gong Li, has an array of dark talents, including the power to possess other bodies and to shape-shift into various forms, including a flock of birds. She’s...
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Jul 26, 2023 · The young man meets the new wife (Gong Li) — his uncle killed his other wives — and he is smitten with her, but his uncle wants her tortured.
