Coming Home

2014

Chinese

7.2

♡ 24

89%

Yimou Zhang Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Feng Wanyu

Jiali Ding as Mr. Fang's wife

Bai Qing Xin as Officer Ballet School Feng Zu

Feng Zu as Officer Deng

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.

The Monkey King 2

2016

Chinese

5.9

♡ 54

100%

based on novel or book

Soi Cheang Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Baigujing / White-Boned Demon Lu Wei

Lu Wei as Evil spirit snake

Kelly Chen as Guanyin

Aaron Kwok as Sun Wukong / Monkey King

Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world!

Leap

2020

Chinese

6.6

♡ 10

67%

Peter Ho-Sun Chan Director

Mathieu Jaquet as Beijing Olympic Referee Li Gong

Li Gong as Lang Ping

Fiona Fu as Lang Ping's Freind

Mike Jackson as Us Recruiter

After 12 years, the Chinese women's volleyball team again reached the Olympic final. The ups and downs of the Chinese women's volleyball team for more than three decades have slowly spread away.

Temptress Moon

1996

Chinese

6.6

♡ 6

62%

Kaige Chen Director

Xun Zhou as Nightclub girl Li Gong

Li Gong as Ruyi

Jie Zhou as Woman on Zephyr Lane

Leslie Cheung as Zhongliang / Ruyi's brother-in-law

Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.

Eros

2004

English

5.9

♡ 20

33%

Steven Soderbergh Director

Alan Arkin as Dr. Pearl / Hal

Enrica Antonioni as Guest at the Restaurant Li Gong

Li Gong as Miss Hua

Robert Downey Jr. as Nick Penrose

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: it features three different tales of passion. In "The Hand," young tailor Zhang (Chen Chang) is attracted to high-priced prostitute Miss Hua (Gong Li). Next is "Equilibrium," in which stressed businessman Nick (Robert Downey Jr.) explains his problems to unhelpful therapist Dr. Pearl (Alan Arkin). Finally, "The Dangerous Thread of Things" examines the relationship problems of Christopher (Christopher Buchholz) and Chloe (Regina Nemni), a couple on vacation in Tuscany.

Saturday Fiction

2019

Chinese

6.6

♡ 2

48%

Ye Lou Director

Mark Chao as

Ayumu Nakajima as

Tom Wlaschiha as Saul Speyer Li Gong

Li Gong as Yu Jin

Iconic actress Jean Yu returns to Japanese-occupied China to star in a play directed by her former lover. However, her undercover work for the Allies soon places her life in grave danger.

The Hand

2020

Chinese

7.4

♡ 12

Drama

erotic

Romance

Kar-Wai Wong Director

Chi Keong Un as Hotel Concierge Li Gong

Li Gong as Miss Hua

Lai Fu Yim as Tailor

Chen Chang as Zhang

Hong Kong, 1960s. Zhang, a shy tailor's assistant, is riveted by his imperious client Miss Hua. Upon meeting her, she seduces him to make sure he will truly remember her when designing her garments. After this intimate first encounter, a rapport develops between the two. Entry is for the theatrically released extended version, not the segment from the Eros anthology.

Flirting Scholar

1993

Cn

7.6

♡ 13

88%

Lik-Chi Lee Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Chau Heung

Chia-Hui Liu as Evil Scholar

Jessica Hester Hsuan as Ha Heung

Stephen Chow as Tong Pak Foo

A scholar in search of true love. Disguising himself as a houseboy, he indentures himself to a rich family in order to pursue the ravishing servant girl who has stolen his heart.

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006

Chinese

7.0

♡ 31

65%

Yimou Zhang Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Empress Phoenix

Wen Zhang as Performer

Jay Chou as Prince Jai

Liam O'Brien as Prince Jai

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.

Red Sorghum

1988

Chinese

7.3

♡ 14

85%

83%

1940s

Action

based on novel or book

distillery

Drama

History

japanese occupation of china

Yimou Zhang Director

Yimou Zhang as

Hongguang Wang as Li Gong

Li Gong as Wo Nainai

Wen Jiang as Wo Yeye

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.

Ju Dou

1990

Chinese

7.6

♡ 14

100%

Yimou Zhang Director

Xingli Niu as

Ma Chong as Li Gong

Li Gong as Ju Dou

Zhang Yi as Yang Tianbai

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

Shanghai Triad

1995

Chinese

7.1

♡ 10

90%

Yimou Zhang Director

Lian Shuliang as

Shu Chen as Shi Ye

Chun Sun as Song, Tang's No. 2 Li Gong

Li Gong as Xiao Jingbao

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of Laoda, supreme boss of the Tang Triad, constantly threatened by his enemies, both those he knows and those lurking in the shadows.

Zhou Yu's Train

2002

Chinese

6.4

♡ 4

42%

59%

Drama

Romance

Zhou Sun Director

Yanhui Wang as

Tony Ka Fai Leung as Chen Qing

Honglei Sun as Zhang Qiang Li Gong

Li Gong as Zhou Yu / Xiu

Zhou Yu, a ceramic artisan in China's rural Northwest, has a deep rapport with Chen Qing, a shy sensitive poet. Taking a long train ride every weekend just to make mad passionate love with him, her longing seems insatiable. Until one day, she meets the hedonistic vet Zhang Qiang and begins a torrid affair, which takes her to another train station, and another level of lust. Driven by the locomotive of love and desire, she hustles through a dark tunnel of no return.

The Story of Qiu Ju

1992

Chinese

7.5

♡ 7

87%

85%

Action

based on novel or book

Yimou Zhang Director

Luowen Cui as

Wanqing Zhu as Zi Lin

Zi Lin as Li Gong

Li Gong as Qiu Ju

When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.

A Soul Haunted by Painting

1994

Chinese

6.6

♡ 5

Shuqin Huang Director

Wei Zhao as Tai-Bo

Tai-Bo as

Feng Tien as Li Gong

Li Gong as Pan Yuliang

A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.

Farewell My Concubine

1993

Chinese

8.1

♡ 35

90%

woman between two men

Kaige Chen Director

Leslie Cheung as Cheng Dieyi

Wenli Jiang as Douzi's Mother Li Gong

Li Gong as Juxian Dan Li

Dan Li as Laizi / Peking Opera schoolboy

Two boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.

To Live

1994

Chinese

8.3

♡ 29

87%

Yimou Zhang Director

Zongluo Huang as Fu Gui's Dad

Tianchi Liu as Xu Fengxia, Li Gong

Li Gong as Xu Jiazhen

Deng Fei as Xu Youqing

Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.