Jia Zhangke

Q: Has Jia Zhangke won any awards?

Yes, Jia Zhangke has won several awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for 'Still Life' in 2006. His work has been recognized globally for its artistic merit.

Q: What was Jia Zhangke's first film?

Jia Zhangke's first film was 'Xiao Wu' released in 1997. This film marked the beginning of his career and showcased his unique approach to storytelling.

Q: What are Jia Zhangke's most successful films?

Some of Jia Zhangke's most successful films include 'Still Life,' 'Platform,' and 'A Touch of Sin.' These films have received critical acclaim and have contributed to his reputation as a leading filmmaker.

Q: What is known about Jia Zhangke's personal life?

Jia Zhangke is married to actress Zhao Tao, and they have one child together. He often collaborates with her in his films, which adds a personal touch to his work.

Q: What is Jia Zhangke's estimated net worth?

Jia Zhangke's estimated net worth is around 10 million USD. This figure reflects his successful career as a filmmaker and the impact of his films in the industry.

Q: What are some milestones in Jia Zhangke's filmography?

Milestones in Jia Zhangke's filmography include his films 'Platform' (2000) and 'Still Life' (2006), which established him as a significant voice in contemporary cinema. His works often explore themes of modernity and social change.

Q: How has Jia Zhangke influenced Chinese cinema?

Jia Zhangke has greatly influenced Chinese cinema by introducing a new wave of storytelling that emphasizes realism and social issues. His films challenge traditional narratives and have inspired a generation of filmmakers.

Known for

Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors poster

Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors (2024)

2024 / Documentary / 78mins

Thousands of terracotta warriors guarded the first Chinese emperor's tomb. This is their story, told through archeological evidence and reenactments.

Name

Jia Zhangke

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

24 May 1970, Fenyang, Shanxi, China

Spouses

Zhao Tao (2000–present)

Children

1, name not publicly known

Parents

Jia Zhenhua, Wang Guifang

Estimated Net Worth

10 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Being Towards Death After a failed suicide attempt, Zhang Xiaobing (Jiang Long) is sent to Ward 10 — a ward for the critically...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2026	Movie Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke	Self - filmmaker	Not rated
2025	Movie Mostly Sunny Wu You is as carefree as his name suggests. He is single and lives with his nearly 70-year-old mother Zhang...	Dr. Cai	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2025	TV Crossroads with Luo Yonghao This is a long-form, in-depth podcast hosted by Luo Yonghao, with each episode running three to five hours. We engage...	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2025	Movie The Lychee Road A Tang Dynasty minor official risks everything to deliver lychees across China. Li Shande, middle-aged and struggling, sees this dangerous...	Zhong Shu Official	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2025	Movie Art College 1994 In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their...	Gu Yongqing (voice)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2024	Movie Moonlight Madness When gold medal lawyer Hu Gongping was having a secret meeting with his lover She Xiaoman, a body suddenly fell...	Guest in room 622	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2024	Movie Black Dog On the edge of the Gobi desert in Northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from jail....	Uncle Yao	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2023	Movie The Best is Yet to Come In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming...	Coal Mine Owner	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	TV Jia's Talk This talk show was initiated by director Jia Zhangke. It opened an in-depth dialogue with 8 guests from all walks...	自己	Not rated
2022	TV 不要回答	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie The Great Director The closing film for 2021's Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival.	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	Movie Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2020	Movie Keep Rolling One of Hong Kong's most influential filmmakers, Ann Hui, becomes a “star” for the first time in Man Lim-chung's directorial...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2020	Movie Citizen Kitano Takeshi Kitano is an international icon. We know the actor, the multi-award-winning filmmaker, but many ignore his double personality: the...	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2020	Movie Visit The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space....	Unknown character	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2016	Movie Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators....	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	TV Thirteen Talks	Unknown character	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2016	Movie The Hedonists The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2016	Movie Everybody's Fine When all four of his children cancel their yearly visits, a widower travels to the far corners of the country...	(cameo)	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	Movie About Cinema An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which...	Self	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2015	Movie Our Time: A Decade of Daring a documentary series created by Jia Zhangke, with 10 short films about 10 leading figures in various industries in China,...	Unknown character	Not rated
2014	Movie Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2014	Movie The Continent Three men living in the Eastern most island of China go on a road trip to the Western most end...	Su Mi's Uncle	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2013	Movie Boundless As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2013	Movie A Touch of Sin Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village....	Distinguished Guest	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2007	Movie Xiao Jia Going Home Leading Chinese Sixth Generation filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns home to Fenyang in Shanxi province after winning the Golden Lion Award...	Himself	TMDB 3.0 / 10
2006	Movie Karmic Mahjong Chen Chuan (Francis Ng) is a simple man who seems to be cursed with bad luck all the time. Convinced...	Mobster	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2005	Movie Made in China A documentary about the making of Jia Zhangke's film the World.	Self	Not rated
2003	Movie My Camera Doesn’t Lie A film about Chinese underground filmmakers who were the first to express their truthful and realistic views on China from...	Jia Zhangke	Not rated
2003	Movie Shiny Stars, Rusty Red Meet Wang Yuelun, a young and ambitious Chinese who dreams of becoming a film director. Filmmaker Elisabeth O. Sjaastad follows...	Himself	Not rated
2002	Movie Unknown Pleasures Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that...	Man singing in street (uncredited)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2002	Movie Overloaded Peking A documentary about Peking in the dawn of the new Millenium. Contains interviews with Jia Zhangke and dj Gaohu	Himself	Not rated
1995	Movie Xiao Shan Going Home Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1962	TV Golden Horse Awards The Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ Yǐngzhǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak Kim-má iáⁿ-tián) is a...	Self	TMDB 9.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Pseudo Idealist Jia Zhangke is starring in his first lead role, appearing as an artist facing a midlife crisis in Cheng Er's...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	Movie Filipiñana Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. However, after piecing together...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2026	Movie Proudly Amateur Jia Zhangke's second collaboration with Seedance 2.0, an AI video generation model by Doubao, after "Jia Zhangke's Dance". Made after...	Director Directing	Not rated
2026	Movie Torino Shadow A woman travels from southern China to Turin, Italy, to see her husband. But an unexpected departure leaves her to...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2026	Movie Torino Shadow A woman travels from southern China to Turin, Italy, to see her husband. But an unexpected departure leaves her to...	Writer Writing	Not rated
2026	Movie Torino Shadow A woman travels from southern China to Turin, Italy, to see her husband. But an unexpected departure leaves her to...	Director Directing	Not rated
2026	Movie Jia Zhangke's Dance Jia Zhangke, in collaboration with Seedance 2.0 a video generation model by Doubao, ponders about the future of cinema with...	Producer Production	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2026	Movie Jia Zhangke's Dance Jia Zhangke, in collaboration with Seedance 2.0 a video generation model by Doubao, ponders about the future of cinema with...	Director Directing	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2025	Movie Heaven and Hell The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2025	Movie The Sun Rises on Us All He sacrificed himself for love, taking the blame for a crime she committed. Unable to repay him for the sacrifice...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2025	Movie Caught by the Tides Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2025	Movie Caught by the Tides Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down,...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2025	Movie Caught by the Tides Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2024	Movie Moonlight Madness When gold medal lawyer Hu Gongping was having a secret meeting with his lover She Xiaoman, a body suddenly fell...	Presenter Crew	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2024	Movie Wheat Harvest What is your sense of homesickness? Is it the food of my hometown, the playmates of my childhood, or the...	Director Directing	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2024	Movie A River Without Tears Hu Dengjie travels thousands of miles in search of his daughter's best friend, Ji Hong, to uncover the truth about...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2023	Movie Out of Jungle From the music of Filipino composer Teresa Barrozo, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke crafts a story that conveys the architectonics of...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2023	Movie The Best is Yet to Come In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2023	Movie The Best is Yet to Come In 2003, Han Dong, a teenager who dropped out of high school, arrives at Beijing with a dream of becoming...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2022	TV Jia's Talk This talk show was initiated by director Jia Zhangke. It opened an in-depth dialogue with 8 guests from all walks...	Creator Creator	Not rated
2022	Movie Home The story mainly tells the story of Zhang Mingliang and Bai Jing, a pair of ordinary people born in the...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2022	Movie Peacock, Peacock Yi Yi, a white-collar worker in a lattice room, and Ah Juan, a female worker in a garment factory, are...	Director Directing	Not rated
2021	Movie White Building Samnang, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2021	Movie Memoria After hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	Movie Close-Up In Close-Up, Jia explores the counterpart to the wide shot. Four elevated surveillance cameras scan a busy traffic intersection, capturing...	Director Directing	Not rated
2021	Movie Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Tomorrow Will Be Fine A romantic comedy about an obscure screenwriter nearing her thirties and a frustrated musician who accidentally end up in a...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 1.7 / 10
2021	Movie Tracing Her Shadow An old Chinese woman visits Japan to find her missing daughter whom she adopted in post-WWII China. Her granddaughter and...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2020	Movie A Song for You In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs –...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2020	Movie A Song for You In A Song for You – a road movie and a music industry insider comedy, with lots of songs –...	Producer Production	Not rated
2020	Movie Visit The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space....	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2020	Movie Visit The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space....	Director Directing	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2020	Movie The Calming A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2020	Movie The Calming A filmmaker is constantly on the move after recently ending a relationship. As she travels alone between Beijing, Nanjing, Hong...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2019	Movie Neighbors The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about...	Producer Production	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2019	Movie Number One In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to rewrite his life.	Producer Production	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2019	Movie Number One In the context of China's urbanization, a young man faces existential difficulties and decides to rewrite his life.	Supervising Producer Production	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2018	Movie Half the Sky	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2018	Movie Ash Is Purest White Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie Ash Is Purest White Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie Ash Is Purest White Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie Dead Pigs A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Dead Pigs A pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2017	Movie Where Has Time Gone? A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie Where Has Time Gone? A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie Where Has Time Gone? A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2017	Movie One Night on the Wharf Han Dong adapts his own 1998 novel, about a group of young poets accidentally caught up in an inexplicable dispute...	Producer Production	Not rated
2017	Movie Revive Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2017	Movie Revive Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2017	Movie Life After Life A hare is let loose in the forest, a dog gives chase and the boy tears after them, his father...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2017	Movie Life After Life A hare is let loose in the forest, a dog gives chase and the boy tears after them, his father...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2017	Movie Still Born Thousands of years in the future, a laborer whose job is to recover artifacts of the past tries to free...	Producer Production	Not rated
2016	Movie Beautiful 2016 The latest edition of the Beautiful series, commissioned for the Hong Kong International Film Festival, which asks established and acclaimed...	Director Directing	Not rated
2016	Movie The Hedonists The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2016	Movie The Hedonists The closure of an unprofitable state-run coal mine in Shanxi, China forces three middle-aged men who worked there to search...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2015	Movie Mountains May Depart The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Mountains May Depart The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Mountains May Depart The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie K A mongolian interpretation of Kafka's "The Castle".	Producer Production	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2015	Movie Smog Journeys Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	Movie Smog Journeys Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	Movie Smog Journeys Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2015	Movie Our Time: A Decade of Daring a documentary series created by Jia Zhangke, with 10 short films about 10 leading figures in various industries in China,...	Director Directing	Not rated
2015	Movie Chen Ling	Producer Production	Not rated
2014	Movie Fidaï A seventy-year-old veteran of the Algerian War of Independence speaks about his years of struggle as an underground soldier for...	Producer Production	Not rated
2014	Movie Great Heat A fugitive and a street vendor form an unexpected, wordless bond after a pregnant woman is hit by a car...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2014	Movie Black Coal, Thin Ice Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.	Thanks Crew	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2014	Movie Lao Pan's Day and Night Three years ago, a Weibo posted by Pan Shiyi brought PM2.5 into the public eye.In the past three years, he...	Director Directing	Not rated
2013	Movie A Touch of Sin Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village....	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2013	Movie A Touch of Sin Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village....	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2013	Movie A Touch of Sin Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village....	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2013	Movie Venice 70: Future Reloaded Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2013	Movie Forgetting to Know You Young Chinese parents Chen Xuesong and Cai Weihang find their marriage eroding as they deal with financial troubles, jealousy and...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2012	Movie Memories Look at Me Fang comes back to her parents’ home in Nanjing, to spend some time with them. During her stay, her elder...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie 3.11 A Sense of Home Films In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2011	Movie 3.11 A Sense of Home: Jia Zhang-ke	Director Directing	Not rated
2011	Movie Mr. Tree Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie Mr. Tree Teased by hallucinations, Shu, a slacker living in a rural village, struggles with an ever-loosening grip on reality. Yet when...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2011	Movie Yulu The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business...	Director Directing	Not rated
2011	Movie Yulu The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business...	Producer Production	Not rated
2011	Movie Yulu The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fields of business...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated
2011	Movie Pan Shiyi	Director Directing	Not rated
2011	Movie Cao Fei	Director Directing	Not rated
2010	Movie I Wish I Knew Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2010	Movie I Wish I Knew Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port,...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2009	Movie Plastic City Yuda, a Chinese immigrant, and his adopted son Kirin, who he saved being eaten by a tiger in the jungle,...	Producer Production	TMDB 3.9 / 10
2009	Movie Perfect Life Perfect Life, the second feature by Emily Tang (Tang Xiaobai), at first revolves around Li Yueying, a young woman in...	Co-Producer Production	Not rated
2008	Movie Remembrance Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	Movie Remembrance Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.	Director Directing	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2008	Movie Black Breakfast Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2008	Movie Black Breakfast Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.	Editor Editing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2008	Movie Stories on Human Rights 20 short films about human rights.	Director Directing	TMDB 2.2 / 10
2008	Movie 24 City As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie 24 City As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie 24 City As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the...	Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2008	Movie Cry Me a River An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2008	Movie Cry Me a River An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2008	Movie Useless Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie Useless Observations of three varied corners of China’s garment industry: workers in a large-scale production line factory; a designer who rallies...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2007	Movie Our Ten Years Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2007	Movie Our Ten Years Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	Movie Dong Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2006	Movie Dong Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2006	Movie Dong Jia Zhangke travels with painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they as they meet everyday workers in the...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2006	Movie Still Life A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Still Life A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Still Life A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	Movie Walking on the Wild Side Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie This Moment China's first new media (cell phone) movie, including "There" (Jia Zhangke, director, later the same), "A Moment of Silence" (Wang...	Director Directing	Not rated
2004	Movie The World At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie The World At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2003	Movie All Tomorrow's Parties In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are...	Associate Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2003	Movie All Tomorrow's Parties In a future century, after the apocalypse, Gui Dao dynasty controls continental Asia. Zhuai and his younger brother Mian are...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2002	Movie Unknown Pleasures Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2002	Movie Unknown Pleasures Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2001	Movie Platform China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2001	Movie Platform China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2001	Movie In Public A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town....	Director Directing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie In Public A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town....	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie In Public A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town....	Editor Editing	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie In Public A fragmentary landscape for a little train station in a suburban area and a bus stop in a mining town....	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2001	Movie The Condition of Dogs Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	Movie The Condition of Dogs Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle...	Director of Photography Camera	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	Movie The Condition of Dogs Shows a market where puppies are bought and sold. Several puppies are placed in a cloth bag, and they struggle...	Editor Editing	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1997	Movie Pickpocket A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.	Director Directing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1997	Movie Pickpocket A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.	Producer Production	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1997	Movie Pickpocket A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1996	Movie Du Du One summer day in Beijing, a female college student named Dudu is suddenly overcome by an inexplicable restlessness during a...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
1996	Movie Du Du One summer day in Beijing, a female college student named Dudu is suddenly overcome by an inexplicable restlessness during a...	Director Directing	Not rated
1995	Movie Xiao Shan Going Home Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to...	Editor Editing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1995	Movie Xiao Shan Going Home Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1995	Movie Xiao Shan Going Home Xiao Shan, a temporary worker at the Hongyuan Restaurant, has just been fired by his boss Zhao Guoqing. Deciding to...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1994	Movie One Day in Beijing The camera gazes at the crowd in Tiananmen Square. Accompanied by the music of Qigong exercises, the lives passing to...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Mamma Dunhuang Follows a mother who has spent most of her life in Dunhuang, a historic city in western China. With the...	Writer Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie Mamma Dunhuang Follows a mother who has spent most of her life in Dunhuang, a historic city in western China. With the...	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie 在那里	Director Directing	Not rated
TBA	Movie In the Qing Dynasty Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end...	Screenplay Writing	Not rated
TBA	Movie In the Qing Dynasty Explores the turbulence amongst scholars, bandits and local officials following the abolition of the imperial examination system at the end...	Director Directing	Not rated

Being Towards Death

2026 / TMDB 7.0

Presi dall'onda - Conversazione con Jia Zhangke

2026

Mostly Sunny

2025 / TMDB 4.8

The Lychee Road

2025 / TMDB 7.2

Art College 1994

2025 / TMDB 6.1

Moonlight Madness

2024 / TMDB 4.8

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Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors (2024)

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