Zhou Xun
Ming Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers; give him 5 million dollars and he'll run away with his benefactress to Harbin. Ming Ming meets D's other girlfriend, Nana, who is a virtual look-alike of Ming Ming. Meanwhile, he disappears from Shanghai without a trace. The only clue he leaves behind is a cryptic phone message.
Director: Susie Au
Actors: Zhou Xun, Daniel Wu, Tony Yang, Kristy Yang
1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and mouse" ensues as the Chinese code-breaker attempts to send out a crucial message while protecting his/her own identity.
Director: GuoFu Chen
Actors: Zhou Xun, Zhang Hanyu, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Zhiwen Wang
All Yuan Zhinan has left behind when she passed away is a letter and an invitation to a school reunion. Attending the reunion in lieu of her late elder sister, Zhihua accidentally runs into Yin Chuan, on whom she had a crush in her youth. As old memories are evoked, and correspondences travel through different contexts and times, Zhihua slowly uncovers the intricate story of the trio.
Director: Shunji Iwai
Actors: Zhou Xun, Zhang Zifeng, Qin Hao, Du Jiang, Hu Ge
Liu Zhi, a young man, depressed and trapped in a loveless marriage with a dominating girl, meets Baober (an ageless young girl) on a Beijing street one day. They fall in love and start to live a strange, mysterious life....
Director: Li Shaohong
Actors: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Huang Jue, Liao Fan, Li Xiaoran
In 500 B.C., during Chinas famed 'Spring and Autumn Period', Kong Ze (Confucius), a commoner reverred for his outstanding wisdom, is made Minister of Law in the ancient Kingdom of Lu. Under his inspired leadership, Lu ascends to new heights but becomes a target of conquest for the warlike nation of Qi. Threatened with annihilation by their powerful neighbour, a desperate people turn to their greatest teacher to lead their most powerful army. When Confucius delivers a stunning victory against all odds, a jealous aristocracy sets out to destroy him, but they should never under-estimate a remarkable man whose wisdom is more powerful than the sword.
Director: Mei Hu
Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Zhou Xun, Wang Ban, Chen Jianbin, Ren Quan
Venturing into the wilds of China, "Born in China" captures intimate moments with a panda bear and her growing cub, a young golden monkey who feels displaced by his baby sister, and a mother snow leopard struggling to raise her two cubs.
Director: Lu Chuan
Actors: John Krasinski, Zhou Xun
A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
Director: Han Sanping
Actors: Andy Lau, Chow Yun-Fat, Nick Cheung, Daniel Wu, Tony Leung Ka-Fai
A prostitute named Tong Tong enters the life of a man who runs a barbecue pork restaurant and quickly begins to ruin his life, as well as the life of his two rotund sons, and a local gangster.
Director: Fruit Chan
Actors: Zhou Xun, Glen Chin, Wong Yau-Nam, Ho Sai-Man, Leung Sze-Ping
Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts in order to maintain her lovely, youthful appearance. When General Wang Sheng (Chen Kun) 'rescues' her from a band of bandits and brings her home, trouble brews as the demon falls in love with the general.
Director: Gordon Chan
Actors: Donnie Yen, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Zhao Wei, Sun Li
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving, Jim Broadbent
A tragic love story set in contemporary Shanghai. The film stars Zhou Xun in a dual role as two different women and Jia Hongsheng as a man obsessed with finding a woman from his past.
Director: Lou Ye
Actors: Zhou Xun, Jia Hongsheng, Zhongkai Hua, Nai An, Yao Anlian
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor’s beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Director: Sijie Dai
Actors: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Xu Zu, Wang Shuangbao
Xiao Yu (Zhou), a barista and cake maker in a teahouse-café by Westlake in Hangzhou. Since a car crash long ago, she had been leading a peaceful life with her kind-hearted best friend and fellow car crash survivor Tong (Yim) who is unabashed in admitting that his feelings for Xiao Yu have developed into love. One day A Qin (Chen) celebrates his birthday alone in her café. Xiao Yu's curiosity sparks off their dialogues and both discover they have many parallels. But A Qin is a player who is escaping to Hangzhou from the pressures of his relationships in Beijing and Xiao Yu is pursued by Tong ... What will be their choices?
When a mysterious death occurs, the lives of five unexpected strangers are suddenly intertwined together. A drug trafficking crime is unveiled, and through the twist and turns of the investigation, their stories unravel, and a bizarre connection is gradually discovered between them.
Director: Cao Baoping
Actors: Zhou Xun, Deng Chao, Zhang Hanyu, Baoqiang Wang, Wang Yan-hui
In 907 AD, the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan, but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile, studying dance and music. His uncle murders his father, taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes death and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Little Wan's coronation and dispatches Wu Luan to a distant land; he then calls for a midnight banquet on the 100th day of his rule. Poison, treachery, Wu Luan's return, and the love of the innocent Qing for Wu Luan set up the final entanglements. No Fortinbras or Horatio lay the dead to rest.
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Actors: Zhang Ziyi, Ge You, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Ma Jingwu
In the early 1920’s, on the streets of Beijing, the nation’s most talented performers have gathered to show off their most spectacular skills. One day, a challenge is set: 50 silver dollars to whoever can reproduce the incredible magic trick “Eight Immortals’ Treat”. Zhang Xian appears amidst the waiting crowd and decides to try his hand at it.
Director: Derek Yee Tung-Sing
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Lau Ching-Wan, Zhou Xun, Paul Chun, Wang Xichao
A film about 3 generations of Chinese women coming together at Chinese New Year. Shot on iPhone 11 Pro.
Director: Theodore Melfi
Actors: Duo Duo Xu, Ai Li Zhang, Bai Sha Liu, Zhou Xun
Su Qi-Er, a wealthy man living during the Qing Dynasty who loses his fortune and reputation as a result of a conspiracy against him. After being forced out onto the streets, Su dedicates his life to martial arts and reemerges as a patriotic hero known as the "King of Beggars."
Director: Yuen Woo-ping
Actors: Vincent Zhao, Zhou Xun, Andy On, Guo Xiaodong, Jay Chou
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
Director: Er Cheng
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Wang Yibo, Zhou Xun, Eric Wang, Huang Lei
Carol 'Do Do' Cheng portrays the tough, eventful life of "Mama Boss" from childhood in pre-1949 Guilin to disillusionment in 1970s Taipei, where she struggles to run a noodle shop and contend with a host of colourful customers.
Director: Xie Yang
Actors: Carol Cheng, Zhou Xun, Kevin Lin, Yu Fang, Gu Bao-Ming
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Director: Wang Xiaoshuai
Actors: Lin Cui, Zhou Xun, Gao Yuanyuan, Shuang Li, Li Bin
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate picks up three years after the infamous Dragon Inn was burnt down in the desert when its innkeeper Jade vanished. A new gang of marauders had taken over - innkeepers by day and treasure hunters by night. The inn is the rumoured location of a lost city buried under the desert, and its hidden treasure would only be revealed by a gigantic storm every 60 years. The gang used the inn as a front to locate the lost treasure.
Director: Tsui Hark
Actors: Jet Li, Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Gwei Lun-mei, Lǐ Yǔchūn
A series of intertwining stories focus on the lives and transformations of three women and their romantic relationships.
Director: Tsui Hark
Actors: Zhou Xun, Kitty Zhang, Gwei Lun-mei, Alex Fong, Stephen Fung
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Director: Alan Mak
Actors: Zhou Xun, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Wang Xuebing, Mavis Fan, Dong Yong
Law was a chauffeur for the rural tycoon Luk, and he was jailed for killing a major land owner in a car accident. It was rumored that Luk was behind the land owner’s death, which gave Luk a competitive edge in the native apartment development deal. When Law gets out of prison five years later, the world has changed. Luk’s corporation has grown more powerful, while Luk’s right-hand man Keung has his own agenda to pursue. But things take a surprising turn. With the help of Law’s prison mate and computer whiz Joe, Law drugs Sean and his brothers in the drinks, then modify their mobile phones for wiretapping, Joe gets acquainted with the materialistic single mom Eva, who turns out to have a dark history with both Law and Keung. Through the eavesdropping, Law realizes Keung’s ultimate plan, which may change Hong Kong’s land development forever.
Director: Alan Mak
Actors: 古天乐, Lau Ching-Wan, Daniel Wu, Zhou Xun, Michelle Ye
Set in 1948 against the backdrop of Communism's rise, "Fei" is the story of two sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, a legendary business entrepreneur, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything.
Director: Ann Hu
Actors: Vivian Wu, Lisa Lu, Zhou Xun, Zhiwen Wang, Ju Xue
A love triangle develops during the making of a musical in mainland China.
Director: Peter Chan
Actors: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhou Xun, Jacky Cheung, Ji Jin-hee, Eric Tsang
According to demon lore, it takes hundreds of years to attain human form. Even then, lacking a human heart, a demon cannot experience the true pains and passions of existence. However, there is a legend that if a pure human heart is freely offered to a demon, it can become a mortal and experience true life. Sequel of Painted Skin (2008).
Director: Wuershan
Actors: Zhou Xun, Chen Kun, Zhao Wei, Yang Mi, William Feng