Zhao Tao Movies

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zhao Tao

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Han Sanming

At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Chen

Short-movie from Stories on Human Rights, 2008.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Zhao Tao

Han Jie’s feature debut draws on his own experiences growing up in a desolate mining district in northern China’s Shanxi province. A...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bai Paijiang

Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wei Wei Zhao

China’s rapid changes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiang Wu

An ancestral city; through its delicious botanical garden and its branched canals, we observe the clues and traces of its ancient culture. Two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Throughout ten years of a key era in Chinese and Hong Kong history, a girl becomes fixated on a fellow commuter who she observes regularly. While the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Liang Jingdong

Jia Zhangke’s short for Modern Weekly’s special tenth anniversary issue.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yu Entai

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jia Zhang-ke

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zhao Tao

Jia Zhangke's short film for Greenpeace East Asia depicts the effects of air pollution in northeast China, a region frequently blanketed in dangerous...

Genre: Family

Cast: Zhao Tao

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ko A-sung

TEN THOUSAND WAVES is a 9-screen installation shot on location in China. The work poetically weaves together stories linking China’s ancient...

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Cast: Maggie Cheung Man-Yuk

A short film omnibus featuring the work of five directors representing five countries involved in the 2017 BRICS summit, an annual international...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zhao Tao

Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Zhao Tao

Revive is one of five short films within the Jia Zhangke-produced omnibus film Where Has Time Gone? with contributions from each of the BRICS...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peng Yuchang

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao

Jia Zhangke told Deadline that he was set to begin production on his next film in October or November 2024, which will be a “road, travelogue...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zhao Tao