1991
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China's best-known actress in the West, she was named Best Actress at the 49th Venice International Film Festival for her role in The Story of Qiu Ju (1992) (aka "The Story of Qiu Ju").
- January 1, 1
- 1.70 m
- Shenyang, China
Premiere ranked her performance in Farewell My Concubine as the 89th greatest performance of all time. She also worked with renowned director Stephen Chow in comedy films God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai (1991) and Flirting Scholar (1993).
- Jessie Nguyen
- Senior List Writer
- ‘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).
A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Gong Li, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang, Xuejian Li. Votes: 5,900 | Gross: $2.30M.
- Ju Dou. Ju Dou was originally banned in China when it came out in 1990, but it was one of Gong Li’s earliest prominent roles. It is also a rare example of Technicolor being used in this time period, as it had become uncommon by the nineties.
- The Story of Qiu Ju. The Story of Qiu Ju, like so many of Zhang Yimou’s movies, is based on a novel. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was a surprise hit abroad.
- Farewell My Concubine. Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine is a cinematic masterpiece and one of the most stunning films ever made in movie history. Leslie Cheung portrays Cheng Dieyi, a Chinese opera singer who was trained to take on the female roles in opera performances.
- Raise the Red Lantern. Raise the Red Lantern is one of the most stunning movies when it comes to the cinematography, and that lends itself to the lanterns that appear throughout the film.
Browse the list of 29 titles featuring Gong Li, one of the most famous and influential actresses in Chinese cinema. See her roles in dramas, romances, comedies, and action films from 1988 to 2018.
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