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Ash Is Purest White
(江湖儿女)
The violent love story of a young dancer and a mobster spanning from 2001 to 2017.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, France, Japan • 2018
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Liao Fan, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Zheng, Zhang Yibai, Diao Yi'nan
- Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy
I Wish I Knew
(海上传奇)
The stories of Shanghai – its history, its people, and its architecture -- spanning over more than a century.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2010
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Chen Danqing, Toon Wang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wei Wei, Rebecca Pan
- Genre Documentary, History
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
Still Life
(三峡好人)
A man and woman witness societal changes in their hometown, which is headed for demolition.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 2006
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Han Sanming, Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Zhubin Li, Haiyu Xiang, Lin Zhou
- Genre Drama
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
The World
(世界)
Employees experience alienation at a Beijing theme park filled with recreations of famous monuments.
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- China, Japan, France • 2004
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Cheng Taishen, Jue Jing, Jiang Zhongwei, Yi-qun Wang, Wang Hongwei
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Mountains May Depart
(山河故人)
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored over the course of two decades.
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- China, France, Japan • 2015
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Sylvia Chang, Dong Zijian, Zhang Yi, Liang Jingdong
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Kanopy
A Touch of Sin
(天注定)
Sin is in all of us --- it just takes different forms.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, France • 2013
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Jiang Wu, Baoqiang Wang, Zhao Tao, Zhang Jiayi, Luo Lanshan, Han Dong
- Genre Drama
- Available on AMC+ Amazon Channel, Metrograph, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube, Kanopy
Platform
(站台)
An amateur theater troupe evolves after China's "open door" policy.
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- Hong Kong, China, Japan • 2001
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Liang Jingdong, Tian Yi Yang, Wang Bo, Han Sanming
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
24 City
(二十四城记)
Three generations reflect on the history of state-owned factory 420 before it is closed and demolished to make way for luxury apartments.
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- China, Hong Kong, Japan • 2008
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Joan Chen, Lü Liping, Zhao Tao, Chen Jianbin
- Genre Drama
- Available on Fandango At Home, Kanopy
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
(一直游到海水变蓝)
A deeply insightful portrait of four important Chinese authors and the forces that shaped them.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2020
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Huifang Duan, Liang Hong, Pingwa Jia, Hua Yu
- Genre Documentary
- Available on OVID, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube
Unknown Pleasures
(任逍遥)
Three disaffected teenagers living in Datong represent a startling, new generation.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Japan, Korea • 2002
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Wei Wei Zhao, Qiong Wu, Zhao Tao, Qing Feng, Wang Hongwei, Ru Bai
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Useless
(无用)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Hong Kong • 2007
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Ma Ke
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Cry Me a River
(河上的爱情)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Spain, France • 2008
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Hao Lei, Guo Xiaodong
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Hedonists
(营生)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2016
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Han Sanming, Liang Jindong, Yuan Wenqian, Jia Zhangke
- Genre Comedy, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Dong
(东)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Hong Kong, China • 2006
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Liu Xiaodong, Han Sanming
- Genre Documentary, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Visit
(来访)
Commissioned by the Thessaloniki Film Festival in Greece, Zia Zhangke who wrote, stars and directs this short, tells the story of a man who amidst lockdowns due to COVID-19, goes to discuss a film project with a friend.
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- China • 2020
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Lian Yirui, Casper Liang, Jia Zhangke
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Caught by the Tides
(风流一代)
An aspiring singer and her manager meet twenty years after their romance ended.
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- China • 2025
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Zhou You, Ren Ke, Mao Tao, Zhubin Li, Pan Jianlin
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Our Ten Years
(我们的十年)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2007
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Liang Jingdong, Tian Yuan, Zhao Tao
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Bucket
(一个桶)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2019
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast 李宣, 江贞
- Genre Family, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Where Has Time Gone?
(时间去哪儿了)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China, Brazil, Russia • 2017
- Director Walter Salles, Jia Zhangke, Madhur Bhandarkar, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Jahmil X.T. Qubeka
- Cast Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong, Mandisa Nduna, Maeve Jinkings, Alina Kravtsova, Konstantin Itunin
- Genre Romance, Drama, Science Fiction, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Condition of Dogs
(狗的状况)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2001
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In Public
(公共场所)
documentary
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2001
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Smog Journeys
(人在霾途)
Clean Air Doesn't Come to Those Who Wait
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2015
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Liang Jingdong, Liu Qiang, Lu Liu
- Genre Family, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Xiao Shan Going Home
(小山回家)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 1995
- Director Jia Zhangke, Chiu Chak-piu
- Cast Wang Hongwei, Shuzhe Dong, Sheng Yao, Xiaomin Zhou, Liqin Zhu
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Remembrance
(十年)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2008
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Yu Entai, Zhao Tao
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Yulu
(语路)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- China • 2011
- Director Jia Zhangke, Chen Shi-Zheng, Song Fang, Tao Chen, Tan Chui Mui, Zizhao Wang, Tie Wei
- Cast
- Genre Documentary
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Journey to the West
- • 0
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
In the Qing Dynasty
- • 0
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast
- Genre Action, Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Revive
(逢春)
- China • 2017
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao, Liang Jindong
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Black Breakfast
- China • 2008
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Zhao Tao
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Close-Up
In a situation where surveillance close-ups isolate a vulnerable individual from his surroundings, Jia asks us to re-evaluate that space, to give that situation a new meaning. To think about what film is. Perhaps we might then be able to rediscover others.
- China • 2021
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Peacock, Peacock
(孔雀，孔雀)
- • 2022
- Director Jia Zhangke
- Cast Mengsi Luo
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Jia's Talk
(贾乙丙丁)
- China • 2022
- Creator Jia Zhangke
- Cast Jia Zhangke
- Genre Talk
- Available on No streaming locations found.
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