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Wang Hongwei is a Actor, Writer and Production Manager born on 3 september 1969
Wang Hongwei (; born in Anyang, Henan) is a Chinese actor. Wang is perhaps best known for his work with director Jia Zhangke. The two men were classmates at the Beijing Film Academy when they began their professional relationship, with Wang starring in Jia's breakthrough short film Xiao Shan Going Home in 1995. Since then, Wang has had roles in nearly all of Jia's films, including starring roles in Jia's debut Xiao Wu and follow-up, Platform.
Given his collaboration with Jia, Wang Hongwei is often considered the director's on-screen alter-ego.
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Birth name Anyang, Henan, China
Birth 3 september 1969 (55 years)
Birth 3 september 1969 (55 years)
Wang Hongwei (; born in Anyang, Henan) is a Chinese actor. Wang is perhaps best known for his work with director Jia Zhangke. The two men were classmates at the Beijing Film Academy when they began their professional relationship, with Wang starring in Jia's breakthrough short film Xiao Shan Going Home in 1995. Since then, Wang has had roles in nearly all of Jia's films, including starring roles in Jia's debut Xiao Wu and follow-up, Platform.
Given his collaboration with Jia, Wang Hongwei is often considered the director's on-screen alter-ego.
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Filmography of Wang Hongwei (14 films)
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Crosscurrent (2016)
Directed by Yang Chao
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Wang Hongwei
Roles Hong Wei
Rating65%
Old Stone (2016)
, 1h20Directed by Johnny Ma
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Wang Hongwei
Roles Captain
Rating68%
La descente en enfer de Lao Shi, un chauffeur de taxi en Chine, qui après avoir heurté un motocycliste, est pris au piège d'un cauchemar bureaucratique.
A Touch of Sin (2013)
, 2h13Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Martial arts films, Wuxia films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Rating71%
Set in the present and based on allegedly true events from the recent past, the film also draws on the history of wuxia stories. The title in Chinese, 天注定 (Tian zhuding) is literally translated as "heavenly fate" or "fated doom," while its English title is a reference to King Hu's 1971 action epic A Touch of Zen, one of the most influential wuxia films.
Cry Me a River (2008)
, 19minutesDirected by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Hao Lei
Rating64%
Le film raconte les retrouvailles de quatre amis de collège.
The Case (2007)
, 1h30Actors Wang Hongwei
Rating65%
He Dashang (Wu Gang) is a middle-aged childless innkeeper trapped in an unhappy marriage in a sleepy city in Yunnan, China. Sleepwalking through his days, everything changes when he spies a black suitcase floating down the river. Retrieving it, Dashang hopes to find his fortune in the mysterious case, only to discover its contents are dismembered human body parts. Thrown into panic, he attempts to hide the contents. Things become even more complicated when a young couple, the sultry Lily (Wang Sifei), and her mousy husband (Wang Hongwei) arrive at the inn.
Still Life (2006)
, 1h48Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei
Roles Dong Ming-Wan
Rating72%
Still Life is set in Fengjie, a city upstream of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Now marked for flooding, the city undergoes a process of self-deconstruction. Into this dying town comes Han Sanming, a coal-miner from the province of Shanxi who has returned in search of a wife who ran away sixteen years ago. Upon arriving, he asks a local motorcyclist to drive him to his former address on "Granite Street." The driver takes him to the river bank, revealing that his entire neighborhood has been flooded since the building of the dam. After a failed attempt to obtain his wife's information from the local municipal office, Han Sanming settles into a local hotel. Sanming's next stop is a rickety boat owned by his wife's elder brother. The brother informs Sanming that his wife and daughter (the real reason for his return) work downriver in Yichang but that if he remains in the city, they will eventually return.
The World (2005)
, 2h13Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Wang Xiaoshuai
Roles Sanlai
Rating70%
The World tells the story of two workers at Beijing World Park: a performer, Tao (played by actress Zhao Tao), and Taisheng (Chen Taisheng), a security guard and Tao's boyfriend. As the film begins, Tao is visited by her ex-boyfriend, who is on his way to Ulan Batur. Taisheng meets Tao and the ex-boyfriend at a small diner and insists on driving him to the Beijing Railway Station. From this awkward introduction, the relationship between Tao and Taisheng grows increasingly strained. Taisheng, frustrated that Tao refuses to have sex with him, is also busy with fellow migrants from his home province of Shanxi. One, Chen Zhijun nicknamed "Little Sister," is a childhood friend of Taisheng's and comes to him looking for a job. Taisheng manages to put him in touch with someone and he eventually finds work as a construction worker.
, 1h51Directed by Dai Sijie
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors 周迅 (Zhou Xun), Chen Kun, Liu Ye, Wang Hongwei
Roles Four Eyes
Rating71%
The film is set in a period between 1971 and 1974, during the later stage of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Two city boys in their late teenage years, Luo Min (played by Chen Kun) and Ma Jianling (Liu Ye), are on their way to a remote village in the mountainous Sichuan province for re-education. Upon arrival, the boys are questioned on their "reactionary backgrounds" by the Chief (Chen Tianlu), the village leader, in the presence of the other villagers. Luo's father turns out to be a dentist who had once fitted a false tooth for Chiang Kai-shek, while Ma's father is a doctor. The Chief also examines the boys' luggage and burns a cookbook, which he claims to be bourgeois. He is about to throw Ma's violin into the fire as well before he is stopped by Luo, who lies that the Mozart's Divertimento KV 334 Ma plays is a "mountain song" titled Mozart is Thinking of Chairman Mao.
Unknown Pleasures (2002)
, 1h53Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei, Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Roles Xiao Wu
Rating67%
Unknown Pleasures follows three disaffected, aimless young people in the industrial city of Datong in China's Shanxi province throughout 2001. Nineteen-year-old Bin Bin (Zhao Weiwei) lives with his mother, an adherent of the Falun Gong, in a small apartment near Datong's textile mill. Bin Bin's best friend, the reckless Xiao Ji (Wu Qiong), lives in an even smaller apartment with his father, and spends his time riding his motorbike around the city. The two friends eventually meet Qiao Qiao, a young singer and dancer working for the Mongolian King Liquor company as a spokesmodel. Xiao Ji immediately becomes enamored with Qiao Qiao, which gets him in trouble with Qiao Qiao's boyfriend, the loan shark and local thug, Qiao San (Li Zhubin).
Platform (2001)
, 2h34Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre
Actors Zhao Tao, Wang Hongwei
Roles Cui Minliang
Rating72%
Entre 1979 et 1989, l'histoire d'une troupe de théâtre amateur composée de jeunes acteurs.
Pickpocket (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Wang Hongwei
Roles Xiao Wu
Rating73%
The film is set in 1997, with the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong being mentioned in the background. The place is a small provincial town, dirty and poor. Xiao Wu is one of a group of pickpockets, most of whom have moved on to become small traders and legal or semi-legal. One of them, formerly a close friend, is getting married and decides not to invite Xiao Wu, a reminder of the past. He drifts around, discontent with this, but makes no effort to change. He acquires a girlfriend, a prostitute who takes a liking to him, but she drops him when she gets some better prospect. He visits his poor-peasant family but ends up quarrelling with his parents and saying he won't ever come back. Finally he gets arrested and we last see him handcuffed in the middle of the street with a disapproving crowd watching him. There is a big crack-down on crime, something mentioned at the start of the film, so his fate is likely to be harsh.
Xiao Shan Going Home (1995)
, 59minutesDirected by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Genres Drama
Actors Wang Hongwei
Roles Xiao Shan
Rating58%
Xiao Shan, un employé intérimaire du restaurant Hongyuan, vient d'être licencié par son patron Zhao Guoqing. Décidant de quitter Pékin et de rentrer chez lui à Anyang, il va voir une série de personnes de sa ville natale qui vivent également à Pékin - ouvriers du bâtiment, vendeurs de billets de train, étudiants d'université, préposés, prostituées – mais personne ne veut rentrer avec lui. Découragé et confus, il cherche un à un ses anciens amis qui sont encore à Pékin. Finalement, il laisse ses longs cheveux sauvages, symbole de sa vie en ville, chez un coiffeur en bord de route, en guise d'offrande à Pékin.
Scriptwriter
The Wandering Earth (2019)
, 2h5Directed by Frant Gwo
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Disaster films
Actors Wu Jing, Ng Man-tat, Frant Gwo
Roles Script Consultant
Rating59%
Dans un futur proche, le Soleil vieillit et est sur le point de se transformer en géante rouge, poussant le Gouvernement de la Terre Unie à fusionner en un gouvernement mondial et à lancer un projet visant à sortir la Terre du système solaire et se rendre au système Alpha Centauri, afin de préserver l'humanité. D'énormes propulseurs fonctionnant sur l'énergie de fusion sont construits sur toute la planète pour la déplacer. La population humaine baisse sérieusement en raison des marées catastrophiques qui se produisent après l'arrêt de la rotation de la Terre avec l'allumage des propulseurs, puis plus tard, lorsque la planète s'éloigne du soleil, une grande partie de la surface gèle en raison de la baisse des températures, forçant les humains à vivre dans de vastes villes souterraines construites à proximité des propulseurs.
Guns and Roses (2012)
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Tao Hong, Guo Tao, Liu Hua
Roles Writer
Rating59%
The film is set in the 1930s in Changchun, capital of Manchukuo. A thief (Lei Jiayin) goes into a cathedral and robs the priest (Fan Wei), claiming that he is a member of the underground revolution. As he is running away, the police capture him. Meanwhile, two rebels go to a cinema to exchange messages, but a genius Japanese general (Keiichi Yamasaki) kills one and captures the other. The thief is given leniency and spends only two days in jail. Sharing a cell with him is the captured rebel, who gives him his clothes as a gift.
Producer
Pickpocket (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Jia Zhang-ke (贾樟柯)
Origin Chine
Genres Drama
Actors Wang Hongwei
Roles Production Manager
Rating73%
The film is set in 1997, with the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong being mentioned in the background. The place is a small provincial town, dirty and poor. Xiao Wu is one of a group of pickpockets, most of whom have moved on to become small traders and legal or semi-legal. One of them, formerly a close friend, is getting married and decides not to invite Xiao Wu, a reminder of the past. He drifts around, discontent with this, but makes no effort to change. He acquires a girlfriend, a prostitute who takes a liking to him, but she drops him when she gets some better prospect. He visits his poor-peasant family but ends up quarrelling with his parents and saying he won't ever come back. Finally he gets arrested and we last see him handcuffed in the middle of the street with a disapproving crowd watching him. There is a big crack-down on crime, something mentioned at the start of the film, so his fate is likely to be harsh.