Liu Ye
Liu Ye (Chinese: 刘烨; pinyin: Líu Yè, born March 23, 1978 in Jilin, China) is a Chinese film and television actor. Beginning his acting career when he was a 20 year old student majoring in performing arts at the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, Liu Ye's talent in acting was apparent very early on. Liu was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a young postman in his first movie, Postmen in the Mountains, at China's Golden Rooster Awards in 1999. Shortly after his graduation, Liu Ye won Best Actor at Taiwan’s 38th Golden Horse Awards for his performance as a young gay man in the movie Lan Yu . Three years later, he clinched Best Actor with his role in the movie The Foliage at the 24th Golden Rooster Awards. In addition, several of Liu Ye’s movies have also featured in many international film festivals, for example Lan Yu, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Purple Butterfly and The Floating Landscape. Instead of making use of his good physical appearance to become a teen idol, Liu Ye has chosen the path of continuously challenging himself by taking on difficult roles. From simple, honest, and down-to-earth "peasant-like" roles, introvert and melancholic personas, to manly and Casanova roles, Liu Ye has not only convinced the audience, but also well-established international directors, of his remarkable acting skills. He has been openly praised and roped in by famous directors, such as Stanley Kwan (Lan Yu), Chen Kaige (The Promise), Zhang Yimou (Curse of the Golden Flower) and John Woo (Blood Brothers), to take part in their major movie productions. Liu Ye's first Hollywood movie Dark Matter, inspired by a true story in the early 1990s, was screened at major international film festivals in 2007. Starring with actress Meryl Streep, Liu Ye stars as the brilliant physics postgraduate "Liu Xing" from China. This movie won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and has been released in America in April 2008. Ye's first villainous role was in 2008 film Connected (where he appears a lot older than he is now), a remake of the American film Cellular. Liu Ye plays the lead character in City of Life and Death, a movie paying tribute to the victims of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre. Directed by 6th Generation Mainland Director Lu Chuan, City of Life and Death, filmed in Tianjin and in other Chinese cities such as Changchun, was released in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ye Liu, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Curse of the Golden Flower
as Crown Prince WanDuring China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his...
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Police Story: Lockdown
as Wu JiangA man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and...
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The Promise
as Snow WolfAn orphaned girl, driven by poverty at such a young age, makes a promise with an enchantress. In...
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Air Strike
as Xue GangtouAn American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly...
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City of Life and Death
as Lu JianxiongIn 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just...
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The Founding of a Republic
as Old Red Army soldiersThe tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in...
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Lan Yu
as Lan YuA love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the...
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Postmen in the Mountains
as SonAn old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to...
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Beginning of the Great Revival
as Mao ZedongA chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Connected
as Senior Inspector FokA debt collector receives a call from a woman who is kidnapped by an unknown gang. He thinks it...
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
as Ma JianlingDuring the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they...
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Saving Mr. Wu
as Xing FengMr. Wu, a Hong Kong movie star, is kidnapped in Beijing by Zhang Hua's gang. The police quickly...
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The Chef, The Actor, The Scoundrel
as The ChefWorld War II: a cholera epidemic ravages the streets of Beijing. A crack team of Chinese...
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Dark Matter
as Liu XingLiu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into...
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The Last Supper
as Liu BangThe story of two warring generals fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
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A Beautiful Life
as Fang Zhen DongFang Zhen Dong is a patrolling officer in Beijing who one night meets the drunk Li Pei Ru while...
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Night Peacock
as Ma JianminLiu Yifei plays Elso, a reputed French flutist who travels from Paris to Chengdu. Her life is...
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The Founding of an Army
as Mao ZedongThe Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate...
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Cock and Bull
as Song Lao'erWhen a murder occurs in a small town in Southeast China, a local mechanic, known for his...
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My War
as Sun Bei ChuanHistorical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US...
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The Monkey King 3D: Uproar in Heaven
as 托塔李天王A completely remade animation film based on the original 1961 animation The Monkey King....
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Jasmine Women
as Xia DuZhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan...
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Purple Butterfly
as SzetoDing Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied...
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The Boundary
as uncreditedThe story starts from pile murder, murderer exactly ten years ago, a woman was shot dead by...
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Blood Brothers
as GangThree best friends who are barely getting by as fishermen seek their fate in 1930s Shanghai....
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Mob Sister
as PilotIn the macho triad world where heroes are molded from blood, brawn and brains, what place is...
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The Underdog Knight
as Lao San/Wang TaoLao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job...
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Driverless
as Zhi XiongDriverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident. It deals with...
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The EOD Squad
as Lu YangTold a special force in the armed police force - detonators, in a life-and-death battle with...
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Underdog Knight 2
as Lao San / Wang TaoLao San, is a retired Marine veteran who lives in his world of innocence and optimism due to a...
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Color Me Love
as uncreditedThe plot is vaguely reminiscent of The Devil Wears Prada. The heroine is a new fashion editor...
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We'll Meet in Heaven
as uncreditedIn China, during the Cultural Revolution, a young girl's parents are thrown in jail for ten...
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Mini
as KangTenacious and optimistic, Mini (Angelica Lee) is an acrobat at a Shanghai circus troupe. Having...
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Manifesto
as uncreditedChen Wangdao returns from his studies in Japan and takes on the task of translating the...
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Island Keeper
as Wang JicaiWang Jicai and his wife Shihua have been guarding the small Kashan island on the Chinese border ...
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The Foliage
as uncreditedOn her way back from a family visit, young female intellectual Xing-Yu meets the equally young...
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The Ghost Inside
as Fang ChengA young mother and runs from her abusive husband with her daughter only to discover that their...
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The Floating Landscape
as LitMaan has recently lost her lover, Sam, a painter who died tragically of an incurable disease....
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Happy Hotel
as uncreditedThe film is a black comedy about a group of people who try and work their way out of an...
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Beijing, New York
as LennyBEIJING, NEW YORK is a touching and complex love story that bridges time, distance and culture,...
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Redemption
as Xiao LikunXiao Likun, handsome, sensitive, is fond of poetry.He has a strong ego, but his butcher family...
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Tiger Wolf Road
as 赵子山The person who loses their child must become a tiger and a wolf, with a heart as hard as iron....
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A Century's Dream
as uncreditedStory of the Three Gorges dam project on the Yangtze River.
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Golden Horse Awards
as SelfThe Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards (Chinese: 台北金馬影展; pinyin: Táiběi Jīnmǎ...
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China's Got Talent
as uncreditedChina's Got Talent is a Chinese reality television series on Dragon TV and a part of the Got...
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Old Boy
as Wu ZhengOld Boy revolves around Wu Zheng, a pilot with a high-flying job and enviable good looks. He is...
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National Treasure’s Extraordinary Journey
as Ren Hong YiA story about a group of intellectuals on a mission to protect priceless treasures in order to...
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