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May 2, 2017 · One of the most welcome, albeit perplexing, sights in last year’s Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One, was the spectacle of Chinese superstar Jiang Wen playing the burly, loyal warrior-sidekick Baze ...
Nov 28, 2023 · Jiang Wen is a popular figure in the world of Chinese movie theater, renowned for his remarkable skills as a star, director, and film writer. Born upon January 5, 1963, in Tangshan, China, Jiang’s remarkable body of work has strengthened his credibility as one of the most prominent and flexible artists in the market.
Jan 6, 2015 · Film Review: ‘Gone With the Bullets’. This fifth feature from actor-director Jiang Wen is an exuberant homage to cinema. By Maggie Lee. Taking centerstage at a magnificent floorshow, two ...
Jiang Wen’s second feature Devils on the Doorstep (2000) brought controversy when the Chinese government opposed its “unauthorized” entry into that year’s Cannes Competition, where it won the Grand Prix. A black-and-white, aggressively comic drama set during China’s WWII resistance to Japanese occupation, the film displays absurdities of wartime behaviour, the craziness inherent in maintaining appropriately functional levels of fear and loathing of the enemy.
Dec 15, 2016 · Jiang’s work has earned him both critical acclaim and record-smashing success. 2010’s raucous and corrosive spaghetti eastern, Let The Bullets Fly, which Jiang wrote, directed and starred in, inaugurated China’s modern mega-box office era, earning RMB 674 million ($110 million). The first local film to break the $100 million mark in China, it planted a flag in territory previously believed the exclusive domain of imported Hollywood blockbusters.
One of China's most prolific and accomplished figures, award-winning actor-director Jiang Wen brings his latest action-epic, Hidden Man, to TIFF 2018 as part...
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LET THE BULLETS FLY. JIANG WEN China, 2010. Once the darling of the art-film world, Jiang Wen set the local box office ablaze with this rip-roaring action spectacular. With a star-studded cast headlined by Chow Yun Fat, Let the Bullets Fly takes to the boondocks of 1920s China for a gleefully madcap, elaborately political genre mash-up.
