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	Chen Kaige - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chen Kaige (Simplified Chinese: 陈凯歌; Traditional Chinese: 陳凱歌; Hanyu Pinyin: Chén Kǎigē; Wade-Giles: Ch'en K'ai-ko) (born August 12, 1952) is a famous Chinese film director.
		But Kaige doesn't limit himself to epics, in 2002, Chen made his first, and to-date only English-language film, Killing Me Softly, a thriller starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, though it proved to be both a critical and popular dissapointment.
		Chen has also acted in several films, including Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987) and his own The Emperor and the Assassin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chen_Kaige (513 words)

	Chen Kaige's New Life Together 1/2 \| Asian American Personalities \| GoldSea
		Chen Kaige found inspiration for the script in a reality TV episode centered around the big-city odyssey of a father-son duo.
		What intrigued Chen was the dynamics between a father who is overly solicitous of his offspring's talents and a son who wants to explore other career paths.
		We must assume that Chen Kaige, of all people, was also drawn to the parallels with present-day China -- a communist regime that has been forced to embrace capitalism in order to preserve its authority and influence.
	goldsea.com /Personalities/Chenkaige/chenkaige.html (555 words)

	Chen Kaige
		Later, in school, Chen had to denounce his father, then found himself living on the streets, and he and his friends had to find dark rooms where they could hide and listen to classical music.
		Chen says people were jealous of his father’s success, and even though he was innocent of any wrongdoing, people wanted to destroy him.
		Although for years Chen agonized over having denounced his father, they were able to repair their relationship once the Cultural Revolution ended.
	www.tribute.ca /DIRECTORS/BIOS/4545.htm (434 words)

	Chinese Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chen Kaige was born Chen Aige in Beijing on 12 August 1952.
		Chen's focus is on the complicated emotional relationship between the two actors, but some critics have maintained that he does not adequately probe this phenomenon.
		Chen's selection of a setting rooted in that earth and close to Yan'an, the head-quarters of the CCP during the Chinese civil war and the war of resistance to Japan, allows him to explore the role of the Communist Party while making significant connections to China's distant past.
	www.religion.sbc.edu /chinadirectors.html (7498 words)

	The Movie Chicks - Interview - Chen Kaige (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chen Kaige talked about some of the challenges he faced making this movie: going from making epic films to a movie on a more personal level, working with a young performer who's never acted before, getting the script past the censors, and filming in 11 weeks with an international crew that required translators to communicate.
		Chen: I didn't really talk to him that much in the first take; I just wanted to make sure everything is fresh.
		Chen: He was a very nice man, he was really great cinematographer and he's a professor.
	www.themoviechicks.com /summer2003/mcttogether.html (1770 words)

	Chen Kaige
		CHEN: I made myself a very happy husband and father of the family and I really enjoy my life.
		CHEN: Actually, it really depends on who you are and what project you want to do.
		CHEN: My wife and I where in Hong Kong before the New Year, we tried to find him by making several phone calls, eventually we were told he wasn't in a very good mood.
	www.rossanthony.com /interviews/chenkaige.shtml (1406 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chen Kaige skillfully uses this touching coming of age story to explore the enormous changes his homeland is undergoing.
		Chen Kaige's international reputation was further enhanced with the award-winning epic "Farewell, My Concubine" (1993, Cannes), a harrowing tale that spanned China's history from the early 20th century to the post-Cultural Revolution era.
		Chen's unique interpretation of Chinese history is often at odds with that of the official one.
	www.asianfilms.org /china/together.html (293 words)

	Dialogue: Chen Kaige (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chen: The film used to be banned and then we got permission to release the film in China at the Beijing Exhibition Hall in front of an audience of 2,000, including press from China and the West.
		Chen: I see the 1930s, when China was facing invasion from Japan, as a valuable period because the films made in Shanghai showed the reality of the society at that time.
		Chen: She used to be the editor for a film magazine but she quit because she doesn't want to continue to work for any government unit.
	www.backstage.com /bso/news_reviews/features/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001841995 (3193 words)

	Forgive me, father - www.smh.com.au
		When director Chen Kaige was a child, the Chinese government forced him to denounce his father in the Cultural Revolution.
		Chen's father was a filmmaker who offended the government.
		Chen is now middle-aged and the political and cultural landscape of China has changed irrevocably.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/09/11/1063268512666.html (727 words)

	An Interview With Chen Kaige
		There is a gravitas in director Chen Kaige’s voice as he relates how as a teenage boy, he was pressured by school authorities to condemn his father - a noted filmmaker - as a creator of subversive art.
		Chen, self-trained as a filmmaker, had received modest international acclaim for such films as Yellow Earth and The Big Parade in the 1980s.
		Chen considers himself quite lucky to have sidestepped major trouble with government censors.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/kaige.html (958 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Chen Kaige
		Chen Kaige is one of China's most prominent and influential directors, and perhaps the central figure in China's Fifth Generation of filmmakers.
		Chen's second feature, also a collaboration with Zhang, was the military drama The Big Parade (1985) about a group of soldiers who endure rigorous and often brutal training for the National Day parade in Tiananmen Square.
		Chen Kaige's film The Emperor and The Assassin (1999) was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/85332/bio.jhtml (708 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Film \| Feature \| Prodigies and Patriarchs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		He also develops a crush on a glamorous neighbor named Lili (Chen Hong), whose gold-digging lipstick traces and poster of Marilyn Monroe hanging on her apartment's drab concrete wall hint at a desperate gravitation toward Western-style consumerism.
		When I asked Chen at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival why he wanted to make a movie about fathers, sons, and music, his answer was much less biographical or political and something more humanely basic.
		Chen himself plays the exclusive music teacher who manipulates his students' emotions to make them tougher and more competitive.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=14524 (570 words)

	MAGAZINE \| NEWS: Asian American Committee hosts Chen Kaige Together\| VOL 28-2: July 2003
		Kaige was born in Beijing, China, in 1952 to a renowned filmmaker father and screenwriter mother.
		Kaige's most renowned film to date, Farewell My Concubine, won the 1993 Palm D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the epic adventure The Emperor and the Assassin (1999) was an international hit with audiences and critics alike.
		Kaige explained that the genesis of the project came from a television program he saw.
	www.dga.org /news/v28_2/news-kaige.php3 (616 words)

	Movies Other\| Happy Together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With Tang Yun, Liu Peiqi, Chen Hong, Wang Zhiwen, Chen Kaige, Cheng Qian, Liu Bing, Kim Hairi, and Li Chuanyun.
		Chen, for example, despite the sappy premise of Together, remains true to his recurrent theme of the artist’s function in society and history.
		Besides, he’s a little distracted by their Holly Golightly—ish neighbor Lili (Chen Hong, Chen’s real-life wife), a miserably unsuccessful gold digger hung up on a worthless man. Smitten, Xiaochun will do anything for the frivolous but faithful Lili, and she regards him as her confidant.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/movies/reviews/documents/02930431.htm (642 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A child of the Cultural Revolution, Chen, Kaige is profoundly concerned with the materialist direction of contemporary Chinese culture.
		Chen, Kaige confesses a special liking for the detective genre, and that possibly his next project will be a detective story shot in L.A. The detecting work in THE EMPEROR AND THE ASSASSIN involves the reversal of roles such as emperors and assassins.
		--american beauty-- Chen, Kaige is amused by the irony of the title AMERICAN BEAUTY for a film about the devolving transcendent life of a company man (played by Kevin Spacy), once he turns turncoat to the familiar, safe corporate culture.
	www.omegadogs.com /cinternational/chenkaige (612 words)

	Killing Me Softly, The Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chen Kaige and Heather Graham at the Japanese première (January 22)
		Chen Kaige and Heather Graham at the Japanese première
		Chen Kaige has completed the principal shooting and started to work on post-production.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /KMS.html (1032 words)

	chen kaige-together-farewell my concubine-the emperor and the assassin
		As Chen relates, his DP also knew why he was being hired: “I'm a foreigner, and although our cultures are similar, you want me to have a different eye from you.
		Chen went to Japan to do the sound at Nikkatsu Studio, where he's done the sound for all of his films.
		Chen is very proud that he was the first Chinese director to work with a Steadicam, and he says that he would like to work more in the West and avail himself of more specialized equipment.
	millimeter.com /mag/video_fade_black_23/index.html (592 words)

	Cannes 96 - Films
		Kaige then follows Zhongliang as he leaves Suzhou, presumably in self-disgust, to make his way to Beijing.
		Chen says that the emotional maelstrom on screen was in part mirrored by the cast's real-life experiences during shooting.
		Music is also underplayed; Chen favours using short instrumental phrases to emphasise certain ac-tions within a scene, rather than having music underscore the whole film.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cannes96/cfild1.htm (840 words)

	TOGETHER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You might not know who Chen Kaige is, but that shouldn't deter you from watching his latest film "Together".
		He is able to persuade Professor Yu (Chen Kaige), one of the most popular teachers in the city, to take his son as a pupil -- and that forces him to fire Professor Jiang.
		Chen Kaige, directs the film like an old fashioned tear jerker: manipulative, heavy handed, and heavy on musical cues for the audience.
	www.naturalbornviewers.com /archive/t/together/review.htm (540 words)

	Kaige.html
		Chen Kaige is one of the leading directors to develop Chinese Cinema and one of the more philosophical artists to reach international acclaim.
		One of the leaders of the Fifth Generation film directors, Chen's work is marked by his beautiful landscape shots of China and realistic portrayals of rural life.
		Kaige paints a mesmerizing background on screen with colorful imagery and pays special attention to artistic composition echoes Japanese theories on positive and negative space.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Kaige.html (1006 words)

	Chen Kaige TOGETHER interview by Mark Walters
		Kaige said he thought of him as a genius, then joked that maybe it wasn't a good moment for him to prove it.
		Chen asked Chuanyun who is going to win in the NBA this year.
		Chen Kaige, Chuanyun Li and Mark Walters at the Adolphus Hotel - June 4th, 2003.
	www.bigfanboy.com /pages/interviews/chenkaige/chenkaige.html (1636 words)

	Boxoffice Cover Story: "Empire Builder"--Chen Kaige Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whether Chen's latest film, "The Emperor and the Assassin," earns a place in that pantheon, one thing is certain: It already has the credentials to be there.
		Chen's film, however, gives life to the legend, portraying Zheng as a complex, sometimes indecipherable yet brilliant megalomaniac whose true-life personal drama more than equaled his political and military exploits.
		When all was said and done, Chen and his producers had secured roughly $11 million--a meager sum by Hollywood standards, but still enough to make "The Emperor and the Assassin" the most costly and demanding Chinese production in history.
	www.boxoff.com /issues/dec99/dec99story2.html (911 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Chen Kaige
		Chen joked about Gong at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival: "Sometimes I blame her for being a so-happy wife.
		I tell her she has to suffer a bit so that she doesn't lose her power as an actress." When the two met with a cluster of international movie press down by the beach at Cannes, she was decked out in toreador pants, shades, ankle bracelet, with a pearl necklace on her dainty neck.
		Chen was also exalted, that he'd managed to bring the wonderful actress of Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern into his 3rd century BC fold.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/jkl/kaige.html (652 words)

	DVD Times - Together With You (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		I think critics have come to the film with unreasonable expectations — this is not a Chen Kaige epic in the form of Farewell My Concubine or The Emperor and the Assassin, but neither is it a compromise to western cinematic expectations.
		Kaige has steered away from the current trend for Asian neo-minimalism — there are enough Hsiao-hsiens, Ming-Liangs and Zhang-kes out there — but Together is nevertheless a very Chinese film, sitting comfortably and favourably alongside the best of modern Zhang Yimou — Happy Times, Not One Less, The Road Home.
		It may not be a radical departure for either the director or a progression of Chinese cinema, but it is a widening of his range, a well-made film with personal themes and a crowd-pleasing experience that is unlikely to disappoint.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=6385 (1807 words)

	Chen Kaige
		Born Chen Aige in Beijing, he was the son of noted director Chen Huaiai, who directed a number of popular films during the 1950s and 1960s.
		As the chaos of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution was gathering steam, Chen, a 15-year-old member of the notorious Red Guard, publicly denounced his father.
		Chen made Farewell to Yesterday (1980) for Fujian television and served as an assistant director under Huang Jianzhong.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+96605 (655 words)

	Kaiju Shakedown: DON'T LAUGH AT CHEN KAIGE. SERIOUSLY! STOP LAUGHING! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chen may hold the legal high ground (and according to Chinese law he'll probably win the suit) and he may also have won legal power points for his aggressive "So There!" prosecution, but Hu Ge is coming out of this a winner.
		His current wife, Chen Hong, has said that the parody is no big deal because it had no commercial motive and his former wife has posted on her blog, "He is too petty-minded to tolerate a little bun."
		But the deceptive thing was that Chen Kaige was able to manipulate it for commercial publicity.
	www.kaijushakedown.com /2006/02/chen_kaige_does.html (672 words)

	Indiantelevision.com > Tube Talk > Filmmaker Chen Kaige on CNN’s 'Talk Asia'
		Kaige says, “It’s a very significant film for me because I got a so-called Asian cast; we have a Japanese, a very famous actor named Sanada and Korean one named Dong-kun Jang and also the actors and actresses from Hong Kong as well.
		During the half-hour interview, Chen continues to chat about his inspirations, his life as a member of the famous fifth generation of filmmakers, and growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China.
		Additionally, Chen talks about the challenges of being a filmmaker in China, and where he thinks the Chinese film industry is heading.
	www.indiantelevision.com /tube/y2k5/june/junetube8.htm (236 words)

	Chen Kaige Not Amused by Parody of Frankly Commercial Pan-Asian Movie \| Asian American Intelligence \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Web movie, produced by Internet prankster Hu Ge and titled ``A Murder Sparked by a Chinese Bun,'' expands on the movie's premise that one of its main characters turned evil because he was cheated out of a Chinese bun as a child.
		Meanwhile, Chen said he expects ``The Promise'' to make at least 210 million Chinese yuan (US$26 million; euro22 million) at the Chinese box office _ a considerable amount in China's developing movie market.
		Chen is best known for his art-house movies including ``Yellow Earth'' and ``Farewell My Concubine,'' and ``The Promise'' is one of his first forays into commercial blockbusters.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/602/13kaige.html (502 words)

	Temptress Moon . Salt Lake City Weekly . 07-28-97
		Chen Kaige's astonishingly beautiful film opens and closes with the faces of three innocent young children whose desires, destinies and ultimate destruction will be inextricably intertwined.
		Kaige, who directed Farewell My Concubine and Yellow Earth, once again crafts a sumptuous tragedy that spans the decades.
		Kaige's well-shaded tale then moves ahead 10 years to the glittering metropolis of Shanghai, a corrupt city immersed in the corruption of the jazz age.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/slc/t/temptressmoon1.html (716 words)

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