Chen Kaige

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Chen Kaige (born 12 August 1952) is a Chinese film producer and a key figure in China's fifth generation of cinema.

His films are known for their artistic flourish and epic storytelling.

In 1993, Chen received the Palme d'Or Award at Cannes Film Festival and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Award.

Early life

Chen Kaige was born in Beijing, China, into a family of Changle, Fuzhou, origin, and grew up with fellow Fifth Generation alumnus Tian Zhuangzhuang as a childhood friend. Chen Huay'ai, his father, was a well-known director in his own right. Liu Yanchi () was a senior screenwriter. Chen was drafted into the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. Chen, a teen Red Guards member, denounced his own father, a tragic decision he later learned to regret. In fact, this period of his life continues to influence much of his art today, especially in Farewell My Concubine's unblinking portrayals of the Cultural Revolution and Together, the father-son relationship. Chen served as a sent-down youth in the Xishuangbanna Agricultural Reclamation Bureau for a short period of time before enlisting the People's Liberation Army (PLA) next year. Chen was kicked out of the army and sent to Beijing, where he worked as a worker in Beijing's Film Printing Factory. Chen graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 as part of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.

Personal life

Sun Jialin (), whom he encountered while working at the Beijing Film Factory between 1975 and 1978, was Chen's first wife; they married in 1983. He remarried in Hong Kong, to Zhang Hanzhi, a diplomat who had worked as an English translator for Mao Zedong. She graduated from Vassar College in New York and is the current CEO of China Interactive Media Group. Chen lived with Ni Ping, a female television celebrity, in the early 1990s, shortly after their separation. Chen was married to actress Chen Hong in 1996.

Chen Kaige is the holder of a green card to the United States.

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Directorial career

Following graduation, Chen and a fellow student, Zhang Yimou, were sent to the Guangxi Film Studio. Yellow Earth (1984), his first film, established itself as one of the most influential works of Fifth Generation filmmaking; although simple, its striking visual imagery (courtesy of cinematography by Zhang) and pioneering storytelling style all contributed to a sea change in how films were seen and perceived in the People's Republic of China. King of the Children (1986) and the Big Parade (1986) expanded on his filmic repertoire. He was given a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council in 1987 and spent as a visiting scholar at the New York University Film School. He continued to experiment with Duran Duran's "Do You Believe In Shame" in a music video early in 1989. He made Life on a String, a highly esoteric film that tells the story of a blind sanxian musician and his student later this year. He appeared in the 39th Berlin International Film Festival this year as a member of the jury.

Farewell My Concubine (1993), the recipient of two Academy Awards and Laureate of the Palme d'Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, follows two Beijing opera performers through decades of change in China during the twentieth century. Chen portrayed Farewell My Concubine (1996), a new period drama starring Leslie Cheung and Gong Li. Although most observers were positive about the film, it did not receive the accolades that Concubine did, and many people were discouraged by the film's convoluted plot line. Almost as popular is his biography The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), an epic involving the mighty King of Qin and the hesitant assassinationist who aims to assassinate him.

Chen made his first, and to-date only, English-language film, Killing Me Softly, a drama starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes in 2002, but it was both a critical and popular disappointment. His most recent film, Together (2002), is a personal film about a young violinist and his father. He produced The Promise, a fantasy wuxia photograph, in 2005. Chen's Promise saw him shift to a more commercial mindset, a departure that some have characterized as a "radical stylistic turn" from his earlier works.

At the 28th Moscow International Film Festival in 2006, he was named with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Chen produced Forever Enthralled, a memoir by Chen in the sense of directing a Chinese opera. He went on to direct Sacrifice (2010), which is a re-imagining of Zhao's famous play The Orphanage. The film was a box-office hit, and many commentators saw it as his "return to form."

Chen has appeared in several films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987) and his own The Emperor and the Assassin and Together.

At the 85th Academy Awards, his 2012 film Caught in the Web was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Award, but it did not make it to the final shortlist.

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