Chang Chen’s Typical Vibe
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Chang Chen has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Dune.
Recurring themes

Dolls
2002
Drama · Romance

In the Mood for Love
2000
Drama · Romance

Beyond the Clouds
1995
Drama · Romance

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019
Drama · Romance

Still Life
2006
Drama · Romance

Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
Drama · Romance

A Royal Affair
2012
Drama · History

Summer Palace
2006
Drama · Romance

Dune
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Happy Together
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Max · Included

Red Cliff
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 17%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Grandmaster
2013 · Movie · Actor
Top 32%Prime Video · Included

Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Soul
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Netflix · Included

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence - a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential - only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Dir. Denis Villeneuve · With Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac

A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Dir. Edward Yang · With Chang Chen, Lisa Yang, Chang Kuo-Chu

Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
Dir. Ang Lee · With Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi

The battle of Red Cliff continues and the alliance between Xu and East Wu is fracturing. With Cao Cao's massive forces on their doorstep, will the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu survive?
Dir. John Woo · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi

A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance.
Dir. John Woo · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien · With Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Liao Su-jen

Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen

An imperial guard searches for the truth behind a conspiracy that framed him and his partners. The proof of his innocence lies with a wanted woman named Bei Zhai... but will she reveal what she knows? In this intense prequel to BROTHERHOOD OF BLADES, the only thing he can truly trust is his sword.
Dir. Lu Yang · With Chang Chen, Yang Mi, Zhang Yi

Wang Shicong, chairman of the famous group, died tragically at home. The prosecutor Liang Wenchao and his wife, Abang, learned during the investigation that the deceased’s long-term partner, Dr. Wan, and his ex-wife’s Son Wang Tianyou, young newlywed wife Li Yan, and even the dead ex-wife, each suspect has an intricate connection. As more clues gradually surfaced, they gradually discovered the rich. The amazing secret hidden behind the murder...
Dir. Cheng Wei-hao · With Chang Chen, Janine Chang Chun-Ning, Christopher Lee

In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.
Dir. Lu Yang · With Chang Chen, Liu Shishi, Wang Qianyuan

An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America.
Dir. Yoon Jong-bin · With Ha Jung-woo, Hwang Jung-min, Park Hae-soo
A condemned prisoner slowly falls in love with the married female artist who decorates his prison cell. Jin is a convicted killer awaiting execution on Death Row; Yeon is a lonely artist locked in a loveless marriage.
Dir. Kim Ki-duk · With Chang Chen, Ha Jung-woo, Park Ji-a

9th century China. Ten year old general’s daughter Nie Yinniang is abducted by a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is sent back by her mistress to the land of her birth, with orders to kill the man to whom she was promised – a cousin who now leads the largest military region in North China. After 13 years of exile, the young woman must confront her parents, her memories and her long-repressed feelings.
Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien · With Shu Qi, Chang Chen, Zhou Yun
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai · With Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tien Feng
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