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Chen Daoming has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Hero.
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During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen

Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.
Dir. Feng Xiaogang · With Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Wang Ziwen

Zhang Qing, a present-day college student in culture and history major wants to study in professor Ye's postgraduate class, so he decides to write a historical fiction to elaborate his perspective of analyzing ancient literature history with modern concept. In the fiction, Zhang himself acts as a young man Fan Xian with mysterious life who lives in a remote seaside town of Kingdom Qing in his childhood, under the help of a mysterious mentor and a blindfolded watchman. Fan goes to the capital when he grows up, where he experiences plenty of ordeal and temper. Fan persists in adhering the rule of justice and goodness and lives his own glorious life.
Dir. Mao Ni · With Zhang Ruoyun, Li Qin, Chen Daoming

Triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection.
Dir. Andrew Lau Wai-Keung, Alan Mak Siu-Fai · With Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai Ming
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