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Fan Wei has 7 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Long Season.
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The 12-episode series follows Wang Xiang, an ex-train driver who had worked his whole life at the steel plant in a fictional small town in North China, as he attempts to solve the mystery behind a brutal murder during the autumn of 1998. For more than 20 years, the murder has haunted him and other people who worked at the steel plant as they struggled to come to terms with the loss they’ve experienced.
Dir. Xin Shuang · With Fan Wei, Qin Hao, Chen Minghao

A con-team couple head west after taking a city businessman for his BMW. But an encounter with a naive young carpenter traveling home with his life savings challenges their fate as thieves.
Dir. Feng Xiaogang · With Andy Lau, René Liu, Wang Baoqiang

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
Dir. Lu Chuan · With Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Hideo Nakaizumi

A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.
Dir. Zhang Yimou · With Zhang Yi, Liu Haocun, Fan Wei

Qin Fen, a funny, honest, single inventor, met a girl called Smiley, who was in agony of her boyfriend's betrayal. They traveled to Hokkaido, tried to help Smiley cure her pain in heart, and both of them gradually found their true love and life redemption during the journey.
Dir. Feng Xiaogang · With Ge You, Shu Qi, Alex Fong Chung-Sun
A monk leaves his monastery and ventures out into the real world for the first time in his life, and ends up in an adventure with a kung-fu master who is guarding a special artifact.
Dir. Chen Kaige · With Wang Baoqiang, Li Xuejian, Fan Wei

An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
Dir. Feng Xiao · With Liu Ye, Bruce Willis, Adrien Brody
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