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Toshiro Mifune achieved more worldwide fame than any other Japanese actor of his century. He was born in Tsingtao, China, to Japanese parents and grew up in Dalian. He did not set foot in Japan until he was 21. His father was an importer and a commercial photographer, and young Toshiro worked in his father's studio for a time after graduating from Dalian Middle School. He was automatically drafted into the Japanese army when he turned 20, and enlisted in the Air Force where he was attached to the Aerial Photography Unit for the duration of the World War II. In 1947 he took a test for Kajirô Yamamoto, who recommended him to director Senkichi Taniguchi, thus leading to Mifune's first film role in These Foolish Times II (1947). Mifune then met and bonded with director Akira Kurosawa, and the two joined to become the most prominent actor-director pairing in all Japanese cinema. Beginning with Drunken Angel (1948), Mifune appeared in 16 of Kurosawa's films, most of which have become world-renowned classics. In Kurosawa's pictures, especially Rashomon (1950), Mifune would become the most famous Japanese actor in the world. A dynamic and ferocious actor, he excelled in action roles, but also had the depth to plumb intricate and subtle dramatic parts. A personal rift during the filming of Red Beard (1965) ended the Mifune-Kurosawa collaboration, but Mifune continued to perform leading roles in major films both in Japan and in foreign countries. He was twice named Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival (for Yojimbo (1961) and Red Beard (1965)). In 1963 he formed his own production company, directing one film and producing several others. In his later years he gained new fame in the title role of the American TV miniseries Shogun (1980), and appeared infrequently in cameo roles after that. His last years were plagued with Alzheimer's Syndrome and he died of organ failure in 1997, a few months before the death of the director with whose name he will forever be linked, Akira Kurosawa.- Actress
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- Music Department
Bingbing Fan was born 16 September 1981. She is a Chinese actress, television producer and pop singer.
Fan rose to fame in Asia in 1998-1999 with the mega-hit TV series My Fair Princess. In 2003, she starred in Cell Phone, which became the highest-grossing Chinese film of the year, winning a Hundred Flowers Award. Since then she has received awards from the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Eurasia International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, Beijing College Student Film Festival and Huading Awards for films like The Matrimony (2007), Lost in Beijing (2007), Buddha Mountain (2011) and Double Xposure (2012). Fan has participated in many foreign-language films, such as the French film Stretch (2011), the Korean film My Way (2011) and the Hollywood blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). She has also been called a fashion icon due to frequent appearances on the red carpet, movie premieres, and fashion shows. She topped the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list in 2013 and 2014, after ranking in the top 10 every year since 2006.
In 2007 Fan left her management company Huayi Brothers to establish Fan Bingbing Studio. Since then she has produced TV series that she also starred in, and her TV show The Empress of China, believed to be the most expensive Chinese series in history.- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Xiaoming Huang was born on 13 November 1977 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He is an actor and producer, known for The Message (2009), Xuan Zang (2016) and American Dreams in China (2013). He was previously married to Angelababy.- Jialun Ren was born on 11 April 1989 in Qingdao, China. He is an actor, known for Under the Power (2019), The Glory of Tang Dynasty (2017) and One and Only (2021). He has been married to Huan Nie since 7 March 2017. They have one child.
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Huang Bo was born on 26 August 1974 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor and producer, known for The Island (2018), Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013) and Dou niu (2009).- Liu, Xueyi a Chinese actor who was graduated from The Central Academy of Drama(Beijing, China) and Major in acting. Before that, he studied dance from Beijing Dance Academy Affiliated Secondary Dance School (Beijing, China). He was born at July 6th 1990 in Qingdao, China. Besides acting he is good at playing the piano and guitar. He is a talent actor and build up so many characters in television program.
- Actress
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Song Qian, better known as Victoria Song, first known as a k-pop group leader of f(x) and she is also a Chinese dancer, actress and model.
Victoria gained fame as part of a virtual couple with Nichkhun in We Got Married Season 2. She won the Popularity Award at the MBC Entertainment Awards. She also began to take up acting in China, playing lead roles in dramas such as When Love Walked In, Beautiful Secret, Ice Fantasy, Once Promised, My Best Friend's Wedding and My New Sassy Girl, and won the Best New Actress Award at the China National Drama Awards.
Victoria is very popular in China, with more than 20 million followers on Weibo, ranking fourth most followed K-pop celebrity as of April 2015. She was ranked #80 on The 2013 Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Faces and first on Sohu's 2011 Entertainment World's 50 Most Beautiful People. In 2014, she won the "2014 Goddess of Asia" poll with 579,298 votes.[5] She was also named one of the top ten most popular celebrities on Baidu, ranking at #7.- Actor
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- Writer
Yu Xia was born on 6 October 1978 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He is an actor and director, known for The Painted Veil (2006), In the Heat of the Sun (1994) and Birth of the Dragon (2016). He has been married to Quan Yuan since 28 August 2009. They have one child.- Actor
- Producer
Kai Tan was born on 13 January 1972 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor and producer, known for Game of Wisdom (2022), The Forerunner (2023) and Drug War (2012).- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Baihe Bai was born on 1 March 1984 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress and producer, known for Monster Hunt (2015), Go Away Mr. Tumor (2015) and Love is Not Blind (2011). She has been married to SiLin Zhang since 1 January 2019. They have one child. She was previously married to Yufan Chen.- Actor
- Cinematographer
- Music Department
Huang Zitao, is a Chinese singer-songwriter, rapper, martial artist and actor.
Zitao was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China on May 2, 1993. Due to his naughty behavior as a child his father sent him to Wushu Martial Arts training at the age of 5 in order to learn discipline. Huang was a student athlete and practiced Wushu throughout his school-years, and competed in martial arts competitions in his hometown.
Zitao also developed a passion for music from a young age and decided to purse a career in this field on he left school. In 2010, participated to the MBC Star Audition which was hosting a talent search in China. Huang auditioned with a Wushu Taolu routine and was scouted immediately by a representative from Korea's SM Entertainment and chosen to debut in the K-Pop group EXO. After a brief trainee period On December 27, 2011 he was introduced as the lead rapper for the group's Chinese based unit, EXO-M.
During his time as an EXO Member in Korea Tao still continued to practice Wushu with actor and martial arts choreographer Bruce Khan and performed Wushu Taolu routines during concerts and variety programs.
Tao's first appearance on a movie screen was in the Chinese movie You Are My Sunshine along with good friend Huang Xiaoming. Where he played the role of William, Xiaoming's assistant.
In April 23rd 2015 it was announced that Huang Zitao would be leaving EXO and SM Entertainment. He later filed for contract termination with SM Entertainment on August 24, 2015. In the summer of 2015 he made his successful solo musical debut with his digital mini-album T.A.O under the newly adapted stage name, Z.Tao. The album broke record by selling 670 000 units in a week.
For his following mini album, Z.Tao filmed an action packed short movie with big and dramatic cinematic visuals with Director Nick Lentz, for his single Crown that acted as the short movie's soundtrack. In Crown Huang Zitao is co-starring with model and actress Jessica Gomez and actor Jeff Kober.
Aside from a career as a musical artist, Tao expressed the wish to be become a martial artist actor, and promote Chinese martial arts like Jackie Chan. Tao was confirmed to be one of the supporting characters in Jackie Chan's upcoming movie, Railroad Tigers directed by Ding Sheng. In the movie Tao fights along with Jackie Chan and he performs the stunts himself. Tao is also the male lead in the movie Summer, Portrait of a 19 year old a crime mystery romance based on the novel from Japanese mystery writer Soji Shimada, directed by Jung-Chi Chang.
Tao was also confirmed as the main character in director Gao Xixi movie The Game Changer, about gang wars in Shanghai's republican era. Gao Xixi's said that he was prompted to choose Tao immediately after watched videos of him doing Wushu and his suitability for the role. The Game Changer is Tao's first lead role as a martial artist actor. Tao will also take lead in the TV adaption of the movie series A Chinese Odyssey as the Monkey King, Zhi Zun Bao. He will also star in the movie adaptation of the Famen temple code fantasy novels, directed by Tsui Hark, as the character Zhao Ye.
Michelle Yeoh, the Chinese Malaysian actress famous for her career in Hong Kong action films and also mainly known in the west for her roles in the James Bond Movie Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, met Huang Zitao on the variety show The Negociator, and afterwards in her personal Weibo blog she praised Tao for his Wushu skill and wished for Tao to successfully pass down Chinese martial arts to the next generations.- Aiqi Liang was born on 17 February 1977 in Qingdao, China. She is an actress, known for Joy of Life (2019), Love Just Come (2017) and Go Go Squid! (2019).
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Sheng Ding was born in 1970 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is a director and writer, known for Saving Mr. Wu (2015), A Better Tomorrow 2018 (2018) and Nothing Can't Be Undone by a HotPot (2023).- Yongjian Lin was born on 14 February 1970 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor, known for Three-Body (2023), Nie Rongzhen (2013) and Xi Gengtian de gu shi (2007). He has been married to Dongqi Zhou since 8 January 2003. They have one child.
- Kaity Tong was born on 23 July 1947 in Qingdao, China. She is an actress, known for The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Wolf (1994) and Marci X (2003).
- Xiaoye Liu was born on 23 February 1982 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Xue zhan Tong Luo Wan (2016), Eternal Love (2017) and Bei jing shi jian (2015).
- Writer
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- Music Department
Shan-Hsi Ting was born in 1936 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She was a writer and director, known for Magnificent 72 (1980), Luo ying xia (1971) and No One Can Touch Her (1979). She was married to Hsiao-yung Ting. She died on 21 November 2009 in Taiwan.- Gang Wu was born on 4 November 1960 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor, known for Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Chao qiang tai feng (2008) and Fei tian wu gong (1994).
- Li Qin was born on 29 July 1983 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Go Away Mr. Tumor (2015), Love Tactics (2010) and The Tide (2011).
- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Shawn Zhang was born on 9 July 1982 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor and producer, known for Far Away Love (2016), Drama Go Go Go (2012) and Symphony of Fate (2011). He has been married to Christy Chung since 8 November 2016.- Jess Zhang was born on 18 February 1974 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Sai chiu (2006), Twins Mission (2007) and Chinese Paladin (2005). She has been married to Dicky Cheung since 2007.
- Ya'nan Wang was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He is known for Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord (1997), Shanghai jishi (1998) and 1911 (2011).
- Hao Chen was born on 9 December 1979 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. She is an actress, known for Wu hu si hai (1992), Fen hong nü lang (2003) and Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (2003).
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- Writer
- Producer
Tseng-Chai Chang was born in 1931 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He was a director and writer, known for Lu ke yu dao ke (1970), Jian qiao ying lie zhuan (1977) and Zhui ming ren (1979). He was married to Hung Li. He died on 9 October 2010 in Newport Beach, Orange County, California, USA.- Jia Song was born on 11 May 1962 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Amid the Howling Wind (1990), Conservatory Garden very deeply (1989) and Chen ai luo ding (2003).
- Miao Tian was born in 1974 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Psych Hunter (2020), The Sword and the Brocade (2021) and The Great Magician (2011).
- Kaitong Jiang was born on 24 October 1989 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Ye mei gui (2009), Go Lala Go! (2010) and Deng dai zhan fang (2013).
- Hao Hao was born on 18 June 1988 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Candle in the Tomb: The Weasel Grave (2017), Ultra Reinforcement (2012) and Tears in Heaven (2012).
- Sha-Li Chen was born on 1 November 1948 in Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China. She is an actress, known for Luo ying xia (1971), Yin gu (1969) and Huo bing feng lin du (1974). She was previously married to Hsuan Che.
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- Additional Crew
Cunxin Li was born in 1961 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is a writer, known for Mao's Last Dancer (2009), Australian Story (1996) and Miradas 2 (2004). He has been married to Mary McKendry since 1987. They have three children. He was previously married to Elizabeth Mackey.- Shanshan Chunyu was born on 25 November 1967 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor, known for Tian xia wu di zhang men ren (2000), Xiang xi shi wang (1993) and The Hidden Fox (2022).
- Actor
- Producer
Hu Gao was born on 25 April 1974 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor and producer, known for Five Element Killer (2018), The Bullet Vanishes (2012) and Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (2003).- Xiao-lei Yu was born on 14 December 1977 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for The Robbers (2009), Eternal Beloved (2009) and Together (2011).
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- Editor
Huanxiang Chen was born on 11 December 1981 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is a director and writer, known for She wang (2020), Tu mi shaji (2016) and Lifa shi xuyi sharen shijian (2014).- Paula Li Shiu was born on 26 July 1929 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. She is an actress, known for Battle Beneath the Earth (1967), UFO (1970) and Secret Agent (1964).
- Actor
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- Director
Self-taught photographer and film-maker. Khalishan Liang has participated and won several awards and recognitions in the photography arena in Singapore. As a visual story-teller, he began his film career by making short films and music videos. His very first attempt in film-making, the short film 'Bliss (2011)' was nominated for 7 awards at the 3rd Singapore Short Film Awards in 2012. Khalishan also founded Niu Pictures with his wife in 2015, and their latest effort, 'The Missing Words (2016)' has been selected for 'The Short Film Corner' at Cannes Film Festival 2016, and was given a professional screening at the festival in May 2016.- Kuan Kuan was born on 27 September 1929 in Qingdao, Shandong, Republic of China. He was an actor and writer, known for The Legend of the Six Dynasty (1979), Golden Fists of a Duo (1981) and Ce ma ru lin (1985). He was married to You-Jing Liang and Jade Yuan. He died on 1 May 2021.
- Producer
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- Actor
Tang Guanhua used to use social sculpture to continuously deconstruct films, music, politics, morals, education, fashion, religion, history, architecture, commerce, and art. The intentional community he established in rural China brings together a group of art creators. They use farming, craftsmanship, writing, and impromptu music to express their understanding of the world.- Jiahao Guo was born on 19 November 1987 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He is an actor, known for Operation Red Sea (2018), Xingfu guilai (2015) and Ordinary Hero (2022).
- Wang Qishan was born on 1 July 1948 in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
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- Director
Kenjirô Ohmori was born on 3 November 1933 in Qingdao, China. He is an assistant director and director, known for High and Low (1963), Jishin rettô (1980) and Hatachi no genten (1973).- Bairong Li was born on 11 October 1992 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Chang'an wu guai (2020), Duo ming shuang jiao (2020) and Bai jian gong zhu da ren (2017).
- Ping Li was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is known for Meng jing wei long la jiao mei (1993), Soulmate (2016) and Cai qiao (1982).
- Writer
- Producer
Meng Xu was born in 1965 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is a writer and producer, known for The Doctors (2010), When Love Walked In (2012) and Wo shi xing jing.- Satoshi Mihara was born on 3 July 1935 in Qingdao, China. He died on 30 September 2006 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
Xinyi Liu was born in 1952 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. He is an actor and director, known for The Happy Bachelors (1983), The Young Couple Apartment (1987) and Baozi tou Lin Chong zhi Yezhu lin (2019).- Jing Wang was born in 1963 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Zou xi kou (2009), Hu xiong bao di (1993) and Wú ying zhenchá duì (1990).
- Zhipeng Jiang was born on 6 March 1989 in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
- Xuanyu Qi was born on 29 May 1992 in Qingdao, Shangdong, China. He is an actor, known for Tong cheng xie hou (2016), Jian nan jian mie dui (2015) and Die xian shi lu (2015).
- Yuan Cao was born on 13 January 1988 in Qingdao, Shandong, China. She is an actress, known for Mei li de tou fa (2009), Lost (2012) and Love Me If You Dare (2015).