Zhao Tao (“Mountains May Depart”) and Liao Fan (“Black Coal, Thin Ice”) are set to star in Jia Zhang-ke’s new film, “Ash is Purest White,” the Chinese auteur’s follow up to ...

Zhao Tao (“Mountains May Depart“) and Liao Fan (“Black Coal, Thin Ice”) are set to star in Jia Zhangke’s new film, “Ash Is Purest White,” the Chinese auteur’s follow-up to ...

The moment the extraordinary actress Zhao Tao first appears in "Mountains May Depart," line dancing to the Pet Shop Boys' cover of "Go West," she and writer-director Jia Zhangke (her husband and ...

21 Jul – Zhao Tao has recently been named one of the jury members of the upcoming 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

Zhao Tao is one of the most recognizable faces in Chinese art cinema thanks to her longtime collaboration with acclaimed director Jia Zhangke, whom she married in 2012.From 2000’s “Platform ...

Zhao Tao: I wanted to find specific characterization for each period and each age. For Tao in 1999, I wanted to portray her as someone who’s very pure, very naive, who only looks at the bright ...

Zhao Tao: I think my relationship with these two men in the film was not so explicit in the script, so my job was to flesh out all the different experiences over our lifetime together.

Chinese actress Zhao Tao, and Romanian director will also join two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne, this year's jury ...

Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke leads his partner and muse, Zhao Tao, on a decades-long romantic odyssey in Caught By the Tides. Skip to main content Open Mega Menu ...

One of our favorite films of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, we said in our review, Though vastly more moderate than its predecessor, the ultra-violent A Touch of Sin, Jia Zhangke’s Mountains May ...

In two weeks, Jia Zhangke's new epic of crime and romance, Ash Is Purest White, will arrive in the U.S. courtesy of Cohen Media Group. The director with the most insightful eye on contemporary China, ...

Italian director Paolo Genovese and Chinese actress Zhao Tao are among members of the jury for the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival. They join the previously announced jury president ...