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Chen Kaige was born on 12 August, 1952 in Beijing, People's Republic of China, is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Discover Chen Kaige's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Occupation Film director
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 12 August 1952
Birthday 12 August
Birthplace Beijing, People's Republic of China
Nationality China

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Chen Kaige Height, Weight & Measurements

At 71 years old, Chen Kaige height is 1.85 m .

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Height 1.85 m
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Who Is Chen Kaige's Wife?

His wife is Sun Jialin (m. 1983-1986) Hung Huang (m. 1989-1991) Chen Hong (m. 1997)

Family
Parents Chen Huai'ai (father) Liu Yanchi (mother)
Wife Sun Jialin (m. 1983-1986) Hung Huang (m. 1989-1991) Chen Hong (m. 1997)
Sibling Not Available
Children 2, including Arthur Chen

Chen Kaige Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Chen Kaige worth at the age of 71 years old? Chen Kaige’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film director. He is from China. We have estimated Chen Kaige's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
Salary in 2024 Under Review
Net Worth in 2023 Pending
Salary in 2023 Under Review
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Source of Income Film director

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1939

In the same year, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.

1952

Chen Kaige (born 12 August 1952) is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema.

His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.

1969

In 1969, Chen became a sent-down youth in Xishuangbanna Agricultural Reclamation Bureau for a short while before enlisting in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) next year.

1975

In 1975, Chen was discharged from the army and returned to Beijing, where he worked as a worker in Beijing Film Printing Factory.

Chen's first wife was Sun Jialin (孙加林), whom he met while working at the Beijing Film Factory, between 1975 and 1978; they married in 1983.

That union ended and he later remarried, to Hong Huang, the daughter of Zhang Hanzhi, a diplomat who had worked as an English translator for Mao Zedong.

She graduated from Vassar College in New York and is the current CEO of China Interactive Media Group.

1978

In 1978 Chen joined the Beijing Film Academy, where he graduated in 1982 as part of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.

Upon graduating, Chen was assigned to the Guangxi Film Studio, along with a fellow graduate, Zhang Yimou.

1984

His first movie, Yellow Earth (1984), established itself as one of the most important works of Fifth Generation filmmaking; though simple, its powerful visual imagery (courtesy of cinematography by Zhang) and revolutionary storytelling style marked a sea change in how films were seen and perceived in the People's Republic of China.

1986

The Big Parade (1986) and King of the Children (1987) expanded on his filmic repertoire.

1987

In 1987, he was awarded a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council and served as a visiting scholar at the New York University Film School.

Chen has also acted in several films, including Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987) and his own The Emperor and the Assassin and Together.

1989

Early in 1989, he did further experimenting in a music video for the song "Do You Believe in Shame?" by Duran Duran.

Later that year, he made Life on a String, a highly esoteric movie which uses mythical allegory and lush scenery to tell the story of a blind sanxian musician and his student.

1990

In the early 1990s, after their divorce, Chen lived with Ni Ping, a female television personality.

1993

Chen won the Palme d'Or at 1993 Cannes Film Festival and the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) Award in 1993 for directing Farewell My Concubine.

In recent years, Chen directed the war film The Battle at Lake Changjin and its sequel with Tsui Hark and Dante Lam, with the two films characterized by his signature storytelling and made in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party.

Chen Kaige was born in Beijing, China into a family of Changle, Fuzhou origin, and grew up with fellow Fifth Generation alumnus Tian Zhuangzhuang as a childhood friend.

His father Chen Huai'ai was a well-known director in his own right.

His mother Liu Yanchi was a senior screenwriter.

During the Cultural Revolution, Chen joined the Red Guards.

As a teenage member of the Red Guards, Chen, like many other youths, denounced his own father, a fateful decision he eventually learned to regret.

Indeed, this period of his life continues to influence much of his work today, notably in the unblinking depictions of the Cultural Revolution in Farewell My Concubine, and in the father-son relationship in Together.

His most famous film in the West, Farewell My Concubine (1993), nominated for two Academy Awards and winner of the Palme d'Or at 1993 Cannes Film Festival, follows two Beijing opera stars through decades of change in China during the twentieth century.

1996

Chen followed up the unprecedented success of Farewell My Concubine with Temptress Moon (1996), another period drama starring Leslie Cheung and Gong Li.

Though it was well received by most critics, it did not achieve the accolades that Concubine did, and many were put off by the film's convoluted plot line.

In 1996, Chen married actress Chen Hong.

Chen Kaige is the holder of a green card to the United States.

1999

Almost as famous is his The Emperor and the Assassin (1999), an epic involving the legendary King of Qin and the reluctant assassin who aims to kill him.

2002

In 2002, Chen made his first, and to-date only, English-language film, Killing Me Softly, a thriller starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes, though it proved to be both a critical and popular disappointment.

His more recent Together (2002) is an intimate film about a young violinist and his father.

2005

In 2005, he directed The Promise, a fantasy wuxia picture.

The Promise saw Chen shifting to a more commercial mindset, a shift regarded by some as a "radical stylistic turn" from his previous works.

2006

In 2006, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 28th Moscow International Film Festival.

2008

In 2008, Chen directed the semi-biography Forever Enthralled, which is a return for him in the sense of directing a film based on Chinese opera.

2010

He later went on to direct Sacrifice (2010), which is a re-imagining of the famous play The Orphan of Zhao.

The film was a box-office hit and many critics saw it as his "return to form".

2012

His 2012 film Caught in the Web was selected as the Chinese entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.