{"id":724,"date":"2010-02-18T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T07:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2013-11-19T18:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T10:07:11","slug":"the-top-chinese-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2010\/02\/the-top-chinese-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top Chinese Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wang-fei-chungking_express.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wang-fei-chungking_express-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wang fei chungking_express\" width=\"243\" style=\"margin-right:5px;\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-725\" \/><\/a> Thanks to Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Wong Kar-Wai, Chinese cinema has grown increasingly popular over the last decade.  The irony of course is that any mainland movie that finds success overseas is lambasted at home for catering to a Western Audience.  And don&#8217;t ask a Chinese woman what she thinks about Zhang Ziyi, unless you want to be lectured for the next hour.<\/p>\n<p>You may not realize how many sensational Chinese actors there are, because when they cross over to Hollywood they star in movies like <strong>Miami Vice <\/strong>and <strong>Rush Hour 3<\/strong>.  But you can&#8217;t go wrong with these actors in their native language:<\/p>\n<p><strong>#11 Michelle Yeo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9OxQ-2gR1DU\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#10 Chow Yun-Fat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ytAQ2MzQ9U\">Hard Boiled<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#9 Jet Li<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hAB4VI8bCj4\">Fist Of Legend<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#8 Andy Lau<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GIQNiFZf_yw\">Infernal Affairs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#7 Jackie Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YdnCwym0uPs\">Rumble In The Bronx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#6 Gong Li<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wB5vKVnJQtQ\">Raise The Red Lantern<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#5 Bruce Lee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QQORnYPqU3A\">Enter The Dragon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#4 Wang Fei<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IAH-0GKvIrM\">Chungking Express<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#3 Tony Leung<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AmAAKD4IAAc\">In The Mood For Love<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0393222\/\">This Guy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WOOzFwd5DNA\">Blade Runner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#1 Maggie Chung<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Movie:  <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2wQ4gJo0bII\">In The Mood For Love<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Wong Kar-Wai, Chinese cinema has grown increasingly popular over the last decade. The irony of course is that any mainland movie that finds success overseas is lambasted at home for catering to a Western Audience. And don&#8217;t ask a Chinese woman what she thinks about Zhang Ziyi, unless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[913,904,320,906,891,2846,911,902,909,907,905,915,912,910,898,914,895,903,896,695,894,899,908,321,916,897,900,893,901,892,890,206],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film_video","tag-andy-lau","tag-big-trouble-in-little-china","tag-blade-runner","tag-bruce-lee","tag-chen-kaige","tag-china","tag-chow-yun-fat","tag-chungking-express","tag-crouching-tiger","tag-enter-the-dragon","tag-fist-of-legend","tag-gong-li","tag-hard-boiled","tag-hidden-dragon","tag-in-the-mood-for-love","tag-infernal-affairs","tag-jackie-chan","tag-james-hong","tag-jet-li","tag-list","tag-maggie-cheung","tag-miami-vice","tag-michelle-yeo","tag-movies","tag-raise-the-red-lantern","tag-rumble-in-the-bronx","tag-rush-hour-3","tag-tony-leung","tag-wang-fei","tag-wong-kar-wai","tag-zhang-yimou","tag-zhang-zi-yi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}