Chen Kaige was born in Beijing, China into
a family of FuzhouChangle origin, and grew up with fellow Fifth Generation
alumnus Tian Zhuangzhuang as a childhood friend. During the Cultural
Revolution, Chen joined the Red Guards. His father, Chen Huai'ai was a
well-known director in his own right.
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（霸王别姬）, and in the
father-son relationship in Together（和你在一起）.With the end
of the Cultural Revolution, Chen, in 1978 joined the Beijing Film Academy,
where he graduated from in 1982 as part of the so-called Fifth Generation of
Chinese filmmakers.
Upon graduating, Chen was assigned to the
inland studio at Guangxi, along with fellow graduate, Zhang Yimou.His first
movie, Yellow Earth（
黄土地） (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.The Big Parade（大阅兵） (1986) and King of the Children（
孩子王） (1987) expanded
on his filmic repertoire. 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.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
mythicalallegory and lush scenery to tell the story of a blind sanxian musician
and his student. In the same year, he was a member of the jury at the 39th
Berlin International Film Festival.
His most famous film in the West, Farewell
My Concubine （霸王别姬）(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. Chen followed up the
unprecedented success of Farewell My Concubine with Temptress Moon （风月）, another
period drama starring 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. Almost as famous is his The Emperor and the
Assassin（
荆柯刺秦王） (1999), an epic involving the legendary King of Qin and the
reluctant assassin who aims to kill him.
In 2002, Chen made his first, and to-date
only English-language film, Killing Me Softly（《十分钟年华老去——百花深处》）, 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. 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.
In 2008 Chen directed the semi-biography
Forever Enthralled（
梅兰芳）which is a return for him in the sense of directing a film based on
Chinese opera. He later went on to direct Sacrifice（
赵氏孤儿）(2010),
which is a re-imagine 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".Chen
has also acted in several films, including Bertolucci's The Last Emperor（
末代皇帝） (1987)
and his own The Emperor and the Assassin and Together.His 2012 film Caught in
the Web（搜索） 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.
如果要简短的前面两段就可以了，如果要长一点的可以把后面的都加上，基本他的整个电影历程都有简单介绍，希望有所帮助。