The Banquet
Here is the largest collection of Zhang Ziyi videos on the net. TV appearances, interviews, movie clips, trailers, commercials, award shows; you'll find it all here. All videos are hosted through the generosity of ZiyiFilms.com. Recommended player: Media Player Classic or VLC.
Sections
Favorites - Trailers and Movie Clips - Events - TV appearances - Commercials - Miscellaneous
Favorites
First English Video Interview - This 5 minute video was made during the Toronto Film Festival and broadcast on CityTV in Canada. The questions are mostly about House of Flying Daggers, and her answers, except for the first one, are all in English. |
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House of Flying Daggers Highlight Film - Clips of her best action scenes from the movie House of Flying Daggers. We don't always remember that our sweet little Ziyi is a great action star, but this proves it. |
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Visa - Her famous "Dining Out" commercial. Modelled on the action scenes of the Matrix, this won several "Best Commercial" awards. If you get a date with her, make sure the soup isn't too salty. |
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House of Flying Daggers Beauty Dance - As lovely as we have ever seen her. See the HoFD page for more videos.
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Ziyi music video - Titled "Chang Xiang Si", which means "long yearning love". The music is a song by S.H.E of the same title. The scenes are mostly about love and yearning from Ziyi's various movies and it's put together quite well. Made by John Nguyen. |
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MTV Asia - She accepts an award for Crouching Tiger, and later is a presenter with a funny skit. She speaks English in places, and is just too cute. |
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Independent Spirit Awards - She recieves the best supporting actress award for her role in Crouching Tiger. The dress looks great on her. You know you want to see more. |
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2000 Chinese New Years - Yes, she can sing too! Her performance on CCTV's 2000 Chinese New Year's Gala. |
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Touching Starlight Clip - A clip from her very first movie, we see her dancing. She's only 15 here.
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Peacock Dance - This is a lovely six minute dance from the 1994 Taoli Cup National Youth Dance Competition, where she won the Performance Prize. |
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Early Dance videos - From Ziyi's school days at the Beijing Dance Academy. In each video, the dance she performs is representative of the traditional style of one of China's ethnic minorities. |
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Trailers and Movie Clips
Touching Starlight - Similiar to the clip above, produced by Mocha. The only English subtitled version of this movie is availabe in the forums. If you register in the forums and ask Virgule, he will let you download the whole movie. Pretty sweet deal, if you ask me. |
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The Road Home - Ziyi's most endearing movie, the trailer only scratches the surface of the beauty this movie has to offer.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - This is the international trailer from the DVD. I prefer it to the others. It has some shots that aren't in the movie, and is harder to find on the net. |
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Musa - The lovely trailer, and the poignant scene where Princess Buyong leaves the fortress, intending to sacrifice herself to save her people. |
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Rush Hour 2 - Just a trailer.
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Legend of Zu - The trailer misleadingly makes it look like she is a main character in the movie, but really she has just a small role.
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My Wife is a Gangster 2 - Here's a behind the scenes clip from the set. Its longer than her screen time in the movie. Also a clip of her entire 30 second scene. |
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Purple Butterfly - Her most underappreciated film and one of her most dramatic performances. A fantrailer/introduction made by myself and the Japanese trailer |
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Hero - The trailer is mediocre, but the movie is magnificent. There are two more video clips on the Hero page, including a clip from the Director's cut.
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House of Flying Daggers - Here are the highest quality trailers available. For many more videos, including scenes missing from the US release, see the HoFD page. |
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2046 - Two trailers, and a couple of clips from the film. The stylish French trailer is the better one. More clips are on the 2046 page. French Trailer - 16 MB mov |
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Princess Raccoon - A Japanese musical love-story. The two trailers are quite different, the second is longer and a bit more interesting. See the Princess Raccoon page for more. |
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Memoirs of a Geisha - The three most interesting trailers for the film. For many more videos, see the Memoirs of a Geisha page. US Trailer - 31 MB mov |
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Jasmine Women - It took two years after the film was made for a trailer to appear. The song is a traditional Chinese folk song titled Mo Li Hua or "Jasmine Flower". |
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The Banquet - The Chinese and Japanese trailers are below, many more videos are on The Banquet page. |
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Events
CCTV New Year's Gala 2008 - A very sparkly Ziyi in a huge pink dress sings for CCTV's annual Chinese New Year's festival, held on Febraury 6. This is the second time she has done so, her first appearance was in 2000. |
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Special Olympics 2007 - Ziyi and music producer Quincy Jones (of "We are the World" fame) speak at the Opening Ceremony of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games held in Shanghai on October 2, 2007. |
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Chinese World Influence award - Also called the "You Bring Charm to the World" award, millions of Chinese voted online to determine the 10 most influential Chinese people of 2006. Ziyi is presented the award by 'The Banquet' director Feng Xiaogang. |
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School Visit - As a Special Olympics Global Ambassador, Ziyi visited the Beijing Haidian Special School in March of 2007. |
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Toronto Film Festival 2006 - A short speech about being in Toronto and her film The Banquet, which was screened at the festival. Thanks to Emacs for making this video. |
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Venice Film Festival 2006 - Ziyi walks down the red carpet with her fellow cast members of The Banquet, which had its European premiere at the festival. Also, an interview which is partly in English. There's an image gallery too. |
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Venice Film Festival 2006 - Ziyi was invited to be a judge at the festival. Here she talks about Venice and her film The Banquet. English translation by Jim. |
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Jasmine Women Press Conference - A three-minute video from a press conference held before the release of Jasmine Women in April 2006. In Mandarin. |
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Asia Society Opening Remarks - Ziyi gave the opening remarks (in English) at a screening of House of Flying Daggers sponsored by the Asia Society, held in LA in April 2006. Thanks to Zphenom who made this video. |
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Ziyi meets fans in Beijing 2006 - Be warned, the beginning when she walks on stage is very loud. Also see this gallery from the event, with lots of pictures taken by fans. 21 MB wmv |
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HKFA 2006 - At the Hong Kong Film Awards Ziyi and Tony Leung presented the award for Best Director to Johnny To for his film Election. |
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Academy Awards 2006 - The second time Ziyi presented at the Oscars, and the second time the announcer got her name wrong. She presented the award for Best Film Editing. |
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Golden Globes 2006 - On the red carpet at the Golden Globes. Thanks to Zphenom for the video. |
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Baftas and Golden Globes 2006- Short English interviews from the Baftas and Golden Globes, aired by a Chinese news program. It gives a good idea of how Ziyi is covered on Chinese TV. |
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Screen Actors Guild Awards 2006- Ziyi presented the award for Best Supporting Actor. A short clip in English. |
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Independant Spirit Awards 2006 - Ziyi and Josh Lucas present the award for Best Foreign Film. Thanks to CrystalGaia for this. |
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Santa Barbara "Memoirs" screening - This short interview was made by Santa Barbara Arts TV at an early preview screening of Memoirs of a Geisha for the Santa Barbara Film Society Benefit Gala. She speaks in English about making the film. |
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Memoirs of a Geisha World Premiere - Held in Tokyo on November 29, 2005. Three high quality video streams from Yahoo! Japan. The first has the most footage of Ziyi. At the end of the third she grabs Michelle Yeoh and goes running off. |
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Ziyi meets fans in Beijing 2005 - A great event where everyone had fun. Here is the gallery from the event but you really need to see the videos to get an idea of how much energy and excitement there was. |
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Dior fashion show - Christian Dior named Ziyi their "publicity ambassador to Asia" for 2005. She visited Seoul, South Korea for Dior's Autumn/Winter fashion show, the first show the company had sponsored in Asia. |
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Huabiao Film Awards 2005 - Ziyi was named Best Actress for her performance in House of Flying Daggers. She shared the award with Zhao Wei, who is on stage with her. Also see this gallery from the event. |
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HK Film Critics Society Awards - This is a video of her press conference after she won the award for Best Actress for her role in 2046. In Mandarin. |
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HKFA 2005 - Ziyi won the Best Actress award for 2046. She also presented the award for Best Director with Tian Zhuangzhuang to Derek Lee for One Night in Mongkok. Also see the event gallery. Receiving Best Actress - 5 MB rm |
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Ziyi at the HFPA - Ziyi speaking in English at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Luncheon on July 20, 2005. In her speech she thanks the HFPA for collecting charitable donations to FilmAid International. |
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MTV Movie Awards 2005 - Ziyi and Paul Walker present the award for Best Kiss, and Walker tries to get a kiss of his own. "Not going to happen, Paul." Thanks to Shadow for this. |
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Cannes 2005: China Film Night - Ziyi in Cannes at the China Film Night celebration. Outside she meets Shanghai Dreams director Wang Xiaoshuai and star Gao Yuanyuan, and hugs her friend Liu Ye. Inside she meets Jackie Chan and delivers a short speech. |
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Cannes 2005: Presentation and Interview - Ziyi presents the award for Best Screenplay at the 2005 Cannes Closing ceremony, with elegant sounding English. Presentation - 8 MB avi Short Interview - 2 MB avi |
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Academy Awards 2005 - Ziyi and Jake Gyllenhaal presented the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, but we know she was the night's best visual effect. The announcer mispronouces her name as "Zizi Yang". Oops! Thanks to Shadow for the video. |
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Academy Awards 2005 - Ziyi looking lovely on the red carpet while the commentators from E! Fashion Police drool on themselves. Thanks to Zphenom for the video. |
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At the 2001 Oscars - Crouching Tiger cleaned up with 4 awards. Somehow, Gladiator stole Best Picture. That's ok, she'll be back here many times.
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At Cannes for House of Flying Daggers - A short clip where she speaks English. That's how she drives us crazy. |
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MTV - Three clips from the 2001 MTV Movie Awards. In the first two she is a presenter, in the third she receives the "Best Fight" award for a scene from Crouching Tiger. This is the first time she spoke English on TV. MTV 1 - 12 MB aviMTV 2 - 5 MB avi MTV 3 - 16 MB avi |
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TV Appearances
MSN Interview - Ziyi talks about the dance scenes in Memoirs of a Geisha. One of her most adorable interviews. |
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The Today Show - Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh are interviewed on the Today Show concerning Memoirs of a Geisha |
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Phoenix TV Interview - An interesting twenty-five minute interview from March 2007, shortly after Ziyi was voted one of the ten most influential Chinese people of 2006. She talks about learning English, influence, and her personal ideas on many subjects. An English translation was made by KY Chong. |
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Care for Children - Care for Children is a charity that helps find foster parents for orphans in rural China. Ziyi has been supporting them since early 2007. This is a brief report on the charity by E! Extras. In English. |
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Face to Face Interview - A 40-minute long interview from April 2006, begins with Z talking about Jasmine Women and then goes on to cover her career up to Memoirs of a Geisha. An English translation is available, done by Jiminthemiddle. |
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Eastern Horizon Interview - An interesting, 20-minute long interview covering her entire career. From the CCTV program Dongfang Shikong ("Eastern Horizon") made in April 2006. An English translation was made by Jiminthemiddle. Thanks Jim! |
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E! Sexiest Bodies - Two flattering segments with some nice footage of Z, and some hopelessly silly commentators talking about nunchucks and how awesome it is that Ziyi can kick ass. Thanks to Zphenom and Rick for making these videos |
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BTV Interview - A clip from an interview given to BTV. It is Mandarin, but she throws in some English phrases and you can clearly hear her describing how Americans pronounce her name wrong :) |
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MTV Chi - Ziyi introduces MTV Chi, a new cable channel aimed at young Chinese-American viewers. |
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Hong Kong Interview - A short interview that Ziyi gave while in Hong Kong on February 23, 2005. It is in Mandarin, of course, but she is especially adorable in it and cuteness is the unviersal lanuguage. |
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CCTV Interview - A three minute clip from an interview Ziyi gave to CCTV on Sept 1, 2005. It is in Mandarin with no subtitles. An English article based on the interview can be found here. "My success was not by chance, instead, it's paved by hard work, pains and tears." - Ziyi |
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Rush Hour 2 Interview - Subtitled in English. She talks about her family and her experience in making an American film.
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Flix Interview - An interview she gave in Japan right before the world premiere of Memoirs of a Geisha in Tokyo. High quality video, in Mandarin with Japanese subtitles. |
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Ziyi Modelling - A photoshoot from 2001 for "W Fashion", a Chinese magazine. The pictures from this shoot were the first time we saw Ziyi looking "punk", and this picture in particular wound up becoming one of her more famous poses. |
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Duet - Ekin Chen and Ziyi sing at a fundraiser for poor rural schools. They starred together in Legend of Zu.
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Ziyi, A to Z - A half hour long interview from CCTV, in Chinese. Even if you don't understand it, she still looks really cute. [Update: A translation of this was done by Jiminthemidle.] |
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Japanese Interview - This was for the promotion of Rush Hour 2. Three clips, all quicktime. Part 1 - 1 MB
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Korean Interview - Mandarin with Korean subtitles. She talks about her hobbies and some other things.
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Oscar rehearsal interview - A short interview with CCTV before the Oscars. In Mandarin, no subtitles. |
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MTV Asia Aid - Ziyi contributed this prerecorded message to MTV's globally televised fund raiser for the victims of the Asian tsunami crisis, broadcast on February 3, 2005. The quality is poor, as it is from a camcorder. Thanks to Claudia for the video. |
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Commercials
Mercedes-Benz - Ziyi has always preferred to be associated with luxury brands and here she's at the top of the game. A hard-drivin Z shows off the SLK Passion 08 roadster in this 45-second spot. |
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Platinum Guild International - Another luxury brand which announced Ziyi to be their "Grand Ambassador" to China, with a major press conference in Beijing during March 2007. Z looks even more beautiful here than she usually does, which is saying alot. The stylish and well-edited Making-Of clips are recommended. Commercial - 3 MB swf / 3 MB avi |
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Garnier - Two commercials for Garnier's True White range of products, and three behind the scenes clips. |
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Maybelline China - In 2001 Maybelline choose Ziyi to be their first Asian spokeswoman. |
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Maybelline China 2 - They also made some of her best commercials. God bless Maybelline. I know a guy who went out and bought a bunch of Maybelline makeup because he saw this commercial. He still has the stuff. |
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Maybelline USA - This was her very first American commercial, also from 2001. She is only in it for a few seconds, but that's all it takes for us to give Maybelline some free advertising. |
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Maybelline China 3 - In 2006 Maybelline began a new campaign in the China for their White Stay Mousse product. Three short commercials and a pretty little flash animation from Maybelline's Chinese website. |
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Maybelline misc - Assorted bits and peices US commercial clips - 3 MB avi |
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Pantene - Another of her best commercials. Ziyi worked with Pantene in 2001-2002. Hat tip to Shadow for this and some of the other commercials. |
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Pantene 2 - Similiar to the one above, just more of Z being too cute.
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Asience "Asian Beauty" series - Japanese shampoo commericals that celebrate Asian beauty. The common theme here is promoting self-esteem among Asian women. |
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Asience Asian Beauty - These are some of the most glamorous and flattering commercials she has made. Make sure to get #5, where she sings. Asian Beauty 3 - 2 MB swf |
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Asience Asian Beauty - In the last of the Asian beauty series, Ziyi tosses away the famous red dress, leading to the new "Modern Spaces" theme. Asian Beauty 7 - 3 MB swf |
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Asience "Modern Spaces" - The new theme is based on sleeker, more modern black dresses. |
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Asience continued - After the Modern Spaces theme, Asience took new directions for each of their commercials. |
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Soutec - A flashy techno-vibe commercial for Soutec cell phones, with hot cars, hot tech, and a hot Ziyi. |
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Soutec - Yes, she does alot of commercials. Here she is as a bionic woman for Soutec, one of China's major cell phone companies. This is from 2003, possibly earlier. |
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Cotton Harbor Towers - Another Japanese commerical, this time for upscale real estate. Here Z is just hangin out, looking pretty while the wind blows through her hair. |
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Legend Computer - With the kitty cat. I know a guy who bought a Pentium 4 computer after he saw this. He still has the thing. (Same guy.) |
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Coca Cola - Her first Coke commercial. She drop kicks some guy because he wouldn't give her a bottle of Coke. That's our girl! Bet he feels stupid now. |
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Coke - This is her second Coke commercial. 15 seconds of Ziyi being way too cute. Also, a behind the scenes "making of" clip. |
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Visa - "Traffic Was A Killer." Visa tried to top "Dining Out" (see favorites) by calling in James Bond. But it turns out they still needed some Z in the end. |
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Legend Computers 2 - Weirdos made this commercial. But Ziyi's in it, so we host it, weirdness and all. From 2001.
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2% Water 1 - It's 98% water and 2% love. If you download these commercials, you will never look at bottled water in the same way again. The tagline at the end means "Love is always thirsty." |
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2% Water 2 - This Korean series from 2001 are among the earliest commercials she made. We all went crazy in the forums when AssaLee became our hero and found this one where she hums "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." Yeah I know, but it was hard for Westerners to get Ziyi stuff back then. |
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2% Water 3 - It wasn't like nowadays when we serve it all up to you on a silver platter. The actor is Jung Woo Sung, who starred with her in Musa. The plot is that they can't be together because her father is a gang leader and had him beaten. Here, he's blaming her for everything, yelling "Go away!" |
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2% Water 5 - Tragedy strikes. Of course now he misses her. Pretty ironic that she drowns in a bottled water commercial. I skipped one part of the series where you can barely see her. It was a waste of her talent, unlike the exceptional performance of a corpse she provides here. |
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2% Water 6 - For a while after these commercials, you could buy 2% water in your local Chinatown. I know a guy who drove a long ways just so he could buy some. (Same guy.) I think he drank it, though. |
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SARS - A public service ad she made during the SARS epidemic in April 2003. Actually quite charming, with very pretty music. "With our usual attitude, together, we will go through this unusually difficult time... In this difficult time, besides paying more attention on personal hygiene, one should also be responsible for the health of other people. I believe protecting yourself means protecting others. [text: Keep Going, Chinese!]" |
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Wildaid - Ziyi and other celebrities such as Jackie Chan made promotional spots like this one for Wildaid, to help protect pandas. This is fairly early, from around 2001 I believe. |
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China Mobile - Ziyi filmed this commercial for China Mobile in 1997. That makes it one of her earliest, coming after her film Touching Starlight but before The Road Home. It's beautifully made and titled "Mother and Daughter". Ziyi appears one-minute in. |
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Beijing Liquor - Her second commercial, and fourth TV appearance. She made this commercial in 1996, probably shortly after she filmed Touching Starlight. Not the best image quality, but it's clearly her. |
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Miscellaneous
This low quality video is unfortunately the only one we have that shows Ziyi winning the Hundred Flowers award for her role in the Road Home. Another scene shows her receiving the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival |
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Cherish - Ziyi briefly appears in this 1994 music video by singer Xie Xaodong. The song is titled "Cherish". This might be the first time she appeared on TV, although a commercial for Oil of Olay may have preceded it. |
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Max Illusion Night - KAO (the company behind Asience) loves Ziyi so much, they once projected giant images of her onto the side of the Yokohama Grand Hotel for their tenth aniversary. Right click and choose play after it loads. |
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