
Yi Zhang
Actor · Born February 17, 1978 (48) · Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Zhang Yi (Chinese: 张译, born 17 February 1978) is a Chinese actor.
Biography from TMDB.
- February 17, 1978 (48)
- Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- Actor
- 30 on MovieCove · 85 credits in all
What are Yi Zhang's films like?
Across their 26 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 2 · Earnest 22
A split, not a type: Light 6 · Serious 8 · Dark 11
A split, not a type: Grounded 14 · Stylized 10 · Heightened 1
A split, not a type: Gentle 4 · Charged 10 · Intense 11
Steady 9 · Shifting 15 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 17 · Some laughs 7 · Funny 1
Slow burn 9 · Even-paced 14 · Relentless 2
Casual 7 · Engaged 13 · Full focus 5
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 11 · Heavy 9
Resolved 17 · Open-ended 6 · Ambiguous 2
Roles they play
Usually the Hero: 7 of 16 analyzed roles.
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- Allyas Han Dezhong in Dearest (2014)
- Shadowas Zhang Jinsheng in Mountains May Depart (2015)
- Shadowas Dong Xiaofeng in Cock and Bull (2016)
- Shadowas Lu Wenzhao in Brotherhood of Blades 2 (2017)
- Mentoras Yang Rui in Operation Red Sea (2018)
- Heroas Yang Rui in Operation Red Sea (2018)
- Threshold guardianas Qu Songlin in The Climbers (2019)
- Heroas Zhang Fei in The Sacrifice (2020)
- Heroas Zhang Jiusheng in One Second (2020)
- Allyas Zhang Xianchen in Cliff Walkers (2021)
- Heroas Zong Dawei in Home Coming (2022)
- Mentoras He Li in Full River Red (2023)
- Heroas An Xin in The Knockout (2023)
- Heroas Cheng Bing in Endless Journey (2023)
- Threshold guardianas Deputy Director Wang in Scare Out (2026)
- Heroas Cui Xun in Traces of Justice (2026)
Moods and endings
- Happy9
- Bittersweet16
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Yi Zhang's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 15 of their 30 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (10).
- Ash Is Purest White (2018) · actor · free
- Cock and Bull (2016) · actor · free
- The Eight Hundred (2020) · actor · free
- I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016) · actor · free
- Operation Red Sea (2018) · actor · free
- Mr. Six (2015) · actor · free
- Brotherhood of Blades 2 (2017) · actor · free
- Cliff Walkers (2021) · actor · free
- Full River Red (2023) · actor · free
- The Sacrifice (2020) · actor · free
Subscription and free streaming for Yi Zhang's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
85 credits, 30 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

Traces of Justice(2026)
Midcredits score: 65th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Blades of the Guardians(2026)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Scare Out(2026)
Midcredits score: 16th percentile of all films
In the Name of Justice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)

百花盛放 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

For the Young Ones (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2024)

Black Dog(2024)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all films
Article 20(2024)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
Endless Journey(2023)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Seven Killings (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

Be My Family (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

Fearless Blood (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

Who Is He (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

Full River Red(2023)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all films
The Knockout(2023)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Home Coming(2022)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Be Reborn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

Snipers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Years Are Here (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

极:《悬崖之上》电影纪录片 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)

Cliff Walkers(2021)
Midcredits score: 66th percentile of all films
One Second(2020)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
The Sacrifice(2020)
Midcredits score: 27th percentile of all films
My People, My Homeland(2020)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
The Eight Hundred(2020)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Reborn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)

The Glorious Era (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

My People, My Country(2019)
Midcredits score: 56th percentile of all films
The Climbers(2019)
Midcredits score: 30th percentile of all films
Exceptionally Gifted Girl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

My Father & Daddy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)

Ash Is Purest White(2018)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films
Operation Red Sea(2018)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Goldbuster (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

Brotherhood of Blades 2(2017)
Midcredits score: 69th percentile of all films
Feather Flies to the Sky (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

Guardian of Beauty (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

Blood of Youth (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

I Am Not Madame Bovary(2016)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
The Good Fellas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

好家伙(导演剪辑版) (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

Cock and Bull(2016)
Midcredits score: 77th percentile of all films
Women Must be Stronger (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

Run for Love(2016)
Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
Everybody's Fine(2016)
Midcredits score: 33rd percentile of all films
Mr. Six(2015)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
Mountains May Depart(2015)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
The Promised Land (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

嫁个老公过日子 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

Crazy New Year's Eve (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)

好男儿之情感护理 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

The Golden Era (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)

Dearest(2014)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all films
Hot Mom! (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Mop Lasy's Spring (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Love is Not Blind (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Better and Better(2013)
Midcredits score: 2nd percentile of all films
Angry Kid (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

Eastern Bandits (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Beijing Love Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

Family on the Go (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)

掌门女婿 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

新上门女婿 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Midcredits score: 3rd percentile of all films
雪花那个飘 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

Reviving of Beichuan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

The Age of Iron (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)

雷哥老范 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

兵团岁月 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

枪声背后 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)

The Line (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Three Sevens hits Twenty One (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

My Chief and My Regiment (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)

Saber (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)

Dead End Heaven (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

青春正步走 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

Soldiers Sortie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

Inspector Coliandro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

民工 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)

National Action (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

The Forbidden Land (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

The Perfect Blue (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
地对空往事 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
Star power in the 99th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 85 titles, 81 of them dated from 2004 to 2026; peak year 2021.

Biggest box office
Full River Red (2023)

Highest rated
Dearest (2014)

Most popular right now
The Knockout (2023)
Film career
Peak 2021 · at the high point of their film career. Top draw in 9 MovieCove titles. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.
- 2014Screen debut· Dearest
- 2018First top-billed film· Operation Red Sea
- 2018Breakout· Operation Red Sea
- 2018Career best· Operation Red Sea
- 2023Career best· The Knockout
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30; the columns are the share of top-billed roles in each era, 5-year spans from the year on the label, merged until each holds at least 5 roles.
How do Yi Zhang's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 66th percentile, the median of all 29; across their 25 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up11
- 50th to 74th10
- 25th to 49th3
- Below 25th6
Shape of the crowd
15 of their 30 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Universally Panned2
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser15
- Broadly Agreed1
- Mixed10
Reviewers score the acting 70/100 in their films, across 19 reviewed titles; fans 78, detractors 42. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Yi Zhang's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Yi Zhang work with?
People who share at least 2 of Yi Zhang's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ruoqing Fu shares the most, 7.
Directors
- Yimou ZhangShared titles: Scare Out (2026), Article 20 (2024), Full River Red (2023), Cliff Walkers (2021), My People, My Homeland (2020), One Second (2020)See all 6 shared titles with Yimou Zhang

- Guan HuShared titles: Black Dog (2024), The Eight Hundred (2020), The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019), Run for Love (2016)See all 5 shared titles with Guan Hu

- Yibai ZhangShared titles: The Day We Lit Up the Sky (2021), My People, My Homeland (2020), My People, My Country (2019), Ash Is Purest White (2018), Run for Love (2016), Better and Better (2013)See all 6 shared titles with Yibai Zhang

- Sicheng ChenShared titles: Traces of Justice (2026), Endless Journey (2023), My People, My Homeland (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Sicheng Chen

Writers
- Rui GeShared titles: Black Dog (2024), The Eight Hundred (2020), The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019), Run for Love (2016)See all 5 shared titles with Rui Ge
- Ji ZhangShared titles: Traces of Justice (2026), Endless Journey (2023), My People, My Country (2019), Dearest (2014)See all 4 shared titles with Ji Zhang
- Ang WangShared titles: My People, My Homeland (2020), My People, My Country (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Ang Wang
- BululufuShared titles: My People, My Homeland (2020), My People, My Country (2019)See all 2 shared titles with Bululufu
Actors
- Jiayin LeiShared titles: Scare Out (2026), Article 20 (2024), Full River Red (2023), Cliff Walkers (2021), Brotherhood of Blades 2 (2017)See all 5 shared titles with Jiayin Lei

- Wei FanShared titles: Article 20 (2024), My People, My Homeland (2020), One Second (2020), I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)See all 4 shared titles with Wei Fan

- Ailei YuShared titles: Full River Red (2023), Cliff Walkers (2021), One Second (2020), Dearest (2014)See all 4 shared titles with Ailei Yu

- Hao OuShared titles: Full River Red (2023), The Eight Hundred (2020), The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019)See all 4 shared titles with Hao Ou

Cinematographers and editors
- Yu CaoShared titles: Traces of Justice (2026), My People, My Homeland (2020), My People, My Country (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Yu Cao

- Weizhe GaoShared titles: Black Dog (2024), The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019)See all 3 shared titles with Weizhe Gao
- Xiaoding ZhaoShared titles: Full River Red (2023), Cliff Walkers (2021), One Second (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Xiaoding Zhao

- Yiran TuShared titles: My People, My Homeland (2020), My People, My Country (2019), Brotherhood of Blades 2 (2017)See all 3 shared titles with Yiran Tu
Producers
- Ruoqing FuShared titles: Cliff Walkers (2021), My People, My Homeland (2020), The Eight Hundred (2020), The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019), The Climbers (2019), Ash Is Purest White (2018)See all 7 shared titles with Ruoqing Fu

- Zhonglei WangShared titles: Black Dog (2024), The Eight Hundred (2020), The Sacrifice (2020), The Climbers (2019), Ash Is Purest White (2018), I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)See all 6 shared titles with Zhonglei Wang

- Chunlin WangShared titles: My People, My Homeland (2020), The Eight Hundred (2020), The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019), The Climbers (2019)See all 5 shared titles with Chunlin Wang
- Zhongjun WangShared titles: The Sacrifice (2020), My People, My Country (2019), The Climbers (2019), Ash Is Purest White (2018), I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)See all 5 shared titles with Zhongjun Wang

Mixed roles
- Meng ZhangShared titles: My People, My Homeland (2020), Run for Love (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Meng Zhang

- Xiaogang FengShared titles: Ash Is Purest White (2018), I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Xiaogang Feng


