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Filmography of Cao Cao

Also known as 曹操 · Mengde

MilitaryPolitical

2 titles in the archive · first depicted 208

Lived155 – 220

Warlord and chancellor of the collapsing Han dynasty, who unified northern China and laid the foundation of the state of Wei.

Shelfmark Vita XXXIV

2
titles
2 films
3.8/5
average rating
across 2 rated titles
4h 46m
on screen
across 2 titles
100%
set in Three Kingdoms
2 of 2 appearances
2
appearances, all on film
never on television

Compare both titles in the Canons

1 year of a 65 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Cao Cao’s lifetime (155 – 220) — 1.5% of it.

Depicted in

208

First and Last on Screen

Earliest portrayalRed Cliff2008
Most recentRed Cliff II2009

1 year of cinema separate them. A series is sorted here by the first year of its release.

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

Historical Threads

A thread follows one event or historical theme across the archive, wherever and whenever it appears. Pulling a thread opens up a narrowed timeline view filtered to every year that thread touches.

Battle of Red Cliffspull it on the timeline

Event

The decisive naval engagement on the Yangtze river at the end of the Han Dynasty that halted Cao Cao’s advance south and set the stage for the Three Kingdoms Period of Chinese history that would persist for decades afterward.

2 titles of theirs · filed under 208

Runs throughThree Kingdoms2

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Cao Cao cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$160.3 million
in budgets
over 2 films with both sums
$371.2 million
at the box office
over 2 films with both sums
2.3×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 2 films of the 2 portraying them carry either sum.