Movie·2009·117 min

Mao’s Last Dancer

Name: Mao’s Last Dancer
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 2009-10-01
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen, Chi Cao, Amanda Schull

Mao’s Last Dancer streams in the US on Amazon Prime Video and Kanopy, and free with ads on The Roku Channel, Pluto TV and 4 more apps, as of October 5, 2026.

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6.6 / 10 · TMDB

Drama Romance

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

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