Zhang Yimou
ZHANG Yimou (1950, China) is from a generation that was greatly influenced by the Cultural Revolution. He holds an Honorary doctorate from the Boston University. Zhang worked on films with Zhang Junchao and Chen Kaige before acquiring international recognition in his own right at the Berlin Film Festival (1988) with his debut feature Red Sorghum (1987). Zhang’s lengthy cooperation with star actress Gong Li resulted in a series of films that are held to great esteem internationally. In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at both the Mumbai International Film Festival and the Cairo International Film Festival.
Filmography
Hong gaoliang/Red Sorghum/Het rode korenveld (1988), Daihao meizhoubao/Operation Cougar (1989), Ju Dou (1990), Dahong Denglong gaogao/Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Qiu Ju da guansi/The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), Huozhe/To Live (1994), Yao a Yao, Yao dao Waipo Qiao/Shanghai Triad (1995), You hua hao hao shuo/Keep Cool (1997), Yi ge dou bu neng shao/Not One Less (1999), Wo de fuqin muqin/The Road Home (1999), Xingfu shiguang/Happy Times (2001), Yingxiong/Hero of Jet Li Hero (2002), Shi mian man fu/House of Flying Daggers (2004), Qian li zou dan ji/Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005), Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia/Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), San qiang pai an jing qi/A Simple Noodle Story (2009), Shan zha shu zhi lian/Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010), Jin líng shí san chai/The Flowers of War (2011), Gui lai/Coming Home (2014), The Great Wall(2016), Shadow (2018), One Second (2020), Cliff Walkers (2021), Snipers (2022), Full River Red (2023)
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Zhang Yimou at IFFR
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Full River Red
An allegorical slice of Chinese history blending mystery, drama, comedy and action. Peak Zhang Yimou!
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Shadow
Epic battle story with visuals that draw on China’s centuries-old tradition of ink-wash painting, set against next-level fighting sequences t
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Yellow Earth
Chen Kaige started a revolution with his new cinematic language. Married off, a girl hopes to escape her fate.
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Yao a yao, yao dao waipo qiao
Gong Li being beautiful and bad as a gangster’s moll in the 1930s in China.
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2046
A writer (Tony Leung) is working on a book about a mysterious train that travels to the year 2046. He thinks he is making a science-fiction story,
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Keep Cool
Zhang’s latest film is contemporary in form and content and shot in the streets, apartments, cafés and karaoke-bars of Peking. Bookseller fol
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Raise the red lantern – Dahong denglong gaogao guo
The north of China in the twenties. Songlian, a 19-year-old girl, is forced to mary an old man after the death of her father. She becomes the fourt
