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Zhang Yimou

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
Red SorghumRed Sorghum (1988) Recommended
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li, Wen Jiang
A love story set among village winemakers who fight back against Japanese marauders in 1930's China. Blackly humorous and agonisingly horrific, this…
Ju DouJu Dou (1990) Aro Favourite
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
Immaculately composed fable about a village girl who conducts an illicit affair with the nephew of the bitter factory owner she has been forced to…
Raise the Red LanternRaise the Red Lantern (1991) Aro Favourite
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
Gong Li is unforgettable as an educated woman who bitterly serves as the fourth arranged wife of a feudal nobleman. A magnificent tragedy, enriched…
Story of Qui Ju, TheStory of Qui Ju, The (1992)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
Docu–drama about a peasant wife's determined fight for her justice after her husband is assaulted. An insight into modern China is glimpsed…
To LiveTo Live (1994)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
An absorbing tale of Chinese peasantry in the dark shadow of politics over three decades. Distinguished by the star presence of Gong Li and her…
Shanghai TriadShanghai Triad (1995)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Gong Li
Richly–hued encounter with the criminal high–life of 1930s Shanghai, told through the hired servant of a pampered gangster's moll, and…
Turandot Project, TheTurandot Project, The (1998) Recommended
Dir. Allan Miller
Feat. Zhang Yimou, Zubin Mehta
The glorious insanity of Italian opera defeats all obstacles in this amusing behind–the–scenes account of a gigantic international…
Not One LessNot One Less (1999)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Wei Minzhi
13–year old peasant–girl Wei Minzhi is handed the responsibility of substitute–teaching a class of children in a rural China…
Road Home, TheRoad Home, The (2000)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Honglei Sun, Hao Zhang
Tackling the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, period dir. Zhang Yimou (RAISE THE RED LANTERN) gives the story of a young man's return home…
Happy TimesHappy Times (Xingfu Shiguang) (2001)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Dong Jie, Zhao Benshan
Putting a gentle Asian spin on the "French farce" model, dir. Zhang Yimou takes a light–hearted detour with this comedy about a retired…
HeroHero (2002) Aro Favourite
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Jet Li, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Maggie Cheung…
Though no doubt diminished on the small screen, this ancient Martial Arts spectacle from the dir. of RAISE THE RED…
House of Flying DaggersHouse of Flying Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau
The dir. of HERO follows up with an equally watchable oriental spectacle, inserting the same cartwheeling martial arts action, complete with torrents…
Riding Alone for Thousands of MilesRiding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Ken Takakura
An unmistakably poignant, tear–jerking chronicle of an elderly Japanese man’s pilgrimage to Mainland China in the hope of reconciling a…
Curse of the Golden FlowerCurse of the Golden Flower (2006)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou
Another sumptuous Tang Dynasty epic in martial arts from the dir. of HERO, cast in the mould of a Shakespearian power struggle between an Emperor, an…
Chacun Son CinemaChacun Son Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007) Recommended
Dir. Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August
35 auteurs convey the meaning of cinema in less than three minutes each, in this epic commission to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film…
Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, AWoman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop, A (2009)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Honglei Sun, Shen-Yang Xiao, Ni Yan
Dir. Zhang Yimou weaves a tale of adultery and revenge in 19th century China, based on the Coen brothers' classic neo–noir, BLOOD SIMPLE.
Flowers of War, TheFlowers of War, The (2011)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Paul Schneider
Dir. Zhang Yimou tackles the Nanking massacre with equal parts grim realism and stylish melodrama – befitting of a lavish wartime epic, less so…
Great Wall, TheGreat Wall, The (2016)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal, Jing Tian…
Inventive mash–up of historical epic and action fantasy places Matt Damon in China during the Song dynasty, as a European mercenary in the…
ShadowShadow (Ying) (2018)
Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Chao Deng
Masterful wuxia epic from director Zhang Yimou (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS), set in a kingdom where a cunning military commander plots to…

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