Zhang Yimou

Director, Actor

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Red Sorghum (1988): 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 Dou (1990): 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 Lantern (1991): 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, 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 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 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, The (1998): 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 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, 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 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…
Hero (2002): 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 Daggers (Shi mian mai fu) (2004): 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 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 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 Cinema (To Each His Own Cinema) (2007): 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, 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, 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, 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…
Shadow (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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