WEEK 3.1 SAY HI TO YIMOU ZHANG

   Yimou Zhang is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and even an actor. His directorial debut was Red Sorghum on 1987 and he is also one of the amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.

Zhang was born on 2nd April 1950 in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province. His father was a dermatologist and had been an officer for Ntional Revolutionary Army by the command of Chiang Kai-Shek in the period of Chinese Civil War. His uncle and an elder brother joined the NAtionalist forces to Taiwan after their 1949 defeat. Due to that, Zhang faced harsh life during his younger days.

    During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Zhang left his school and went to work as a farm labourer at first for three years, and later then at a cotton textile for seven years in the city of Xianyang A the period, he took up painting and was still amateur in. Photography which he bough his first camera by selling his own blood. In 1978, he studied at Beijing Film Academy and majored in photography. He has an Hononary Doctorate Degree from Bodton University and one from Harvard University.


Here is the list of his work:

As director

Year	English title	Chinese title	Notes
1987	Red Sorghum	红高粱	Golden Bear Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Not Nominated)
1988	Codename Cougar	代号美洲豹	(co-director)
1990	Ju Dou	菊豆	Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Nominated)
1991	Raise the Red Lantern	大红灯笼高高挂	Silver Lion Hong Kong submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Nominated)
1992	The Story of Qiu Ju	秋菊打官司	Golden Lion Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Not Nominated)
1994	To Live	活着	Grand Prix du Jury
1995	Shanghai Triad	摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥
1995	Zhang Yimou		Segment of the anthology, Lumière and Company
1997	Keep Cool	有话好好说
1999	Not One Less	一个都不能少	Golden Lion
1999	The Road Home	我的父亲母亲	Jury Grand Prix
2000	Happy Times	幸福时光
2002	Hero	英雄	Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Nominated)
2004	House of Flying Daggers	十面埋伏	Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Not Nominated)
2005	Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles	千里走单骑
2006	Curse of the Golden Flower	满城尽带黄金甲	Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Not Nominated)
2007	Movie Night		Segment of the anthology, To Each His Cinema
2009	A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop	三枪拍案惊奇
2010	Under the Hawthorn Tree	山楂树之恋
2011	The Flowers of War	金陵十三钗	Chinese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Not Nominated)
2014	Coming Home	归来
2016	The Great Wall[51][52]	长城

As cinematographer[edit]

Year	English title	Chinese title	Notes
1982	Red Elephant	红象
1983	One and Eight	一个和八个
1984	Yellow Earth	黄土地
1986	Old Well	老井
1986	The Big Parade	大阅兵

As actor[edit]

Year	English title	Chinese title	Notes
1986	Old Well	老井	Sun Wangquan
1987	Red Sorghum	红高粱
1989	Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior	古今大战秦俑情	Tian Fong
1997	Keep Cool	有话好好说	Junk Peddler

Source: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Yimou