Zhang Yimou
Gender: Male
Born: 14th November 1951 (currently 60 years old)
Nationality: China
Movies: 13 Flowers of Nanjing, A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop, Codename Cougar, Curse of the Golden Flower, Happy Times, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Ju Dou, Keep Cool, Lumière and Company, Not One Less, Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum, Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, Shanghai Triad, The Bright Red Lanterns Hung High, The First Emperor, The Flowers of War, The Road Home, The Story of Qiu Ju, To Each His Own Cinema, To Live, Under the Hawthorn Tree, Under the Hawthorn Tree
Zhang Yimou (born November 14, 1951) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum.
Zhang has won numerous awards and recognitions, with Best Foreign Film nominations for Ju Dou in 1990 and Raise the Red Lantern in 1991, Silver Lion and Golden Lion prizes at the Venice Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 1993, he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
One of Zhang's recurrent themes is the resilience of Chinese people in the face of hardship and adversity, a theme which has been explored in such films as, for example, To Live (1994) and Not One Less (1999). His films are particularly noted for their rich use of colour, as can be seen in some of his early films, like Raise the Red Lantern, and in his wuxia films like Hero and House of Flying Daggers. He is currently directing an upcoming historical drama war film called The Flowers of War.
Zhang Yimou was born in Xi'an, the capital city of Shaanxi
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