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Zhang Yimou (1950- ), Chinese motion-picture director, known for his highly visual historical dramas. Politically controversial in his native country, Zhang's films have met with enthusiastic praise abroad and have made him a leading director of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, whose careers began after the social upheaval of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Born in Xi’an, China, Zhang studied filmmaking at the Beijing Film Institute with other Fifth Generation filmmakers, including Wu Tianming and Chen Kaige. Zhang began his career as cinematographer (motion-picture photographer) for such internationally acclaimed films as Huang tudi (Yellow Earth, 1984), by Chen. Zhang made his directorial debut with Hong gao liang (Red Sorghum, 1987), which won the coveted Golden Bear Award for best picture at the Berlin International Film Festival. Set in a remote province in northern China during the 1920s and 1930s, the film is distinguished by beautiful, highly evocative images of nature and by a brilliant debut performance from Chinese actor Gong Li. Gong and Zhang subsequently developed a long, successful partnership. Zhang won the award for best director at the Cannes Film Festival for his third film, Ju Dou (1989), which was also the first Chinese film to receive an Academy Award nomination for best picture. Starring Gong as a young peasant woman who is sold to a sadistic, elderly owner of a textile factory, Ju Dou features scenes of dazzling color and a level of sensuality unusual in Chinese films. Zhang has received further international acclaim for his later films, including Da hong deng long gao gao gua (Raise the Red Lantern, 1991), Qiu Ju Da Guansi (The Story of Qiu Ju, 1992), Huozhe (To Live, 1994), and Shanghai Triad (1995). Though most of his films have found wide international distribution, Ju Dou was banned in China in 1991, as was Raise the Red Lantern. Filmography Hero (英雄 2003) Happy Times (幸福时光 2000) The Road Home (我的父亲母亲 1999) Not One Less (一个都不能少 1999) Keep Cool (有话好好说 1997) Lumière and Company (1995) Shanghai Triad (摇呀摇，摇到外婆桥 1995) To Live (活著 1994) The Story of Qiu Ju (秋菊打官司 1992) Raise the Red Lantern (大红灯笼高高挂 1992) Ju Dou (菊豆 1991) Codename Cougar (代号“美洲豹” 1989) Red Sorghum (红高梁 1987)

Zhang Yimou (born November 14, 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker and former cinematographer, and one of the best known of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors. He made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film Red Sorghum. One of Zhang's recurrent themes is a celebration of the resilience, even the stubbornness, of Chinese people in face of hardships and adversities, a theme which has occurred from To Live (1994) through to Not One Less (1999). His works are particularly noted for their usage of colour, as can be seen in his early trilogy (like Raise the Red Lantern) or in his wuxia films such as Hero and House of Flying Daggers.Zhang Yimou was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. As a child he suffered prejudice and derision because of his family's association with the Kuomintang (Nationalist party). His father had been a major under Chiang Kai-shek and an elder brother had followed the Nationalist forces to Taiwan after their 1949 defeat in the civil war.When the Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966 he was forced to suspend studying and worked, first as a farm hand, and then, for seven years, as a labourer in a cotton textile mill, much like the one he portrayed in Ju Dou. During this time he took up painting and amateur still photography. He had to sell his blood for five months to get enough money to purchase his first camera when he was 18.the Beijing Film Academy opened in 1978, Zhang was already 27, over-aged and without the prerequisite academic qualifications. He wrote a personal appeal to the Ministry of Culture, citing "ten years lost during the Cultural Revolution"[citation needed] and offered a portfolio of his personal photographic works.[3] The authorities finally relented and admitted him into the Department of Cinematography.[3]As a result, Zhang graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982 along with compatriots Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang (the latter two from the Directing class). They are often referred to collectively as the Class of 1982.[citation needed] The students saw films by European, Japanese and American art directors, as well as Chinese—far more than any of their predecessors—including the works of Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Scorsese, Truffaut, Fei Mu, Wu Yonggang, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Malick and Alain Resnais.[citation needed]As was the norm, Zhang and his co-graduates were assigned to small inland studios, and as a cinematographer, he began working for the Guangxi Film Studio.[3] Though penciled in to work as director's assistants, they soon learned there was a dearth of directors (owing to the Cultural Revolution), and appealed successively to make their own films.[citation needed] Zhang's first work, One and Eight (as director of photography), was made in 1984 together with director Zhang Junzhao. Zhang Yimou's input was telling: he shot from obscure angles, and positioned actors and actresses at the side, rather than center, to heighten dramatic effect, using a “unique and emphatic visual style, based on the asymmetrical and unbalanced composition of the shots and the shooting of color stock as though it were black and white".[citation needed]Zhang's next collaboration, under director and fellow graduate Chen Kaige was to be one of the defining Chinese films of the 1980s: Yellow Earth (1984). The film today is widely considered the inaugural film for the Chinese Fifth Generation directors that were a part of an artistic reemergence in China after the end of the Cultural Revolution.Along with his work in One and Eight, Zhang's contribution to Yellow Earth signaled a cinematic departure from the propagandist films of the Cultural Revolution.Local critics immediately sat up and took notice of this new cohort of daring artists who were defying conventions of Chinese cinema.Zhang continued to work with Chen for the latter's next film, The Big Parade (1985). Their collaboration was one of the most fruitful of the Fifth Generation period.

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