Zhang Yimou

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Zhang Yimou (simplified Chinese: 张艺谋; traditional Chinese: 張藝謀; pinyin: Zhāng Yìmóu) is a Chinese filmmaker. A leading figure of China's Fifth Generation directors, he is considered as one of the most successful filmmakers in the world. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, Zhang was assigned as a cinematographer at the Guangxi Film Studio in 1982. He made his acting debut in Old Well (1987), for which he won the Best Actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival, and made his directorial debut with Red Sorghum (1988), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. One of Zhang's early recurring themes is the resilience of ordinary people, as in To Live (1994) and Not One Less (1999). Beginning with Hero (2002), which marked the Chinese film industry's transition into large-scale commercial productions, his work increasingly engaged with grand narratives on politics and history, as in Curse of the Golden Flower (2006), The Flowers Of War (2011) and Under...

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