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Zhang Yimou the director you never knew


Zhang Yimou , born on the 2nd April 1950 who is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.

 He was born in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Zhang left his school studies and went to work, first as a farm labourer for 3 years, and later at a cotton textile mill for 7 years in the city of Xianyang. During his working days he took up painting and amateur still photography also selling his own blood to buy his first camera. In 1978, he went to Beijing Film Academy and majored in photography.
Zhang and his co-graduates were assigned to small regional studios, and Zhang was sent to work for the Guangxi Film Studio as a cinematographer. He worked as director of photography, and Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth, in 1984. These two films were successes at the Hong Kong Film Festival and helped to bring the new Chinese cinema to the attention of worldwide audiences , signalling a departure from the earlier propagandist films of the Cultural Revolution.

He developed his first film on the 80's titled Red Sorghum , the film was met with critical acclaim, bringing Zhang to the forefront of the world's art directors, and winning him a Golden Bear for Best Picture at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival in 1988.

Zhang worked on a few titles in the 90's like  Raise the Red Lantern ,  The Story of Qiu Ju , To Live and Shanghai Triad. Raise the Red Lantern received almost unanimous international acclaim while The Story of Qiu Ju  was a hit at film festivals and won the Golden Lion award at the 1992 Venice Film Festival. Not forgetting To Live was banned in China but released at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Prize.

He's a talented director which inspired a lot of people throughout his films.
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