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	Zhang Yimou - Biography - MSN Movies
		Zhang Yimou is one of the best-known directors of the Chinese Fifth Generation and one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers working today.
		Zhang was born in 1950, in the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, to a future in Communist China that seemed unpromising; his father was an officer in Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Army and one of his brothers was accused of being a spy, while another fled to Taiwan.
		Zhang's next film Happy Times lightened the mood a bit with its humorous tale of an ageing bachelor who transforms a schoolbus into a no-tell motel in hopes of gaining the funds to marry his true love, and given the controversy surrounding his subsequent film a little lightening of mood would be much in order.
	movies.msn.com /celebrities/celebrity-biography/zhang-yimou (1194 words)

	Zhang Yimou -- An Internationally Acclaimed Filmmaker
		Zhang Yimou was assigned to the Guangxi studio, which had been founded in 1974, towards the end of the Cultural Revolution.
		Zhang Yimou had long wanted to direct himself and was able to do so by transferring in 1985 from Guangxi studio to the Xi'an studio, then run by the imaginative and entrepreneurial Wu Tianming.
		Zhang Yimou followed up Red Sorghum with a more conventional action picture, Operation Cougar, depicting the hijacking of an airliner, but returned to form with Ju Dou and Raise The Red Lantern, both intense and beautifully shot period pieces that were nominated for Oscars as Best Foreign Language Film in 1990 and 1991.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_38459.htm (693 words)

	Boston Review: Zhang Yimou's Long Road Home
		Zhang and his contemporaries were soon dubbed the "Fifth Generation," to single them out from the rest of China's filmmakers, who thereafter were unceremoniously lumped into four generations: the film pioneers, the realist tradition, the revolutionary film workers from Mao's army, and the first film-school-trained directors whose careers were interrupted by the Cultural Revolution.
		Zhang Yimou's rise to fame as a filmmaker was fuelled by his discovery of the student actress Gong Li, a woman of extraordinary beauty.
		Zhang Yimou shows us this young woman's desperate attempts to get the schoolteacher to notice her and at the same time her embarrassment at how forward she is being.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR26.5/stone.html (4290 words)

	Zhang Yimou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zhang Yimou was born in the ancient Chinese city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province.
		Zhang then collaborated with Chen Kaige, the latter acting as director, to photograph one of the defining Chinese films of the 1980s, Yellow Earth (1984).
		Zhang claims that he had been an admirer of Takakura for over thirty years, and as such has fulfilled his own wish of working with the Japanese veteran on a film project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhang_Yimou (1621 words)

	China today―Foreigners Exchanges
		The plot of this ballet is similar to Zhang's eponymous film: prior to being forced to become the third concubine of a lord, the heroine is in love with a young actor.
		In his latest venture, although Zhang admits to being totally unfamiliar with ballet techniques, its stage directions are in the distinctive Zhang Yimou style, being reminiscent of the visual shock filming effect.
		However, as Zhang Yimou is virtually ballet-blind, he would in all likelihood make himself a laughing stock were he to attempt to tell this story through balletic techniques.
	www.chinatoday.com.cn /English/e2001/e200107/zhangyimou.htm (1274 words)

	Boston Review: Zhang Yimou's Long Road Home
		Zhang and his contemporaries were soon dubbed the "Fifth Generation," to single them out from the rest of China's filmmakers, who thereafter were unceremoniously lumped into four generations: the film pioneers, the realist tradition, the revolutionary film workers from Mao's army, and the first film-school-trained directors whose careers were interrupted by the Cultural Revolution.
		Zhang Yimou's rise to fame as a filmmaker was fuelled by his discovery of the student actress Gong Li, a woman of extraordinary beauty.
		Zhang Yimou shows us this young woman's desperate attempts to get the schoolteacher to notice her and at the same time her embarrassment at how forward she is being.
	bostonreview.net /BR26.5/stone.html (4290 words)

	Interview Hou Yong :Zhang Yimou's Cinematographer
		Zhang Yimou is a director known for having excellent work relations with his film crew.
		Hou Yong and Zhang Yimou are both from Xi'an, an ancient capital of eleven dynasties and the cradle of Chinese civilization.
		He and Zhang Yimou were classmates in Beijing Film Academy and graduates of the 1982 class that included such legendary figures of Chinese cinema as Chen Kaige, Zhang Yimou and Lu Yue.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /9903/offscreen_columns/yong.html (1280 words)

	Zhang Yimou @ Filmbug UK
		Zhang Yimou (born November 14, 1950) is a Chinese filmmaker and cinematographer who made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film Red Sorghum.
		Zhang then collaborated with Chen Kaige, the latter acting as director, to photograph one of the defining Chinese films of the 1980s, Yellow Earth (1984), later to be considered the inauguration film for the Chinese Fifth-Generation directors.
		Zhang's succeeding major project was the ambitious wuxia drama Hero (2002), which follows after his second film in a series about modern Chinese city-life, Happy Times (2000).
	www.filmbug.co.uk /db/344575 (698 words)

	Zhang Yimou Movies & News
		Zhang Yimou is one of the best-known directors of the Chinese Fifth Generation and one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers working today.
		Zhang was born in 1950, in the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, to a future in Communist China that seemed unpromising; his father was an officer in Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang Army and one of his brothers was accused of being a spy, while another fled to Taiwan.
		Zhang's next film Happy Times lightened the mood a bit with its humorous tale of an ageing bachelor who transforms a schoolbus into a no-tell motel in hopes of gaining the funds to marry his true love, and given the controversy surrounding his subsequent film a little lightening of mood would be much in order.
	www.moviesonline.ca /celeb-Zhang-Yimou.htm (1946 words)

	Zhang Yimou
		By Ruiqing Du Zhang Yimou is a mystic figure belonging to the "Fifth Generation" of Chinese film directors.
		Clearly, Zhang moves even further to the other extreme from the unconditional laudation of primitivism to a scathing criticism and denunciation of the evils primitivity has brought about.
		In this respect, Zhang is lucky that he lives and works in a much relaxed political climate, a time congenial and conducive for a creative mind.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/hargett/eas140/ZhangYimou.html (2800 words)

	Zhang Yimou - Shanghai Triad
		ZHANG Yimou was in secondary school when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966.
		ZHANG Yimou was assigned to the Guanxi studio, which had been founded in 1974, towards the end of the Cultural Revolution.
		ZHANG Yimou had long wanted to direct himself and was able to do so by transferring in 1985 from Guanxi studio to the X'ian studio, then run by the imaginative and entrepreneurial WU Tianming.
	www.sonypictures.com /classics/shanghai/crew/yimou.html (1074 words)

	CINEASTUL ZHANG YIMOU SI EXPERIENTA SA IN LUMEA BALETULUI (Ro)
		Zhang Yimou a afirmat despre acest spectacol: “Baletul este dedicat dragostei şi aceasta este intriga lui.
		Zhang Yimou a declarat de asemenea, în timpul punerii în scenă a operei Turandot, că nu cunoaşte opera modernă.
		Zhang Yimou a utilizat apoi jocul de lumini pentru a ilustra sentimentele şi mişcarea stărilor sufleteşti ale personajelor şi pentru a susţine desfăşurarea intrigii.
	www.fmprc.gov.cn /ce/cero/rom/gyzg/cp/t66105.htm (1209 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Zhang has obliquely expressed some of his own feelings and experiences in his work: the portraits of capricious and cruel patriarchs in Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern offer us some inking of what it is like to live under authoritarian rule and be subject to arbitrary and unaccountable judgements and punishments.
		Zhang wrote a 'self-criticism' of the kind that was mandatory for many educated Chinese during the Cultural Revolution, concluding with a wish of even older vintage (it was routine in feudal China) - that the great and good would overlook the errors of a humble and insignificant individual like himself.
		Zhang has at least one script in hand (Empress Wu, commissioned by the French company CB200) which was written expressly for Gong Li, and both he and she have voiced the hope that they will one day film it together.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/asianfilm/china/zhang-rayns.html (2867 words)

	Chinese Directors - Zhang Yimou
		Yimou's use of color is extraordinary and the many action sequences, including one in which Cheung and Li deflect thousands of arrows in a whirlwind of hands and motions, set a new standard.
		Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, To Live) presents this warm and tender comedy about a lonely retiree who takes an odd route to becoming a surrogate father to a young blind girl.
		The captains enlist the help of a beautiful dancer (Zhang Ziyi) whose father is a member of the faction, and she agrees to help after falling deeply in love with one of her protectors.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /foreignvids-chin-zhangyimou.html (1021 words)

	BERLIN 2000 INTERVIEW: Two For One: Zhang Yimou Comes Back With a Vengeance
		During the "first selection process," Zhang was amused that his eventual lead, Wei Minzhi, forgot the words to the song, just as she does in the film.
		Zhang emphasizes the dramatic construction of his films as opposed to their purported reflection of Chinese lives: "In fiction, we need to create obstacles for the characters.
		Zhang explains his experimentation with a variety of film forms are motivated by both artistic needs and a reaction against the lack of range within the Chinese film market.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Yimou_Zhang_000216.html (1432 words)

	USATODAY.com - Spielberg rep plays down Zhang story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zhang's business partner Zhang Weiping was quoted as saying last Monday that Zhang Yimou and Spielberg have expressed an interest in working together, and that a possible project would be Journey to the West.
		Zhang Weiping reportedly said Journey to the West, about a monk whose pilgrimage to India to obtain Buddhist texts is helped by three protectors, including a monkey, is an ideal project for Zhang Yimou and Spielberg because it would combine Spielberg's expertise in science fiction and Zhang Yimou's understanding of Chinese culture.
		However, Zhang Weiping was later quoted in the Beijing Yule Xingbao newspaper as saying that 'Journey to the West' was just an example of the scale of project they would collaborate on.
	usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2006-08-22-spielberg-zhang_x.htm?csp=34 (428 words)

	HERO - Zhang Yimou Interview
		It is in this interview, director Zhang Yimou talked about HERO for the first time since the shooting started in August last year.
		Zhang: Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
		Zhang Yimou: TO LIVE (directed by Zhang Yimou) is more enjoyable.
	www.monkeypeaches.com /hero/interview01.html (1702 words)

	FOXNews.com - Spielberg Rep Plays Down Zhang Story - Celebrity Gossip \| Entertainment News \| Arts And Entertainment
		Zhang's business partner Zhang Weiping was quoted as saying last Monday that Zhang Yimou and Spielberg have expressed an interest in working together, and that a possible project would be"Journey to the West."
		Zhang Weiping reportedly said"Journey to the West,"about a monk whose pilgrimage to India to obtain Buddhist texts is helped by three protectors, including a monkey, is an ideal project for Zhang Yimou and Spielberg because it would combine Spielberg's expertise in science fiction and Zhang Yimou's understanding of Chinese culture.
		However, Zhang Weiping was later quoted in the Beijing Yule Xingbao newspaper as saying that'Journey to the West'was just an example of the scale of project they would collaborate on.
	www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Aug22/0,4670,ZhangYimouSpielberg,00.html (356 words)

	Zhang Yimou relationships
		Zhang Yimou seeks security and loyalty in love relationships, is extremely devoted to his loved ones and provides a warm, nurturing atmosphere for them.
		Zhang Yimou craves very intense, deep, emotional relationships, and would even prefer stormy, tumultuous relationships to ones that are calm but lack vitality and passion.
		Zhang Yimou has a freehanded, generous, open attitude and would prefer to spend and enjoy and partake in the pleasures of the moment than to save, discipline or budget himself.
	famous-relationships.topsynergy.com /Zhang_Yimou (1373 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Zhang Yimou
		Zhang Yimou was in secondary school when the Cultural Revolution exploded in China in 1966.
		Since his father had served in the old guard, Zhang was sent immediately to the countryside to begin ten years of education (or hard labor) in the fields.
		Zhang Yimou’s new movie about everyday life in Beijing is a creative exercise in humor and sarcasm.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=1038 (645 words)

	GreenCine \| article
		Zhang Yimou balks at such talk, claiming that just as he's always refused to consider what might anger government officials, neither does he consider what might appeal to them.
		Zhang Yimou countered that the film is far too philosophical and abstract to be a commentary on, say, China's policy on Taiwan.
		Zhang Ziyi is an actress who is also a good dancer because, when she was younger, she studied dancing for six years.
	www.greencine.com /article?action=view&articleID=141 (1700 words)

	Zhang Yimou Summary
		Zhang then collaborated with Chen Kaige, the latter acting as director, to photograph one of the defining Chinese films of the 1980s, Yellow Earth (1984), later to be considered the inauguration film for the Chinese Fifth-Generation directors.
		Upon completing this film, Zhang then made To Live (1994; Cannes Best Actor for Ge You), a film based on the acclaimed novel by Yu Hua, which is an epic framework about the resilience of the ordinary Chinese folks, personified by its two leads, amidst three generations of historical upheavals throughout the 20th century.
		Zhang's succeeding major project was the ambitious wuxia drama Hero (2002), which follows after his second film in a series about modern Chinese city-life, Happy Times (2000).
	www.bookrags.com /Zhang_Yimou (948 words)

	Zhang Yimou
		On November 14, 1950, Zhang Yimou was born in the Shaanxi region of China.
		Zhang moved the time of the story (originally set in the 1940s in Liu Heng's novella) to the pre-communist 1920s in an attempt to avoid Chinese censorship.
		Yimou's cooperation with the Taiwanese upset the Chinese government caused escalating tensions between Yimou and the Chinese government.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/Atrium/1028/zybio.html (753 words)

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