Biography (1)
Peking, 1952. His father was a movie director and he worked in the fields and did army duty before entering the Peking Film Academy in the late seventies. A regular at all the important festivals, he picked up the first Golden Palm Award for a Chinese film with Farewell My Concubine (1993).
Gallery (4)
Monk Comes Down the Mountain (2015)
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Director
| Movies | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Flowers from the Ashes |
The Volunteers: To the War |
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| 2022 |
The Battle At Lake Changjin II |
| 2021 |
The Battle at Lake Changjin |
| 2019 |
My People, My Country |
| 2017 |
Legend of the Demon Cat |
| 2015 |
Monk Comes Down the Mountain |
| 2012 |
Caught in the Web |
| 2010 |
Sacrifice |
| 2009 |
The Founding of a Republic |
| 2008 |
Forever Enthralled |
| 2007 |
To Each His Own Cinema |
| 2005 |
The Promise |
| 2002 |
Killing Me Softly |
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet |
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Together |
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| 1998 |
The Emperor and the Assassin |
| 1996 |
Temptress Moon |
| 1993 |
Farewell My Concubine |
| 1991 |
Life on a String |
| 1987 |
King of the Children |
| 1986 |
The Big Parade |
| 1984 |
Emergency Take-off (TV movie) |
Yellow Earth |
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| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2016 |
China’s Megatomb Revealed (TV movie) |
| 2006 |
Emperor of the Seas |
Actor
| Movies | |
|---|---|
| 2009 |
The Founding of a Republic |
| 2002 |
Together |
| 1998 |
The Emperor and the Assassin |
| 1987 |
The Last Emperor |
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 1996 |
Yang Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema |
Screenwriter
| Movies | |
|---|---|
| 2017 |
Legend of the Demon Cat |
| 2008 |
Forever Enthralled |
| 2005 |
The Promise |
| 2002 |
Together |
| 1998 |
The Emperor and the Assassin |
| 1991 |
Life on a String |
| 1984 |
Yellow Earth |