Zhang Yimou

The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as the Bird’s Nest. It began at 8:00 p.m. ...

Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret ...

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a ...

On February 4, 2022, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

On February 20, 2022, the closing ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

The Opening Ceremony of the XIII Paralympic Winter Games, held in Beijing, China at 4 March 2022.

A commercial airliner on a routine flight between Taipei and Seoul is hijacked and taken to mainland China by the Taiwan Revolutionary Army ...

40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under ...

Shanghai, China, 1930. When young Shuisheng arrives from the countryside, his uncle Liushu puts him at the service of Bijou, the mistress of ...

China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to ...

Turandot at the Forbidden City is a 1998 live production of Puccini’s opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou. The opera was performed by ...

Teacher Gao loves the students in his poor village and is devoted to educating them in the hope of their greater futures. When he is called away ...

Set in the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, the film follows four Communist party special agents who return to China after receiving ...

Zhao is an old laid-off worker who’s dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a ...

The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.

China in the 1920s. After her father’s death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three ...

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband’s nephew but is forced to ...

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my ...

The Story of Qiu Ju is a 1992 Chinese comedy-drama film. The film was directed by Zhang Yimou and, as in many of his films, stars Gong Li in the ...

One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan’s rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead ...

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural ...

A story about a movie fan in a remote farmland who strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond.

In a kingdom ruled by a young and unpredictable king, the military commander has a secret weapon: a shadow, a look-alike who can fool both his ...

Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.

In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel ...

During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised ...

A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feeling about cinema.