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Zhang Yang

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Birth 1 january 1967 (58 years)

Zhang Yang (simplified Chinese: 张扬; traditional Chinese: 張揚; pinyin: Zhāng Yáng; born 1967) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of Zhang Huaxun, who is also a Chinese film director.

Zhang grew up in Beijing, studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature, and then went to the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院), graduating in 1992.

Biography

Zhang Yang réalise des films très réalistes, et est reconnu depuis son film de 1999 Shower (洗澡 Xizao), à la fois en Chine et dans les festivals de film internationaux. Son deuxième grand succès suivit en 2001 : Quitting.

Zhang a grandi à Pékin, et étudié jusqu'en 1988 à l'Université Zhongshan (ou Université Sun Yat-sen) dans le Guangdong où il a obtenu son diplôme en littérature chinoise, puis à l'Académie Centrale de Théâtre (中央戏剧学院) où il a été diplômé en 1992.

Usually with

Cai Shangjun
Cai Shangjun
(3 films)
Liu Fendou
Liu Fendou
(3 films)
Yu Lik-wai
Yu Lik-wai
(1 films)
Guo Tao
Guo Tao
(2 films)
Jia Hongsheng
Jia Hongsheng
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Zhang Yang (8 films)

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Actor

Spring Subway
Spring Subway (2002)
, 1h33
Directed by Zhang Yibai
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Zhang Yang, Gao Yuanyuan
Roles Lao Hu
Rating67% 3.386333.386333.386333.386333.38633
Jianbin (Geng Le) and Xiaohui (Xu Jinglei) are a young couple living in Beijing who have been married for seven years. As the film starts, the couple has begun to grow bored with their existence bringing their relationship to an impasse. Xiaohui, who works at a designing firm, tentatively begins a flirtatious relationship with one of her customers, Lao Hu, a coffee-shop owner (played by director Zhang Yang). Jianbin, meanwhile, has recently been laid off, though he keeps it a secret from his wife by dressing for work every morning, hiding his briefcase in a public bathroom and riding the Beijing metro for most of the day.

Director

Driverless
Driverless (2010)
, 1h45
Directed by Zhang Yang
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Liu Ye, Gao Yuanyuan, Li Xiaoran, Chen Jianbin
Rating59% 2.956032.956032.956032.956032.95603
Driverless is about three love stories that are intertwined by a car accident.
Getting Home
Getting Home (2007)
, 1h30
Directed by Zhang Yang
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Zhao Benshan, Dandan Song, Liao Fan, Hu Jun, Xia Yu, Wu Ma
Rating73% 3.692173.692173.692173.692173.69217
Zhao est un vieil ouvrier qui travaille dur pour gagner sa vie à Shenzen, près de Hong Kong. Lorsque son ami et collègue Wang meurt soudainement, Zhao décide de ramener son cadavre dans sa ville natale. Il achète deux billets de car et prétend que son compagnon muet a tellement bu qu'il en a perdu connaissance. Peu de temps après, le car est attaqué par des bandits en armes. Zhao leur dit de le tuer en premier pour qu'il puisse rester pour toujours auprès de son ami défunt. Touchés par tant de loyauté, les brigands laissent le car repartir sans encombres. Mais au lieu de remercier Zhao, leur sauveteur, les autres voyageurs le jettent hors du car avec la dépouille de son ami…
Sunflower
Sunflower (2005)
, 2h9
Directed by Zhang Yang
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Joan Chen, Sun Haiying, Liang Jing
Rating71% 3.5828453.5828453.5828453.5828453.582845
The film is split into three main segments spanning thirty years. The first segment, in 1976, begins with the return of an artist, Gengnian to his wife, Xiuqing and son after several years of re-education during the Cultural Revolution. He returns however, with injured hands and can no longer continue as an artist. He instead hopes to cultivate artistic aspirations in his son, Xiangyang, who has taken to hurling stones at strangers with his friend Chicken Droppings. Though he eventually follows in his father's footsteps, Xiangyang resents his father's pressure and the two soon fall out.
Quitting
Quitting (2001)
, 1h52
Directed by Zhang Yang
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Jia Hongsheng
Rating70% 3.5364953.5364953.5364953.5364953.536495
Jia Hongsheng, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1989, gains fame in the late 80s and early 90s as an actor in films such as The Case of the Silver Snake and A Woman from North Shaanxi. During rehearsal for a stageplay titled Kiss of the Spider Woman (also directed by Zhang Yang) in the fall of 1992, Jia first comes into contact with marijuana and subsequently becomes addicted and even experiments occasionally with heroin. In 1995, after filming Weekend Lover, Jia quits acting completely and lives off his younger sister Wang Tong. An avid fan of The Beatles, Jia listens to their music obsessively and begins to imagine himself as the son of John Lennon.
Shower
Shower (1999)
, 1h32
Directed by Zhang Yang
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Pu Cunxin
Rating74% 3.743593.743593.743593.743593.74359
An aged father known to everyone as Old Liu (played by Zhu Xu) and his younger, mentally challenged son Liu Erming (Jiang Wu) run and live in a traditional bathhouse for men in an old district in Beijing. The bathhouse provides a variety of peripheral services, including haircut, massage, shaving, fire cupping, even old-style pedicure, to a motley group of regular customers, many of whom are retired old Beijingers. The patrons usually spend their entire day, day after day, in the bathhouse, engaging in a game of Chinese chess or cricket fighting. As such, they have formed close bonds not only with one another, but also with Old Liu, who is manager, staff, mediator in squabbles, and marriage consultant all in one. One of the patrons is a man who sings 'O Sole Mio in the shower, but when he goes to sing it in public he loses his ability, until Erming provides him with a shower from a hose. Another patron is Mr. Zhang, whose marriage has been in trouble ever since his wife ran after a thief while naked, and Old Liu arranges a reconciliation by having the man find his wife in the bath. After the bathhouse closes in the evening, Old Liu and Erming go for their daily jog around the neighbourhood, after which they engage in a contest to hold their breath in water as they bathe. Even simple tasks such as cleaning up the bathhouse are tremendous fun for the duo, both of whom behave like little children at these times.

Scriptwriter

Getting Home
Getting Home (2007)
, 1h30
Directed by Zhang Yang
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Zhao Benshan, Dandan Song, Liao Fan, Hu Jun, Xia Yu, Wu Ma
Rating73% 3.692173.692173.692173.692173.69217
Zhao est un vieil ouvrier qui travaille dur pour gagner sa vie à Shenzen, près de Hong Kong. Lorsque son ami et collègue Wang meurt soudainement, Zhao décide de ramener son cadavre dans sa ville natale. Il achète deux billets de car et prétend que son compagnon muet a tellement bu qu'il en a perdu connaissance. Peu de temps après, le car est attaqué par des bandits en armes. Zhao leur dit de le tuer en premier pour qu'il puisse rester pour toujours auprès de son ami défunt. Touchés par tant de loyauté, les brigands laissent le car repartir sans encombres. Mais au lieu de remercier Zhao, leur sauveteur, les autres voyageurs le jettent hors du car avec la dépouille de son ami…
Sunflower
Sunflower (2005)
, 2h9
Directed by Zhang Yang
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Joan Chen, Sun Haiying, Liang Jing
Roles Writer
Rating71% 3.5828453.5828453.5828453.5828453.582845
The film is split into three main segments spanning thirty years. The first segment, in 1976, begins with the return of an artist, Gengnian to his wife, Xiuqing and son after several years of re-education during the Cultural Revolution. He returns however, with injured hands and can no longer continue as an artist. He instead hopes to cultivate artistic aspirations in his son, Xiangyang, who has taken to hurling stones at strangers with his friend Chicken Droppings. Though he eventually follows in his father's footsteps, Xiangyang resents his father's pressure and the two soon fall out.
Quitting
Quitting (2001)
, 1h52
Directed by Zhang Yang
Genres Drama, Documentary
Actors Jia Hongsheng
Rating70% 3.5364953.5364953.5364953.5364953.536495
Jia Hongsheng, graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing in 1989, gains fame in the late 80s and early 90s as an actor in films such as The Case of the Silver Snake and A Woman from North Shaanxi. During rehearsal for a stageplay titled Kiss of the Spider Woman (also directed by Zhang Yang) in the fall of 1992, Jia first comes into contact with marijuana and subsequently becomes addicted and even experiments occasionally with heroin. In 1995, after filming Weekend Lover, Jia quits acting completely and lives off his younger sister Wang Tong. An avid fan of The Beatles, Jia listens to their music obsessively and begins to imagine himself as the son of John Lennon.
Shower
Shower (1999)
, 1h32
Directed by Zhang Yang
Origin Chine
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Wuxia films
Actors Pu Cunxin
Rating74% 3.743593.743593.743593.743593.74359
An aged father known to everyone as Old Liu (played by Zhu Xu) and his younger, mentally challenged son Liu Erming (Jiang Wu) run and live in a traditional bathhouse for men in an old district in Beijing. The bathhouse provides a variety of peripheral services, including haircut, massage, shaving, fire cupping, even old-style pedicure, to a motley group of regular customers, many of whom are retired old Beijingers. The patrons usually spend their entire day, day after day, in the bathhouse, engaging in a game of Chinese chess or cricket fighting. As such, they have formed close bonds not only with one another, but also with Old Liu, who is manager, staff, mediator in squabbles, and marriage consultant all in one. One of the patrons is a man who sings 'O Sole Mio in the shower, but when he goes to sing it in public he loses his ability, until Erming provides him with a shower from a hose. Another patron is Mr. Zhang, whose marriage has been in trouble ever since his wife ran after a thief while naked, and Old Liu arranges a reconciliation by having the man find his wife in the bath. After the bathhouse closes in the evening, Old Liu and Erming go for their daily jog around the neighbourhood, after which they engage in a contest to hold their breath in water as they bathe. Even simple tasks such as cleaning up the bathhouse are tremendous fun for the duo, both of whom behave like little children at these times.

Sound

Here, Then
Here, Then (2012)
, 1h26
Genres Drama
Actors Zhao Wei
Roles Music
Rating60% 3.003343.003343.003343.003343.00334
Représentation subtil, énigmatique, de la désillusion et de la perte de directions répandu parmi les jeunes dans une Chine contemporaine. Des existences se retrouvant interconnectées par hasard, du désir sexuel à la perte d’un téléphone...