Zhang Ming
Birth : 1961-06-04, Chongqing, China
History
Zhang Ming (Chinese: 章明) was born in Chongqing in 1961. He is an established director and writer, and a professor in the Department of Directing at Beijing Film Academy. He finished his debut In Expectation in 1996, which premiered at the Berlinale. It won prizes at various international film festivals including Pusan, Vancouver, and Torino. In 2001, he directed the film Weekend Plot , which was invited to screen at festivals in Tokyo, Pusan, Berlin, and Rotterdam, among others. His subsequent films include Before Born (2005), The Father (2006), The Bride (2008), Folk Songs Singing(2011), China Affair (2013) and The Pluto Moment (2018). He is regarded as one of the Sixth Generation of Chinese directors, alongside Jia Zhangke and Lou Ye.
Writer
Contemporary Shanghai. Four women are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend who meets her father's expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her. The respected director, winner of multiple awards at major international festivals, returns with an intricately structured story about the search for happiness.
Director
Contemporary Shanghai. Four women are pursuing happiness in their lives. Their stories intertwine, as if they were those of a single person. A young executive argues with her fiancé about starting a family. A PhD student clashes with her professor about her thesis about happiness. A teenager fails to find the perfect boyfriend who meets her father's expectations. A young woman dreaming of the US is stuck in a cab with the cabdriver in love with her. The respected director, winner of multiple awards at major international festivals, returns with an intricately structured story about the search for happiness.
Screenplay
Loosely based on The Tale of Darkness, a traditional song of mourning, the film follows Wang Zhun, a director in search of inspiration for his new script, as he embarks on an unpredictable trek across China’s remote Shennongjia mountains in Hubei province with an urbane producer, Ding Hongmei; a young actor named Bai; and his loyal photographer, Du Chun. The journey delivers a relentless series of unexpected physical hardships and subtle emotional ebbs and flows on the protagonists.
Director
Loosely based on The Tale of Darkness, a traditional song of mourning, the film follows Wang Zhun, a director in search of inspiration for his new script, as he embarks on an unpredictable trek across China’s remote Shennongjia mountains in Hubei province with an urbane producer, Ding Hongmei; a young actor named Bai; and his loyal photographer, Du Chun. The journey delivers a relentless series of unexpected physical hardships and subtle emotional ebbs and flows on the protagonists.
Writer
The film tells about Liu Qiang, a farmer from the south of Zhangpo Village. In order to help the village sell cherries, he participated in the TV blind date program and met the only female guest graduate Zhang Linjie who left the lamp to him. Since then, two young people from different backgrounds have brought together a series of stories for the construction of the new countryside.
Director
The film tells about Liu Qiang, a farmer from the south of Zhangpo Village. In order to help the village sell cherries, he participated in the TV blind date program and met the only female guest graduate Zhang Linjie who left the lamp to him. Since then, two young people from different backgrounds have brought together a series of stories for the construction of the new countryside.
Director
Seven people were kidnapped by the murderer and were in a secret room. The murderer asked the seven of them to guess why they were kidnapped, otherwise they would kill one person every ten minutes.
Director
Can two completely different cultures truly connect? Can two people from completely different worlds find love? These are some of the questions raised in 'China Affair.' A Chinese movie filmed from a non-Chinese perspective, 'China Affair' is a complex narrative laced with barbed satire, which allows for a fresh perspective unseen in other movies that touch upon the cultural gap between America and China. At first glance, Director Zhang Ming is simply bringing cultural differences to life through the eyes of a foreigner named Lucas, but actually Zhang Ming's 'China Affair' is a story about difficult relationships that reflects on larger issues facing an increasingly intercultural world.
Director
Liu Xiaoyang is fond of music. In order to help Xiaoyang enter a music school, her father, who is serving in the police station, finds Feng Gang as a tutor. Xiaoyang and Feng Gang gradually cultivate feelings in the process of learning. A few years later, Xiaoyang returns to her hometown after graduation. Zhang Xuefeng and Xiaoyang grow up together. And now their parents want them to be together. But Xiaoyang rejects.
Man holding the kid
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Lighting Camera
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Makeup & Hair
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Writer
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Editor
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Cinematography
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Director
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming,
Director
Some memories from a painter.
Writer
Originally conceived as the film for government propaganda but couldn't pass the censorship. Five punks found Dong Jianguo, a millionaire wearing the dog chain being trapped in the trunk. They kidnapped the millionaire and started to konw the love story between Dong Jianguo and a woman called Bobo.
Director
Originally conceived as the film for government propaganda but couldn't pass the censorship. Five punks found Dong Jianguo, a millionaire wearing the dog chain being trapped in the trunk. They kidnapped the millionaire and started to konw the love story between Dong Jianguo and a woman called Bobo.
Director
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming.
Director
Huang is a taciturn detective, hired to catch the elusive Li Chonggao in an illicit tryst. Having failed that, he placates himself by collecting evidence: taking pictures of a rumpled bed or attempting to question the locals. When he meets the stunning Yu Ran, he suspects she may be the key to capturing Li, but she has secrets of her own.
Director
Zhang Ming went back to hometown to visit his aunt.
Producer
Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed forever by the upcoming Three Gorges Dam.
Editor
Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed forever by the upcoming Three Gorges Dam.
Cinematography
Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed forever by the upcoming Three Gorges Dam.
Himself
Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed forever by the upcoming Three Gorges Dam.
Director
Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed forever by the upcoming Three Gorges Dam.
Director
Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming.
Writer
Six young urbanites who haven't seen each other for four years spend the weekend together on the banks of the Yangzhe river to escape the hustle and bustle of Beijing city. However, even the solitude of their surroundings cannot stop old tensions from resurfacing between some of the characters. The air becomes especially charged when a friend of the six shows up without invitation. Now married and working as a policeman in a small town near Yangzhe river, the young man pines for Xiaobei, his old high school flame and one of the women in the group. But, the policeman's presence triggers feelings of jealousy in Xiaobei's fiance, leading to a troubling twist at the end.
Director
Six young urbanites who haven't seen each other for four years spend the weekend together on the banks of the Yangzhe river to escape the hustle and bustle of Beijing city. However, even the solitude of their surroundings cannot stop old tensions from resurfacing between some of the characters. The air becomes especially charged when a friend of the six shows up without invitation. Now married and working as a policeman in a small town near Yangzhe river, the young man pines for Xiaobei, his old high school flame and one of the women in the group. But, the policeman's presence triggers feelings of jealousy in Xiaobei's fiance, leading to a troubling twist at the end.
Man in the police station
A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.
Director
A policeman investigates an introverted signal-station manager suspected of raping a hotel clerk.
