Hou Yong

Hou Yong

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Hou Yong

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My Heart Leaps Up
Director of Photography
While working on clipart with her schoolmates, 17-year-old Beijing high school student Liu Weiwei develops a crush on her art teacher.
My Heart Leaps Up
Producer
While working on clipart with her schoolmates, 17-year-old Beijing high school student Liu Weiwei develops a crush on her art teacher.
Amazing
Cinematography
"Amazing" centers on a video game company boss, Frank (Eric Mabius of TV's "Ugly Betty"), who is eager to rush his firm's new thought-controlled basketball game to market, despite the objections of the project leader Bingshan (popular Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming), who warns that a bug in the system could escape the computer and infect players' brains.
Guo Ming Yi
Guo Mingyi
In 2011, a movie biography of Guo Mingyi was Produced. The movie was directed by Chen Guoxing and Wang Jing, with the lead part played by Hou Yong and supporting parts by Jiang Hongbo, Li Qin and Feng.
The One Man Olympics
Director
The story of Liu Changchun, China's first Olympic athlete, and his journey from Japanese occupied China to the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games. One man representing 400 million people.
Jasmine Women
Writer
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.
Jasmine Women
Director
Zhang Ziyi plays the youngest of three generations of women who leads lives in Shanghai. Joan Chen plays the great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother. The film recounts this family, the mistakes they make, and a cycle that the granddaughter breaks out of.
Hero
Additional Camera
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
Happy Times
Director of Photography
Zhao is an old laid-off worker who's dreaming of getting married. After trying unsuccessful proposals, he finally pair off with a gargantuan divorcée with two children. She, however, demands a lavish wedding and that Zhao finds a job and another place to stay for her blind step-daughter. Pretending he's the General Manager of a non-existent posh hotel "Happy Times", Zhao had to find ways and means of keeping both mother and stepdaughter happy.
Not One Less
Director of Photography
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 to tend to his dying mother for a month, the Mayor calls in an inexperienced 13 year-old replacement, Wei Minzhi; much to Teacher Gao's dismay. Teacher Gao cannot stand the thought of losing anymore students: he has already lost twelve to ever-increasing attrition, and he promises Wei an extra 10 yuan if she succeeds in ensuring that upon his return, there will be not one less. Wei's difficult mission to fulfill Teacher Gao's wish and her own concern for the welfare of the children begins.
The Road Home
Director of Photography
Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Lani Loa: The Passage
Director of Photography
A Hawaii cop becomes the suspect in a series of killings after his would-be bride is murdered on their wedding day by a gang of bank robbers, and returns as a ghost, taking vengeance on her killers, the Lono Gang.
The Opium War
Director of Photography
The story of the Opium War between China, in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty, and the British Empire, in the 1830s, and the subsequent takeover of Hong Kong by Britain; through the eyes of the key figures, fiercely nationalistic Lin Zexu, and opportunistic British naval diplomat Charles Elliot.
The Strangers in Beijing
Director of Photography
A group of young people from all corners of the country work in a Beijing publishing press. They all live in the same shabby apartment block, where their lives intertwine.
The Day the Sun Turned Cold
Director of Photography
Guan Jian wants to report the murder of his father who died 10 years ago. The alleged murderer whom Guan Jian accuses of the crime is his own mother.
The Blue Kite
Director of Photography
The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.
Tian chu xue
Director
Evening Bell
Director of Photography
Taking place in the immediate aftermath of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Evening Bell follows a small platoon of five Chinese soldiers who must negotiate a devastated landscape, burying bodies, disarming mines, and eventually facing off against a starving band of Japanese soldiers who do not yet know that the war has ended.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen
Director of Photography
Dr. Sun Zhongshan leads a democratic revolution in China.
The Horse Thief
Director of Photography
Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.
On the Hunting Ground
Director of Photography
A hunter violates the ancient Mongolian hunting code and must pay his penance.
The Red Elephant
Camera Operator
In the southwest frontiers of China there lie many luxuriant forests where live a great variety of plants and animals. Three kids of Daizu minority is told by a granny that a red elephant which is the symbol of God lives in the forest so in a summer vacation they go into the forest to look for the elephant and finally they discover the secret of the elephant.