Ying Zhou

Películas

Up Close: the War in the 1950s
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A propaganda documentary for the 70th anniversary of the Korean War.
A Potrait Snow of Montain
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Forever Enthralled
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The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.
The Road
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Ambientada en la provincia sureña de Yunnan, la película comienza en la primera mitad de los sesenta, cuando el fervor revolucionario aún estaba enraizado en el país sin contaminarse por los excesos de la Revolución Cultural. En este panorama, Li Chunfen es una adolescente que, vende billetes a bordo de un autobús de larga distancia que atraviesa las montañas que separan Longze y Xinangyang. La joven comenzará una historia sentimental con el conductor, mucho mayor que ella, una historia que será testigo durante décadas de los cambios sociales y políticos del país. Mejor película en el Asian First Film Festival 2006.
Cell Phone
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Written by Liu Zhenyun, based on his own novel of the same title, the film revolves around two successful men whose marriages were wrecked when their wives uncovered their extramarital affairs through traces left in their cellphones. More broadly, the film explores the role of cellphones in interpersonal relationships in modern China, where the rapid development in information technology is having huge impacts on the way people communicate.
When Ruoma Was Seventeen
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Set in a remote mountainous region of southern China, the film is about a Hani tribe girl, Ruoma (Li Min) who dreams of seeing the outside world. Ruoma lives with her grandma and sells roasted corn in a market for fifty cents an ear. Beautifully attired in Hani ethnic clothing, she by chance catches the eye of a penniless photographer, Aming (Yang Zhigang). They soon becoming friends and he gets the idea of making money by having her pose with tourists beside a famous World Heritage site. Charging ten yuan per photo, they hope to make some money. Ruoma does her job well, sweetly smiling with the tourists while dreaming of going to the big city and riding in a glass elevator. She also falls in love with Aming.
Together (Juntos)
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When a violin prodigy Xiaochun and his father head to Beijing seeking fame and fortune, they soon discover a fierce world of cutthroat ambition. But when Xiaochun is "adopted" by a famous music tutor, success finally seems within reach - until a shocking discovery begins to unravel his entire world, and the boy must make the most difficult choice of his life. Can he achieve the fame his father had always hoped for without losing the extraordinary passion that sets him apart?
El Funeral Del Jefe
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Don Tyler es un director de cine famoso mundialmente cuyo trabajo le ha provisto con una vida llena de éxitos. Ahora está rodando en Tokio una película épica sobre el último emperador de la dinastía Quing de China. En medio del rodaje de una intensa escena, en la que una de las concubinas del emperador está dando a luz, de pronto se da cuenta de que no puede seguir con la película. Su seguridad le ha abandonado y no tiene ni la más remota idea de cómo continuar su historia.YoYo es un cámara que está atravesando una mala racha y que ha sido contratado por la ayudante de Tyler, desde hace mucho tiempo, la nacida en China y criada en occidente Lucy, para rodar la película dirigida por Tyler.
Father
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Father documents the tumultuous relationship between a widowed father, Ma Lisheng, and his school-age son, Ma Che. Though he works as a low-level party functionary during the day, he finds his greatest challenges in the raising of a son on his own. Alternating between trying to bond with his son (even getting drunk with him), and verbally accosting him, Ma is at a loss. One day the son decides that the best way for his father to stop harassing him, will be to find him a new wife, which he finds in the form of the mother of a school friend, Qing Huaiyuan.
Sorry Baby
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The film tells of the attempts made by a Beijing van driver (Ge You) to obtain his wage arrears from travel agency boss (Fu Biao) - even to the point of kidnapping the latter's Singaporean girlfriend (Jacklyn Wu).
Be There or Be Square
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The story of two Chinese immigrants' struggles in America. Yuan Liu has lived in LA for years. He has no stable job, no family and lives in a wagon. He seems content with his life until the day he meets Qing Li, a woman with the big "American dream".
The Strangers in Beijing
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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.
In the Heat of the Sun
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Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
The Swordswoman in White
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Wang Cong'er, leader of the White Lotus sect, narrowly escapes after her base is surrounded by the Qing army. A reward is posted for her capture throughout the city. Wang and the White Lotus sect realize there is a traitor among them.