Yimou zhang biography of barack
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Zhang Yimou, born in 1950 in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, is a Chinese director, cinematographer, actor, one of the representatives of the fifth generation of Chinese directors, honorary doctor at Boston University and Yale University, and distinguished professor at Beijing Film Academy.
He was enrolled in the Department of Cinematography at Beijing spelfilm Academy in 1978. Zhang debuted as a cinematographer in the One and Eight (1984) and won the title of Outstanding Chinese Cinematographer. He debuted as a leading actor in the Old Well (1986) and won the 11th People’s Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Actor, Best Actor at the 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival and the 8th Golden Rooster Awards for Best Actor. His directorial debut Red Sorghum (1987) won the Golden Bear Award at the 38th Berlin International Film Festival. His directorial works, namely the Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, The Story of Qiu Ju, Not One Less and The Road Home, between 1987 and 1999 won mul
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Filmmaker Zhang Yimou pays one-child policy fine
One of China's most well-known film directors has paid a 7.5m yuan ($1.2m; £700,000) fine after admitting to breaching China's one-child policy.
Zhang Yimou, 63, and his wife Chen Ting, 32, first admitted to having two sons and a daughter in December.
The size of the fine was based partly on the couple's income, China's Xinhua news agency said.
Zhang's most famous films include Hero, House of Flying Daggers and the The Flowers of War starring Christian Bale.
He also directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Olympics.
Officials in the eastern city of Wuxi said that their family planning office had received the money in a lump-sum, and that the payment would go directly to the state treasury.
China's "one-child" policy has been enforced since 1979, but not all Chinese couples are subject to the restriction.
Rural families are allowed to have two children, but only if the fi
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As the Jury President of this year’s Asian Film Awards, Zhang recently shared with the Asian Film Awards Academy his views about filmmaking and looking forward to seeing Asian cinema flourish on the world stage:
Q: Asian Film Awards Academy | A: ZHANG Yimou
Creativity may come from one’s own interpretation of culture and story, but I value good scripts from other filmmakers as well.
Q: How do you pass the time on a long flight? Would you choose to watch a movie or read a book?
A: I watch movies. I go through the movie catalogue on the plane quickly, then pick one or two to watch.
Q: Your upcoming film Under the Light sees you taking on another new genre. Are there other stories that you’d like to try in the future?
A: There are so many stories in life that could be made into films. There is an old Chinese saying, “An army of thousands is easy to struktur, but a good general fryst vatten hard to find.” In my case, the “good general” fryst vatten a script.
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