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Zhang Yimou

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Full River Red (Zhang Yimou, 2023)

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Full River Red (Zhang Yimou, 2023)

Snipers (Zhang Yimou & Zhang Mo, 2022)

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Snipers (Zhang Yimou & Zhang Mo, 2022)

One Second (Zhang Yimou, 2020)

One Second (Zhang Yimou, 2020)

Zhang Yimou’s One Second was originally scheduled to premiere at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, but was pull at the last, ahem, second for what were claimed to be “technical reasons” but widely assumed to be related to political censorship due to the film’s setting during the Cultural

Zhang Yimou Capsule Reviews

Zhang Yimou Capsule Reviews

Red Sorghum (1988) — January 14, 2019 “You have red on you.” Ju Dou (1990) — April 24, 2019 Basically a noir in which two young lovers conspire against the woman’s husband. Except they don’t kill him (though they certainly think about it a few times) they just have sex

Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)

Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)

There’s a little making-of featurette on the Miramax DVD of Hero⁠[1] that has some decent interviews with the cast and crew along with some breathless Hollywood narration. Maggie Cheung, Tony Leung, and Donnie Yen speak impeccable English, which makes one wonder what might have been if Hollywood wasn’

The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou, 2016)

The Great Wall (Zhang Yimou, 2016)

The Great Wall, an experiment in co-production between Hollywood and China, opens with the spinning globe of the Universal Studios logo, its computer-generated image rotating slowly as it zooms in on the eponymous defensive fortification, helpfully orienting the hoped-for American audience by showing them where exactly the nation of China