Zhang Yang (director)
{{Short description|Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor}}
{{family name hatnote|Zhang|lang=Chinese}}
{{infobox person
| name = Zhang Yang
| image =
| alt =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1967}}
| occupation = Film director, screenwriter, actor
| awards = Golden Alexander
1999 Shower
Silver Seashell for Best Director
1999 Shower
2005 Sunflower
FIPRESCI Prize
1999 Shower (Toronto)
2001 Quitting (Stockholm){{awards|award=Golden Rooster Awards|name=Best First Film
1998 Spicy Love Soup}}
| module = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes
| t = 張揚
| s = 张扬
| p = Zhāng Yáng
}}
}}
{{Infobox Chinese
|title=Zhang Yang
|s=张扬
|t=張揚
|showflag=stp
|p=Zhāng Yáng
|w=Chang Yang
|j=Zoeng1 joeng4
|y=Jang1 Yang2
}}
Zhang Yang ({{zh|s=张扬|t=張揚|p=Zhāng Yáng}}; born 1967) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of film director, Zhang Huaxun.
Zhang grew up in Beijing, studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature, and then went to the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1992.{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmbug.com/db/342931|title=Zhang Yang|publisher=Filmbug|access-date=2007-12-03}}
Career
Zhang Yang uses a realistic style, and achieved great recognition for his 1999 independent production Xizao ({{lang|zh|洗澡}}; English translation: Shower), which was successful at Chinese box offices as well as international film festivals. This was followed in 2001 by Zuotian ("Quitting" in its American release). The actors in this unusual story about a real actor, Jia Hongsheng, and his struggle with drug addiction are Jia himself, Jia's parents, fellow inmates in a mental institution, the director, Zhang, and others playing themselves. The relationship between parents and their grown children is as central to this film as it was in Shower.
Filmography
=As director=
| class="wikitable"
!align="left" valign="top" width="40"|Year !align="left" valign="top"|English Title !align="left" valign="top"|Chinese Title !align="left" valign="top"|Pinyin !align="left" valign="top"|Notes |
| align="left" valign="top"|1997
|align="left" valign="top"|Spicy Love Soup |align="left" valign="top"|爱情麻辣烫 |align="left" valign="top"|Àiqíng málàtàng |align="left" valign="top"|Elected for competition at 1998 Tokyo International Film Festival. First independent Chinese film to achieve domestic box office success.Shower DVD, "Talent" section |
| align="left" valign="top"|1999
|align="left" valign="top"|Shower |align="left" valign="top"|洗澡 |align="left" valign="top"|Xǐzǎo |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2001
|align="left" valign="top"|Quitting |align="left" valign="top"|昨天 |align="left" valign="top"|Zuótiān |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2005
|align="left" valign="top"|Sunflower |align="left" valign="top"|向日葵 |align="left" valign="top"|Xiàngrìkuí |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2007
|align="left" valign="top"|Getting Home |align="left" valign="top"|落叶归根 |align="left" valign="top"|Luòyèguīgēn |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2010
|align="left" valign="top"|Driverless |align="left" valign="top"|无人驾驶 |align="left" valign="top"|Wúrén jiàshǐ |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2012
|align="left" valign="top"| |align="left" valign="top"|老人愿 |align="left" valign="top"|Lǎorén yuàn |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2012
|align="left" valign="top"|Full Circle |align="left" valign="top"|飞越老人院 |align="left" valign="top"|Fēiyuè lǎorényuàn |align="left" valign="top"| |
| align="left" valign="top"|2015
|align="left" valign="top"|Paths of the Soul |align="left" valign="top"| |align="left" valign="top"| |align="left" valign="top"|Selection of 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/contemporaryworldcinema/paths-of-the-soul |title=TIFF.net {{!}} Paths of the Soul |website=tiff.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150824061438/http://tiff.net/festivals/festival15/contemporaryworldcinema/paths-of-the-soul |archive-date=2015-08-24}} |
| align="left" valign="top"|2016
|align="left" valign="top"|Soul on a String |align="left" valign="top"| {{lang|zh-Hans|《皮绳上的魂》}} |align="left" valign="top"| |align="left" valign="top"| |
=As actor=
| class="wikitable"
!align="left" valign="top" width="40"|Year !align="left" valign="top"|English Title !align="left" valign="top"|Chinese Title !align="left" valign="top"|Pinyin !align="left" valign="top"|Role |
| align="left" valign="top"|2002
|align="left" valign="top"|Spring Subway |align="left" valign="top"|开往春天的地铁; |align="left" valign="top"|Kāi wǎng chūntiān de dìtiě |align="left" valign="top"|Lao Hu |
References
External links
- {{IMDb name|id=0955434|name=Zhang Yang}}
- [http://www.dianying.com/en/person/ZhangYang2 Zhang Yang] at the Chinese Movie Database
- [https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/03/22/zhang_yang_shower_interview.shtml Interview] with Zhang Yang from BBC-Films
{{Zhang Yang}}
{{Golden Rooster Award Best Directorial Debut}}
{{Silver Shell for Best Director}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Yang}}
Category:Male actors from Beijing
Category:Film directors from Beijing
Category:Screenwriters from Beijing
Category:Central Academy of Drama alumni
Category:21st-century Chinese writers
Category:Chinese male film actors
{{China-film-director-stub}}