Zhang Yang (director)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Yang
Born	1967
Occupation(s)	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)Golden Rooster Awards – Best First Film 1998 Spicy Love Soup
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	張揚
Simplified Chinese	张扬
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Yáng

Zhang Yang
Traditional Chinese	張揚
Simplified Chinese	张扬
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhāng Yáng Wade–Giles Chang Yang Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Jang1 Yang2 Jyutping Zoeng1 joeng4

Zhang Yang (simplified Chinese: 张扬; traditional Chinese: 張揚; pinyin: 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.

Career

Zhang Yang uses a realistic style, and achieved great recognition for his 1999 independent production Xizao (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

Year	English Title	Chinese Title	Pinyin	Notes
1997	Spicy Love Soup	爱情麻辣烫	Àiqíng málàtàng	Elected for competition at 1998 Tokyo International Film Festival. First independent Chinese film to achieve domestic box office success.
1999	Shower	洗澡	Xǐzǎo
2001	Quitting	昨天	Zuótiān
2005	Sunflower	向日葵	Xiàngrìkuí
2007	Getting Home	落叶归根	Luòyèguīgēn
2010	Driverless	无人驾驶	Wúrén jiàshǐ
2012		老人愿	Lǎorén yuàn
2012	Full Circle	飞越老人院	Fēiyuè lǎorényuàn
2015	Paths of the Soul			Selection of 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.
2016	Soul on a String	《皮绳上的魂》

As actor

Year	English Title	Chinese Title	Pinyin	Role
2002	Spring Subway	开往春天的地铁;	Kāi wǎng chūntiān de dìtiě	Lao Hu

External links

• Zhang Yang at IMDb
• Zhang Yang at the Chinese Movie Database
• Interview with Zhang Yang from BBC-Films