Zhang Yang (director)
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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
Zhang Yang | |||||||
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| Born | 1967 (age 57–58) | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 張揚 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 张扬 | ||||||
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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 and studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature. He then went to the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1992.[1]
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 and 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.
