Zhang Yimou Movies

A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped....

After a critical intelligence leak, a national security unit launches an intensive investigation. But successive setbacks in their arrest operations...

Main Characters/Performers: 1. Xiao Mei - first appearing as new star dancer in lavish Peony Pavilion brothel, Mei is believed to be the blind...

In the southwest frontiers of China there lie many luxuriant forests where live a great variety of plants and animals. Three kids of Daizu minority...

Documentary about the making of Zhang Yimou's fiction movie Shadow.

A woman works with an assassin to get revenge upon the man who murdered her family nine years earlier.

Known for his spectacular pyrotechnic displays, Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang creates his most ambitious project yet: Sky Ladder, a visionary,...

It tells the story of Lu Fei helping a parent find out why his child wanted to commit suicide, but discovered many doubts. Through unremitting...

On February 4, 2022, the opening ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games was held at the Beijing National Stadium.

Army volunteers train for places in China's 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit.

The movie follows director Zhang Yimou as he is preparing to make the movie Hero.

Turandot at the Forbidden City is a 1998 live production of Puccini's opera Turandot directed by Zhang Yimou. The opera was performed by Giovanna...

Based on the novel.

The sequel to Cliff Walkers. Plot TBA.

Tony Rayns presents the work of the 'Fifth Generation' and other innovative filmmakers who emerged during the 1980s in China.