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Directing

Zhang Yimou

Career: Active from 1982 to 2026, busiest in 2022 with 4 main titles.

Average score: 71/100

Highest rated: To Live
86/100

Awards

Reported results for this person. Coverage is incomplete; these results don't establish award totals.

BAFTA Awards · Best Film Not in the English Language
1995 · Won
To Live
Source: Wikidata
BAFTA Awards · Best Film Not in the English Language
1993 · Won
Raise the Red Lantern
Source: Wikidata

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 37 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Zhang Yimou Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.5, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.8, average 2.2
Situational Comedy
1.5, average 2.7
Cringe Humor
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 7
Chinese Cinema 6
Political Intrigue 4
Historical Drama 4
Rural China 4
Forbidden Love 3
Visually Stunning 3
Historical Setting 3
Historical Epic 2
Class Conflict 2
Revenge 2
Historical War Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

68

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

3 titles

Sunshine Thief

Executive Producer

The Three-Body Problem

Director

Cliff Walkers 2

Director

2020s

14 titles · average score 63

Scare Out

45

Director, Writer

Article 20

66

Director, Writer

Full River Red

74

Director, Screenplay

Under the Light

43

Director

Snipers

65

Director

Beijing 2022 Olympics Closing Ceremony

Director

Beijing 2022 Olympic Opening Ceremony

Director

Cliff Walkers

67

Screenplay, Director

极：《悬崖之上》电影纪录片

TV show

My Country, My Parents

61

as TV Station Director (segment "Duck Prophet")

One Second

73

Director, Screenplay

My People, My Homeland

70

Producer

2010s

12 titles · average score 65

庆祝中华人民共和国成立70周年联欢活动

Director

Shadow

79

Director, Screenplay

The Great Wall

46

Director

Suddenly Seventeen

70

Producer

最忆是杭州

Director

Thirteen Talks

TV show

Lady of the Dynasty

44

Co-Director

Coming Home

80

Director

Stories Through 180 Lenses

Director

The Flowers of War

58

Director

Making of "The Flowers of War"

TV show

Under the Hawthorn Tree

75

Director

2000s

16 titles · average score 74

A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

49

Director

Beijing 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony

Director

Beijing 2008 Olympic Closing Ceremony

Director

激荡·1978-2008

TV show

To Each His Own Cinema

83

Director, Writer

Curse of the Golden Flower

68

Screenplay, Director

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

76

Director

House of Flying Daggers

82

Director, Producer

Making of House of Flying Daggers

Writer, Producer

Hero

81

Director, Writer

The Grand Mansion Gate

86

TV show · as 李莲英

Happy Times

66

Director

1990s

12 titles · average score 79

The Road Home

80

Director

Not One Less

82

Director

Puccini: Turandot at the Forbidden City of Beijing

Director

Keep Cool

70

as Junk Peddler

Dragon Town Story

Producer

Shanghai Triad

70

Director

Lumière & Company

84

Director

To Live

86

Director

The Great Conqueror's Concubine: Part I

76

Producer

The Story of Qiu Ju

82

Director

Raise the Red Lantern

82

Director

Ju Dou

76

Director

1980s

11 titles · average score 68

A Terra-Cotta Warrior

66

as General Meng Tianfang

Codename Cougar

48

Director

Celebrity Talk Show

TV show · as 张艺谋

Red Sorghum

81

Director

Old Well

71

as 孙旺泉

The Big Parade

59

as Military Official

Yellow Earth

86

Director of Photography

Forced Take-off

Cinematography

One And Eight

Director of Photography

CMG Spring Festival Gala

TV show

The Red Elephant

Director of Photography