The academy has produced great talent: people like Zhang Yimou, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wang Xiaoshuai.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Visions of China: Beijing Film Academy

The Chinese director Zhang Yimou, having previously worked on a restrained scale, decides to go symphonic.

NEWYORKER: Hero (2004)

This new film by the Chinese director Zhang Yimou is a far cry from his earlier work.

NEWYORKER: The Story of Qiu Ju

The Chinese film director Zhang Yimou has withdrawn two of his most recent works from next month's Cannes Film Festival.

BBC: News | Entertainment | Chinese films withdrawn from Cannes

This year Zhang Yimou, a film director who choreographed the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, is to arrange a gala afterwards.

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"Kurosawa tells me to keep my own Chinese character and style, " while embracing the outside world, wrote director Zhang Yimou in a recent Time magazine appreciation.

CNN: Kurosawa Akira

The director Zhang Yimou returns to the allegorical drama in this simple but at times trenchantly emotional tale of Takada (the excellent Ken Takakura), a widowed Japanese fisherman.

NEWYORKER: Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Her embodiment of such girlish emotions as curiosity-streaked ardor and such womanly ones as do-or-die willfulness enables her director, Zhang Yimou, to eschew melodramatic inflation while crafting a visually eloquent tribute to rural life.

NEWYORKER: The Road Home

Hollywood celebrity Christian Bale might be best known for Batman, but in China, director Zhang Yimou is hoping he becomes even better known in China as the American who brought the country an Oscar for the war dramaThe Flowers of War.

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