To Live

...his first since designing the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics last year. Zhang, whose credits also include "To Live," "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers," last shot the imperial court drama "Curse of the Golden...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Blood Simple, Stephen Chow, Beijing Olympics, Coen brothers, Raise the Red Lantern, China, Hong Kong, and Sundance Film Festival

...by Yu Hua . Having achieved international success with his previous films (Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern), director Zhang Yimou's To Live came with high expectations. It is the first Chinese film that had its foreign distribution rights...

In this article: Mantou, Reactionary, Yu Hua, Zhang Yimou, and Chinese Communist Party

...nine Chaplin movies, including "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator," and 12 Kurosawa films, including "Rashomon" and "Ikiru" ("To Live"). All were released by 1952 and their DVDs were being sold at bookstores and other places for YEN500...

In this article: Charlie Chaplin, Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, DVD, Supreme Court, Ikiru, The Great Dictator, and Modern Times

...fashionable elements," Zhang says in publicity for the show. While the director claims to eschew politics, his early films such as To Live, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern - critical of the country and of heavy-handed authority - were...

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Turandot, Beijing, China, Forbidden City, Sandwich, Sydney Symphony, and Carmen

...anything but painless, certainly not bloodless. But the Communist party, by its own criteria at least, has delivered. As the hero of To Live, a 1994 film by the director Zhang Yimou, promises his son and later his grandson, life has...

In this article: China, Zhang Yimou, Deng Xiaoping, The Communist Party, Beijing, Communism, Collectivism, Oscar, and Great Leap Forward

...the more polished filmmaking coming from China during the mid 1990s, such as Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon (1996) or Zhang Yimou's To Live '' (1994) and ''Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Postman was a contemporary snapshot of modern China.

In this article: The Postman, China, He Jianjun, Chen Kaige, Zhang Yuan, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yimou, Kevin Costner, and Temptress Moon

...comedian Xiao Shenyang and actress Yan Ni "" was currently filming in Beijing and will be released in December. Zhang"s credits include "Raise the Red Lantern," "Red Sorghum," "To Live," "Ju Dou," "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers."

In this article: Michael Moore, Ken Burns, Zhang Yimou, Michigan, Oscar, Sony Pictures Classics, PBS, Coen brothers, Jeff Garlin, and Blood Simple

...Flower," is also scheduled to direct a gala celebrating the 60th anniversary of communist China on Oct. 1. Zhang's credits also include "Raise the Red Lantern," "Red Sorghum," "To Live," "Ju Dou," "Hero" and the "House of Flying Daggers."

In this article: Zhang Yimou, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Coen brothers, Blood Simple, Beijing Olympics, North America, Latin America, Oscars, and Hawaii International Film Festival

Gong, best known for her collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou in films like "Red Sorghum," "Raise the Red Lantern" and "To Live," has shot a series of English-language movies lately. She portrayed a Japanese escort in "Memoirs of...

In this article: Gong Li, Hollywood, Miami Vice, Hong Kong, Hannibal Lecter, Zhang Yimou, Curse of the Golden Flower, Young Hannibal, and Raise the Red Lantern