Filmmaker Zhang Yimou won a total of 14 nominations and nine Golden Rooster Awards at the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony.
Many people may know that Zhang Yimou is one of the greatest directors in the mainland, but zhang Yimou himself is also an excellent photographer and actor, zhang Yimou won the first trophy in the Golden Rooster Awards ceremony, that is, the "Best Cinematography Award", when Zhang Yimou served as a photographer in the movie "Yellow Land", relying on excellent professionalism to get the first Golden Rooster Award trophy.
I. "The Old Well"
Director: Wu Tianming
Writers: Zheng Yi
Starring: Zhang Yimou / Liang Yujin / Lü Liping / Niu Xingli / Xie Yan / Ping Lanting / Zhao Shiji / Hao Jiaoyong / Mu Mu / Tan Xihe / Li Jingjing / Zhan Xiaolin / Qian Huande / Ding Weimin / Zhang Muqin / Li Wannian / Li Jinbang / Lu Hui / Cheng Forest
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Release date: 1986
Runtime: 130 minutes
The film tells the delicate feelings of Sun Wangquan and Qiaoying girl who married the young widow Xifeng for the money of his brother's marriage, and the story of Sun Wangquan leading the villagers of Laojing Village to successfully build a well.
Synopsis:
The ancestors of the old well village on the Loess Plateau have not been able to drill a well for generations, and the elderly have pinned their hopes on the young people. Qiao Ying (Liang Yujin), a handsome-looking rural girl, returns to her hometown to work as a farmer after falling off the college entrance examination.
She is in love with Sun Wangquan (Zhang Yimou), a young man from the same village. The two have a common ambition to yearn for the world outside the mountains. However, in order to exchange money for Wang quan's brother to marry, Wan Shuiye (Niu Xingli) insists that he be the son-in-law of the young widow Xi Feng (Lu Liping). To this end, Qiao Ying and Wang Quan decided to run away from home.
Wan Shuiye was furious, smashed the pot and smashed the pot, and forced the two to stop them. At this moment, Wang Quan's father was accidentally blown up and killed in the well. Under the pressure of the family, Wangquan had to agree to be the son-in-law of the upside-down door.
In order to let the hometown people drink water, Wangquan put all his energy into digging wells, and on the recommendation of Sun Chief Engineer of the Provincial Water Conservancy Bureau, Wangquan participated in the county hydrogeology study class.
After returning from school, he slept with young people such as Qiao Ying and Wang Cai (Xie Yan) and bumped in the mountains all day long. The first scientifically determined well in the history of Laojing Village has finally broken ground.
At the critical moment when the whole village was fighting day and night, there was a landslide accident, and Wang Cai was sacrificed. Qiao Ying and Wang Quan were sealed under the well by earth and stone, and with their lives taking away at any time, they finally became a husband and wife.
Soon, they were rescued to the ground. After Wangquan was discharged from the hospital, he continued to lead everyone to dig a well, the funds were gone, Wan Shuiye took the lead in donating his own coffin, Xi Feng also donated his own sewing machine, and the villagers enthusiastically donated.
Qiao Yingtuo donated all the dowry he had prepared and walked out of this mountain alone to find a new life. The well, finally out of the water.
The villagers raised funds to carve a stone stele, which was engraved with "Ancient Liufang" and "The History of Drilling wells in Laojing Village". Engraved with the names of a long list of ancestors who died for hundreds of years to dig a well in Laojing Village, this spirit of perseverance has been passed down through the ages.
2. "Red Sorghum"
Director: Zhang Yimou
Writers: Mo Yan / Chen Jianyu / Zhu Wei
Starring: Gong Li / Jiang Wen / Teng Rujun / Qian Ming / Chen Zhigang / Ji Chunhua
Genre: Drama / Romance / History / War
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Mandarin Chinese / Japanese
Release date: 1988-10-10 (Chinese mainland) / 2018-10-12 (Chinese mainland re-screening) / 1988-02 (Berlin Film Festival)
Runtime: 91 minutes
Adapted from Mo Yan's novel of the same name, the film is set in Gaomi, Shandong during the War of Resistance, telling the story of the hero and heroine who run a sorghum winery together after going through twists and turns, but in the War of Aggression of the Japanese Army, the heroine and the winery guys were tortured and killed by the Japanese army for participating in the resistance movement.
Synopsis:
When Jiu'er was 19 years old, he had to marry Li Datou, who was in his fifties who opened a shochu workshop in Eighteen Mile Slope. According to the township rules, the bride should be tossed by the method of upside down the car, but no matter how the car driver tossed, Jiu'er never said a word.
After Jiu'er arrived at The Eighteen Mile Slope, he had an affair with Yu Zhan'ao. Soon, Li Datou died, and the guys didn't want to do it anymore, so Jiu'er persuaded the guys and set up a shochu workshop.
The bandits robbed Jiu'er, and Uncle Luohan and his men pooled their money to redeem Jiu'er. But Yu Zhan'ao saw that Jiu'er's hair was messy, very angry, ran to find Bald Three Cannon, and put the kitchen knife on his neck, until Bald Three Cannon used his head to ensure that Jiu'er did not move, Yu Zhan'ao did not stop.
Yu Zhan'ao sprinkled a bubble of urine in the freshly brewed sorghum wine, but he did not expect that the taste of the sorghum wine was particularly good, and Jiu'er named it Eighteen Mile Red. When Jiu'er's son was 9 years old, the Japanese devils arrived at Qingshakou and burned and looted.
Jiu'er moved out the eighteen-mile red brewed by Uncle Luohan, who was killed by the Japanese devils, and gave them to the guys to drink, and everyone went to fight the devils with high morale. Jiu'er carried the prepared meal to treat Yu Zhan'ao, but was killed by the machine gun on the devil's army car.
An enraged Yu Zhan'ao and his men rushed towards the Japanese military vehicle with fire cans and mines. After the dust passed, Yu Zhan'ao took his son's hand and struggled to the side of Jiu'er's body. During the eclipse, Jiu'er's son sang a nursery rhyme: "Mother, up the southwest, wide road, long treasure ship"
III. "Qiu Ju Fights a Lawsuit"
Director: Zhang Yimou
Writers: Chen Yuanbin / Liu Heng
Starring: Gong Li / Liu Peiqi / Lei Kesheng / Ge Zhijun / Yang Liuchun / Zhu Wanqing / Cui Luowen / Yang Huiqin / Wang Jianfa / Lin Zi / Ye Jun
Genre: Drama
Country/Region of Production: Chinese mainland / Hong Kong, China
Language: Shaanxi dialect / Mandarin Chinese
Release: 1992-08-31 (Chinese mainland) / 1992-09-07 (Venice Film Festival)
Runtime: 100 minutes
The film is adapted from Chen Yuanbin's novel "Ten Thousand Family Lawsuits", which tells the story of Qiu Ju, a rural woman, who indomitably sued the village chief who kicked and injured her husband.
Synopsis:
The story takes place in a small mountain village in northwest China. Qiu Ju's husband, Wang Qinglai, had an argument with the village chief Wang Shantang for his own contracted land, and after being kicked in the face by the village chief in anger, Wang Qinglai lay in bed all day and could not work.
Qiu Ju is a kind and assertive woman, who is 6 months pregnant at this time. When her husband was kicked and injured, she went to the village chief to reason. The village chief refused to admit his mistake, and Qiu Ju thought that such a thing must find a place to reason.
Therefore, he went to the township government with a big belly to file a complaint. After the mediation of the township government Li Gong'an, the village chief promised to compensate Qiu Ju's family for economic losses, but when Qiu Ju came to get the money, the village chief threw the money on the ground, and the humiliated Qiu Ju did not pick up the money, and once again embarked on a long road to file a complaint.
She went to the county public security bureau and the city, and finally filed a lawsuit with the people's court. Chinese New Year's Eve night, Qiu Ju had difficulty giving birth, and the village chief and villagers braved the wind and snow overnight to send Qiu Ju to the hospital, so that she could successfully give birth to a baby boy. The Qiu Ju family was very grateful to the village chief and no longer mentioned the lawsuit. But just as Qiu Ju's family was celebrating the child's full moon, the municipal court sent a verdict that the village chief was detained for injury. Looking at the smoke and dust raised by the police car in the distance, Qiu Ju felt deeply dazed and lost
IV. "My Father and Mother"
Director: Zhang Yimou
Writers: Bao Shi
Starring: Zhang Ziyi / Zheng Hao / Sun Honglei / Li Bin / Ji Bo / Song Yuncheng / Zhang Zhongxi
Genre: Drama / Romance
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Release: 1999-10-16 (Chinese mainland) / 2000-02-15 (Berlin Film Festival)
Runtime: 89 minutes
The film is based on Bao Shi's novel "Memorial", which tells the story of her mother Zhao Di and her father Luo Changyu who know, love, separate, and finally stay together for a lifetime.
Synopsis:
Her mother, Zhao Di (Zhang Ziyi), was a well-known beauty when she was young, not only skillful, but also bravely became the first free love girl in Ten Mile Eight Townships, she had a crush on Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) father Luo Changyu (Zheng Hao), a simple and humorous young teacher.
She uses the family heirloom blue and white bowl as a mark to send the most delicious "pie rice" to her sweetheart; She woven the most colorful "Fang Liang Hong" all night long to decorate his classroom; In order to hear his reading aloud, she did not hesitate to take a long detour to carry water; To get his attention, she waited for him every day on the side of the road delivering the students.
Finally, the beauty and sincerity of Zhao Di touched the heart of the young teacher Luo, and they fell in love very romantically and traditionally. A plastic red hair card is his love letter to her, however, at the moment when the heart just hits, tragedy strikes - Teacher Luo is inexplicably beaten to the right, and the dinner steamed dumplings that Zhao Di specially made for him are not eaten, and they are taken away.
She went crazy, chasing along the road with steamed dumplings, people fell, steamed dumplings rotted, and the blue and white bowl was broken. The skilled curium bowl maker curium bowl bowl curing the blue and white bowl, but can not heal the girl's broken heart, Zhao Di is determined to drag the sick and weak body to the long journey to find the first love, the blind mother's tears can not stop the determination of Zhao Di.
She hid from everyone on the road, but she passed out halfway and was sent back by passers-by, and the stubborn Trick struggled to get up and risked death to find it. Just at this moment, Teacher Luo came unexpectedly, she lay on the hospital bed, and large teardrops rolled down her beautiful and haggard eyes. He never left her again, and the two of them loved each other for forty years, and they were in love with each other.
V. "No One Can Be Less"
Director: Zhang Yimou
Writers: Shi Xiangsheng
Starring: Wei Minzhi / Zhang Huike / Tian Zhengda / Gao Enman / Sun Zhimei / Feng Yuying / Li Fanfan / Zhang Yichang / Xu Zhanqing / Liu Hanzhi / Ma Guolin / Wu Wanlu / Liu Ru / Wang Shulan / Fu Xinmin / Bai Mei
Genre: Drama
Country of Production: Chinese mainland
Language: Jin / Mandarin Chinese
Release date: 1999-09-07 (Venice Film Festival)
Runtime: 106 min
The film is based on Shi Xiangsheng's novel "There is a Sun in the Sky", which tells the story of Wei Minzhi, a rural substitute teacher, who embarked on the road to the city alone after learning that her student Zhang Huike dropped out of school to work in the city.
Synopsis:
The only teacher at Shuiquan Elementary School, Mr. Gao, had to take a temporary leave of absence to go home because of an affair at home. The village chief had to find a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old girl, Wei Minzhi, from the village next door to take the place of Teacher Gao. Teacher Gao felt that she was young, but it was not easy to find someone, so she had to instruct Wei Minzhi to copy the texts for them every day, accurately count the number of people, and not one less. Originally, there were more than 30 students, but because the family could not afford it, only 26 were left.
The students all thought that the teacher was too young, and without the appearance of a teacher, they began to bully her, and the whole classroom was chaotic. Zhang Huike's family was poor, and his mother was sick and bedridden, so he had to work in the city to earn money. After Wei Minzhi learned of the situation, she called on her classmates to pool their money to find him back.
After Wei Minzhi arrived in the city, after hard work and with the help of well-meaning people, he found Zhang Huike, and these children in the mountains received a lot of attention from the society.
VI. "Hero"
Director: Zhang Yimou
Writers: Li Feng / Zhang Yimou / Wang Bin
Starring: Jet Li / Liang Chaowei / Maggie Cheung / Zhang Ziyi / Chen Daoming / Zhen Zidan
Genre: Drama / Action / Martial Arts / Costume
Country/Region of Production: Chinese mainland / Hong Kong, China
Language: Mandarin Chinese
Release: 2002-12-19 (Chinese mainland/Hong Kong)
Runtime: 93 minutes (Chinese mainland) / 99 minutes (US version) / 110 minutes (director's cut)
At the end of the Warring States period, Yan, Zhao, Chu, Han, Wei, Qi, and Qin Qixiong rose together, but the State of Qin was the most powerful, eager to annex the Six Kingdoms to unify the world, the King of Qin (Chen Daoming) thus became the enemy of the Six Kingdoms, and different stories of The Assassination of Qin in various places have been staged, among which the Zhao Assassins Remnant Sword (Liang Chaowei), Fei Xue (Zhang Manyu), Ru Yue (Zhang Ziyi), and Changkong (Zhen Zidan) have not slept a peaceful sleep in ten years because of their superb sword skills.
One day, changkong had been killed by a Qin swordsman named Nameless (Jet Li), and the King of Qin urgently summoned him to the temple to meet him, but he was also cautious and careful to prevent deception, and the contest between the King of Qin and the Nameless King of Wisdom and Courage began.
In the end, Zhang Yimou won three best director trophies as a director at the Golden Rooster Awards Ceremony, and his winning works were "No One Can Be Less", "Hero", "My Father and Mother" and Zhang Yimou's well-known good movie "Alive", but there was not even a nomination in the Golden Rooster Awards, which is also a more puzzling place for the audience, perhaps the evaluation and evaluation criteria of the Golden Rooster Awards are more special.
In today's directorial world, if you want to say that one can be called a lofty status and reputation at home and abroad, then most people must first think of director Zhang Yimou, Zhang Yimou not only created many high-quality film and television works and achievements in the film and television industry and entertainment circle, but also served as the general director of the CCTV Spring Festival Gala for many years and the general director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.
Zhang Yimou successfully won the best director award and other honors from the year's "Red Sorghum", and since then he has continued to move forward on the road of directing here, and each of his works and performances actually has a lot of deep meaning and content, and behind this kind of content has also aroused everyone's deep thinking.
Every film work directed by Zhang Yimou is actually polished and continuously edited over many years, and his requirements and guidance for actors are also displayed in the film works.
As a good director and excellent director, Zhang Yimou naturally has rich experience and excellent results in the production and distribution of film works, and the output of such works is also very exciting.
1. Zhang Yimou's film works have deep meaning
A good director not only has to shoot and produce a film and television work well, but more importantly, to show the connotation and meaning of film and television works to every audience, zhang Yimou's output of each work, he integrates national culture, social thinking, cultural roots and film innovation, and takes each film and television work as a story shooting and production, conveying the deepest secret meaning to everyone.
2. Zhang Yimou's films have strict requirements
In Zhang Yimou's shooting process, the most impressive thing for every actor is that Zhang Yimou requires strict production standards, which also makes his works have high-quality and good reputation evaluations under such requirements, and he also shows the artistic effect vividly.
3. Zhang Yimou handles each frame meticulously
Zhang Yimou's strict requirements are not only for every actor, but more importantly, for the production of film and television works, he will review every detail one by one, and his performance methods are constantly updated His films have won many awards at home and abroad.
Zhang Yimou can be described as a well-known big figure in today's directorial world, and he can win the Oscar award on the road of film and television shooting, and he naturally does not need to say more in terms of strength. What do you think of the works of director Zhang Yimou, let me know in the comment area!