Born in 1967 in Lishui, Zhejiang Province, Zhang Liling has the petite grace of a Jiangnan woman, and also has the firmness and courage of a dream-chasing woman.
She went to Beijing alone at the age of 16, she is the "Jiaoxing" in the 87th edition of "Dream of the Red Chamber", and also lu Feifei in the 86th edition of "Lu Gongnu" in the "Liaozhai" series.
By 1989, Zhang Liling, an early North Drifter, had been groping and playing in Beijing, where she was not familiar with her life, for 6 years.
At the same time as her career improved, she became more and more intolerant of various phenomena in the film and television industry, and she was tired of all kinds of complicated relationships.
So, when the wave of studying abroad and immigration rose, she decided to study abroad and chose a new starting line to start over.
Her family felt that Europe and the United States were too far away, so she chose Japan, which was close to home, and also chose her later legendary life.
<h1>01. Studying in Japan, I had the idea of making a documentary</h1>
Zhang Liling, who studied in Japan in 1989, belonged to the part of the people who went out earlier, and that time was also the honeymoon period of Sino-Japanese relations, and the study abroad exchanges between China and Japan were also very intensive.
At that time, in our neighboring country of Japan, there was such an unknown group of dreamers who struggled to survive in a foreign country for themselves or their families.
In fact, even though the country's comprehensive national strength has been greatly enhanced, studying abroad and immigrating has always been an enduring topic.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when China was still very backward, people's yearning for the outside world, especially the developed countries, was fanatical, but at that time, most people chose Europe and the United States.
For example, the classic "Beijingers in New York" tells the story of a generation of Beijingers in the wave of immigration to the United States, and the survival story of struggle and struggle in New York.
If you love him, send him to New York because it's heaven, and if you hate him, send him to New York because it's hell.
When "Beijingers in New York" was fired, Zhang Liling had not yet graduated from college, and in a few years in Japan, she, like other international students, faced the problems of language, examination and part-time work.
She went to language school, went to university, and got a master's degree, while also working part-time to make ends meet.
These experiences exposed her to many Chinese in Japan, and also gave her the idea of recording the lives of this generation.
After receiving her master's degree in stage directing from Gakugei University in Tokyo in 1995, she did not choose to pursue artistic work, but instead joined the Okura Trading Company in Japan in April of the same year.
All this was simply because she developed a keen interest in Japan's rapid economic development after the war.
Okura Trading Company not only has the grace of knowing Zhang Liling, but also teaches her a lot of things, and gives her a lot of tolerance and support when she shoots later.
There, she learned to reflect on herself, to see herself clearly while facing others.
Soon after entering the company, Zhang Liling made a good job with unremitting efforts.
The pressure of work decreased, but the idea of truly recording the life of Chinese students began to make her sit still.
<h1>02, with a lens, touch the people of the two countries</h1>
As a result, in December 1995, she began to prepare for the filming of the documentary, which also led her to form an indissoluble relationship with Fuji Television and Yokoyama Takaharu.
Instead of staring at the raw materials trade, the female employee of the "Okura Corporation Food and Beverage Department" went straight to the office of Fuji Television's Planning and Production Department.
She approached the then deputy minister, Takaharu Yokoyama, and made it clear that she had come, "Please lend me a video camera." ”
As a big man in the Japanese documentary industry, Yokoyama Takaharu directly rejected this naïve girl who did not know what the documentary was.
However, Zhang Liling still insisted on explaining her thoughts, who knew that she had persuaded Hengshan.
After a long period of consideration, Yokoyama provided her with a camera and a shooting team consisting of a director and several interns.
As a veteran documentary planner's intuition, Yokoyama also prepared a team of people to record the filming process of Zhang Liling's team, and now that I can see it, I can only say that this decision is too wise.
At first, they didn't know the rules of making documentaries, only that Zhang Liling, who buried her head in work and worked in Okura while shooting with her life, made those Japanese who claimed to be hard working hard and dedicated ashamed.
Until Yokoyama followed them for a day of shooting, and while being shocked by the shooting material, he also discovered their fatal mistake, and they would ask the photographer to re-walk to make up for the shot that was not taken.
Guilty, Yokoyama replaced all the film crews for her and regrouped, which put her shooting work on the right track.
The documentary "Our Study Abroad Life – Days in Japan" has a total of ten episodes, but it took more than three years from march 1996 to June 1999.
During this period, they contacted more than 300 people, tracked 66 people and families, and used 1,000 discs of material tapes.
After it was broadcast in the japanese golden file, it caused a huge response, and it was not broadcast on Beijing TV until the early winter of 1999, which touched countless Chinese people for a time.
The names of Wang Ermin, Zhang Su, Ding Shangbiao, Li Zhongsheng and others and the stories behind them have triggered unprecedented discussions among the people of the two countries.
Among them, a piece of "Elementary School Student", which records the two-year study life of elementary school student Zhang Su, won the "Best Documentary" award in the "Japan Broadcasting Cultural Fund Award", and Zhang Liling also won the "Best Planning" laurel of the award.
Since then, Zhang Liling has spent ten years to bring the second work that caused a social sensation to China and Japan, and it is also her closed mountain work "Living with Tears".
This film tells the story of Ding Shangbiao, who had been a young intellectual, from his family borrowing money to go to Japan to learn Japanese, wanting to change the fate of his family by learning cultural knowledge, to being a Japanese "black household" for fifteen years.
Ding Shangbiao lived carefully in Japan by a false name, even if he was reluctant to spend a penny on himself, he would not evade taxes, and for fifteen years, he did not have a single criminal record, just to avoid being sent back to China.
From everyone's point of view now, this kind of effort seems to be very unworthy, and this kind of persistence is also incomprehensible.
But from his own point of view, it is certainly worth it, a family of three people for fifteen years, even once did not hear, in exchange for their daughter to stay in the United States, the family settled in the United States, completely changed the fate of generations.
He lived with tears in his eyes, but he never gave up his pursuit!
While creating a miracle in ratings, the film also won the "TV Documentary Award" of the Nippon Broadcasting Corporation Cultural Foundation Award.
Now, Xiao Zhang Su in "Little International Student" has grown up to become a journalist, and this little girl who wanted to win the first battle for China is fulfilling her promise.
<h1>03, the woman who chases dreams has finally become a legend</h1>
These achievements of Zhang Liling have also attracted the attention of many people.
At that time, CCTV wanted to land in Japan but could not find a way, so it found Zhang Liling.
Zhang Liling ran and lobbied for this matter, and finally persuaded her own company Okura Trading Company and Fuji TV to fund the establishment of "CCTV Dafu TV", on the condition that Zhang Liling appear as president.
On July 1, 1998, the "CCTV Fortune" channel was officially launched in Japan, and Zhang Liling, who was only 31 years old, was promoted to the position of president.
The early stage of entrepreneurship was very difficult, the company was established soon, the collapse of the big warehouse, the blow to the newly established subsidiary of "Dafu" was fatal, Zhang Liling had to find people everywhere to invest and tide over the difficulties.
Nowadays, more than 20 years of development, "CCTV Dafu" from small to large, from weak to strong, little by little to grow and grow, during the hardships and hardships Zhang Liling also persevered.
The documentary filmed by Zhang Liling gives the Chinese and Japanese people an opportunity to understand and communicate with each other, and can also give people who are confused by life the courage and strength to live.
As president, Japan's CCTV Dafu TV has been committed to the export of Chinese culture and strengthened cultural exchanges and media cooperation between China and Japan.
It is such a woman who can obviously eat by appearance, but she has become a legend of coexistence of appearance and talent!
#"Flash hour" theme essay issue 2 #