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Yimou Zhang
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Yimou Zhang - what members say
review by A customer from Shanxi, China
truely a part of China 16 March 2005
review by ThomasKus from Cardiff
Great film but DVD could be better 23 May 2004
review by A customer from ISLE OF SKYE
drop dead gorgeous 3 December 2008
Yimou Zhang - filmography
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The Flowers of War
(2011)
Starring: Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi
Director: Yimou Zhang
Certificate: 
The film, set during the Japanese invasion of China, is told from a young girl's point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic Church. There he ..read more »
 
80%
from 7 members
Due for release on 16th July 2012
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The Flowers of War - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi
Director: Yimou Zhang
Certificate:
The film, set during the Japanese invasion of China, is told from a young girl's point of view, not as a history lesson, but as an intimate, elemental and paradoxically universal celebration of the human spirit. Bale stars as a dissolute Westerner who seeks refuge in a Catholic Church. There he ..read more »
60%
from 2 members
Due for release on 16th July 2012
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Zhang Yimou's - Blood Simple
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Honglei Sun, Xiao Shen-Yang, Ni Yan
Director: Yimou Zhang
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop's scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
Wang is a miserable noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. Feeling neglected, Wang’s wife secretly goes out with Li, one of his employees. Li reluctantly keeps a gun his lover bought for ..read more »
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from 226 members
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House Of Flying Daggers
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Near the end of the Tang Dynasty, police deputies Jin (Kaneshiro) and Leo (Lau) tangle with Mei (Zhang), a dancer suspected of having ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Flying Daggers. Enraptured by her, the deputies concoct a plan to save her from capture, and Jin leads her ..read more »
68%
from 64,180 members
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House Of Flying Daggers - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Andy Lau, Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Following up his award-winning martial-arts drama HERO, director Zhang Yimou (JU DOU, RAISE THE RED LANTERN) tells an intricately detailed love story in the swordfighting epic HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, set during the final days of the Tang Dynasty. A mysterious group called the Flying Daggers is a ..read more »
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from 1,849 member
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Hero - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Set 2,000 years ago, during the time of the Warring States, when seven kingdoms were battling for dominance, and one leader--the king of Qin (Chen Dao Ming)--was determined to end up victorious and unite all of China as one nation. The proud king is forced to live trapped alone in his palace as a ..read more »
74%
from 919 members
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Happy Times
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Benshan Zhao, Qibin Leng, Jie Dong
Director: Yimou Zhang
Certificate: 
Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love. While good-hearted, Zhao has a tendency to fib--it's not that he's a compulsive liar, it's just that his dreams always seem to surpass his reality, and he tries to fill in the gap. Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams, Zhao ..read more »
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from 1,143 member
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Hero
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Jet Li stars in this Academy Award-nominated martial-arts masterpiece takes place amidst the turmoil of China's "Warring States" period. An orphan fighter (Jet Li) presents himself to an avaricious king, bearing the weapons of three assassins (Donny Yen, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung) in exchange ..read more »
64%
from 56,011 members
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The Road Home
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Sun Honglei, Zheng Hao
Director: Yimou Zhang
Certificate: 
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
A man returns to the village where he was raised to help his mother arrange his father's funeral in this romantic drama about the courtship of his parents and the value of tradition and devotion. Upon his return to the village of Sanheutun, Luo Yusheng (Sun Honglei) finds his aging mother seized ..read more »
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from 1,881 member
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Not One Less
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Wei Minzhi, Zhang Huike
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Teacher Gao loves the students in his poor village and is devoted to educating them in the hope of their greater futures. When he is called away to tend to his dying mother for a month, the Mayor calls in an inexperienced 13 year-old replacement, Wei Minzhi; much to Teacher Gao's dismay. Teacher ..read more »
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from 1,932 member
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Shanghai Triad
(1995)
Starring: Gong Li, Baotian Li
Director: Yimou Zhang
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The charms of an alluring prostitute are used as bait between feuding ganglords against a dramatic backdrop of 1930's Shanghai in this exotic and utterly captivating thriller.
69%
from 91 members
Currently unavailable
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To Live
(1994)
Starring: Gong Li, You Ge, Li Gong
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry...
77%
from 238 members
Currently unavailable
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The Story of Qiu Ju
(1992)
Starring: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang
Director: Yimou Zhang
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A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice...
71%
from 192 members
Currently unavailable
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Red Sorghum
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business.
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from 1,494 member
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Tan Dun - The First Emperor
Director: Yimou Zhang
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A performance of Tan Dun's opera THE FIRST EMPEROR by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet. Tan Dun conducts the opera, which is directed by Zhang Yimou.
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from 10 members
Not currently released
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Yimou Zhang facts
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..., but this one, never makes me disapointed, don't miss it!
another film from Yimou Zhang which I really recommanded is a film called 'to live' that's his best film ever...
