Zhang Yang

• Name — Zhang Yang • Born — 1967 • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter, actor • Awards — Golden Alexander 1999 Shower Silver Seashell for Best Director 1999 Shower 2005 Sunflower FIPRESCI Prize 1999 Shower (Toronto) 2001 Quitting (Stockholm)

• Title — Zhang Yang • Showflag — stp Zhang Yang (born 1967) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of film director Zhang Huaxun. Zhang grew up in Beijing and studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature. He then went to the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1992.

Zhang Yang uses a realistic style and achieved great recognition for his 1999 independent production Xizao (洗澡; English translation: Shower), which was successful at Chinese box offices and international film festivals. This was followed in 2001 by Zuotian ("Quitting" in its American release). The actors in this unusual story about a real actor, Jia Hongsheng, and his struggle with drug addiction are Jia himself, Jia's parents, fellow inmates in a mental institution, the director, Zhang, and others playing themselves. The relationship between parents and their grown children is as central to this film as it was in Shower.

• Year — English Title — Chinese Title — Pinyin — Notes • 1997 — Spicy Love Soup — 爱情麻辣烫 — Àiqíng málàtàng — Elected for competition at the 1998 Tokyo International Film Festival. First independent Chinese film to achieve domestic box office success. • 1999 — Shower — 洗澡 — Xǐzǎo • 2001 — Quitting — 昨天 — Zuótiān • 2005 — Sunflower — 向日葵 — Xiàngrìkuí • 2007 — Getting Home — 落叶归根 — Luòyèguīgēn • 2010 — Driverless — 无人驾驶 — Wúrén jiàshǐ • 2012 — Old Man's Wish — 老人愿 — Lǎorén yuàn • 2012 — Full Circle — 飞越老人院 — Fēiyuè lǎorényuàn • 2015 — Paths of the Soul — Selection of 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. • 2016 — Soul on a String — zh-Hans

• Year — English Title — Chinese Title — Pinyin — Role • 2002 — Spring Subway — 开往春天的地铁; — Kāi wǎng chūntiān de dìtiě — Lao Hu