Zhang Yang (director)

Zhang Yang is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of Zhang Huaxun, who is also a Chinese film director.

Zhang Yang uses a realistic style, and achieved great recognition for his 1999 independent production '''' , which was successful at Chinese box offices as well as international film festivals. This was followed in 2001 by ''Zuotian'' . 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''.

Zhang grew up in Beijing, studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature, and then went to the Central Academy of Drama , graduating in 1992.

Filmography

As director

As actor