Wu Ziniu (born 31 October 1952), is a
Chinese film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
and a member of the
"Fifth Generation" film movement, a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the
Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s.
[Zhang, Yingjin & Xiao, Zhiwei (1998). ''Encyclopedia of Chinese Film''. Taylor & Francis, p. 372. .] Unlike his better-known contemporaries,
Zhang Yimou and
Chen Kaige, who made their names with historical dramas, Wu Ziniu is best known for his early
war film
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle s ...
s.
[ His 1985 film on the Sino-Vietnamese War, '' Dove Tree'', was the first film by a Fifth Generation director to be banned by the Chinese government.][
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Directorial career
A member of the 1982 graduating class of the Beijing Film Academy, Wu was assigned to the Xiaoxing Film Studio.[ There he directed four films, including the children's film, ''The Candidate'', the war films ''Secret Decree'' and ''Dove Tree'', and the drama, ''The Last Day of Winter''.][ After ''The Last Day of Winter'', Wu expanded to other studios, working with the August First Film Studio to produce the war film, ''Evening Bell'', which, despite the heavy hand of censorship, managed to win several international awards, including the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.][ With the 1990s, Wu would draw on foreign capital, primarily from ]Hong Kong
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to help produce his historical films '' Sparkling Fox'' and '' The Big Mill''.[
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Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Wu Ziniu
at the Chinese Movie Database
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Film directors from Sichuan
Writers from Leshan
Beijing Film Academy alumni
1952 births
Living people
Screenwriters from Sichuan