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• Cai Chusheng
  Cai Chusheng
  Resting Place= Babaoshan Revoluntionary CemeteryCai Chusheng was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era. Known best for his progressive output in the 1930s, Cai Chusheng later became a victim to the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution.- Early career :Born in Shanghai to Cantonese...
  
   (1906–1968), major leftist filmmaker in the 1930s, later fell victim to the Cultural Revolution.
• Cai Shangjun
  Cai Shangjun
  Cai Shangjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. Cai graduated from the Central Academy of Drama in 1992. Since then, his major work has been that of a professional screenwriter. Cai was part of the team, along with Zhang Yang, Diao Yi'nan, and Liu Fendou, that co-wrote the screenplays...
  
  , Chinese screenwriter and director
• Cao Baoping
  Cao Baoping
  Cao Baoping is a Chinese film director. He has emerged in recent years as a figure in China's "midrange" cinema industry. Some industry watchers, like Variety, have situated directors like Cao between the older fifth generation directors, such as Chen Kaige or Zhang Yimou, who have achieved major...
  
  
• Joan Chen
  Joan Chen
  Joan Chong Chen is a Chinese American actress, film director, screenwriter and film producer. She became famous in China for her performance in the 1979 film Little Flower and came to international attention for her performance in the 1987 Academy Award-winning film The Last Emperor...
  
   (born 1961), Chinese actress and director.
• Chen Daming, actor-turned-director.
• Chen Guoxing (born 1956)
• Chen Kaige
  Chen Kaige
  Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1952), major figure of the Fifth Generation, his epic Farewell My Concubine was the first Chinese film to win Cannes' coveted Palme d'Or.
• Cheng Bugao
  Cheng Bugao
  Cheng Bugao was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Employed by the Mingxing Film Company, Cheng was responsible for several important "leftist" films in the period, including the Wild Torrents and Spring Silkworms...
  
   (1893–1966)
• Cheng Joanne Bilingual Chinese female director based in New York and Beijing known for her intercultural films including her documentary trilogy "China Gold Rush (2000)," "Mama's Gold: The Orphans Of Shangri-La (2003)" and "Golden Lotus: The Legacy Of Bound Feet (2006)"

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• Dai Sijie
  Dai Sijie
  Dai Sijie is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.-Biography:Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. Because he came from an educated middle-class family, the Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his...
  
   (born 1954), French
  French people
  The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
  
   novelist and director, born in China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
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• Diao Yi'nan
  Diao Yi'nan
  Diao Yinan is a Chinese director, screenwriter and occasional actor.-Biography:A graduate of the Central Academy of Drama in 1992, Diao has worked as a screenwriter with directors Shi Runjiu and Zhang Yang...
  
   (born 1969), screenwriter and director.
• Ding Yinnan (born 1938)
• Du Haibin, Chinese documentary filmmaker

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• Feng Gong
  Feng Gong
  Feng Gong is a Chinese actor, xiangsheng performer, film director, and screenwriter from Tianjin, China. He is the great grandson of Feng Guozhang, a statesman and warlord of China during the early 20th century.- Partial filmography :...
  
   (born 1957), comedic actor and sometimes-director.
• Feng Xiaoning
  Feng Xiaoning
  Feng Xiaoning is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is considered a member of the "Fifth Generation" Chinese directors who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982...
  
   (born 1954), art designer turned director, part of the 1982 graduating class of the Beijing Film Academy
• Feng Xiaogang
  Feng Xiaogang
  Feng Xiaogang , in is a Chinese film director. He is famous in China as being perhaps the most successful "commercialized" filmmaker whose comedy films do consistently well in the box office, although Feng has attempted to break out from that mold by making drama or period drama films...
  
   (born 1958), director of popular films, including several "New Year" genre films.
• Fei Mu
  Fei Mu
  Fei Mu was a major Chinese film director from the pre-Communist era.-Biography:Born in Shanghai, China, Fei Mu is considered by many to be one of the major film directors prior to the communist revolution in 1949...
  
   (1906–1951), major auteur of the 1930s and 1940s, famed for his masterpiece, Spring in a Small Town.

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• Gan Xiao'er, Chinese filmmaker who focuses on Christianity.
• Gao Qunshu
• Gao Xiaosong
  Gao Xiaosong
  Gao Xiaosong is a Chinese composer, songwriter, music producer and director, "Campus Folk" representative.-Career:1969 Born into a family of senior intellectuals1988 Graduated from Beijing No.4 High School...
  
   (born 1969)
• Gu Changwei
  Gu Changwei
  Gu Changwei is a Chinese cinematographer and film director. Gu was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi in the People's Republic of China. Gu is considered one of the major Chinese cinematographers working today.-Career:...
  
   (born 1957), Chinese cinematographer for many years, has directed two films.
• Guan Hu
  Guan Hu
  Guan Hu is a sixth generation Chinese film director.- Career :A graduate of the class of 1991 of the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, Guan became the youngest director in the Beijing Film Studio. In the 1990s, Guan directed a handful of films making a name as an important voice of the sixth...
  
   (born 1969), Sixth-generation director
• Xiaolu Guo
  Xiaolu Guo
  Xiaolu Guo born 1973) is a Chinese novelist and filmmaker, who uses film and literary language to explore themes of alienation, memory, personal journeys, daily tragedies and develops her own vision of China's past and its future in a global environment....
  
   (born 1973), Chinese-British film director and novelist.

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• He Jianjun
  He Jianjun
  He Jianjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, He is considered a leading voice in the so-called "Sixth Generation." He is occasionally credited under the name "He Yi."- Career :...
  
   (born 1960), Sixth Generation director.
• He Ping
  He Ping
  He Ping is a Chinese film director, whose main filmography consists of a hybrid genre of Western-wuxia movies. He made three movies along this genre - Swordsmen in Double Flag Town , Sun Valley and Warriors of Heaven and Earth .He is an ethnic Manchu whose ancestors were members of the Blue...
  
   (born 1957), director known for mixing Chinese and Western tropes.
• He Qun
  He Qun
  He Qun is a Chinese filmmaker. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, he is an inaugural member of China's "Fifth Generation" movement.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1956), a graduate of the 1982 class of the BFA as a member of the art department; later shifted to direction, including Country Teachers, the Golden Rooster winner of 1994.
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1947), leading figure in Taiwan's New Wave cinema.
• Hou Yong
  Hou Yong
  Hou Yong is a Chinese filmmaker and cinematographer. He is perhaps best known for his collaboration with director Zhang Yimou, though he has worked with many of China's major directors. Like some of Zhang's other cinematographers , Hou has also moved into the directing world...
  
   (born 1960), noted cinematographer for Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Yimou, and others; occasional film director (2004's Jasmine Women).
• Hu Bingliu, (born 1940), director Live in Peace, Golden Rooster winner of 1998.
• Hu Mei
  Hu Mei
  Hu Mei is a Chinese director and producer. Usually classed as a Fifth Generation director, since she graduated from the Directors' class of the 1982 Beijing Film Academy cohort, she is a classmate of more famous Fifth Generation directors like Chen Kaige and Tian Zhuangzhuang.In 1997, she...
  
   (born 1956), female Fifth Generation director.
• Huang Jianxin
  Huang Jianxin
  Huang Jianxin is a Chinese film director. He is normally considered part of the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers , due to shared traits in his works, although he was not a strictly a member of the inaugural 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy...
  
   (born 1954), Fifth Generation director known for his films set in urban environments.
• Huang Shuqin (born 1940), female film director.
• Huang Zuolin (born 1906-1994), important playwright and film director; a student of Bernard Shaw.
• Ann Hui
  Ann Hui
  Ann Hui On-Wah is a Hong Kong film director, film producer and occasional screenwriter, one of the most critically acclaimed amongst the Hong Kong New Wave.-Early life:...
  
  , (born 1947), major female director based in Hong Kong, and a leading figure of the Hong Kong New Wave.
• Huo Jianqi
  Huo Jianqi
  Huo Jianqi is a Chinese film director. Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei, Huo Jianqi began his cinematic career in the art department...
  
   (born 1958), commercially-successful film director.

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• Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
  
   (born 1970), leading figure of China's Sixth Generation.
• Jiang Wen
  Jiang Wen
  Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum...
  
   (born 1963), famous Chinese leading man-turned-director.
• Jian Yi
  Jian Yi
  Jian Yi is a Chinese independent filmmaker, visual artist, and writer.-Biography:He received an MA in International Peace Studies from University of Notre Dame in 1998 and an MA in International Journalism from Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1999...
  
   (born 1975), Chinese independent filmmaker, artist, social entrepreneur. Founder of IFChina Original Studio www.ifchinastudio.org]
• Jin Chen, Sixth generation director.

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• Li Jixian
• Li Kaiwen (born 1992), filmmaker, screenwriter and producer-turned-slacker.
• Li Pingqian (1902-1984)
• Li Shaohong
  Li Shaohong
  Li Shaohong is a Chinese film director. She graduated from the Beijing Film Academy and is a member of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors.Li has directed nine films since 1988 and may be China's best-known woman director.-External links:...
  
   (born 1955), female Fifth Generation director.
• Li Yang
  Li Yang (director)
  Li Yang is a Chinese writer-director. Though often grouped with the so-called Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, he is in fact closer in age to the Fifth Generation and in interviews has denied membership with either group, claiming that such labels are only artificial differentiations.Born...
  
   (born 1959), Sixth Generation director notable for his film Blind Shaft.
• Li Yu
  Li Yu (director)
  Li Yu is a female Chinese film director and screenwriter. Li began her career in entertainment at a young age, serving as a presenter at a local TV station...
  
   (born 1973), female director.
• Ling Zifeng (1917-1999).
• Liu Bingjian
  Liu Bingjian
  Liu Bingjian is a Chinese film director who emerged on the cinema scene in the late 1990s with his LGBT-themed film Men and Women.- Career:...
  
   (born 1963), Sixth Generation director.
• Liu Fendou
  Liu Fendou
  Liu Fendou is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and film producer.- Biography :Born in Beijing, Liu Fendou spent some time in the United States in his youth doing "generally doing a whole lot of nothing" until returning to Beijing in 1995.Upon his return to China, Liu entered into the film...
  
   (born 1969), primarily a screenwriter for Zhang Yang, Liu has recently branched into producing and directing (for the 2004 film Green Hat).
• Liu Hao
  Liu Hao
  Liu Hao is a Chinese filmmaker. He first rose to prominence in the early to mid 2000s.-Early life:Born and raised in Shanghai, Liu Hao spent much of his youth watching films by Ren Xudong and Cheng Yin and, as he grew older, the works of the fifth generation directors. In 1995, as his interest in...
  
   (born 1968).
• Liu Jiayin
  Liu Jiayin
  Liu Jiayin is a Chinese independent filmmaker and educator, born in Beijing in 1981. She has made two experimental features combining documentary and narrative elements, Oxhide and Oxhide II , both of which received international awards....
  
   (born 1981), experimental filmmaker.
• Liu Miaomiao
  Liu Miaomiao (director)
  Liu Miaomiao is a female Chinese film director. Liu, an ethnic Hui Muslim, was the youngest member of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, commonly referred to as the Fifth Generation...
  
   (born 1962), female Fifth Generation director.
• Lou Ye
  Lou Ye
  Lou Ye , born 1965, is a Chinese writer-director who is commonly grouped with the "Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.-Films:Born in Shanghai, Lou was educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he made his first film Weekend Lover, but it was not released until two years later in 1995...
  
   (born 1965), Sixth Generation director whose many run-ins with state authorities have hampered his filmmaking opportunities.
• Lu Chuan
  Lu Chuan
  Lu Chuan is a Chinese filmmaker and screenwriter. He is the son of the novelist, Lu Tianming.-Education:Educated at the People's Liberation Army International Relations University in Nanjing, Lu spent two years serving in the Army as a secretary to a general. After his time in the army, Lu...
  
   (born 1970), Sixth Generation director notable for the environmental drama Kekexili: Mountain Patrol.
• Lu Xuechang
  Lu Xuechang
  Lu Xuechang is a sixth generation Chinese film director. One of a new crop of talented filmmakers, Lu has directed four feature films beginning with his debut, The Making of Steel in 1997....
  
   (born 1964), Sixth Generation director.
• Lü Yue
  Lü Yue
  Lü Yue is a Chinese cinematographer and film director. Born in Tianjin, Lü is today among the most important cinematographers of recent Chinese cinema, and is particularly well known for his collaborations with director Zhang Yimou with whom he served as director of photography in three films...
  
   (born 1957), Fifth Generation cinematographer-turned-director.

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• Ma-Xu Weibang
  Ma-Xu Weibang
  Ma-Xu Weibang was a Chinese film director active in the mainland during the 1920s through 1940s, and later in Hong Kong, perhaps best known for his work in the horror genre, the most important unarguably being the Phantom of the Opera-inspired, Song at Midnight. Ma-Xu was also known for a few...
  
   (1905–1961)
• Ma Liwen
  Ma Liwen
  Ma Liwen is a Chinese film director. Ma has directed a handful of films during the 2000s, including 2005's You and Me, and two films in 2008, Lost and Found and Desires of the Heart.- Biography :...
  
   (born 1971), female Chinese director.
• Meng Jinghui (born 1966), experimental theater and film director.

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• Ning Cai, actor-turned-director
• Ning Hao
  Ning Hao
  Ning Hao is a Chinese film director. Ning studied at the Taiyuan Film School, where he majored in scenic design. He later transferred to the Art Department of Peking University...
  
   (born 1977)
• Ning Jingwu
• Ning Ying
  Ning Ying
  Ning Ying is a female Chinese film director often considered a member of China's "Sixth Generation" filmmaker coterie, a group that also includes Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiaoshuai. However, this is more a result of a shared subject matter than anything else, as chronologically, Ning is...
  
   (born 1959)

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• Peng Xiaolian (born 1953), female Fifth Generation Chinese director known for her Shanghai-based films.

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• Sang Hu (1916-2004), important director who emerged in the late 1940s as part of the Wenhua Film Studio.
• Shen Fu (1905–1994), major director who emerged in post-war China with important films like Myriad of Lights.
• Shen Xiling
  Shen Xiling
  Shen Xiling was a Chinese film director.- Partial filmography :- External links :...
  
   (1904–1940), important director during the 1930s.
• Sheng Zhimin
  Sheng Zhimin
  Sheng Zhimin is a Chinese filmmaker from Beijing. Unlike other directors to emerge in recent years, Sheng has had no formal training. He instead began his career as a line producer, screenwriter, and assistant director for other filmmakers like Jia Zhangke, Fruit Chan and Zhang Yang...
  
  , independent film director.
• Shi Dongshan
  Shi Dongshan
  Shi Dongshan was a prominent Chinese film director throughout the 1920s and 1950s. Shi directed several films that have gained in stature in the intervening years, most notably Eight Thousand Li of Cloud and Moon....
  
   (1902-1955), Lianhua Film Company director active in the 1930s and 1940s.
• Shi Hui
  Shi Hui (actor)
  Shi Hui , born Shi Yutai , was a Chinese actor and film director who gained prominence throughout the 1940s through 1950s. Despite his fame, Shi became a victim of the Anti-Rightist Movement in the mid-1950s and committed suicide soon thereafter....
  
   (1915–1957), actor and director; committed suicide during the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
• Shui Hua
  Shui Hua
  Shui Hua , born Zhang Yufan, was a Chinese film director who gained prominence in the 1950s in the early years of the People's Republic of China.-Career:...
  
   (1916-1995), major director of the 1950s and 1960s.
• Shi Runjiu
  Shi Runjiu
  Shi Runjiu , is a Beijing-based Chinese filmmaker.After graduating from the directing department of the Beijing Central Drama Academy in 1992, he went on to direct many documentaries and music videos for MTV....
  
   (born 1969), young director and part of the Sixth Generation.
• Sun Daolin
  Sun Daolin
  Sun Daolin was a Chinese actor and film director.-Biography:Sun Daolin was born in Beijing on November 18, 1921. He was born Sun Yi-liang 孙以亮 in Beijing a family of four children. His father Sun Wen-Yau was educated in engineering in Brussels...
  
   (1921-2007), veteran actor and director.
• Sun Yu
  Sun Yu (director)
  Sun Yu was a major leftist film director active in the 1930s in Shanghai. One of the core directors of the Lianhua Film Company, Sun Yu made a name for himself with a series of socially conscious dramas in the early to mid 1930s...
  
   (1900–1990), one of the most important early directors of Chinese cinema.
• Sun Zhou (born 1954), Chinese film director with extensive TV experience; known for his collaborations with Gong Li.

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• Tang Xiaodan (born 1910).
• Teng Huatao, director who gained prominence in the early to mid 2000s.
• Teng Wenji (born 1944)
• Tian Zhuangzhuang
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
  Tian Zhuangzhuang is a Chinese film director and producer.Tian was born to an influential actor and actress in China. Following a short stint in the military, Tian began his artistic career first as an amateur photographer and then as an assistant cinematographer at the Beijing Agricultural Film...
  
   (born 1952), major Fifth Generation director, his 1993 film Blue Kite was banned by China with Tian forced out of filmmaking for nearly ten years before his return with Springtime in a Small Town in 2001.

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• Wan brothers
  Wan brothers
  The Wan Brothers were born in the early 20th century in Nanjing, China. They became the founders and pioneers of the Chinese animation industry and made the first Asian animation feature-length film, Princess Iron Fan in 1941.-Background:...
  
  , animators.
  • Wan Laiming
    Wan Laiming
    Wan Lai-Ming was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animation industry, and became China's first animator. As the director of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, he would raise the standard to International level before other historical events...
    
     (1900–1997)
  • Wan Guchan
    Wan Guchan
    Wan Guchan was a Chinese filmmaker. Born in Nanjing, China, he was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animations industry.-Early history:Wan Guchan joined his twin brother Wan Laiming in most of the animation projects and experimentations....
    
     (1900–1995)
  • Wan Chaochen
    Wan Chaochen
    Wan Chao-Chan was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animations industry.-History:...
    
     (1906–1992)
  • Wan Dihuan
    Wan Dihuan
    Wan Dihuan was a Chinese filmmaker. Born in Nanjing, China, he was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animation industry...
    
     (born 1900s)
• Wang Bing
  Wang Bing (director)
  Wang Bing is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films...
  
   (born 1967), documentary filmmaker.
• Wang Chao
  Wang Chao (director)
  Wang Chao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter, sometimes considered part of the loosely defined "sixth generation." Wang began his career serving as an assistant director to the fifth generation auteur, Chen Kaige, working with the elder director on epics like Farewell My Concubine and...
  
   (born 1964), Sixth Generation filmmaker.
• Wang Fen, female Chinese director who debuted with her 2007 film The Case.
• Wang Guangli
  Wang Guangli
  Wang Guangli , nicknamed "King Death" is a film director. A native of Sichuan—and a psychology professor by education—Wang eventually turned to film, making underground independent features that were often censored due to their political content...
  
   (born 1966), modern Chinese director, active since 1997.
• Wang Ping (born 1916)
• Wang Quan'an
  Wang Quan'an
  Wang Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991...
  
   (born 1965), Sixth Generation director, and winner of the 2007 Golden Bear for his film, Tuya's Marriage.
• Wang Shuo
  Wang Shuo
  Wang Shuo is a Chinese author, director, actor, and cultural icon. He has written over 20 novels, television series and movies. His work has been translated into Japanese, French, English, Italian, and many other languages...
  
   (born 1958), famous novelist, screenwriter, and one-time director of the film, Father
• Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....
  
   (born 1966), leading Sixth Generation filmmaker.
• Wei Shiyu Louisa Hong Kong based female Chinese filmmaker, script translator, producer and educator.
• Weng Shouming, also known as Robin Weng.
• Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai
  Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild , Ashes of Time , Chungking Express , Fallen Angels , Happy Together and 2046...
  
   (born 1958), Hong Kong film director, born in Shanghai.
• Wu Tianming
  Wu Tianming
  Wu Tianming is a Chinese film director.-Biography:Born in Shaanxi Province, China, Wu Tianming attended the Beijing Film Academy, majoring in directing before the Cultural Revolution...
  
   (born 1939), a member of the so-called "Fourth Generation," his role as head of the Xi'an Film Studio meant he often oversaw the works of several of his successors, notably Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.
• Wu Wenguang
  Wu Wenguang
  Wu Wenguang 吴文光 is a Chinese independent documentary filmmaker. He is known internationally as one of the founding figures of Chinese independent documentary. His first film, Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers, featured a large amount of handheld camerawork and unscripted interviews...
  
   (born 1956), documentary filmmaker.
• Wu Yigong
  Wu Yigong
  -Biography:Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wu Yigong enrolled in the directing department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1956. After graduation in 1960, he was appoint as director assistant in Shanghai Haiyan Film Factory....
  
   (born 1938), director active in the 1980s and early 1990s, also a film producer.
• Wu Yonggang
  Wu Yonggang
  Wu Yonggang was a prominent Chinese film director during the 1930s. Today Wu is best known for his directorial debut, The Goddess. Wu had a long career with the Lianhua Film Company in the 1930s, in Chongqing during the war, and in the mainland after the 1949 communist revolution...
  
   (1907–1982), a major director from the 1930s, perhaps best known for his silent film, The Goddess.
• Wu Ziniu
  Wu Ziniu
  Wu Ziniu , is a Chinese film director and a member of the "Fifth Generation" film movement, a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Unlike his better-known contemporaries, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who made their names with historical dramas, Wu...
  
   (born 1953), Fifth Generation director.

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• Xia Gang
  Xia Gang
  Xia Gang is a Chinese film director. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, Xia is a member of the so-called Fifth Generation, though unlike his classmates Tian Zhuangzhuang and Chen Kaige, he did not gain prominence until relatively later, in the late 1980s.Like his...
  
   (born 1953), Fifth Generation director.
• Xiao Jiang
  Xiao Jiang
  Xiao Jiang is the stage name of female Chinese film director Jia Yan,. Jia graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1995. Jia Yan worked primarily in television, directing three TV movies before joining the China Film Group as a screenwriter...
  
   (born 1972)
• Xie Fei
  Xie Fei (director)
  Xie Fei is a world-recognized Chinese film director. Xie was born in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province.A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, Xie has also taught at his alma mater as a vice-president of that institution.-Selected films:-External links:...
  
   (born 1942)
• Xie Jin
  Xie Jin
  Xie Jin was an important Chinese film director. He rose to prominence in 1957, directing the film Woman Basketball Player No. 5. Most recently he was known for the direction of The Opium War....
  
   (born 1923), veteran director active since the 1960s.
• Xu Jinglei
  Xu Jinglei
  Xu Jinglei is an actress, director and editor most famous in her native mainland China. Xu graduated from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy in 1997. Along with Zhao Wei, Zhou Xun and Zhang Ziyi, the mainland Chinese media considers her a member of the Four Young Dan actresses...
  
   (born 1974), popular actress and director.

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• Edward Yang
  Edward Yang
  Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...
  
   (1947–2007), major figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema, best known for his film Yi Yi.
• Yang Fengliang
  Yang Fengliang
  Yang Fengliang is a Chinese film director. He is best known for co-directing the Oscar-nominated film Ju Dou with Zhang Yimou.-External links:...
  
  , Chinese film director in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Yang Youxin, female director.
• Ye Daying
• Yin Li
• Yin Lichuan
  Yin Lichuan
  Yin Lichuan is a Chinese writer, poet and filmmaker. A graduate of Peking University, Yin made her name writing novels and poetry, including A Little More Comfort and Fucker. She is known as a member of the "Lower Body Poets."...
  
   (born 1973), female director.
• Ying Liang
  Ying Liang
  Ying Liang is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Ying Liang graduated from the Department of Directing at the Chongqing Film Academy and Beijing Normal University...
  
   (born 1976), independent film director.
• Ying Yunwei (1904-1967)
• Yuan Muzhi
  Yuan Muzhi
  Yuan Muzhi was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.- Career :...
  
   (1909–1978), actor and director who gained prominence in the 1930s.

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• Zhang Guoli
  Zhang Guoli
  Zhang Guoli is an award winning Chinese film director and actor. Zhang was a xiangsheng actor before he started working on films and television series. He is married to actress Deng Jie and their son Zhang Mo is also an actor....
  
   (born 1955), actor turned director.
• Zhang Jianya
  Zhang Jianya
  Zhang Jianya is a Chinese film director. As a graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy, Zhang is a founding member of the so-called Fifth Generation, a group that also includes in its numbers directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang.-Directorial...
  
   (born 1951), Fifth Generation director, noted for his urban comedies and more recently for his action/thriller films.
• Zhang Jiarui (born 1958)
• Zhang Junxiang (1911–1996)
• Zhang Junzhao
  Zhang Junzhao
  Zhang Junzhao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter who was mainly active in the 1980s. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and a contemporary of such acclaimed directors as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Junzhao was a prominent early member of China's Fifth...
  
   (born 1952), Fifth Generation director.
• Zhang Lu (born 1956), Chinese director of Korean ethnicity.
• Zhang Ming (born 1961), Sixth Generation filmmaker.
• Zhang Nuanxing (1941–1995), female Chinese director, best known for her work Sacrifice of Youth (1985).
• Zhang Shichuan (1890–1954), one of the founding fathers of Chinese cinema.
• Zhang Yang (born 1967)
• Zhang Yibai
  Zhang Yibai
  Zhang Yibai is a Chinese film director.-Directorial career:Zhang began his career in television and music videos before directing his debut, Spring Subway in 2002....
  
   (born 1963), Chongqing-born filmmaker, known for his urban dramas.
• Zhang Yimou
  Zhang Yimou
  Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....
  
   (born 1951), one of the most successful Fifth Generation directors, Zhang's more recent films reflect a shift towards big budget historical epics.
• Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers...
  
   (born 1963), major figure of the Sixth Generation.
• Zhang Yuedong, stage and film director.
• Zheng Dongtian
• Zheng Junli
  Zheng Junli
  Zheng Junli was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema.-Early years:...
  
   (1911–1969), actor-director.
• Zheng Zhengqiu
  Zheng Zhengqiu
  Zheng Zhengqiu was a Chinese filmmaker and is often considered one of the "founding fathers" of the Cinema of China.-Biography:...
  
   (1889–1935), often considered one of the founding fathers of Chinese cinema, associated with the Mingxing Film Company.
• Zhou Xiaowen
  Zhou Xiaowen
  Zhou Xiaowen is a Chinese filmmaker. He graduated from the Cinematography Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 1975 and is part of the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
  
   (born 1954), Fifth Generation director.
• Zhu Shilin
  Zhu Shilin
  Zhu Shilin . was a Chinese film director, born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Zhu began his career in the thriving film industry of Shanghai, directing actresses like Ruan Lingyu with the Lianhua Film Company...
  
   (1899–1967)
• Zhu Wen
  Zhu Wen (director)
  Zhu Wen is a Chinese short story writer turned director.-Early life and writing:Zhu Wen was born in 1967 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He attended Southeast University in Nanjing, and graduated with a degree in electric power...
  
  , (born 1969) author and director.