Tian Zhuang Zhuang
- Name: Tian Zhuang Zhuang
- Native name: 田壮壮
- Also Known as: 田壯壯
- Nationality: Chinese
- Gender: Male
- Born: April 26, 1952
- Age: 72
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 Studio. In 1978, he was accepted to the Beijing Film Academy, from which he graduated in 1982, together with classmates Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. The class of 1982 collectively would soon gain fame as the so-called Fifth Generation film movement, with Tian Zhuangzhuang as one of the movement's key figures.
Tian's early career was marked both with avant-garde documentary infused films (On the Hunting Ground (1985), The Horse Thief (1986)) to more commercial fare (Li Lianying: The Imperial Eunuch (1991)). In 1991, Tian began work on a quiet epic about one of modern China's darkest moments. This film, The Blue Kite (1993), would eventually result in Tian's nearly decade long exile from the film industry, an exile he returned from with Springtime in a Small Town (2001). Throughout the 2000s, Tian Zhuangzhuang returned to the fore of Chinese cinema, directing films like the biopic The Go Master (2006) and the historical action film The Warrior and the Wolf (2009). Since his banning after the release of The Blue Kite, Tian has also emerged as a mentor for some of China's newest film talents, and he has helped produce several important films for these new generations of directors.
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Director
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Cry of the Birds | 0.0 |
Lady of the Dynasty | 6.9 |
The Go Master | 6.8 |
Springtime in a Small Town | 7.4 |
The Blue Kite | 7.6 |
Li Lian Ying, The Imperial Eunuch | 7.7 |
The Horse Thief | 7.2 |
Screenwriter & Director
Title | Rating |
---|---|
The Warrior and the Wolf | 6.1 |
Tea-Horse Road Series: Delamu | 0.0 |
The Street Players | 0.0 |
Executive Producer
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Knock Knock | 7.5 |
Chief Producer
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Miss Mom | 7.2 |
Drama
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Ta De Sheng Cun Zhi Dao
Chinese Drama, 0000, 24 eps
(Guest Role)
|
0.0
|
Da Zhai Men
Chinese Drama, 2001, 40 eps
Tagi
(Support Role)
|
7.0
|
Movie
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Playground
Chinese Movie, 0000,
(Guest Role)
|
0.0
|
Born to Fly
Chinese Movie, 2023,
Chief Engineer Wei
(Support Role)
|
8.1
|
The Shadowless Tower
Chinese Movie, 2023,
[Wen Tong's father]
(Main Role)
|
7.6
|
Nice View
Chinese Movie, 2022,
Sun Bo
(Support Role)
|
8.2
|
Bipolar
Chinese Movie, 2021,
[Crazy Old Man]
(Guest Role)
|
7.6
|
Keep Rolling
Hong Kong Movie, 2020,
(Support Role)
|
7.7
|
Gone With The Light
Chinese Movie, 2019,
(Support Role)
|
7.6
|
My People, My Country
Chinese Movie, 2019,
Old Li {The Guiding Star}
(Support Role)
|
7.8
|
Us and Them
Chinese Movie, 2018,
[Jian Qing's father]
(Support Role)
|
8.4
|
Love Education
Chinese Movie, 2017,
Yin Xiao Ping
(Main Role)
|
7.9
|
Monk Comes Down the Mountain
Chinese Movie, 2015,
Peng Xiao Wen
(Support Role)
|
6.7
|
Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema
Taiwanese Movie, 2014,
(Guest Role)
|
7.0
|
Nightfall
Hong Kong Movie, 2012,
[Former Prison Guard]
(Support Role)
|
7.7
|
South of the Clouds
Chinese Movie, 2004,
(Guest Role)
|
0.0
|
TV Show
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Behind the Headlines with Wen Tao
Chinese TV Show, 1998, 5000 eps
(Guest)
|
0.0
|
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