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Zhang Yimou To Receive Two Career Honors At The Asian Film Awards


Zhang Yimou will be handed both the Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2023 Highest-Grossing Asian Film Award.

Widely credited as one of the central figures of China’s Fifth Generation Cinema, Zhang made his directorial debut with Red Sorghum(1987). Since then, he has tackled a wide range of film genres in work like The Story of Qiu Ju(1992), To Live(1994), The Road Home(1999), House of Flying Daggers ( 2004), The Great Wall(2016) and Cliff Walkers(2021). Having been in the industry for over four decades, I am grateful to everyone who appreciates my films,” he said of his two honors, which he will pick up in person.

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