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Zhang Yibai
Chongqing, China
Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai (simplified Chinese: 张一白; traditional Chinese: 張一白) (born 14 April 1963, in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese film director…
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Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai (simplified Chinese: 张一白; traditional Chinese: 張一白) (born 14 April 1963, in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer. Zhang began his career in television and music videos before directing his debut, Spring Subway in 2002. Zhang, like many other modern Chinese directors, has focused primarily on life in modern Chinese cities. Spring Subway, for example, follows its protagonist as he wanders through Beijing's subway system, while the mystery-thriller Curiosity Killed the Cat follows its characters through the central China boomtown of Chongqing (also Zhang's hometown). His next two films, 2007's The Longest Night in Shanghai and 2008's Lost, Indulgence have seen the director's exposure and successes extending increasingly overseas. Longest Night, starring Zhao Wei, constitutes one of the first China-Japan coproductions, while Lost was selected to premiere at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Invictus
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
The Sun Rises on Us All
Movie Thanks
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2024
You're Here Anyway
Movie Writer
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2022
Return to Dust
Movie Executive Producer
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2021
The Day We Lit Up The Sky
Movie Director
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2021
Detective Chinatown 3
Movie Head of Village
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2020
My People, My Homeland
Movie Associate Producer
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2020
Run for Young
TV show Director
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2019
My People, My Country: Behind-The-Scenes
TV show Self
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2019
My People, My Country
Movie Director
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2019
Midnight Diner
Movie Boxing Coach
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2018
Kill Mobile
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Ash Is Purest White
Movie First Man in Fengjie Restaurant
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2018
Us and Them
Movie Producer
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2016
I Belonged to You
Movie Director
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2016
Love O2O
Movie Man in Car
More credits
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2016
Finding Mr. Right 2
Movie Jiao's father
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2016
Run for Love
Movie Director
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2016
Mr. Nian
Movie 校长 (voice)
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2016
Everybody's Fine
Movie Scammer Playing Erhu
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2014
Fleet of Time
Movie Director
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2014
But Always
Movie Producer
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2013
Forgetting to Know You
Movie
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2013
Better and Better
Movie Director
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2012
Guns and Roses
Movie Producer
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2011
Sleepless Fashion
Movie
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2011
Love on Credit
Movie Producer
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2011
Eternal Moment
Movie Director
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2009
The Message
Movie
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2009
Looking for Jackie
Movie Glasses Assistant Director
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2008
Lost Indulgence
Movie Writer
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2007
The Longest Night in Shanghai
Movie Writer
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2006
Curiosity Kills the Cat
Movie Director
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2005
About Love
Movie Director
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2004
Kung Fu Hustle
Movie Inspector Chan
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2003
My Father and I
Movie Male negotiator
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2002
Spring Subway
Movie Director
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2000
开心就好
TV show Director
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1998
Cherish Our Love Forever
TV show Director
