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Zhang Junzhao is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. He was born in Beijing, China, on October 1952. He is best known for his films such as The Horse Thief (1986), The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), and The Blue Kite (1993). Zhang Junzhao graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1975. He began his career as a film editor and assistant director. He made his directorial debut with the film The Horse Thief in 1986. The film was a critical and commercial success and won several awards. Zhang Junzhao has since directed several other films, including The Story of Qiu Ju (1992), The Blue Kite (1993), and The Road Home (1999). He has also written several screenplays, including The Horse Thief and The Story of Qiu Ju. As of 2021, Zhang Junzhao's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Occupation Film director, screenwriter
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 1952-10-
Birthday 1952-10-
Birthplace Beijing, China
Date of death June 9, 2018,
Died Place Dalian, Liaoning, China
Nationality China

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2018

Zhang Junzhao (Chinese: 张军钊 ; October 1952 – 9 June 2018) was a Chinese film director and screenwriter who was mainly active in the 1980s. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy and a contemporary of acclaimed directors Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Junzhao was a prominent early member of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers. His 1984 film One and Eight is well known as the film that marked the advent of the Fifth Generation, while The Shining Arc (1988) was selected for competition for the Golden St. George award at the 1989 Moscow International Film Festival.

Because of health issues, Zhang made few films in his later life. His final work was the 2002 television drama Linglong Girl (玲珑女 ). Zhang died on 9 June 2018 in Dalian, Liaoning, at the age of 65.

1989

In 1989, after something of a dry spell, Zhan Junzhao reappeared on the Chinese film scene with The Shining Arc (弧光 ; hú guāng ). Its protagonist is a young woman, portrayed by Bai Ling, who convinces herself that she is a witch. Placed in a mental hospital, she is given over to the care of a probing female psychiatrist. The film, like One and Eight, "aims to pose existential questions" and also "capture a certain mood of oriental mysticism."

The Shining Arc (also translated as Arc Light) was one of China's entries into the 16th Moscow International Film Festival in 1989. It was selected for competition for the Golden St. George award, but lost to the Italian film The Icicle Thief.

1985

In the period between One and Eight and The Shining Arc, Zhang Junzhao also made two less remarkable films: Come on, China! (1985) and The Lonely Murderer (1986). The former was a sports film made in the wake of the four-year world championship of the Chinese national women's volleyball team. Neither garnered a great deal of attention, and both are often omitted in surveys of Zhang Junzhao's work.

1984

In 1984, as an assistant director at Guangxi Film Studio, Zhang Junzhao teamed up with cinematographer Zhang Yimou and designer He Qun to make a war film called One and Eight (Yige he bage). Set in North China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the film tells the story of eight criminals and a wrongly accused officer being held as prisoners by the Communist Eighth Route Army. When almost all the regular soldiers are killed, most of the nine men make the choice to fight beside the remnants of the army and acquit themselves with honor and bravery.

Although it was the first film production of Guangxi Studios, predating the internationally acclaimed Yellow Earth (1984), the release of One and Eight was stalled for three years by "official objections to portions of the storyline and consequent re-shooting and re-editing." Nonetheless it, along with Yellow Earth, is widely considered to be one of the inaugural Fifth Generation films. Moreover, although wartime setting and the protagonists' overriding patriotism were common elements of communist Chinese cinema, its emphasis on the individual over the group, its existential tone, and its beautiful and innovative cinematography helped to set it apart as the herald of a new generation of Chinese filmmakers.

1952

Zhang Junzhao was born in October 1952 in Beijing, with ancestral roots in Henan province. He became involved in propaganda plays put on by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, both as an actor and a director. In 1978 he entered the newly reopened Beijing Film Academy. After graduating in 1982, he and his classmates Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou were assigned to Guangxi Film Studio in Nanning.