Yimou Zhang’s recent period epic, The Flowers of War, has gained international recognition with a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Foreign Film” and as the Chinese entry to “Best Foreign Film” ...

With the largest production budget in the history of Chinese cinema, totaling $90 million, director Zhang Yimou was given the task of revisiting the atrocities committed in Nanking during World War II ...

DONETSK, Ukraine -- A blacksmith in the Russian-controlled eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk is practically beating swords into ploughshares and turning one man's trash into treasures. Viktor Mikhalev ...

Director Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Ju Dou, Hero, House of the Flying Daggers) tells an epic story of love and sacrifice in THE FLOWERS OF WAR, starring Christian Bale and introducing Ni Ni.

The historical epic, directed by the renowned Zhang Yimou, is already No. 6 all time in the country. By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer And Flowers of War is already the third highest-grossing ...

FILM REVIEW: Zhang Yimou and Christian Bale's take on the Nanjing massacre is burdened with a far-fetched plot. By Todd McCarthy Based on a historical novel by high-profile Chinese writer Yan Geling ...

Pedigree is often key to understanding what a film has to offer, but never more so than when a country's government is present at the moment of conception. And when the government is that of China — ...

Zhang Yimou's great gift for stories of resilient women serves him well in this uniquely harrowing account of the rape of Nanjing. Zhang Yimou‘s great gift for stories of resilient women serves him ...