A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Lu Zhang
张律
張律
장률
Birthplace:
Yanbian, Jilin, China
Born:
May 30, 1962
Zhang Lü (Chinese: 张律; pinyin: Zhāng Lǜ; Korean: 장률; born May 30, 1962; Yanbian, Jilin) is a Chinese-Korean filmmaker. Zhang was originally a novelist before embarking on a career in cinema. His arthouse films have mostly focused on the disenfranchised, particularly ethnic Koreans living in China; these include Grain in Ear (2006), Desert Dream (2007), Dooman River (2011), Scenery (2013), and Gyeongju (2014). Zhang Lü is a third-generation ethnic Korean born in Yanbian, Jilin, China in 1962. He first became known in his native land China as a respected author of novels and short stories, such as Cicada Chirping Afternoon (1986). Zhang moved to South Korea in 2012, and began teaching at Yonsei University. Zhang was then a 38-year-old professor of Chinese Literature at Yanbian University when an argument with a film director friend led him to take a bet that "anyone can make a film." With no technical training but with the support of film industry friends such as Lee Chang-dong, he set out to direct his first short film Eleven (2001), a fourteen-minute nearly silent vignette of an eleven-year-old boy's encounter with a group of soccer players his own age set in a post-industrial wasteland. Eleven was invited to compete at the 58th Venice International Film Festival and several other international film festivals, and this unexpected success made Zhang decide to become a full-time filmmaker.
Consulting Producer:
2019 Vanishing Days
Director:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2010 Dooman River
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Editor:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2010 Dooman River
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Original Music Composer:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2010 Dooman River
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Presenter:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2010 Dooman River
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Producer:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2008 Routine Holiday
2010 Dooman River
2011 Lost in the Mountain
2011 Winter Vacation
2012 Don't Expect Praises
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 The Element of Hope
2022 Usu
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Screenplay:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2008 Routine Holiday
2010 Dooman River
2011 Lost in the Mountain
2011 Winter Vacation
2012 Don't Expect Praises
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 The Element of Hope
2022 Usu
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Writer:
2000 Eleven
2003 Tang Poetry
2005 Grain in Ear
2007 Desert Dream
2008 Chongqing
2008 Iri
2008 Routine Holiday
2010 Dooman River
2011 Lost in the Mountain
2011 Winter Vacation
2012 Don't Expect Praises
2013 Jury
2013 Over There
2013 Scenery
2013 Strangers
2014 Gyeongju
2015 Love And...
2016 A Quiet Dream
2018 Ode to the Goose
2019 Vanishing Days
2020 Fukuoka
2022 The Element of Hope
2022 Usu
2022 Yanagawa
2023 The Shadowless Tower
Writer:
2010 神探狄仁杰前传
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