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Born November 14, 1950 or November 14, 1951 • Xi’an • China
Notable Works “Cliff Walkers” • “Hero” • “Ju Dou” • “Not One Less” • “One Second” • “Raise the Red Lantern” • “Red Sorghum” • “Shadow” • “The Flowers of War” • “The Story of Qiu Ju” • “To Live”

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Hong Shen
Chinese dramatist
Wong Kar-Wai
Wong Kar-Wai
Chinese director
John Woo
John Woo
Chinese director
Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige
Chinese director
Jackie Chan
Chinese actor and director
Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee
American-born actor
Chloé Zhao
Chloé Zhao
Chinese director
Zhang Junxiang
Chinese playwright and director
Jesse Lasky
American producer
Dušan Makavejev
Yugoslavian film producer
Judith Malina
American theater director and actress
Karel Reisz
Polish-British director
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Belgian filmmaker
David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
Luc Dardenne
Belgian filmmaker
Robert Wiene
German film director
Paolo Taviani
Italian filmmaker
Vittorio Taviani
Italian filmmaker
Roy Ward Baker
British director
Harold Ramis
American actor, writer, and director