# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wu-ziniu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:24:49.943Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wu-ziniu"
name: "Wu Ziniu"
slug: "wu-ziniu"
description: "Wu Ziniu, is a Chinese film director and a member of the \"Fifth Generation\" film movement, a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Unlike his better-known contemporaries, Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, who made their names with historical dramas, Wu Ziniu is best known for his early war films. His 1985 film on the Sino-Vietnamese War, Dove Tree, was the first film by a Fifth Generation director to be banned by the Chinese government."
tagline: "Chinese film director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/6lSgc1nRFDsSEqibGeU1JSdps3K.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-11-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.02
  momentum:             4.347826086956522
  historical:           6.811628
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943212/"
    handle:    "nm0943212"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E5%AD%90%E7%89%9B"
    title: "吴子牛"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "و زينيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ziniu"
    title: "Wu Ziniu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ziniu"
    title: "Wu Ziniu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ziniu"
    title: "Wu Ziniu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ziniu"
    title: "Wu Ziniu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Ziniu"
    title: "Wu Ziniu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8039023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1206522"
    title: "Wu Ziniu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump