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Wang Xiaoshuai

Chinese film director and screenwriter (1966-) · China · On the map · Directors

Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth Generation" of the Cinema of China.

Wang Xiaoshuai is read about 63 times a day, in 19 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 19 September 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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A life in dates

2025Above the DustFilm, Director, Writer2022The HotelFilm, Director2021The PavilionSeries, Director, Writer2019So Long, My SonFilm, Director, Writer2017Old BeastFilm, Producer2016鲁豫有约一日行Series2015Red AmnesiaFilm, Director, Writer2010Chevalier des Arts et des LettresAwardChongqing BluesFilm, 2010Director, Writer2006After WarFilm, Director2005Shanghai DreamsFilm, Director, Writer2003DriftersFilm, Director, Writer2001Beijing BicycleFilm, Director1999Dream HouseFilm, Director, Writer1996FrozenFilm, Director, Writer1995Weekend LoverFilm1987Basic PlanningFilm, Director1966Born22 May 1966

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Close ties

  • So Long, My Son 2019
  • An Elephant Sitting Still 2018
  • The Red Violin 1998
  • The World 2004
  • Beijing Bicycle 2001

Also in Deutsch

Filmography 33

55 credits on file

Television 2

Media & music

Photos 1

Awards

Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres2010
China Film Director's Guild Award for Best Director

About this person

Like others in this generation, and in contrast with earlier Chinese filmmakers who produced mostly historical drama, Wang proposed a “new urban Chinese cinema [that] has been mainly concerned with bearing witness of a fast- paced transforming China and producing a localized critique of globalization.”

Country
China
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1966 · age 60