Zhang Yang Filmography

Occupation:
Composer (Music Score), Sound/Sound Designer
  • Still Life

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Zhao Tao, Han Sanming, Wang Hong Wei, Li Zhubin, Xiang Haiyu, Zhou Lin

    Synopsis: Jia Zhang Ke's haunting minimalist drama Still Life (aka Sanxia Haoren) takes as its focal point the real-life construction of the Three Gorges Hydro Project and it accompanying massive dam over the Yangtze River in China (allegedly the largest manmade dam in the world) -- a project that required Read More

    1/18/08
  • 24 City

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Joan Chen, Lu Liping, Zhao Tao

    Synopsis: When the state owned factory 420 becomes a luxury apartment complex known as "24 City," the stories of three generations and eight characters meld together to offer an intimate glimpse into the history of China. Joan Chen, Lu Liping, and Zhao Tao star in director Jia Zhang Ke's entry into the 2008 Read More

    2008
  • Shanghai Trance

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Tygo Gernandt, Tian Yuan, Lu Yulai, Zhang Heng, Cheng Haofeng

    Synopsis: A generation of young adults ponder their friendships, loves, expectations, and life ambitions while wandering the streets of a city that evolves at a faster rate than they mature in Dutch director David Verbeek's three-tiered look at life in the contemporary Chinese city of Shanghai. The first Read More

    2008
  • Bing Ai

    Crew: Re-Recording Mixer

    Actors: Zhang Bingai, Zhang Yunjian, Zhang Changwen, Zhang Lingzhi, Xiong Yungang

    Synopsis: In 1996, the Chinese government began work on the Three Gorges Dam, a large construction project in the Hubei Province that would redirect part of the Yangtze River. The dam would flood large parcels of farmland in rural sections of Hubei, and Chinese officials presented contracts to local Read More

    2007
  • Useless

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Ma Ke

    Synopsis: Having previously explored the art of Liu Xiao-dong in his 2006 documentary Dong, filmmaker Jia Zhang Ke turns his lens on the Chinese fashion industry in order to explore the toll that time and money have taken on creativity to offer a compassionate look at the world's largest exporter of Read More

    2007
  • Mid-Afternoon Barks

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Zhang Yuedong, Qieli Dunzhu, Han Dong, Chu Chen, Gouzi

    Synopsis: Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yue-dong presents three dreamlike stories of misfits in the nation's biggest city in this anthology feature. In "The Village and the Stranger," a shepherd (Zhang Yue-dong) and his best friend (Qieli Dunzhu) decide to leave behind their lives in the country and move to a Read More

    2007
  • Soul Carriage

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Actors: Yang Feng Jun, Jia Hong, Chen Jiao Ying

    Synopsis: A poor man is sent on an unexpectedly traumatic journey in this independent drama. Xinren (Yang Feng Jun) left his home in rural China to come to the big city in search of work. Xinren has landed a low-paying position at a construction site, but when one of his co-workers dies as a result of an Read More

    2007
  • Dong

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Synopsis: Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke records an artist at work as well as the changing landscape of China in this documentary. Painter Liu Xiao-dong, who is well known for his large canvases and his leading role in China's "Cynical Realist" movement, travels to the city of Fengjie to work on a project, using Read More

    2006
  • Karmic Mahjong

    Crew: Composer (Music Score), Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Francis Ng, Cherrie Ying, Liu Yiwei, Liang Jing, Na Wai

    Synopsis: A mechanic plagued by bad luck attempts to break the curse that binds him by entering into a desperate murder pact in this tense thriller in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train. Informed by fortune teller Blind Liu (Liu Yi Wei) that he has been hexed, down-on-his-luck mechanic Read More

    2006
  • The World

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Zhao Tao, Chen Taisheng, Jing Jue, Jiang Zhong-wei, Wang Yi-qun

    Synopsis: Chinese writer/director Jia Zhang Ke's The World is his fourth feature, but it's his first set in a major city, and the first film he's made with the cooperation of the Chinese government. The World is set at the eponymous amusement park in Beijing. Tao (Zhao Tao, who played the Mongolian King Read More

    7/1/05
  • Waiting Alone

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Xia Yu, Li Bingbing, Gong Beibi, Gao Qiang, Wu Chao

    2004
  • Jingzhe

    Crew: Composer (Music Score), Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Yu Nan, Yan Su, Liu Yanbin, Shi Xiaoxia, Feng Jinlong

    Synopsis: A woman struggles to find a life of her own as circumstances conspire against her in this drama from China. Guan Ermei (Yu Nan) is a young woman living in rural China who, after the death of her grandfather, is paired off in an arranged marriage with Zhang Suo (Yan Su), a man who was willing to Read More

    2004
  • Unknown Pleasures

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Zhao Tao, Zhao Wei Wei, Wu Qiong, Zhou Qing Feng, Wang Hong Wei

    Synopsis: Unknown Pleasures takes place in China, in the small city of Datong, in 2001, where disaffected teenagers look for any kind of excitement to enliven their dreary existence. Bin Bin (Zhao Wei Wei) dates a quiet student, Yuan Yuan (Zhou Qing Feng) who's thinking of going to university in Beijing. Read More

    3/26/03
  • Xiang Jimao Yiyang Fei

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Actors: Chen Jianbin, Qin Hailu, Liao Fan, Chen Minghao, Yang Tang

    Synopsis: An unknown poet seeks inspiration in this character-driven drama from director Meng Jinghui. Facing an uncertain future and unable to fuel his creative fire, Yun Fei (Jyanbin Chen) heads for the Bejing suburbs in order to seek the advice of his old college buddy. Further discouraged after finding Read More

    2002
  • Platform

    Crew: Sound/Sound Designer

    Actors: Wang Hong Wei, Zhao Tao, Liang Jing-dong

    Synopsis: The political and social changes that swept China during the 1980s are reflected in the lives of a troupe of musicians in this drama from acclaimed Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke. In 1979, China is beginning to reinvent itself in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, and change is slowly but surely Read More

    2000

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