Zhang Yang Filmography

Filmography

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

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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