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Filmmaker · China

Zhang Junzhao

Died in 2018

Zhang Junzhao was born in 1952, in Beijing, into a family originally from Henan. According to Sina, he served five years in the Xinjiang military region, then was put in charge of propaganda at a theatre in Urumqi. He studied directing from 1978 to 1982 at the Beijing Film Academy, reopened after the Cultural Revolution, and was assigned to the Guangxi studio. There in 1983, with Zhang Yimou, Xiao Feng and He Qun, he formed the country's first team of young filmmakers. He worked in cinema and then television until 2002, and died in Dalian on 9 June 2018.

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