
Zhang Lu
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-05-30 (62 years old)
Place of Birth
Yanbian, Jilin, China
Zhang Lu
Biography
Zhang Lü (Chinese: 张律; pinyin: Zhāng Lǜ; Korean: 장률; born May 30, 1962; Yanbian, Jilin) is a Chinese-Korean filmmaker. Zhang was originally a novelist before embarking on a career in cinema. His arthouse films have mostly focused on the disenfranchised, particularly ethnic Koreans living in China; these include Grain in Ear (2006), Desert Dream (2007), Dooman River (2011), Scenery (2013), and Gyeongju (2014). Zhang Lü is a third-generation ethnic Korean born in Yanbian, Jilin, China in 1962. He first became known in his native land China as a respected author of novels and short stories, such as Cicada Chirping Afternoon (1986). Zhang moved to South Korea in 2012, and began teaching at Yonsei University.
Zhang was then a 38-year-old professor of Chinese Literature at Yanbian University when an argument with a film director friend led him to take a bet that "anyone can make a film." With no technical training but with the support of film industry friends such as Lee Chang-dong, he set out to direct his first short film Eleven (2001), a fourteen-minute nearly silent vignette of an eleven-year-old boy's encounter with a group of soccer players his own age set in a post-industrial wasteland. Eleven was invited to compete at the 58th Venice International Film Festival and several other international film festivals, and this unexpected success made Zhang decide to become a full-time filmmaker.
Crew
(2023)
The Shadowless Tower
Presenter, Writer, Director, Screenplay
(2022)
Usu
Producer
(2022)
The Element of Hope
Producer
(2022)
Yanagawa
Director, Writer
(2020)
Fukuoka
Director, Writer, Producer
(2019)
Vanishing Days
Consulting Producer
(2018)
Ode to the Goose
Writer, Director, Producer
(2016)
A Quiet Dream
Director, Writer
(2015)
Love And...
Director, Original Music Composer, Writer
(2014)
Gyeongju
Producer, Writer, Director
(2013)
Scenery
Writer, Director
(2013)
Strangers
Director
(2013)
Over There
Director
(2013)
Jury
Writer
(2012)
Don't Expect Praises
Producer
(2011)
Lost in the Mountain
Producer
(2011)
Winter Vacation
Producer
(2010)
Dooman River
Writer, Director
(2008)
Iri
Writer, Director
(2008)
Routine Holiday
Producer
(2008)
Chongqing
Director, Writer
(2007)
Desert Dream
Writer, Director
(2005)
Grain in Ear
Writer, Director
(2003)
Tang Poetry
Editor, Writer, Director
(2000)
Eleven
Director