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Wang Xiaoshuai
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| WANG XIAOSHUAI | director |
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Wang Xiaoshuai, born in Shanghai (China) on 22 May 1965. He is generally considered to be the most gifted of China’s “Sixth Generation” directors, and supporters of his work include Quentin Tarantino and Atom Egoyan. He studied art and graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1988. He became an assistant director at the Fujiang Film Studio. He was instrumental in putting together the film MAMA, the directing of which was eventually credited to Zhang Yuan. He wrote and directed his first feature film, THE DAYS, in 1993. This film received critical acclaim in the West but was blacklisted by the Chinese board of censors, as was its director. At the end of 1995 he joined the Beijing Film Studio and directed A VIETNAMESE GIRL, which was also censured. After 3 years of cutting at the editing table (and a title changed into SO CLOSE TO PARADISE the film is finally passed by the censors. SO CLOSE TO PARADISE was selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 1999 in the "Un Certain Regard" section. BEIJING BICYCLE, his fifth feature film, obtained the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001.
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SHANGHAI DREAMS (2005)
DRIFTERS (2003)
AFTER WAR (2002)
BEIJING BICYCLE (2001)
SO CLOSE TO PARADISE (1998)
FROZEN (1997)
SUICIDES (1994)
THE DAYS (1993)
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