Zhang Lu

Zhang Lu

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.

  • Title: Zhang Lu
  • Popularity: 2.298
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1962-05-30
  • Place of Birth: Yanbian, Jilin, China
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  • Also Known As: 장률 , Lu Zhang, 张律 , 張律
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Zhang Lu Movies

  • 2007
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    Desert Dream

    Desert Dream

    4.2 2007 HD

    In a vast desert area somewhere at the border between Mongolia and China, Hungai lives together with his wife and child. Dutifully, Hungai plants...

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  • 2005
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    Grain in Ear

    Grain in Ear

    7.2 2005 HD

    Cui, a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society, has a husband in jail and a son to support. She barely makes a living selling...

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  • 2023
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    The Shadowless Tower

    The Shadowless Tower

    6.8 2023 HD

    Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A...

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  • 2010
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    Dooman River

    Dooman River

    6.1 2010 HD

    Chang-ho, 12, becomes friends with a North-Korean immigrant about the same age who just crossed the Dooman river, border between North-Korea and...

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  • 2008
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    Iri

    Iri

    4.9 2008 HD

    30 years after the explosion at Iri station (Iksan, South Korea) the city has changed its name, rebuilt itself, but the people still carry the scars....

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  • 2013
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    Scenery

    Scenery

    6 2013 HD

    People exist as landscape to each other for much of their time. This coldness sometimes inspires you. The scenery is still the same, but the...

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  • 2013
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    Strangers

    Strangers

    1 2013 HD

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  • 2022
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    Usu

    Usu

    5.5 2022 HD

    While preparing to shut down the photo studio business that he has been running, a man hears that someone named Chulsu has died.

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  • 2023
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    The Shadowless Tower

    The Shadowless Tower

    6.8 2023 HD

    Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A...

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  • 2013
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    Over There

    Over There

    1 2013 HD

    In many times, people exist as a part of just background to each other. This desolate scenery brings you a certain feeling. As time overlaps on the...

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  • 2011
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    Lost in the Mountain

    Lost in the Mountain

    4 2011 HD

    The film is director Gao Zipeng’s first fiction film which takes three years to complete. It premieres on March 27, 2001 in UCCA and stars the...

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  • 2015
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    Love And...

    Love And...

    7.7 2015 HD

    People have varying perceptions and definitions of love and movies. One must overcome differing opinions and disregard insignificant factors in order...

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  • 2022
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    The Element of Hope

    The Element of Hope

    1 2022 HD

    The Element of Hope is the story of a man who is completely cut off from the world and lives a life of isolation as if he were part of the house. He...

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  • 2019
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    Vanishing Days

    Vanishing Days

    5 2019 HD

    A muggy summer of 2009, reality and memory tangled together, water from the canal soaked everyone in those vanishing days.

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  • 2013
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    Jury

    Jury

    6.3 2013 HD

    After the film screening, five people hold a meeting. Director Jeong asserts that a film should move the heart. Actress Soo-yeon emphasizes on the...

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  • 2016
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    A Quiet Dream

    A Quiet Dream

    6.825 2016 HD

    They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her,...

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  • 2023
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    The Shadowless Tower

    The Shadowless Tower

    6.8 2023 HD

    Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A...

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  • 2023
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    The Shadowless Tower

    The Shadowless Tower

    6.8 2023 HD

    Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A...

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  • 2003
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    Tang Poetry

    Tang Poetry

    6 2003 HD

    Holding a shaking hand with another hand, a former pickpocket confines himself in his apartment. He doesn’t talk to anyone for long. There is...

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  • 2014
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    Gyeongju

    Gyeongju

    7.19 2014 HD

    A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of...

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  • 2015
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    Love And...

    Love And...

    7.7 2015 HD

    People have varying perceptions and definitions of love and movies. One must overcome differing opinions and disregard insignificant factors in order...

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  • 2008
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    Routine Holiday

    Routine Holiday

    6.3 2008 HD

    A father takes his son to observe an empty field, and then to visit a neighbour, who is soon visited by other reticent characters, including a man...

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  • 2011
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    Winter Vacation

    Winter Vacation

    6.9 2011 HD

    An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin's home, a friend who...

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  • 2012
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    Don't Expect Praises

    Don't Expect Praises

    5.3 2012 HD

    On the day he was supposed to graduate from elementary school, a precocious boy runs away from home and goes with his best friend on a journey to his...

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  • 2015
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    Love And...

    Love And...

    7.7 2015 HD

    People have varying perceptions and definitions of love and movies. One must overcome differing opinions and disregard insignificant factors in order...

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  • 2008
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    Chongqing

    Chongqing

    3.8 2008 HD

    In China, Xuie lives an impoverished life with her father who is far from helpful. She is living in Chongqing. One day, her father gets arrested...

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  • 2008
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    Chongqing

    Chongqing

    3.8 2008 HD

    In China, Xuie lives an impoverished life with her father who is far from helpful. She is living in Chongqing. One day, her father gets arrested...

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  • 2014
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    Gyeongju

    Gyeongju

    7.19 2014 HD

    A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of...

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  • 2013
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    Scenery

    Scenery

    6 2013 HD

    People exist as landscape to each other for much of their time. This coldness sometimes inspires you. The scenery is still the same, but the...

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  • 2014
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    Gyeongju

    Gyeongju

    7.19 2014 HD

    A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of...

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  • 2016
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    A Quiet Dream

    A Quiet Dream

    6.825 2016 HD

    They're losers, but nice ones. Every day they sit at Yeri's bar, smitten by the young Chinese-Korean woman. Yeri doesn't have a preference. To her,...

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  • 2007
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    Desert Dream

    Desert Dream

    4.2 2007 HD

    In a vast desert area somewhere at the border between Mongolia and China, Hungai lives together with his wife and child. Dutifully, Hungai plants...

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  • 2005
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    Grain in Ear

    Grain in Ear

    7.2 2005 HD

    Cui, a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society, has a husband in jail and a son to support. She barely makes a living selling...

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  • 2003
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    Tang Poetry

    Tang Poetry

    6 2003 HD

    Holding a shaking hand with another hand, a former pickpocket confines himself in his apartment. He doesn’t talk to anyone for long. There is...

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  • 2003
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    Tang Poetry

    Tang Poetry

    6 2003 HD

    Holding a shaking hand with another hand, a former pickpocket confines himself in his apartment. He doesn’t talk to anyone for long. There is...

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  • 2010
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    Dooman River

    Dooman River

    6.1 2010 HD

    Chang-ho, 12, becomes friends with a North-Korean immigrant about the same age who just crossed the Dooman river, border between North-Korea and...

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  • 2008
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    Iri

    Iri

    4.9 2008 HD

    30 years after the explosion at Iri station (Iksan, South Korea) the city has changed its name, rebuilt itself, but the people still carry the scars....

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  • 2000
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    Eleven

    Eleven

    7 2000 HD

    Eleven, which played at the 2001 Venice Film Festival, is the first short film of director Zhang Lu. He is a forty-year-old writer whose works engage...

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  • 2018
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    Ode to the Goose

    Ode to the Goose

    8.353 2018 HD

    Yoon-young fell for Song-hyeon when she was married to his friend. When she gets divorced, he takes her on a trip to Gunsan, where they stay at a...

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  • 2018
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    Ode to the Goose

    Ode to the Goose

    8.353 2018 HD

    Yoon-young fell for Song-hyeon when she was married to his friend. When she gets divorced, he takes her on a trip to Gunsan, where they stay at a...

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  • 2018
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    Ode to the Goose

    Ode to the Goose

    8.353 2018 HD

    Yoon-young fell for Song-hyeon when she was married to his friend. When she gets divorced, he takes her on a trip to Gunsan, where they stay at a...

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  • 2020
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    Fukuoka

    Fukuoka

    6.333 2020 HD

    A bookseller from Seoul travels with a young woman to Fukuoka in Japan to meet a former friend from university. While their reunion is haunted by the...

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  • 2020
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    Fukuoka

    Fukuoka

    6.333 2020 HD

    A bookseller from Seoul travels with a young woman to Fukuoka in Japan to meet a former friend from university. While their reunion is haunted by the...

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  • 2022
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    Yanagawa

    Yanagawa

    6.8 2022 HD

    At a Japanese restaurant nestled within the busy streets of Beijing, Li Dong convinces his older brother Li Chun to travel together to the Japanese...

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  • 2022
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    Yanagawa

    Yanagawa

    6.8 2022 HD

    At a Japanese restaurant nestled within the busy streets of Beijing, Li Dong convinces his older brother Li Chun to travel together to the Japanese...

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  • 2020
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    Fukuoka

    Fukuoka

    6.333 2020 HD

    A bookseller from Seoul travels with a young woman to Fukuoka in Japan to meet a former friend from university. While their reunion is haunted by the...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

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