Zhang Yibai
Zhang Xiaoling, better known by his stage name Zhang Yibai (simplified Chinese: 张一白; traditional Chinese: 張一白) (born 14 April 1963, in Chongqing, China) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and producer. Zhang began his career in television and music videos before directing his debut, Spring Subway in 2002. Zhang, like many other modern Chinese directors, has focused primarily on life in modern Chinese cities. Spring Subway, for example, follows its protagonist as he wanders through Beijing's subway system, while the mystery-thriller Curiosity Killed the Cat follows its characters through the central China boomtown of Chongqing (also Zhang's hometown).
His next two films, 2007's The Longest Night in Shanghai and 2008's Lost, Indulgence have seen the director's exposure and successes extending increasingly overseas. Longest Night, starring Zhao Wei, constitutes one of the first China-Japan coproductions, while Lost was selected to premiere at New York City's Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.
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Movies (35)
Invictus
2026 · Executive Producer
The Sun Rises on Us All
2025 · Thanks
You're Here Anyway
2024 · Writer
Return to Dust
2022 · Executive Producer, Producer
The Day We Lit Up The Sky
2021 · Director
Detective Chinatown 3
2021 · Head of Village
My People, My Homeland
2020 · Associate Producer, Production Designer
My People, My Country
2019 · Director
Midnight Diner
2019 · Boxing Coach
Kill Mobile
2018 · Executive Producer
Ash Is Purest White
2018 · First Man in Fengjie Restaurant
Us and Them
2018 · Producer
I Belonged to You
2016 · Director
Love O2O
2016 · Man in Car, Producer
Finding Mr. Right 2
2016 · Jiao's father
Run for Love
2016 · Director
Mr. Nian
2016 · 校长 (voice)
Everybody's Fine
2016 · Scammer Playing Erhu
Fleet of Time
2014 · Director, Producer
But Always
2014 · Producer
Forgetting to Know You
2013
Better and Better
2013 · Director
Guns and Roses
2012 · Producer
Sleepless Fashion
2011
Love on Credit
2011 · Producer
Eternal Moment
2011 · Director, Producer
The Message
2009
Looking for Jackie
2009 · Glasses Assistant Director
Lost Indulgence
2008 · Director, Writer
The Longest Night in Shanghai
2007 · Director, Writer
Curiosity Kills the Cat
2006 · Writer, Director
About Love
2005 · Director
Kung Fu Hustle
2004 · Inspector Chan
My Father and I
2003 · Male negotiator
Spring Subway
2002 · Director
