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.

Known for

Credits

Year	Movie / TV show / Other	Role
2023	The Shadowless Tower	Presenter
2023	The Shadowless Tower	Writer
2023	The Shadowless Tower	Director
2023	The Shadowless Tower	Screenplay
2022	Yanagawa	Director
2022	Yanagawa	Writer
2022	Usu	Producer
2022	The Element of Hope	Producer
2020	Fukuoka	Director
2020	Fukuoka	Writer
2020	Fukuoka	Producer
2019	Vanishing Days	Consulting Producer
2018	Ode to the Goose	Director
2018	Ode to the Goose	Writer
2018	Ode to the Goose	Producer
2016	A Quiet Dream	Director
2016	A Quiet Dream	Writer
2015	Love And...	Director
2015	Love And...	Original Music Composer
2015	Love And...	Writer
2014	Gyeongju	Producer
2014	Gyeongju	Director
2014	Gyeongju	Writer
2013	Jury	Writer
2013	Scenery	Writer
2013	Scenery	Director
2013	Strangers	Director
2013	Over There	Director
2012	Don't Expect Praises	Producer
2011	Winter Vacation	Producer
2011	Lost in the Mountain	Producer
2010	Dooman River	Writer
2010	Dooman River	Director
2010	神探狄仁杰前传	Writer
2008	Iri	Writer
2008	Iri	Director
2008	Routine Holiday	Producer
2008	Chongqing	Director
2008	Chongqing	Writer
2007	Desert Dream	Writer
2007	Desert Dream	Director
2005	Grain in Ear	Writer
2005	Grain in Ear	Director
2003	Tang Poetry	Editor
2003	Tang Poetry	Director
2003	Tang Poetry	Writer
2000	Eleven	Director