He Ping

He Ping
He Ping signing autographs at the premiere of Wheat at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Chinese name	何平
Pinyin	Hé Píng (Mandarin)
Ancestry	Manchu
Born	Shanxi, China 1957
Occupation	Director
Years active	1980s-present
Awards Golden Rooster Awards Best Director: 1994 Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker

He Ping (Chinese: 何平; pinyin: Hé Píng) (born 1957 in Shanxi, China) is a Chinese film director, whose main filmography consists of a hybrid genre of Western-wuxia movies. He made three movies along this genre - Swordsmen in Double Flag Town (1991), Sun Valley (1995) and Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2004).

He is an ethnic Manchu whose ancestors were members of the Blue Banners. His mother was the female lead in Communist China's first feature film Bridge (1949).

Directorial career

He Ping began his directorial career in the 1980s, directing stage productions and documentary films.^[1] By the late 1980s, He transferred to the Xi'an Film Studio, where he began directing fiction films, including We Are the World and a film based on the story of the Manchurian-Japanese princess, Kawashima Yoshiko.^[1] In the 1990s, He directed two major Chinese Westerns, Swordsmen in Double Flag Town and Sun Valley, and the historical drama Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker. Swordsmen in Double Flag Town went on to win the Grand Prize at the 3rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1992.^[2] Sun Valley was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.^[3]

In the 2000s, He struck success with his 2004 adventure film Warriors of Heaven and Earth, starring Jiang Wen. Hi Ping's followed this with another historical action film, Wheat, starring Fan Bingbing, which was released in 2009.

Filmography

References

External links

• He Ping at the Internet Movie Database
• He Ping at the Chinese Movie Database

v t e The Fifth Generation Beijing Film Academy: Class of 1982 Chen Kaige (director) Gu Changwei (cinematographer/director) He Qun (art director/director) Hou Yong (cinematographer/director) Hu Mei (director) Li Shaohong (director) Liu Miaomiao (director) Lü Yue (cinematographer/director) Ning Ying (director) Peng Xiaolian (director) Tian Zhuangzhuang (director) Wu Ziniu (director) Xia Gang (director) Xie Xiaojing (director) Zhang Jianya (director) Zhang Junzhao (director) Zhang Yimou (cinematographer/director) Zhao Fei (cinematographer) Associated Figures He Ping (director) Huang Jianxin (director) Sun Zhou (director) Zhang Zeming (director) Zhou Xiaowen (director) Wu Tianming (producer) Major Works Our Corner (1980) One and Eight (1983) Yellow Earth (1984) The Horse Thief (1985) The Black Cannon Incident (1985) Red Sorghum (1987) Evening Bell (1988) Ju Dou (1990) Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Farewell My Concubine (1993) The Blue Kite (1993) Ermo (1994)