Chen Kaige, China male director, producer, 1952 was born in Xicheng District, Beijing, China, and graduated from Beijing Film Academy. From 65438 to 0984, he made his first film "Yellow Land" and began his career as a director. The film established Chen Kaige's creative route and direction of exploring humanistic themes, and won the Yin Bao Prize in the 38th Locarno International Film Festival.

Chen Kaige won the Tran Cup Director Award at the 29th Edinburgh International Film Festival for Yellow Land. In the same year, he personally directed the first TV series "Forced Takeoff" and won the Excellent TV Series Award of the Fifth China TV Series Flying Award. He is one of the representatives of the fifth generation directors in China, and also a film poet with profound literary accomplishment and ideological depth.

Chen Kaige's character evaluation:

Chen Kaige is a highly personalized director, who bears the cultural characteristics of China films. Reading brought him rich knowledge, and constant thinking made his thoughts grand and profound. He has a strong sense of mission and responsibility for society and culture. Although his films are obscure, they embody the characteristics of China culture and the spiritual pursuit of China literati.

Most of Chen Kaige's films are full of strong cultural flavor and high cultural character. In the movie "Yellow Land", he turned his attention to ordinary people living on the yellow land, which fully reflected his deep concern and excavation of human nature. In the movie Farewell My Concubine, he made a compromise between pure personal artistic style and popularity.