VENICE, Italy, Sept. 6 -- Celebrated Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou made a triumphant return to the Venice Film Festival on Thursday with the world premiere of his latest film, Ying (Shadow).
Zhang, whose work has influenced generations of Chinese directors, was also awarded the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker prize, which is dedicated to "a figure who has left a particularly original mark on contemporary cinema."
"We have the return (after almost two decades) of a great master of Chinese cinema," Venice Film Festival Director Alberto Barbera told Xinhua.
In 1991, Zhang won a Silver Lion for Raise the Red Lantern, following it up with a Golden Lion in 1992 for The Story of Qiu Ju, which also garnered Gong Li a Coppa Volpi prize for Best Actress, and another Golden Lion in 1999 for Not One Less.
"Zhang Yimou is back with a wonderful movie, which I'm sure will travel all over the world, (in a) welcome return to a kind of cinema that is interesting from every point of view, because it's a cinema that could please the audience, but at the same time is visually strong," said Barbera.
Ying, which screened out of competition, is a martial arts (wuxia) film set in China during the period of the Three Kingdoms (220-280 AD) and tells the story of body double -- "shadow" men who substituted royals and aristocrats in times of danger, ready to sacrifice their lives so their masters could live.
"A shadow must seamlessly meld with the real, so that true and false can't be distinguished," said Zhang. "I liked the idea of these political substitutes -- the body doubles whose stories have never been told before."
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