Zhang Yimou Talks How The Pandemic “Dramatically” Changed Audiences, The Lack Of “Good Scripts” And Teases His Next Film ‘Article 20’ — Tokyo Film Festival
deadline.com“The pandemic has finally passed, and cinema has returned to normal, but the way people think has changed dramatically,” Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou concluded when quizzed by Deadline about cinema post-Covid 19 during a brief chat at the Tokyo Film Festival (TIFF). “That is,” he continued, “people now value a peaceful and healthy life even more.” Yimou, one of China’s most enduring filmmakers, is in Tokyo to receive the festival’s honorary lifetime achievement award.
He picked up the gong Monday at the TIFF opening ceremony held at Tokyo’s Takarazuka Theatre. “This is like a new start for me,” Yimou said, accepting the award.
He added that he has traveled to the Tokyo Film Festival twice before, but the lifetime achievement award felt like the spark of a new chapter in his career.
But with what Yimou described as a dramatic change in the mentality of audiences, has his approach to filmmaking changed? “No particular change,” he told Deadline. “If there are enough scripts, I can keep up the pace of one film a year.
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