Title: Cinema of China
Content:  popular Chinese actress, has made six movies to date. Her second film Letter from an Unknown Woman (2004) landed her the San Sebastián International Film Festival Best Director award. Another popular actress and director is Zhao Wei, whose directorial debut So Young (2013) was a huge box office and critical success. The most highly regarded Chinese actor-director is undoubtedly Jiang Wen, who has directed several critically acclaimed movies while following on his acting career. His directorial debut, In the Heat of the Sun (1994) was the first PRC film to win Best Picture at the Golden Horse Film Awards held in Taiwan. His other films, like Devils on the Doorstep (2000, Cannes Grand Prix) and Let the Bullets Fly (2010), were similarly well received. By the early 2011, Let the Bullets Fly had become the highest grossing domestic film in China's history.
Title: Cinema of China
Content:  He Ping is a director of mostly Western-like films set in Chinese locale. His Swordsmen in Double Flag Town (1991) and Sun Valley (1995) explore narratives set in the sparse terrain of West China near the Gobi Desert. His historical drama Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994) won a myriad of prizes home and abroad. Recent cinema has seen Chinese cinematographers direct some acclaimed films. Other than Zhang Yimou, Lü Yue made Mr. Zhao (1998), a black comedy film well received abroad. Gu Changwei's minimalist epic Peacock (2005), about a quiet, ordinary Chinese family with three very different siblings in the post-Cultural Revolution era, took home the Silver Bear prize for 2005 Berlin International Film Festival. Hou Yong is another cinematographer who made films (Jasmine Women, 2004) and TV series. There are actors who straddle the dual roles of acting and directing. Xu Jinglei, 
Title: List of Chinese film directors
Content:  ; Zhao Wei (born 1976), famous Chinese leading female actor-turned-director. ; Zheng Junli (1911–1969), actor-director. ; Zheng Zhengqiu (1889–1935), often considered one of the founding fathers of Chinese cinema, associated with the Mingxing Film Company. ; Zheng Xiaolong (born 1953), one of the most successful TV series directors in mainland China, board director of China Film Academy. His award-winning TV series include "Golden Marriage" in 2008 and 2009, as well as "Legend of Zhen Huan" in 2012. ; Zhou Xiaowen (born 1954), Fifth Generation director. ; Zhou Bing (born 1968), one of the most famous documentary film director in China, works including The Forbidden City, South of the Ocean, Buddha and the Snow Leopards, etc. ; Zhu Shilin (1899–1967) ; Zhu Wen, (born 1969) author and director. 
Title: East Asian cinema
Content: Cai Chusheng (1906–1968). Influential Chinese director of the 1930s and 1940s.  Best known for his film Spring River Flows East, which is frequently regarded as one of the masterpieces of Chinese cinema. ; Chen Kaige (born 1952). Fifth-Generation Chinese film director known for films such as Farewell My Concubine, The Emperor and the Assassin, and Yellow Earth (one of the first Chinese films to compete in international film festivals after the Cultural Revolution). ; Jiang Wen (born 1963). Famous Chinese actor turned director.  Best known for In the Heat of the Sun and  Devils on the Doorstep, which won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. ; Jia Zhangke (born 1970). One of the most prominent 
Title: List of Chinese film directors
Content: Feng Gong (born 1957), comedic actor and sometimes-director. ; Feng Xiaoning (born 1954), art designer turned director, part of the 1982 graduating class of the Beijing Film Academy ; Feng Xiaogang (born 1958), director of popular films, including several "New Year" genre films. ; Fei Mu (1906–1951), major auteur of the 1930s and 1940s, famed for his masterpiece, Spring in a Small Town. 
Title: List of Chinese film directors
Content: Gao Qunshu ; Gao Xiaosong (born 1969) ; Gu Changwei (born 1957), Chinese cinematographer for many years, has directed two films. ; Guan Hu (born 1969), Sixth-generation director ; Xiaolu Guo (born 1973), Chinese-British film director and novelist. 
Title: Chinese Portrait
Content:  Chinese Portrait was filmed over seven years, starting in 2009, in a variety of location in eastern and northwestern China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Ningxia, and Qinghai. It was directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, produced by Isabelle Glachant and Xuan Liu, and executive produced by Qian Yini, with cinematography by Wu Di, Zeng Hui, Zeng Jian, and Piao Xinghai, sound mixing by Mikaël Barre, and editing and sound design by Valerie Loiseleux. It was produced by Front Films Co and Chinese Shadows, with distribution by Asian Shadows internationally and Cinema Guild in the United States.
Title: List of Chinese film directors
Content:  Hong Kong film director, born in Shanghai. ; Wu Shixian (born 1975), Venice and Sundance Film Festival-winning Chinese American writer-director (aka Dayyan Eng) born in Taiwan. Also directed the popular indie romantic comedy Waiting Alone. ; Wu Tianming (born 1939), a member of the so-called "Fourth Generation," his role as head of the Xi'an Film Studio meant he often oversaw the works of several of his successors, notably Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. ; Wu Wenguang (born 1956), documentary filmmaker. ; Wu Yigong (born 1938), director active in the 1980s and early 1990s, also a film producer. ; Wu Yonggang (1907–1982), a major director from the 1930s, perhaps best known for his silent film, The Goddess. ; Wu Ziniu (born 1953), Fifth Generation director. 
Title: List of Chinese film directors
Content: He Jianjun (born 1960), Sixth Generation director. ; He Ping (born 1957), director known for mixing Chinese and Western tropes. ; He Qun (born 1956), a graduate of the 1982 class of the BFA as a member of the art department; later shifted to direction, including Country Teachers, the Golden Rooster winner of 1994. ; Hou Hsiao-hsien (born 1947), leading figure in Taiwan's New Wave cinema. ; Hou Yong (born 1960), noted cinematographer for Tian Zhuangzhuang, Zhang Yimou, and others; occasional film director (2004's Jasmine Women). ; Hu Mei (born 1956), female Fifth Generation director. ; Huang Jianxin (born 1954), Fifth Generation director known for his films set in urban environments. ; Huang Shuqin (born 1940), female film director. ; Huang Zuolin (born 1906–1994), important playwright and film director; a student of Bernard Shaw. ; Ann Hui, (born 1947), major female director based in Hong Kong, and a leading figure of the Hong Kong New Wave. ; Huo Jianqi (born 1958), commercially successful film director. 
Title: List of Chinese film directors
Content: Wan brothers, animators. ; Wan Laiming (1900–1997) ; Wan Guchan (1900–1995) ; Wan Chaochen (1906–1992) ; Wan Dihuan (born 1900s) ; Wang Bing (born 1967), documentary filmmaker. ; Wang Chao (born 1964), Sixth Generation filmmaker. ; Wang Guangli (born 1966), modern Chinese director, active since 1997. ; Wang Ping (born 1916), the first female director of the People's Republic of China ; Wang Quan'an (born 1965), Sixth Generation director, and winner of the 2007 Golden Bear for his film, Tuya's Marriage. ; Wang Shuo (born 1958), famous novelist, screenwriter, and one-time director of the film, Father ; Wang Xiaoshuai (born 1966), leading Sixth Generation filmmaker. ; Wei Shiyu Louisa Hong Kong based female Chinese filmmaker, script translator, producer and educator. ; Wong Kar-wai (born 

Question: Who was the director of China?
Answer: John Farrow.
John Villiers Farrow.