Zhao Dan
In the following decade, she made a series of films about Shanghai. "Once Upon a Time in Shanghai" (1998), a historical film about the Shanghai Campaign of 1949, won the Best Film Award of the Huabiao Awards. "Shanghai Women" (2002) portrays contemporary life in the fast-changing city. "Shanghai Story" (2004), which explores the vicissitudes of life of a bourgeois family from the 1920s to the 1990s, won four Golden Rooster Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. "Shanghai Rumba" (2006) is based on the romance of the famous movie star couple Zhao Dan and Huang Zongying. These films made her known as a representative figure in presenting the culture of Shanghai. She also made a children's animation film, "Keke's Magic Umbrella" (2000).