Tokyo Laboratory
In addition, Tokyo Laboratory has processed many films from Taiwan and Mainland China throughout its history.
Such films include Red Sorghum( film), Farewell My Concubine( film), In the Heat of the Sun etc.
Red Sorghum (film)
Red Sorghum is a 1988 Chinese film about a young woman's life working on a distillery for sorghum liquor.
It is based on the novel" Red Sorghum Clan" by Nobel laureate Mo Yan.
The film marked the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the acting debut of film star Gong Li.
With its lush and lusty portrayal of peasant life, it immediately vaulted Zhang to the forefront of the Fifth Generation directors.
The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival.
Red Sorghum
Red Sorghum may refer to:
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou( born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.
He is part of the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with" Red Sorghum".
Zhang has won numerous awards and recognitions, with Best Foreign Film nominations for" Ju Dou" in 1990," Raise the Red Lantern" in 1991, and" Hero" in 2003, Silver Lion and Golden Lion prizes at the Venice Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 1993, he was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.
Zhang directed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, which received considerable international acclaim.
One of Zhang's recurrent themes is the resilience of Chinese people in the face of hardship and adversity, a theme which has been explored in such films as" To Live"( 1994) and" Not One Less"( 1999).
His films are particularly noted for their rich use of colour, as can be seen in some of his early films, like" Raise the Red Lantern", and in his wuxia films like" Hero" and" House of Flying Daggers".
His highest budgeted film to date is the 2016 monster film" The Great Wall", set in Imperial China and starring Matt Damon.
Gabriel Axel
Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch better known as Gabriel Axel( 18 April 1918 – 9 February 2014) was a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for" Babette's Feast"( 1987), which he wrote and directed.
Mo Yan
Guan Moye( born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.
Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine" TIME" referred to him as" one of the most famous, oft- banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel" Red Sorghum Clan", of which the" Red Sorghum" and" Sorghum Wine" volumes were later adapted for the film" Red Sorghum".
In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer" who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Mo Yan
Guan Moye( born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer.
Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine" TIME" referred to him as" one of the most famous, oft- banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.
He is best known to Western readers for his 1987 novel" Red Sorghum Clan", of which the" Red Sorghum" and" Sorghum Wine" volumes were later adapted for the film" Red Sorghum".
In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer" who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
Oskar (film)
Oskar is a 1962 Danish film based upon the play by Claude Magnier, directed by Gabriel Axel and starring.
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Red Sorghum (novel)
Red Sorghum:
A Novel of China or Red Sorghum Clan is a Chinese language novel by Mo Yan.
Published in 1986, it was Mo's first novel and remains one of his best- known works.
The novel consists of the volumes" Red SorghumSorghum Wine Dog WaysSorghum Funeral", and" Strange Death", which were first serialized in various magazines in 1986.
" Dog Ways" was published in the April 1986 issue of" ShiyueOctober" magazine);" Sorghum Wine" in the July 1986 issue of" PLA ArtsSorghum Funeral" in the August 1986 issue of" Beijing Wenxue" and" Strange Death" in the November – December issue of" Kunlun" magazine.
It was the magazine serializations before the publication of the full novel in 1987 which were seen by director Zhang Yimou, who immediately proposed to Mo Yan to make the novel into a film.
The next year the novel was published, and almost simultaneously the 1987 Chinese- language film" Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
It was initially given an ad hoc English title" The Red Sorghum Clan" in some sources( Wang 1996) but was translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt in 1993 with the subtitle" Red Sorghum- A Novel of China".
Red Sorghum's plot revolves around three generations of the Shandong family between 1923 and 1976.
The narrator tells the story of his family's struggles, first as distillery owners making sorghum wine and then as resistance fighters during the Second Sino- Japanese War.
The novel also details civil disputes between warring Chinese groups, including rival gangs and political powers.
The book also refers to the Cultural Revolution and the 1972 resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Japan.
Mo Yan employs a terse style in the novel that is characterized by brevity and non-chronological storytelling written in the first- person.
The work contains elements of folk- tale that blend into myth and superstition, placing it in the magic- realist genre.
As the principal crop of Shandong province's Northeast Gaomi Township( the author's hometown), red sorghum"( sorghum bicolor)" frames the narrative as a symbol of indifference and vitality.
Amidst decades of bloodshed and death, it grows steadfast to provide food, shelter, wine and life.

Question: Do both directors of films Oskar (Film) and Red Sorghum (Film) share the same nationality?
Answer: no