Question: Are the directors of both films Not One Less and Symptoms (Film) from the same country?

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). Zhang Yimou( born 2 April 1950) is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. 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. <SEP> It was produced by Guangxi Film Studio and released by China Film Group Corporation in mainland China, and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and Columbia TriStar internationally. Set in the People's Republic of China during the 1990s, the film centers on a 13- year- old substitute teacher, Wei Minzhi, in the Chinese countryside. Called in to substitute for a village teacher for one month, Wei is told not to lose any students. When one of the boys takes off in search of work in the big city, she goes looking for him. Not One Less is a 1999 drama film by Chinese director Zhang Yimou, adapted from Shi Xiangsheng's 1997 story" A Sun in the Sky". The film addresses education reform in China, the economic gap between urban and rural populations, and the prevalence of bureaucracy and authority figures in everyday life. It is filmed in a neorealist/ documentary style with a troupe of non-professional actors who play characters with the same names and occupations as the actors have in real life, blurring the boundaries between drama and reality. The domestic release of" Not One Less" was accompanied by a Chinese government campaign aimed at promoting the film and cracking down on piracy. Internationally, the film was generally well- received, but it also attracted criticism for its ostensibly political message; foreign critics are divided on whether the film should be read as praising or criticizing the Chinese government. When the film was excluded from the 1999 Cannes Film Festival's competition section, Zhang withdrew it and another film from the festival, and published a letter rebuking Cannes for politicization of and" discrimination" against Chinese cinema. The film went on to win the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion and several other awards, and Zhang won the award for best director at the Golden Rooster Awards. <SEP> Symptoms( also released as The Blood Virgin) is a 1974 British exploitation horror film directed by José Ramón Larraz and starring Angela Pleasence, Peter Vaughan, and Lorna Heilbron. The film, based on a story by Thomas Owen, follows a woman who goes to stay with a friend at her family remote English manor where all is not as it seems. The film had its premiere at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival as the first official British entry. <SEP> The Road Home is a 2000 Chinese romantic drama film directed by Zhang Yimou. It also marked the cinematic debut of the Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. " The Road Home" was written by author Bao Shi, who adapted the screenplay from his novel," Remembrance". The film was shot immediately after Zhang Yimou's previous film," Not One Less", and was released to strong reviews in China in fall 1999. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> Born in Barcelona, Larraz moved to Paris in 1952, where he started his career as a comics writer for magazines like Pilote and Spirou. His most known creation was the action- comic series" Paul Foran", which he wrote under the name" Gil". Larraz moved to England in 1976, where he began making films, then in 1976 apparently relocated his operations back to Spain. He made many different types of films, but is best known for his horror films. " Symptoms" was an official British entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. His last few horror films were Spanish/ American co-productions. He apparently retired from filmmaking in 1992 at age 63. José Ramón Larraz Gil( 1929 – 3 September 2013) was a Spanish director of exploitation and horror films such as the erotic and bloody" Vampyres"( 1974). Larraz died, aged 84, in Málaga on 3 September 2013.