Zhang Meng

Zhang Meng, born on April 12, 1975, in Tieling City, Liaoning Province, is a director, screenwriter, and producer in Mainland China. He graduated from the Department of Stage Art of the Central Academy of Drama.

The Piano in a Factory (2011)

Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a loss. He doesn't ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Wang Qian-Yuan  •  Qin Hailu  •  Jang Shin-young  •  Guo Yongzhen

Steelworker Chen has a passion for music and plays the accordion in a local band with a close group of friends. When his estranged wife returns one day after years of absence, she demands a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Chen is at a loss. He doesn't ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Wang Qian-Yuan  •  Qin Hailu  •  Jang Shin-young  •  Guo Yongzhen

Run for Love (2016)

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan Norway, where the sun is brought down where the can't shine by large mirrors.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guan Hu  •  Gao Qunshu  •  Teng Huatao  •  Zhang Yibai  •  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Zhang Ziyi  •  Eddie Peng  •  Tong Liya  •  Tetsu Watanabe

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan Norway, where the sun is brought down where the can't shine by large mirrors.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guan Hu  •  Gao Qunshu  •  Teng Huatao  •  Zhang Yibai  •  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Zhang Ziyi  •  Eddie Peng  •  Tong Liya  •  Tetsu Watanabe

Everybody's Fine (2016)

From acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Meng (The Piano in a Factory), this Chinese remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s (Cinema Paradiso) Everybody's Fine and its American version starring Robert De Niro is an emotionally stirring drama. The story follows a widower’s visits to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Zhang Guoli  •  Yao Chen  •  Shawn Dou  •  Chen He

From acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Meng (The Piano in a Factory), this Chinese remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s (Cinema Paradiso) Everybody's Fine and its American version starring Robert De Niro is an emotionally stirring drama. The story follows a widower’s visits to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Zhang Guoli  •  Yao Chen  •  Shawn Dou  •  Chen He

Uncle Victory (2014)

Chen Shengli, 40, is a dapper ex-con with a spine of steel, who used to hang out with some very bad people. But he’s determined to reform. He returns to the old theatre he owns, where he discovers that a kindergarten now ensconced there can’t pay the rent. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Zhang Xinyi  •  Huang Haibo

Chen Shengli, 40, is a dapper ex-con with a spine of steel, who used to hang out with some very bad people. But he’s determined to reform. He returns to the old theatre he owns, where he discovers that a kindergarten now ensconced there can’t pay the rent. The ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Zhang Xinyi  •  Huang Haibo

Lucky Dog (2008)

A middle-aged man sets out to find a new career when he learns he's picked the wrong time to retire in this gentle comedy-drama from China. Wang Kangmei (Fan Wei) is a good-humored working stuff who after four decades as an engineer for the Chinese railway has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Fan Wei  •  Tian Yu

A middle-aged man sets out to find a new career when he learns he's picked the wrong time to retire in this gentle comedy-drama from China. Wang Kangmei (Fan Wei) is a good-humored working stuff who after four decades as an engineer for the Chinese railway has ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Fan Wei  •  Tian Yu

On the Balcony (2019)

Zhang Yingxiong’s father died due to a fight with demolition worker Lu Zhiqiang, so Zhang Yingxiong decided to revenge for his father. But during the “revenge”, he gradually start to have a special feeling for Lu Shanshan, Lu Zhiqiang’s daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Wang Qiang  •  Zhou Dongyu  •  Cao Rui  •  Zhu Liqun

Zhang Yingxiong’s father died due to a fight with demolition worker Lu Zhiqiang, so Zhang Yingxiong decided to revenge for his father. But during the “revenge”, he gradually start to have a special feeling for Lu Shanshan, Lu Zhiqiang’s daughter.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Wang Qiang  •  Zhou Dongyu  •  Cao Rui  •  Zhu Liqun

The Comeback (2022)

The son, who works as a stunt double in films, hurts himself. When he returns to spend Chinese New Year with his father, the villagers wants he to shoot a film about the village in order to make it internet famous. What kind of a film one can make to promote a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Liu Feiyang  •  Guo Yongzhen

The son, who works as a stunt double in films, hurts himself. When he returns to spend Chinese New Year with his father, the villagers wants he to shoot a film about the village in order to make it internet famous. What kind of a film one can make to promote a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Liu Feiyang  •  Guo Yongzhen

Christmas On The Mountain (2012)

In that cold northern city, the young and reckless Haibo (played by Huang Haibo) and the beautiful and elegant Xiaoqing (played by Tan Zhuo) met on campus. Just like those silly boys who are desperate for love, Hai Bo clumsily but persistently pursues love with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Huang Haibo  •  Tan Zhuo  •  Guo Yongzhen

In that cold northern city, the young and reckless Haibo (played by Huang Haibo) and the beautiful and elegant Xiaoqing (played by Tan Zhuo) met on campus. Just like those silly boys who are desperate for love, Hai Bo clumsily but persistently pursues love with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Zhang Meng
CAST:  Huang Haibo  •  Tan Zhuo  •  Guo Yongzhen