Novels like 1980: My Era of Cinema
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as 1980: My Era of Cinema, best match first.
- 1 Chinese Showbiz: Graduating from USC Saves Me Decades of Detours 华娱：南加大毕业少走几十年弯路 [Director] [Character growth] [Slow-paced] [Entertainment] At a class reunion, I encountered the Livingston family and glimpsed a corner of the world. Wang Quan: “I don't eat beef! To hell with this, I'm the protagonist!” What do you mean ten Feng Xiaogangs equal one Wang Quan? Question: If I'm being kept by Liu Xiaoli in a bed in Queens, am I living off a woman or living off a woman? I love raising Liu Yifei so much. The System gives me something every time, but always makes me do something ine 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 Huh? How Did a Chuunibyou Become a Top-Tier Star? 啊？你一中二患者，成顶流了？ “Everyone, get into position. Guest hosts, please get ready!” “The first episode of Sons of Tomorrow is about to begin!” After transmigrating into a parallel world, Tang Yunfei becomes a contestant on Sons of Tomorrow. At the crucial moment, he binds himself to a Chuunibyou System. After unexpectedly going viral, Tang Yunfei belts out a hit anime theme song and becomes a top-tier star! “Wow, Tang Yunfei made Xue cry with just one song!” Even He Zhi, a virtual idol created by the powers that be, 50Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Chinese Showbiz: One Villainous Role Made Me a Global Star 华娱：一部丑角封神全球 [Chinese Showbiz] [Director] [Copycat Author] [One Female Lead: Jing Tian] [A 1v1 Romance with One Female Lead, a Slow-Burning and Wholesome Relationship, Career-Focused, Packed with Wish-Fulfillment, No Angst] In 2026, veteran film and television professional Zhang Xiu opens his eyes and finds he has been reborn in March 2008, with his admission letter to the directing program at the Beijing Film Academy freshly in hand. His mind holds the next eighteen years of global cinema, industry trends, 73Reads—Score11614d adds
- 4 Showbiz: A Beauty for the Ages, Fed by the Celestial Fairy Mom 娱乐圈：盛世美颜，天仙妈喂软饭 After transmigrating into a parallel entertainment industry, Chen Ze becomes a pretty-boy idol with nothing going for him but his looks. At the crucial moment, he gets the “God-Tier Label System,” unlocking his script for a comeback! With one line, “Auntie Xiaoli, I don't want to work hard anymore,” he easily secures Liu Xiaoli's resources and support. The lie-flat life of living off a wealthy woman is right before him. But he refuses! Instead of taking the shortcut, he heads straight to auditio 181Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 5 Showbiz: I Asked You to Make a Movie, Not Move in With the Queen of Pop 娱乐：让你拍片，你和天后同居了 Gu Zhibai is at the bottom of his directing department, until he unexpectedly activates the [God-Tier Entertainment Director System]. From the start, he faces a failing graduation project and ridicule from the entire department! At the same time, he discovers that his new socially anxious roommate is none other than Lin Wanyin, a top-tier star caught up in a contract termination scandal and vilified across the internet! Then the System issues its beginner mission: “Shoot a short film that goes v 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 I Never Meant to Become Famous 我真没想红啊 Reborn in 2015, a lazy screenwriter who had planned to coast through life is forced to plagiarize his way into building an entertainment empire. In the end, he realizes that fame and fortune are fleeting, while happiness is found in everyday life. 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with Winning the Best Actor Award at Cannes 华娱：从获得戛纳影帝开始 Lin Weidong transmigrates to the 1990s, beats Xia Yu to the opportunity and lands the male lead role, eventually becoming a Best Actor. Along the way, he experiences all sorts of amusing things in showbiz, with joy and romance alike! 2.3kReads6.3Score15714d adds
- 8 Hong Kong Island, 1979: The Entertainment Industry's Greatest Villain 港岛1979：娱乐圈最大的恶人 [The rating just came out and is climbing fast...] Luo Kun was reborn, returning to 1980s Hong Kong, where fortunes were waiting to be made and beauties were everywhere. In this life, he turned down TVB's eight-year contract of indentured servitude and vowed to become a tycoon on his own! Other people make movies for art. He makes them to get rich and land actresses. From copying novels to earn his first pot of gold, to founding a film company and taking on Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. From 56kReads6.6Score8.3k14d adds
- 9 Chinese Showbiz: My Hotel Bans the Celestial Beauty 华娱：我家酒店禁止天仙入内 [Chinese entertainment industry, multiple female leads, award-winning actor, director, mogul] Short-drama actor Lin Qing transmigrates back to 1998 and, from the start, inherits an eight-story hotel in Hengdian. His parents are both dead, and he’s an only child. Heaven has truly smiled upon him: a perfect start and a life of effortless luxury. Just as he’s wondering whose favor to seek tomorrow, a suicide note lying on the table hits him like a bolt from the blue! At his wit’s end, he sudden 22Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Director: I Only Make Bad Movies, Yet I Became a Top-Tier Star 导演：只拍烂片，我成了影圈顶流 Ye Zhengyang transmigrates to a parallel world and inherits a film company saddled with 10 million in debt. Making blockbusters is too much trouble. Why not make bad movies instead? You make The King of Kung Fu, so I ride the hype and make The King of Kung Tian. It rakes in box office gold and shocks the film industry. You: Scream Me: Scary Movie You: Pacific Rim Me: Atlantic Rim Starting in the Chinese entertainment industry, I ride the hype all the way to Hollywood. When Avatar’s promotion is 1Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 11 Showbiz: The Director Uses Demon Arts, and No One Can Handle Him 娱乐：导演会妖术，谁都扛不住 [Entertainment, directors, actresses, male lead, no System, no simping, no romance, just love] Multiple female leads, including women born in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the 1980s and 1990s... The focus is on exporting culture! Cultural outreach! 614Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 Chinese Showbiz: From the Start, I Won Venice's Golden Lion for Best Short Film 华娱：开局获得威尼斯短片金狮 Lu Xun once said that human joys and sorrows are not the same. Who could have imagined that a famous film director would be crushed to death by a husky leaping from the twelfth floor, only to be reborn! Is this society becoming warped, or morality collapsing? 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 13 Starting from Scratch: A Director's Journey 从负开始：导演生涯 If you had the chance to start over, could you become a good director? What if I gave you another chance to transmigrate, gave you a System, and paved the way for you in every respect? 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 14 Chinese Entertainment: Starting in 1994 in Beidian's Directing Department 华娱从北电导演系1994年开始 Set in a parallel world, with one heroine! If that's not your thing, don't read. The protagonist accidentally transmigrates into the body of Gu Dao, a third-year directing student at the Beijing Film Academy in 1994. His parents are both alive. See how he makes his way through the difficult 1990s, when mainland Chinese cinema was in a slump. Director Gu Dao makes his mark across the industry in those hard times and ultimately becomes the greatest director in history! The protagonist has memories 209Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 15 Chinese Showbiz: What’s Wrong with Female Actresses Wanting to Improve? 华娱：女演员想进步有什么错 [System] + [Director] + [Entertainment Empire] + [Multiple Heroines] Back in the golden age of Chinese entertainment, he makes a movie from the start that shocks Berlin! Fu Yibai discovers that in this life, not only does he have the System backing him, but he can also draw freely on all the classic works he remembers. Make movies, win awards, build a company, invest in blockbusters, sign talent, build a theater chain... From genius director to industry titan, his journey spans the entire sea of 22.9kReads6.3Score1.6k14d adds
- 16 Reborn: The King of Directors 重生导演之王 Qin Huang was reborn. This Blue Star was a lot like Earth, but also a little different. Since he was here, why not see if he could draw on the entertainment industry knowledge in his memories of Earth to become Blue Star's greatest director? 3.1kReads6.8Score17214d adds
- 17 Chinese Showbiz: It All Began When I Became the Heavenly Queen’s Secret Lover 华娱，从成为天后的地下情人开始 [Superstar + Multiple Heroines + Entertainment Industry + Hong Kong and Chinese Entertainment] Reborn in Xiangjiang in 1997, Xia Xiuzhu discovers that he has become a superstar's secret lover. The superstar has already given birth to a daughter and is struggling through her first marriage. In less than two years, a young heartthrob will set his sights on her and launch his pursuit. Seeing that he's likely to get dumped, Xia Xiuzhu decides to quietly release an album first. 582Reads6.4Score—14d adds
- 18 The Entertainment Director Who Loves Filming Female Superheroes 娱乐导演爱拍女超级英雄 (Entertainment industry story with no System, not a one-woman romance) After transmigrating into the Chinese entertainment industry, Xiao Feng makes a series of female-led superhero blockbusters. Jing Tiantian wears a dark blue, stretchy skintight suit in Captain China. Yang Mi stars in Superman. Liu Tianxian stars in Batman. Reba stars in Spider-Man... 1.2kReads5.9Score10514d adds
- 19 Super Director System 超神大导演系统 Feng Ming had always dreamed of becoming a world-famous director. One day, he woke up to find he’d obtained a System and refreshed the world. From then on, he embarked on the path to becoming a god-tier director. Is it hard for a movie to earn over ten billion at the box office? Not at all. With the System at his side, fame and fortune are his. A director with acting chops, he storms into the entertainment industry as a multitalented powerhouse. 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Chinese Showbiz: I Can't Handle All These Actresses Throwing Themselves at Me 华娱，一拥而上的女明星我吃不消 [Director Novel] [No Cannon Fodder] [Rising Star] [Romance] [Career] [Slow-Paced] “Director, these high heels hurt so much. Could you rub my feet for me...?” “Director, they say my acting is even worse than AI. Could you coach me a little...?” “Director...” “Director...” As one starlet after another flocked to him for advice, Yu Liang resolutely took up the camera and declared without hesitation: “To promote the film industry, I don’t mind working a little harder!” “Amid a dazzling galaxy of 72Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The All-Around Director 全能大导演 [Variety shows + film and television + directing + celebrities] Director Yu Ye transmigrates and becomes the country's top-tier star. Even a single selfie posted on Weibo can earn him a million likes. After starring in flop movies one after another, such as The Shanghai Fortress and Dreaming of the Entertainment Circle, he loses the public's goodwill and becomes box-office poison. His position as a top-tier star is on the verge of collapse. With the situation growing dire, Yu Ye decides to step 75Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 Reborn, I Conquered the Entertainment Industry Through Variety Shows 重生后我靠综艺杀穿娱乐圈 (I'm a new author writing my first book, and I've seen everyone's criticism and suggestions. I'm working hard on revisions now.) Lin Xiaoxing is an ordinary office worker who survives on takeout and TV dramas. One day, she wakes up to find herself a TV station intern in a parallel world. Here, the technology tree has developed just fine, but the entertainment industry is so barren it could make you cry. TV dramas are either tearjerkers or about beating up Japanese invaders, while variety shows a 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 Showbiz: My Era as a Director 娱乐之我的导演时代 [Entertainment industry, director, genius] Cheng Yang transmigrates into an era when the entertainment industry is at its peak. Here, every kind of art flourishes, there are no shackles, and geniuses can show off their talents to their hearts' content! He starts out as a director. He films the award-winning Nirvana in Fire, the heroine-led Empresses in the Palace, the fiercely patriotic war film Drawing Sword, the incorruptible In the Name of the People, the bold and stylish martial arts film SP 166Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 24 Reborn as a Director, My Fans Span the Globe 重生做导演，我的影迷遍布全球 [Director story] [Multiple heroines] [Main heroine: Gao Yuanyuan] [Success in China and abroad] [The early plot develops rather slowly] Han Lin is a struggling web-drama director in 2026. After an accident, he is reborn in 2002. Drawing on the experience of his past life and countless classic films stored in his mind, he finds success in this life, winning both awards and box office glory. He then exports his success abroad and breaks into Hollywood. Standing at the top, he looks back with a smi 4kReads5.7Score20114d adds
- 25 Time Recursion: 2005 时光递归2005 In 2025, Gu Ming suddenly died while debugging a program. His consciousness plunged into the “Temporal Recursion Algorithm” he had written, returning to the recursion’s anchor point. When he opened his eyes again, he was sitting the 2005 college entrance exam. The math paper before him... had once been the key to changing his fate in his previous life. In this life, watch as he breaks the recursion, transcends the “anchor point,” reshapes his destiny, and creates a brilliant life of his own. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Director of an Era in Chinese Entertainment 华娱之时代的导演 [Showbiz + Director + Multiple Heroines + Farming] Reborn into an era when the film and television industry is booming, he becomes a director, starts a company, and builds an empire. Making money is easy, but raising his social standing to match his wealth is another matter. Situ Weijie has enjoyed smooth sailing all the way. See how he makes the entertainment industry his playground. Since he's come to this era, he's determined to make a name for himself and ensure his journey wasn't in vain. 8Reads5.4Score—14d adds
- 27 Reborn: Every Top-Tier Star Calls Me Director 重生：顶流女星都喊我导演 [Directors with many talents + Mimi + Pang Bing + Yang Ying ...] [Lost money on a terrible movie? That just means you don’t understand cinema.] Lin Yuan is reborn in 2008 with the superpower to empathize with audiences’ emotions. When he recuts one box-office flop after another into thrilling blockbusters, their earnings soar past 100 million and shock the entertainment industry. Actresses bring him late-night meals to win his favor, while investors beg him to step in and save the market! 215Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 28 Showbiz: A Golden Scale Is No Pond-Dweller 文娱：金鳞岂是池中物 A top-tier, feel-good chronicle of the entertainment industry. The first installment is complete. This is the story of an underdog rising to prominence in the entertainment industry. He is the aloof king of Chinese entertainment, conquering Hollywood, suppressing Japanese entertainment, and launching a counter-invasion of Korean entertainment. He takes a bloody bite out of Hollywood's bullying capitalists and their so-called blessings! He's a real MAN. He dates the top actresses born in the '80s 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Showbiz: Looking for My Child's Mom, I Drive the Actresses Wild 娱乐：带娃找妈，女星们疯了 Zhen Lang, a legendary musician who retired from the spotlight five years ago, lives in seclusion in Yunxi Village with his four-year-old daughter, Mi'er. But when the crew of Back to Field accidentally stumbles upon them, his whereabouts are revealed. His daughter keeps asking in her sweet little voice, “Is that big sister my mommy?” This makes Zhen Lang decide to use the variety show to find her birth mother. The news sends half the entertainment industry into a frenzy. Yang Mi and Reba scramb 938Reads7.0Score10014d adds
- 30 The Poorest Director: I Can Only Make Movies Through Crowdfunding 最穷导演，全靠众筹让我拍电影 What does it take to make a movie? Investment, actors, or connections? Wu Tong has his own take on the question. I have no money, no people, but I want to make a movie. Is that wrong? Of course not! If nobody believes in me, then I might as well go big. Wu Tong was a failing student kicked out of film school, yet he somehow ended up with a high-rated Movie System. From the start, it’s nightmare difficulty, and the damned System keeps making things hard for him. It’s just making a movie, 16Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 31 Showbiz: Yang Mi Kissed Me, but I Just Want to Retire 娱乐：被杨蜜强吻，我只想退休 Good news: I transmigrated and got bound to a System. Bad news: I just want to be a lazy slacker, but my System is a workaholic! It promised to give me an island to retire on if I doubled the market value of Yang Mi's company. I actually fell for it. To help Yang Mi deal with her ex, I was forced to write a song. The song became a hit, and Yang Mi started trying to seduce me every day. My retirement plan: minus one. To boost the company's value faster, I was forced to offer a little stock market 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 32 Filming a Sharp Edge from the Start, Strengthening the Dragon Soul of China! 开局拍摄亮尖，壮我华夏龙魂！ Chen Zhen’s company, Zhiyin Entertainment, is on the verge of being acquired. With “Bright Point,” he turns its fortunes around, tramples Sakura and steps on Kimchi... One song, “The Wind Rises,” takes the whole country by storm! After that, every song is a classic, stunning the Chinese music scene for a hundred years. “Music, film, animation, literature... You know all of that?” “I know a tiny bit.” “Are you sure you only know a little?” “I really only know a tiny bit.” 17Reads6.0Score—14d adds
- 33 I Was Just Making a Movie, So Why Did It Turn Into a Military Exercise? 拍个电影而已，咋搞成军事演习？ After transmigrating to a parallel world, Cheng Zhou became an assistant director at the August First Film Studio. Watching the ridiculous anti-Japanese war dramas on screen, with scenes like “tearing Japanese soldiers apart with bare hands” and “hiding a land mine in your pants,” he was furious but powerless to do anything about it. Then the head of the directing department unexpectedly offered him a chance to make a “decent, by-the-book” anti-Japanese war drama. Just as he was fretting over no 6.1kReads5.5Score63814d adds
- 34 My Cousin Is Liu Tianxian 我的表妹是刘天仙 Liu Dongdong patted his little cousin on the head. “Work hard, Xixi. Next year, I'll find you a sister-in-law.” “Xixi, you'd better work hard and earn lots of money.” “Auntie, I'll take care of you.” “Ah, Auntie, don't hit my butt!” “Brat, don't kiss me on the mouth. You're covered in drool.” 8Reads—Score114d adds
- 35 Brilliant Starlight: Her Road to Becoming a Top-Tier Star 璀璨星光，她的顶流之路 [Transmigration + Entertainment Industry + System + Fanfic Writer + Best Actress + Wish Fulfillment] At forty, award-winning actress Tang Di retires to travel the world, only to find herself in another world, in the body of an internet-wide pariah with the same name. She signs a contract with System 037 and draws a film and television system, setting out to conquer the global screen industry. So what's the first step? Roll up her sleeves and get to work, of course. She terminates her contract wi 36Reads—Score—14d adds
- 36 Chinese Showbiz: Starting with Knockoff Movies 华娱：从山寨电影开始 (No System + Multiple female leads) Before A World Without Thieves hit theaters, a movie called A World With Thieves went viral online, making Feng Xiaogang so furious that he blasted Ke Ming to the media. Before Initial D hit theaters, a movie called Initial D: Full Throttle went viral online, making Jay Chou so furious that he wrote a song insulting Ke Ming. Before Rob-B-Hood hit theaters, a movie called Baby Plan went viral online, making Jackie Chan want to drag Ke Ming to a furniture store 304Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 37 Showbiz: A Director Who Knows How to Make You Cry? The Whole Internet Begs Him to Stop! 娱乐：带刀导演？全网求别刀了！ [Variety Shows + System + Classics + Tearjerkers + Livestreaming + Beauties] The National Directors’ Competition is being held in the capital, drawing widespread attention. Host: “Director Ye, people all over the internet say you only make awful commercial movies starring pretty young men to cash in, and that you can’t make anything good. What do you say to that?” Not long afterward, Ye Cheng’s first film premiered, and the whole country went wild. Host: “Director Ye, they say your success this 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 Who Sent Him to Hollywood? 谁让他去好莱坞的 Han Weiping graduated from the directing program at the Central Academy of Drama. He’d dreamed of becoming a director since childhood, but after graduation, he couldn’t find work in Hengdian and ended up as a Sanhe drifter, living in internet cafes and scraping by on day jobs. Desperate about his life, he one day transmigrated into the body of a Chinese American student at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television in mid-1990s Los Angeles. “No System? Just an incredible memory of the movies 18Reads5.1Score—14d adds
- 39 Supreme Succubus: I'm Going to Win Over the Biggest Rising Stars 顶级魅魔，我要攻略当红小花们 My new story is here! You can find it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support inspires me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 40 Showbiz: A Director's Life 娱乐：导演人生 [Chinese Showbiz] [Movies] [Multiple Heroines] [No System] What? You say I’m too young to be a director? Sorry, directing runs in my family! What? You say I can’t get investors? Sorry, my family has more money than we can spend! What? You say I live an extravagant, wasteful life? Sorry, my talent won’t let me keep a low profile! Given another life, if I can’t do what I love, pursue the women I’m attracted to, or enjoy myself, then what’s the point of living? Note: This is a new author’s first bo 235Reads6.7Score—14d adds
- 41 King of Entertainment: Starting with a Public Service Ad 文娱之王：从公益广告开始 After unexpectedly obtaining a screenplay shop, Qin Xiangma stepped into the entertainment industry with a sinister grin and began breaking all the rules. The next superstar in advertising? A dark horse in web dramas? That's thinking too small. I'm... an all-rounder. 216Reads—Score—14d adds
- 42 The Ultimate Director Takes the Internet by Storm 最强导演，全网爆红 [Strong Heroine + Showbiz + Reborn + Workplace and Business Competition] [Clear-Eyed Jiang Yunchu VS Noble Young Master Yan Qingshu] In her previous life, she was an actress. In this one, she’s a director, and Jiang Yunchu makes her mark in showbiz. She once portrayed other people’s lives on screen. Now she wants to bring more outstanding works to life behind the camera. The male lead takes a backseat early on, with the romance mainly appearing in the middle and later parts. This is the story of 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 43 Filming Mr. Vampire from the Start, and the Box Office Hits 100 Million 开局拍摄僵尸先生，票房直接破亿 After his soul crossed into a parallel world, Xu Mu became a third-year directing student at a university in Shanghai. As he sat there, bewildered and trying to absorb his predecessor’s memories, an electronic voice suddenly rang out in his mind. “Ding! Entertainment System binding complete. Would you like to open the beginner’s gift pack?” “What? An entertainment System? This is the golden finger I got for transmigrating!” Taking the attitude that he might as well make the best of things, Xu Mu 113Reads6.2Score914d adds
- 44 Reborn in Hong Kong: I Make Movies in a Parallel World 重生港岛：我在平行世界拍电影 (Reborn + urban slice of life + showbiz + Hong Kong entertainment + culture and entertainment) After an accident, Lin Feng was reborn in a parallel version of Hong Kong. Mr. Vampire A Better Tomorrow My Lucky Stars God of Gamblers Fight Back to School A Chinese Ghost Story Drawing on his memories, Lin Feng made one box-office hit after another. 1Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 45 Reborn in America: Giving Hollywood a Little Shock 重生美利坚：给好莱坞亿点小震撼 Also known as: Reborn in America: Giving Hollywood a Little Shock; Hollywood: This Director Is Seriously Fearsome! [Single male lead | classic urban setting + reborn urban wish fulfillment + no System + director + America] “Making movies? I'm just ‘bringing forward’ masterpieces from the future!” Ge Lei, a no-name director from Dongda, was reborn in America in 1994 and discovered that Hollywood was full of opportunities! David Fincher hadn't even written the script for Seven yet? Cameron's s 4.3kReads5.9Score28914d adds
- 46 Showbiz: Director, Stop Filming! I'm Not Getting Enough Nutrition! 娱乐：导演别拍了，营养跟不上！ Movie buff Su Yu, who has watched countless films, transmigrates and discovers he has become a nobody of a newly debuted director. From the start, he pulls out the most explosive movies from his previous life! Reba’s Fast & Furious has no acting? Who told you to watch for the acting? A beauty and a luxury car, now that’s what you call fast and furious! Shishi’s Titanic is too explicit, corrupting public morals? If it corrupts public morals, why did you drive its box office all the way to number 440Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 47 Showbiz: After Getting Dumped, I Shocked Everyone with AI Special Effects 文娱：被甩后，我用AI特效震惊 My girlfriend ran off with a rich heir, then teamed up with him to plagiarize my graduation project, ruining my reputation and leaving me a million yuan in debt! The whole internet called me a copycat, and my landlord kicked me out! At the end of my rope, I activated a Super AI System. It can search every masterpiece on Blue Star and generate Hollywood-quality special effects at zero cost! My ex and the rich heir used my stolen work to win an award, then mocked me, saying I'd never recover. I ju 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 48 Chinese Showbiz: The Temptation of a Succubus Director 华娱：来自魅魔导演的诱惑 A third-rate screenwriter in his previous life is reborn as a freshman in the directing program at Beijing Film Academy, with a family rich enough to own a mine. He knows this script inside out! Art-house films for Cannes? Commercial hits to rake in box office revenue? He wants it all. As for those sparkling eyes along the red carpet... No rush. We’ll take it one scene at a time. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 Chinese Showbiz: You Can't Imagine How Much Fun Being a Director Is 华娱：导演的快乐你想象不到 When Zhao Fan wakes up, he finds the world unchanged, and the people still the same. But some films that should have existed... have vanished. A senior in the directing program at Beijing Film Academy, he looks at the Chinese entertainment industry of 2003 and silently takes a drag from his cigarette. Since nobody has made Parasite, Inception has gone unnoticed, and the script for Let the Bullets Fly is still locked in a drawer... Then he won’t stand on ceremony. From Venice to Cannes, from the 342Reads—Score—14d adds
- 50 Chinese Showbiz: From the Start, I Fooled a Future Top Director 华娱：开局忽悠未来大导 Reborn in Chinese Entertainment: From the Start, I Fool the Next Big Director Reborn in 2001 in Hengdian, Zhao Fan looked at his strikingly handsome reflection and nearly burst out laughing. He had planned to play a corpse for a meal, but unexpectedly stole the future Best Actor's lines on the set of Hero. Zhang Yimou stared at the monitor and slapped his thigh. “Where’d you find this kid? Give him more scenes!” After the shoot wrapped that night, Zhao Fan crouched by a malatang stall and sw 8Reads—Score—14d adds
