Larry Yang | |||||||
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| Other name | Yang Zi | ||||||
| Education | Beijing Film Academy University of Edinburgh | ||||||
| Occupation | Film director | ||||||
| Years active | 2012–present | ||||||
| Notable work | Mountain Cry (2015) | ||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 楊子 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨子 | ||||||
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Larry Yang is a Chinese film director. Yang is from Harbin. He studied at the Beijing Film Academy and the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. His first feature film, Nana (2012), received a nomination at the Five One Project Awards.
Yang decided to adapt Ge Shuiping's 2005 novella Mountain Cry, which won a Lu Xun Literary Prize, after first reading it in 2008, two years after graduating from the Beijing Film Academy. The story of a mute girl in a remote village, treated as an outsider until befriended by a young boy, resonated with his own feelings of isolation after returning to China in 2004 and struggling to establish his voice as a filmmaker. A social drama, Mountain Cry was the closing film at the 20th Busan International Film Festival in 2015.
| Year | Film | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Nana | |
| 2014 | Sorry, I Love You | |
| 2015 | Mountain Cry | 1st of 4 collaborations with Lang Yueting |
| 2017 | My Other Home | |
| 2019 | Adoring | |
| 2023 | Ride On | 1st of 2 collaborations with Jackie Chan |
| 2025 | The Shadow's Edge |