Born in 1967, Zhang Yang received his BA in Chinese Literature from Zhongshan University (South China's Guangdong Province) in 1988 and continued his study in the Directing Department of the Central Drama Academy (CDA) in Beijing. After graduating from CDA in 1992, he entered the Beijing Film Studio and is now working for the studio as a director.

His first film, Spicy Love Soup, had box-office receipts placing it among the most successful nonpolitical films in the last two years. It swept all the domestic Chinese awards and was elected for competition at the 1998 Tokyo International Film Festival (Japan) and was invited to the San Diego International Film Festival (United States of America), Kerala Film Festival (India), Pan Asia Film Festival (London), and Far East Film Festival (Italy). It's soundtrack even sold 500,000 units in Mainland China. The film was China's first sleeper hit and was the first independent Chinese film to achieve domestic box office success.

 Zhang Yang's Filmography

1997: Spicy Love Soup (Aiqing Malatang)

1999: Shower (Xizao)

2001: Quitting (Zuotian)

 Shower

When the film unfolds, Da Ming, who works in the capitalism-oriented South as a businessman, returns to his family home in Beijing after being told that his elderly father has passed away. Da Ming's father owns a traditional bathhouse which he runs with the help of his other son, mentally challenged Er Ming .

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