can once again win the annual box office championship in the Chinese mainland market when he is over 70 years old. Perhaps only Zhang Yimou can do this in China.
Now 2023 has passed, the total box office for the year is nearly 55 billion yuan, ranking fourth in Chinese film history. Among the annual total box office of nearly 55 billion yuan, the film with the highest single box office is "The River is Red" directed by Zhang Yimou. The cumulative total box office of the film in the Mainland reached 4.544 billion yuan, which was more than 500 million yuan more than the runner-up "The Wandering Earth 2".
Zhang Yimou has always been a major director in the Chinese mainland market, but there is still controversy over the title of the No. 1 director.
In the early years, the annual box office champions in the Chinese mainland market were basically two great directors, Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang. However, in recent years, with the continuous changes in the audience's concept of watching movies and the rise of some new directors, the older generation directors have almost no place to stand.
Like Wu Jing, Chen Sicheng and even Jia Ling, who is serving as a film director for the first time, the box office of the films directed by each of them is more than 4 billion to 5 billion yuan. For Zhang Yimou, Feng Xiaogang and other great directors of the older generation, it is already considered a very good achievement for the box office of their respective films to exceed 1 billion yuan.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Yimou's movies can still break through and become China's annual box office champion, which is enough to illustrate his strength.
Among the films directed by Zhang Yimou, the last film to win the annual box office championship among domestic films was "The City of Gold" 17 years ago.
In 2006, "The City of Gold" directed by Zhang Yimou successfully won the annual box office championship with a box office of nearly 300 million yuan, and broke the mainland box office record for a domestic film.
In addition to the domestic box office, the film's global box office total is nearly 90 million U.S. dollars, which is almost 600 million yuan converted into RMB, making it the 2006 Chinese-language film box office champion.
After so many years, Feng Xiaogang, who is also a great director, directly knocked him off the "Altar" with "If You Are the One 3". There is also Chen Kaige, who directed the high-rated and high-box-office movie "Farewell My Concubine", but he also failed to succeed in his solo film "Volunteer Army".
Zhang Yimou, who is over 70 years old, can still make his films reach the top of the charts. He may be regarded as the number one director in mainland China, not to mention that the film "Man Jiang Hong" is not a genre that he is very good at. .
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