Ning Ying

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1959-10-23 (66 years old)

Place of Birth

Beijing - China

Ning Ying

Biography

Born in Beijing in 1959, Ning Ying was admitted to the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 together with many of the filmmakers of China’s Fifth Generation. She left China for Italy in 1980 and completed her film training at the Rome Film Experimental Academy in 1986. After returning to China in 1987, she worked as Bernardo Bertolucci’s assistant director for The Last Emperor. She made her directorial debut with Someone Loves Just Me, and then directed her “Beijing Trilogy”: For Fun, On the Beat, and I Love Beijing. Together, the films are an analysis of the massive changes that China’s national capital had undergone over the previous decades. Ning ...

Production

2001

I Love Beijing

as Director

1995

On the Beat

as Director

1987

The Last Emperor

as Assistant Director

1993

For Fun

as Director

2010

The Double Life

as Director

1988

The Case of the Silver Snake

as Assistant Director

2001

2001

2002

Railroad of Hope

as Director

2005

Perpetual Motion

as Director

1993

For Fun

as Writer

1995

On the Beat

as Screenplay

1995

On the Beat

as Editor

1996

1990

2010

Unwordly

as Director

2012

Kung Fu Man

as Director

1996

Duling - Turin

as Director

2020

Father

as Producer

© All Rights Reserved 2025