Chinese director Chen Kaige delivered a speech at the College of
Image Arts and Sciences at the Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto,
Japan, on Tuesday.
Seven hundred people attended the first lecture Chen Kaige
delivered to the newly established college as a visiting
professor.
According to the contact he signed last December, Chen Kaige
will teach a film directing course from November, as well as a
special course on film analysis.
Chen graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982. His most
influential works include Yellow Earth (1984),
Farewell My Concubine (1993), The Emperor and the
Assassin (1999), Together (2002) and The
Promise (2005).
He was invited to lecture on Chinese and Asian films at New York
University between 1987 and 1989.
The Chinese director is currently preparing to work on a new
film about the late Peking Opera legend Mei Lanfang.
(CRI.cn April 27, 2007)
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