Zhang Yimou

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Logline: Story centers on Quasimodo, a deformed and hunchbacked bell-ringer of the Norte Dame cathedral who tragically falls in love with beautiful gypsy named Esmerelda.

Logline: Chinese sex workers in 1937 volunteer to replace university students as escorts for invading Japanese soldiers.

Logline: The Great Wall was originally built to keep something terrible out….monsters.

Logline: A U.S. intelligence agent witnesses what appears to be the murder of his lover, a KGB double agent. When he later sees her alive, it begins a quest that leads him to unravel a conspiracy.