Biography
Ni Zhen was a Chinese screenwriter and film professor. He wrote the screenplay for Raise the Red Lantern (1991), directed by Zhang Yimou and adapted from Su Tong's novella Wives and Concubines.
Born in Shanghai in July 1938, Ni Zhen taught at the Beijing Film Academy, where he was a professor of art direction and film theory until 2000. He also wrote screenplays for films including Blush (1995), The Trail (1993) and The Opium War (1997). He authored the book Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation.
Ni Zhen died in December 2022.
