---
name: "Chen Yu"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chen-yu-1416647"
fi1m_id: "chen-yu-1416647"
imdb_id: "nm10378916"
tmdb_id: 1416647
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 October 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T16:40:03.429217+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Chen Yu

## Identity

Chen Yu

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chen-yu-1416647
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chen-yu-1416647
- **IMDb ID:** nm10378916
- **TMDB ID:** 1416647
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10378916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1416647

Writer. Born 10 October 1971 in Zhejiang Province, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 October 1971, Zhejiang Province, China
- **Also known as:** 陈宇, Yu Chen
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10378916/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1416647

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Full River Red*](https://film.one/film/full-river-red.md) (68)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Chen Yu (also credited as Yu Chen or 陈宇) is a Chinese screenwriter, director and academic. He is a professor at the School of Arts at Peking University.

He is best known for his screenwriting collaborations with director Zhang Yimou on the films *Snipers* (2022), *Full River Red* (2023) and *Under the Light* (2023). Chen has also directed films including *Egg Fried Rice* and written for television series such as *National Heroes*.

*Sources: chinadaily.com.cn, imdb.com, oak3.the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Full River Red* (2023), Fi1m 68, Screenplay, Original Film Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/full-river-red.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Light of Dawn* (2025), series, Writer, Novel, Creator
- *Under the Light* (2023), Writer
- *Full River Red* (2023), Screenplay, Original Film Writer — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/full-river-red.md)
- *Snipers* (2022), Writer
- *The Story of David* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Tearless Snow*, series, Screenplay

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