---
name: "Huang Jianxin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/huang-jianxin"
fi1m_id: "huang-jianxin"
imdb_id: "nm0399003"
tmdb_id: 134026
wikidata_id: "Q704612"
roles: ["Director","Producer","Writer"]
born: "14 June 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 38
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T16:10:41.899279+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."
---

# Huang Jianxin

## Identity

Huang Jianxin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/huang-jianxin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** huang-jianxin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0399003
- **TMDB ID:** 134026
- **Wikidata ID:** Q704612
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Jianxin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704612, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134026

Director and producer. Born 14 June 1954 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Producer, Writer
- **Born:** 14 June 1954, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
- **Active:** 2008–present
- **Also known as:** 黄建新, Jianxin Huang, Huang Jian-Xin, 黄欣
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Chen Kaige](https://film.one/person/chen-kaige.md), [Dante Lam Chiu-yin](https://film.one/person/dante-lam-chiu-yin.md), [Jackson Yee](https://film.one/person/jackson-yee.md), [Lan Xiaolong](https://film.one/person/lan-xiaolong.md), [Tsui Hark](https://film.one/person/tsui-hark.md), [Wu Jing](https://film.one/person/wu-jing.md), [Zhu Yawen](https://film.one/person/zhu-yawen.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 38, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 40 (1), 2020s 38 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Jianxin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q704612, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0399003/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/134026

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Battle at Lake Changjin*](https://film.one/film/the-battle-at-lake-changjin.md) (36)

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

## Biography

Huang Jianxin (also credited as 黄建新, Jianxin Huang and Huang Jian-Xin) is a Chinese film director, producer and screenwriter. He was born on 14 June 1954 in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province.

He joined the army at the age of 16 and studied at Northwest University from 1975. After working at Xi'an Film Studio as an editor, script supervisor and assistant director, he trained at the Beijing Film Academy in 1983 and began directing. He is often associated with the fifth generation of Chinese filmmakers.

Huang is known for early satirical films set in contemporary urban China and later for directing or co-directing large-scale historical and patriotic productions, including *The Founding of a Republic* (2009), *Beginning of the Great Revival* (2011), *The Battle at Lake Changjin* (2021, co-director and screenplay) and *The Battle at Lake Changjin II: Water Gate Bridge* (2022, co-director and writer). He produced the anthology film *My People, My Country* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *The Battle at Lake Changjin II: Water Gate Bridge* (2022), Fi1m 39, Co-Director, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-at-lake-changjin-ii-water-gate-bridge.md)
- *The Battle at Lake Changjin* (2021), Fi1m 36, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Co-Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-at-lake-changjin.md)

### Produced (1)

- *The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor* (2008), Fi1m 40, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor.md)

## Complete filmography (46)

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

- *The Decisive Moment* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Mothertongue* (2025), as Director Huang Jian · Executive Producer
- *Gloaming in Luomu* (2025), as Lao Huang · Executive Producer
- *Against All Odds* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Football on the Roof* (2024), Producer
- *The Volunteers: To the War* (2023), Producer, Screenplay
- *Ocean Rescue* (2023), Producer
- *The Battle at Lake Changjin II: Water Gate Bridge* (2022), Writer, Executive Producer, Co-Director — Fi1m 39, [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-at-lake-changjin-ii-water-gate-bridge.md)
- *The Battle at Lake Changjin* (2021), Co-Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer — Fi1m 36, [page](https://film.one/film/the-battle-at-lake-changjin.md)
- *My Country, My Parents* (2021), Executive Producer
- *1921* (2021), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Eleventh Chapter* (2021), as Leader
- *My People, My Country* (2019), Producer
- *Mao Zedong 1949* (2019), Director, Executive Producer
- *Special Couple* (2019), Executive Producer
- *The 40th Anniversary of Chinese Film Since China's Reform and Opening-Up* (2018), series, Actor
- *My Other Home* (2017), Producer
- *The Founding of an Army* (2017), Writer
- *Operation Mekong* (2016), Producer
- *I Am Not Madame Bovary* (2016), as Governor Chu
- *Beautiful 2015* (2015), Director
- *Insomniac Diary* (2015), Director
- *The Taking of Tiger Mountain* (2014), Executive Producer, Producer, Writer
- *Dearest* (2014), as Fan Yuanchang
- *Iceman* (2014), Producer
- *Beginning of the Great Revival* (2011), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Bodyguards and Assassins* (2009), Producer
- *The Founding of a Republic* (2009), Director
- *The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor* (2008), Executive Producer — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mummy-tomb-of-the-dragon-emperor.md)
- *The Warlords* (2007), Producer, Screenplay
- *Gimme Kudos* (2005), Director, Writer
- *Love Undercover 2: Love Mission* (2003), Producer
- *Swordsmen of the Passes-Uncle Donger* (2003), Director
- *The Marriage Certificate* (2001), Director
- *Xian's Finest* (2000), Director
- *Something About Secret* (1999), Director
- *Surveillance* (1997), Director
- *Signal Left, Turn Right* (1996), Director
- *Back to Back, Face to Face* (1994), Director, Writer
- *背靠背，脸对脸* (1994), series, Director, Writer
- *The Wooden Man's Bride* (1994), Director
- *Stand Straight, Don't Bend Over* (1993), Director, Writer
- *New Chinese Cinema* (1989), Actor
- *Samsara* (1988), Director
- *Dislocation* (1986), Director, Screenplay
- *The Black Cannon Incident* (1985), Director

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