---
name: "Ni Zhen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ni-zhen"
fi1m_id: "ni-zhen"
imdb_id: "nm0955600"
tmdb_id: 64217
wikidata_id: "Q9017045"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "18 July 1938"
died: "22 December 2022"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:49:55.789004+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."
---

# Ni Zhen

## Identity

Ni Zhen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ni-zhen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ni-zhen
- **IMDb ID:** nm0955600
- **TMDB ID:** 64217
- **Wikidata ID:** Q9017045
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9017045, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955600/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64217

Writer. Born 18 July 1938 in Shanghai, China. Died 22 December 2022.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 18 July 1938, Shanghai, China
- **Died:** 22 December 2022
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9017045, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955600/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/64217

## 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.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Raise the Red Lantern* (1991), Fi1m 91, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/raise-the-red-lantern.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

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

- *家变* (2004), series, Writer
- *The Opium War* (1997), Writer
- *The Trail* (1993), Writer
- *Raise the Red Lantern* (1991), Writer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/raise-the-red-lantern.md)

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