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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Wuershan was born in <a href="/facts/Hohhot/KnBWI26U">Hohhot</a>, <a href="/facts/Inner_Mongolia/6nlXuwM9">Inner Mongolia</a>, <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>, in 1972.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> </p><p>At 16 he enrolled to a high school affiliated to China's <a href="/facts/Central_Academy_of_Fine_Arts/pYtuFISI">Central Academy of Fine Arts</a>, and in 1992 he was admitted to the <a href="/facts/Oil_painting/rxn2lg9o">oil painting</a> department of the latter. However, he dropped out the following year, and in 1994 started studying directing at the <a href="/facts/Beijing_Film_Academy/xaee6Ws6">Beijing Film Academy</a>, graduating from the latter in 1998.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> He started his career by making TV commercials,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> becoming successful in the business.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> He continued to work as a TV commercials director, video artist and avant-garde artist until his debut in movie industry with the 2004 film <i><a href="/facts/Soap_Opera_(2004_film)/s1xlHLAY">Soap Opera</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>Wuershan's film debut came with <i><a href="/facts/Soap_Opera_(2004_film)/s1xlHLAY">Soap Opera</a></i> (2004). For this movie, he won the <a href="/facts/Busan_International_Film_Festival/eWA3cgII">FIPRESCI Award</a> at the <a href="/facts/Pusan_International_Film_Festival/eWA3cgII">Pusan International Film Festival</a> in 2004.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> </p> <h3><i>The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman</i></h3> <p>On September 16, 2010, Wuershan's second feature film debuted at the <a href="/facts/Toronto_International_Film_Festival/dekDyx3M">Toronto International Film Festival</a>. <i><a href="/facts/The_Butcher,_the_Chef_and_the_Swordsman/4PENFhGF">The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman</a></i> premiered on September 16, 2010, at the Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness section marking the first time a film from China has been shown at this sidebar.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> It received mixed reviews from critics.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> The film was also screened at the <a href="/facts/Pusan_Film_Festival/eWA3cgII">Pusan Film Festival</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> It was presented by <a href="/facts/Doug_Liman/c6k1jRFU">Doug Liman</a> at the festival.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> It was released theatrically on 17 March 2011 in Southeast Asia, North America, Australia and New Zealand simultaneously.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> Described as an avant-garde martial arts comedy,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> the film is split into three stories titled "Desire", "Vengeance" and "Greed," and it follows the "journey of a mystical blade as it passes through the hands of three ambitious men."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> </p> <h3><i>Painted Skin: The Resurrection</i></h3> <p>Wuershan's third feature film, <i><a href="/facts/Painted_Skin:_The_Resurrection/w6juAvSU">Painted Skin: The Resurrection</a></i>, was released on June 28, 2012. The film, which has an 83% approval rating on aggregate site <a href="/facts/Rotten_Tomatoes/rLs7ktSY">Rotten Tomatoes</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> and is described as a "deliciously nutty love story,"<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> tells about Xiaowei, a malevolent fox spirit, who consumes men's hearts to preserve her beauty and is looking for a heart that must be freely given to her in order to become human, while lovesick Princess Jing, who wears a mask to conceal her scarred face, looks for true love. She winds up deciding to exchange her pure heart for the fox daemon's beauty.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> With a total box office gross of $115.07 million,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> the film became the highest grossing domestic film in China beating the previous record holder <i><a href="/facts/Let_the_Bullets_Fly/5bdDuh27">Let the Bullets Fly</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> </p> <h3><i>Mojin: The Lost Legend</i></h3> <p>His fourth feature film was <i><a href="/facts/Mojin:_The_Lost_Legend/aoMQDpJb">Mojin: The Lost Legend</a></i>, an <a href="/facts/Action_film/5TjVB0kf">action</a> <a href="/facts/Adventure_film/4w5RCrVI">adventure</a> <a href="/facts/Fantasy_film/fPX7SpAC">fantasy</a> <a href="/facts/Thriller_film/RLj4941a">thriller film</a> based on the novel <i><a href="/facts/Ghost_Blows_Out_the_Light/TTTJLx0g">Ghost Blows Out the Light</a></i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> It was released on December 18, 2015.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> The film won several awards, including Best Visual Effects at the <a href="/facts/Beijing_College_Student_Film_Festival/1y5rSNIv">Beijing College Student Film Festival</a> and the <a href="/facts/Golden_Horse_Awards/9NhodRDT">Golden Horse Awards</a>, and Wuershan was named <a href="/facts/Hundred_Flowers_Award_for_Best_Director/rPnoFxW6">Best Director</a> at the <a href="/facts/33rd_Hundred_Flowers_Awards/HwDrM1LX">33rd Hundred Flowers Awards</a>. The movie however received mixed reviews from western critics.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> The film was a huge box-office success, grossing over US$278 million<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> from a budget of 37.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> </p> <h3><i>Creation of the Gods</i></h3> <p>In 2019, he began on the production on the <i>Creation of the Gods</i> trilogy. Sometimes dubbed as "China's <i><a href="/facts/Lord_of_the_Rings_Trilogy_(film)/LR5Q0xn9">Lord of the Rings</a></i>",<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> it is the "most ambitious and expensive production in Chinese history."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a> The production has a crew of over two thousands employees.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> The movie is a retelling of <i><a href="/facts/Investiture_of_the_Gods/cImrR0sI">Investiture of the Gods</a></i>, a 16th-century Chinese novel and one of the major <a href="/facts/Written_vernacular_Chinese/p2nB8AqV">vernacular Chinese</a> works in the <a href="/facts/Gods_and_demons/yAUyI7g6">gods-and-demons</a> (<i>shenmo</i>) genre written during the <a href="/facts/Ming_dynasty/p3bSVwUH">Ming dynasty</a> (1368–1644).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> </p><p>The novel combines elements of history, folklore, mythology, legends and fantasy,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> with a story set in the era of the decline of the <a href="/facts/Shang_dynasty/6JYKH4wP">Shang dynasty</a> (1600–1046 BC) and the rise of the <a href="/facts/Zhou_dynasty/70beuGpa">Zhou dynasty</a> (1046–256 BC). It tells about the downfall of <a href="/facts/King_Zhou_of_Shang/WgXHRpSy">King Zhou, the Shang Dynasty's last ruler</a>. He becomes a tyrant after having been "bewitched by a <a href="/facts/Daji/LjaYhwEX">fox spirit posing as his concubine</a>." An epic battle "rages to defeat him, involving gods, demons and other supernatural beings."<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Barrie_M._Osborne/XwyBHCmA">Barrie M. Osborne</a>, producer of <i><a href="/facts/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_Return_of_the_King/tyW7C0ho">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King</a></i>, was involved in the production.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a> </p><p>The first film of the trilogy, <i><a href="/facts/Creation_of_the_Gods_I:_Kingdom_of_Storms/q7kCbXow">Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms</a></i>, was released in 2023, and a sequel, <i><a href="/facts/Creation_of_the_Gods_II:_Demon_Force/TjH3qFgq">Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force</a></i>, was released in 2025. </p> <h2 id="filmography">Filmography</h2> <h3>Director</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Soap_Opera_(2004_film)/s1xlHLAY">Soap Opera</a></i> (肥皂剧), 2004</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Butcher,_the_Chef_and_the_Swordsman/4PENFhGF">The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman</a></i> (刀见笑), 2010</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Painted_Skin:_The_Resurrection/w6juAvSU">Painted Skin: The Resurrection</a></i> (画皮II), 2012</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Mojin:_The_Lost_Legend/aoMQDpJb">Mojin: The Lost Legend</a></i> (寻龙诀), 2015<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Creation_of_the_Gods_I:_Kingdom_of_Storms/q7kCbXow">Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms</a></i> (封神第一部：朝歌风云), 2023</li> <li><i>The Traveller</i>, 2024</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Creation_of_the_Gods_II:_Demon_Force/TjH3qFgq">Creation of the Gods II: Demon Force</a></i> (封神第二部：战火西岐), 2025</li> <li><i>Creation of the Gods III: Creation Under Heaven</i>, TBA</li></ul> <h3>Producer</h3> <ul><li><i>Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms</i>, 2023</li> <li><i>The Traveller</i>, 2024</li></ul> <h2 id="awards-and-nominations">Awards and nominations</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th>Year</th><th>Award</th><th>Category</th><th>Project</th><th>Result</th><th>Ref.</th></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/33rd_Hundred_Flowers_Awards/HwDrM1LX">2016</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hundred_Flowers_Awards/HBmCsMx5">Hundred Flowers Awards</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Hundred_Flowers_Award_for_Best_Director/rPnoFxW6">Best Director</a></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Mojin:_The_Lost_Legend/aoMQDpJb">Mojin: The Lost Legend</a></i></td><td>Won</td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Golden_Horse_Award_for_Best_New_Director/Y6Mebthp">2011</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Golden_Horse_Awards/9NhodRDT">Golden Horse Awards</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Golden_Horse_Award_for_Best_New_Director/Y6Mebthp">Best New Director</a></td><td><i><a href="/facts/The_Butcher,_the_Chef_and_the_Swordsman/4PENFhGF">The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman</a></i></td><td>Won</td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>2004</td><td><a href="/facts/Pusan_International_Film_Festival/eWA3cgII">Pusan International Film Festival</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Busan_International_Film_Festival/eWA3cgII">FIPRESCI Award</a></td><td><i><a href="/facts/Soap_Opera_(2004_film)/s1xlHLAY">Soap Opera</a></i></td><td>Won</td><td><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nmWuershan/">Wuershan</a> at <a href="/facts/IMDb_(identifier)/uWrqVYVy">IMDb</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Tong, Wang. 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