In a difficult economical climate, Zhang Yimou has decided to sacrifice a bigger, more costly production about 1937’s massacre of Nanjing and instead turn towards making people laugh. Known for recently making high end action films (he made a name for himself a second time with the very popular Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Yimou will, according to Screen Daily shoot a black comedy with comedians Zhao Benshan and Xiao Shenyang.
On the back-burner, Thirteen Girls in Jinling City is based on the novel by author Yan Geling
and looks at how thirteen prostitutes who sacrificed their lives to save a group of convent girls in Nanjing during the massacre of Nanjing in 1937.
