Huo Jianqi is a Chinese film director Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei Huo Jianqi began his cinematic career in the art department Nearly all of Huos films have been written by his wife and collaborator Qiu Shi who works under the name Si Wu Unlike many of his contemporaries and predecessors Huo rarely has had issues with the Chinese government regarding his films leading some western critics to label him the darling director of Chinas film bureaucracy