Action resumes after golden summer

China's most famous film director, Zhang Yimou, has finished stunning the world - now he wants only to delight it.

The man behind the sensational opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics knows he will probably never make as many jaws hit the floor as he did last summer. But his latest project is special in a different way - managing to combine "funny with frightening".

"The Olympics was kind of a once-in-a-lifetime experience," he said. "I am now an ordinary film director again. I don't want to give myself too much pressure."