Zhang Yimou to receive top honor

ROME - Celebrated Chinese director Zhang Yimou will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker award at this year's Venice Film Festival, organizers announced recently.

The prize is dedicated to "a figure who has left a particularly original mark on contemporary cinema", the statement said.

The award will be conferred on Zhang on Sept 6, before the world premiere of his new film Ying (Shadow), a martial arts movie about the conflict between two feudal groups in China during the period of the Three Kingdoms (220-280).