Born in a family of dramatists, he graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1989.
Hu was born in July 1963 in Heilongjiang in Northeastern China into a family originally from Shanghai.
The film's realistic presentation of contemporary Chinese urban life and its subtle revelation of the inner world of the characters.
[2] Hu's next film Drawing (1994), in which he himself played the male lead, portrays a young tennis instructor seduced by the beautiful wife of a rich businessman.
Four young people come of age and fall in love against the backdrop of political and historical events.