Ke Guo

Guo Ke was born in Chengdu, China in 1980. Shortly after graduating from Hong Kong Jucai Artist Training Course in 1998, he moved to Beijing and worked in various film-making departments. From acting, dubbing, coordinating to directing, Guo Ke has participated in more than 40 movies and TV series. Guo Ke made his directorial debut with the documentary short Thirty Two – the story of an astonishing 92-year-old Chinese ‘comfort woman’ survivor and her half-Japanese son. The short film won the Best Cinematography Award at the 2013 Chinese Academy Awards of Documentary Film, and was officially selected for screening at the 2014 American Documentary Film Festival, London International Documentary Film Festival and Manya Human Rights International Film Festival in Uganda, among others. Followed by his documentary short Thirty Two, Guo Ke made his feature documentary Twenty Two on the last 22 “comfort women” survivors in China, and the film was nominated for the Best Documentary at both the 2015 Busan International Film Festival and the 2016 Moscow International Film Festival. Twenty Two was premiered in August 2017, and became the highest grossing documentary in China.