Writer Liu Zhenyun and his daughter Liu Yulin. [Photo/Mtime]

Writer and director

Father: Liu Zhenyun

Daughter: Liu Yulin

The father and daughter may have chosen different careers, yet they are all both story-tellers; one through words,  the other films.  Director Liu Yulin took her father's work to the big screen. In 2016, the daughter released a film adaptation Someone to Talk To, which was based on her father's novel A Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words. As one of China's most financially successful writers, the father has seen a series of his works adapted to movies and TV series, ranging from the dark humor drama Cell Phone (2003) to Back to 1942 (2012).