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Currently, Yu Cao is 114 years, 1 months and 28 days old. Yu Cao will celebrate 115rd birthday on a Wednesday 24th of September 2025. Below we countdown to Yu Cao upcoming birthday.
| Popular As | Yu Cao |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Age | 110 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Libra |
| Born | September 24, 1910 () |
| Birthday | September 24 |
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Yu Cao’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Yu Cao was born in the Year of the Dog. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dog are loyal, faithful, honest, distrustful, often guilty of telling white lies, temperamental, prone to mood swings, dogmatic, and sensitive. Dogs excel in business but have trouble finding mates. Compatible with Tiger or Horse.
Cao Yu (born August 15, 1974) is a Chinese cinematographer and the founder of Bad Rabbit Pictures.Cao Yu began his cinematic career after graduating from the Department of Film Photography at the Beijing Film Academy in 1997.
He won the Young Artist Fund of the 54th Cannes Film Festival for his graduation work, Waiting to Dodge. He was the Director of Photography of the film, Flying like a Feather, which won the Locarno International Film Festival Committee Special Award in 2001.
Cao has worked with Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan on multiple titles, including Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004), a drama inspired by a true story, City of Life and Death (2009) a war film that re-creates a tragic chapter in Chinese history, and the Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015), an adventure action film adapted from Tianxia Bachang's 2006 best-selling novel Ghost Blows Out the Light.
In 2004, Kekexili won the Golden Rooster and Golden Horse for Best Picture. In the same year, it also won the Special Jury Prize at the 17th Tokyo International Film Festival. City of Life and Death has been invited to be screened at numerous film festivals, winning Best Film Awards at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards and the 2009 San Sebastian International Film Festival.
Also, it earned him multiple Best Cinematography Awards at festivals aforementioned as well as the 2010 Asian Film and Golden Horse awards. In 2016, See You Tomorrow, a 2016 Chinese-Hong Kong romantic comedy film produced by Wong Kar-wai garnered him the Best Cinematography Award at the 36th Hong Kong Film Awards.
In recent years, Cao has collaborated with film director Chen Kaige on the 2017 fantasy mystery film Legend of the Demon Cat.
