1. Wong Kar-wai (1958)

Chinese Film Director

Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker of critically and commercially successful films Ashes of Time, Chungking Express, and In the Mood for Love.

2. Wang Xiaoshuai (1966)

Chinese Film Director

Member of the Sixth Generation of Chinese cinema who directed the films Beijing Bicycle, Drifters, and Shanghai Dreams.

3. Jiang Wen (1963)

Chinese Film Director

Starred opposite Gong Li in the 1986 film Red Sorghum and played Baze Malbus in the 2016 film Rogue One. He also directed the film Devils on the Doorstep, which...

4. Zhu Yudong (1974)

Chinese Film Director

Zhu Yudong was born in 1974 in Wuxi Jiangsu Province China. He studied painting during his early years and graduated from Nanjing University of Arts. Later he studied directorship of...

5. Huo Jianqi (1958)

Chinese Film Director

Huo Jianqi is a Chinese film director. Like the cinematographer turned director Gu Changwei Huo Jianqi began his cinematic career in the art department.

6. Wang Shuo (1958)

Chinese Film Director

g Shuo is a Chinese author director actor and cultural icon. He has written over 20 novels television series and movies. His work has been translated into Japanese French English...

7. Feng Xiaogang (1958)

Chinese Film Director

g Xiaogang in is a Chinese film director. He is well known in China as being a highly successful commercial filmmaker whose comedic films do consistently well in the...

8. Cai Chusheng (1906)

Chinese Film Director

Cai Chusheng was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era and was the first Chinese director to win an international film award at the Moscow International Film Festival. Best...

9. Wu Yigong (1938)

Chinese Film Director

u Yigong is a Chinese film director and producer.

10. Peng Xiaolian (Unknow)

Chinese Film Director

Peng Xiaolian is a Chinese film director scriptwriter and author. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy Xia is a member of the so-called Fifth...

11. Wu Ziniu (1953)

Chinese Film Director

u Ziniu is a Chinese film director and a member of the Fifth Generation film movement a movement of filmmakers who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in the early...

12. Zhang Yimou (1950)

Chinese Film Director

Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director producer writer and actor and former cinematographer.

13. Zhang Jizhong (1951)

Chinese Film Director

Zhang Jizhong is a Chinese film producer director teacher and writer. He is known as one of the more prominent television producers in China. His best known productions include the...

14. Lu Xuechang (1964)

Chinese Film Director

Lu Xuechang was a sixth generation Chinese film director. One of a new crop of talented filmmakers Lu directed four feature films beginning with his debut The Making of Steel...

15. Zhang Guoli (1955)

Chinese Film Director

Zhang Guoli is an award-winning Chinese film actor and director. Zhang was a xiangsheng actor before he started working on films and television series. He is married to actress Deng...

16. He Qun (Unknow)

Chinese Film Director

He Qun is a Chinese filmmaker. A graduate of the 1982 class of the Beijing Film Academy he is an inaugural member of China's Fifth Generation movement.

17. Lou Ye (1965)

Chinese Film Director

Lou Ye born 1965 is a Chinese screenwriter-director who is commonly grouped with the Sixth Generation directors of Chinese cinema.

18. Wang Quan'an (1965)

Chinese Film Director

g Quan'an is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991. He had a ten-year relationship with...

19. Guan Hu (1968)

Chinese Film Director

Guan Hu is a sixth generation Chinese film director.

20. Lü Yue (1957)

Chinese Film Director

Lü Yue is a Chinese cinematographer and film director. Born in Tianjin Lü is today among the most important cinematographers of recent Chinese cinema and is particularly well known...

21. Shi Dongshan (1902)

Chinese Film Director

Shi Dongshan born Shi Kuangshao was one of the most prominent film directors and screenwriters in pre-Communist China together with Chen Liting Cai Chusheng and Zheng Junli. His most notable...

22. Gu Changwei (1957)

Chinese Film Director

Gu Changwei is a Chinese cinematographer and film director. Gu was born in Xi'an Shaanxi in the People's Republic of China. Gu is considered one of the major Chinese cinematographers...

23. Diao Yinan (1969)

Chinese Film Director

Diao Yinan is a Chinese director screenwriter and occasional actor. His film Black Coal Thin Ice won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.

24. Yuan Muzhi (1909)

Chinese Film Director

Yuan Muzhi was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.

25. Ying Liang (1977)

Chinese Film Director

Ying Liang is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.

26. Ning Hao (1977)

Chinese Film Director

Ning Hao is a Chinese film director. Ning studied at the Taiyuan Film School where he majored in scenic design. He later transferred to the Art Department of Peking...

27. Lu Chuan (1970)

Chinese Film Director

Lu Chuan is a Chinese filmmaker and screenwriter. He is the son of novelist Lu Tianming.

28. Li Yu (director) (1973)

Chinese Film Director

Li Yu is a female Chinese film director and screenwriter. Li began her career in entertainment at a young age serving as a presenter at a local TV station....

29. Zhang Yibai (1963)

Chinese Film Director

Zhang Yibai is a Chinese film director.