Biography
After graduating in Comparative Literature from Hong Kong University, she studied for two years at the London Film School. On returning to Hong Kong she worked briefly as an assistant to King Hu and then began directing dramas, documentaries and docudramas for television. She made her first feature, The Secret, in 1979 and was immediately recognized as a key figure in Hong Kong’s nascent New Wave. Since then she has directed more than twenty feature films, becoming one of the most renowned Asian directors. She has been credited with other awards such as the Berlinale Camera for the whole of her film work in 1997, the Casa Asia Film Week Award in 2011, the Golden Lion for her entire career at the Venice Festival in 2020 and the Lifetime Achievement award from the New York Asian Film Festival in 2021.
Sitges Film Festival
Director
Movies | |
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2020 |
Love After Love |
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong |
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2017 |
Our Time Will Come |
2014 |
The Golden Era |
2012 |
Beautiful 2012 |
2011 |
A Simple Life |
2010 |
All About Love |
2009 |
Night and Fog |
2008 |
The Way We Are |
2006 |
The Postmodern Life of My Aunt |
2004 |
Goddes of Mercy |
2002 |
July Rhapsody |
2001 |
Visible Secret |
1999 |
Ordinary Heroes |
1997 |
Eighteen Springs |
1996 |
The Stunt Woman |
1995 |
Summer Snow |
1993 |
Boy and His Hero |
1991 |
My American Grandson |
Zodiac Killers |
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1990 |
Song of the Exile |
Swordsman |
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1988 |
Starry Is the Night |
1987 |
Princess Fragrance |
The Romance of Book and Sword |
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1984 |
Love in a Fallen City |
1982 |
Boat People |
1981 |
Story of Woo Viet |
1980 |
The Spooky Bunch |
1979 |
The Secret |
Documentaries | |
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2023 |
Elegies |
1997 |
As Time Goes By |
Short | |
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2012 |
My Way |
Actress
Movies | |
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2010 |
Echoes of the Rainbow |
2007 |
Simply Actors |
2006 |
My Name Is Fame |
2001 |
Forever and Ever |
2000 |
Jiang hu: The Triad Zone |
1999 |
Ordinary Heroes |
1997 |
The River |
1996 |
Somebody Up There Likes Me |
Who's the Woman, Who's the Man |
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1990 |
Sunshine Friends |
1983 |
Winners & Sinners |
1981 |
Love Massacre |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
The King of Wuxia |
2020 |
Keep Rolling |
2018 |
Women Making Films: A New Road Movie Through Cinema |
2001 |
Women's Private Parts |
1997 |
As Time Goes By |
1988 |
Calling the Shots |
1983 |
Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema (TV movie) |
Producer
Movies | |
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2017 |
Our Time Will Come |
2011 |
A Simple Life |
2010 |
All About Love |
2009 |
Night and Fog |
2002 |
July Rhapsody |
Visible Secret II |
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2001 |
Peony Pavilion |
Visible Secret |
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1999 |
Ordinary Heroes |
1997 |
Eighteen Springs |
1995 |
Summer Snow |
1994 |
The Day the Sun Turned Cold |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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1997 |
The Opium War |
Documentaries | |
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1997 |
As Time Goes By |