Asian movies has become more and more important in the world, and the collision between Oriental movies and Hollywood movies has never stopped. The soul of a movie is whether there is a good director to coordinate the overall situation. A good director is half the success of a movie. But which directors in Asia have international influence has always been the focus of discussion. The export of Asian culture, occupying a place in North America and Europe, has become an important indicator.
The authoritative American website TSPDT is also one of the important reference indicators of the Hollywood Film Association. In addition to the 20 greatest directors in Asia, Japanese and Chinese directors occupy the top ten, Kurosawa Akira is the most popular one, and the famous Chinese director Wang Jiawei also Fourth place. In the top 20 rankings, no one from South Korea, known as a great power in the universe, was shortlisted. The strength of these 20 directors is beyond doubt. I don't know if they have heard of their masterpieces.
20. Hu Jinquan
, as a generation master of Chinese film, is also one of the earliest directors in China, and the first person to bring Chinese martial arts into the world. In 1958, he joined the Shaw Company as an actor, screenwriter and assistant director. In 1962, he co-directed "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" with Li Hanxiang, and succeeded Li Hanxiang to complete the filming of "Yutangchun". In 1964, he independently directed "Children of the Earth". After that, he wrote and directed martial arts films and directed "The Drunken Man". "Longmen Inn" and other new-style martial arts films. In 1975, "Xia Nv" won the highest technology award at the Cannes Film Festival, and promoted Chinese martial arts movies to the world. After filming the last work "The King of Yin and Yang" in 1992, collected materials and researched historical facts. After several years of preparations for the filming of "History of Chinese Workers' Blood and Tears", it was originally scheduled to be launched in the summer of 1997. At the beginning of the year, he unfortunately passed away during a cardiac catheter balloon dilation operation. .
Character evaluation: In other martial arts movies, the characters are always flying over the walls, and only the swordsman in the Hu Jinquan martial arts movies is alone in the lonely wilderness. Some people say that Hu Jinquan chose a difficult and lonely film road, but we will never forget the classics such as "The Drunk Man", "Dragon Gate Inn", "The Chivalrous Girl", and "The Rain in the Sky". He is one in my heart. A master.
Representative works: Xia Nu (1970), New Dragon Inn (1992), Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai (1963) etc.
19. Chen Kaige
Chen Kaige, as one of the famous contemporary film directors in China. There is no doubt about his work. Achievement is also an honor. It is just an understanding ability that transcends the times, making it difficult for ordinary audiences to understand and appreciate. However, in the professional field, Director Chen is the embodiment of aesthetics and creativity, and a master of generation. "The Promise" and "Jing Ke Assassinated the King of Qin" were always insulting in countless scolds when they were released, but when the time was delayed, the positive voices began to echo.
directed the film "Yellow Land" in 1984, which won the Silver Leopard Award at the 38th Locarno International Film Festival. Chen Kaige's films have won numerous national awards. In 1993, with "Farewell My Concubine", he won the first Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in Chinese cinema, and successively won a series of international awards such as the American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the British Film Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, directed the historical film "Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin" at the turn of the century.
In 2005, Chen Kaige assembled the costume movie "Promise" created by the stars of China, Japan and Korea. In 2008, he directed the biographical film "Mei Lanfang" reflecting the masters of Peking Opera. In 2012, he directed the movie "Search", which represented mainland China in its competition for the best foreign language film at the 2013 Oscars. In August 2016, directed the feature film "The Legend of the Demon Cat"
character evaluation: Chen Kaige's film is full of speculative colors, adding symbols or metaphors to the traditional story level, showing the continuity and transformation of history in a specific period. His thinking on the way of national survival is already in a broader cultural background, which also makes his works leap into a higher philosophical level of examination of reality.
Representative works: Farewell My Concubine (1993), Hundred Flowers Deep (2002), Taoist Down the Mountain (2015), etc.
18. Imamura Shōhei
Imamura Shōhei (Imamura Shōhei), born in Tokyo, Japan on September 15, 1926, graduated In the Faculty of Literature, Waseda University, Japanese actor, screenwriter, and director.
In 1951, he joined Songzhu Company as an assistant director. In 1958, Masahei Imamura began to write the script "The End of the Shogunate" for Yuzo KawashimaBiography of the Sun. In 1963, he wrote and directed the feature film "Japanese Insect", which was nominated for the Golden Bear Award, the main competition unit of the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1970, Shohei Imamura used old news films to edit a collection of Japanese documents "Postwar History of Japan: The Tragic Life of a Barmaid". In 1973, Shohei Imamura released the TV documentary "The Birth of a Prostitute" about "Sister Nanyang". In 1979, he was nominated for the Best Director Award at the 3rd Japan Film Academy Awards for his thriller "Vengeance in Me". In 1987, he was nominated for the Palme d'Or, the main competition unit of the 40th Cannes International Film Festival, with the comedy "Female Title". In 1989, he directed the feature film "Black Rain", which won the first place in the 1989 "Cinema Daily" Top Ten Awards. In 1997, with the feature film "Eel" won the main competition unit of the 50th Cannes International Film Festival-Palme d'Or. In 2002, co-directed the short film "September 11 Incident Book"
with 11 directors from different countries in 2002. Masahira Imamura is good at exploring the hidden things in Japanese culture from the basic aspects of life, death and sex, especially life and death. He always has amazing behaviors in image processing and subject selection, and he is uncomfortable with the status quo. He has always been representative of his personality
: "Black Rain", "The Birth of a Prostitute", etc.
17. Fei Mu
Fei Mu, the word Jinglu, the number series stop. Born in Shanghai on October 10, 1906, Chinese film director and screenwriter. As one of the earliest batch of movies in China,
has made a great contribution to Chinese movies, especially during those difficult years. In 1932, he directed the critical reality drama "Night in the City", which attracted attention; in 1934, he directed the drama "Xiang Xue Hai"; in 1935, he directed the ethical film "Tian Lun", which was the first in Chinese film history. National musical instrument soundtrack; In 1936, he filmed the national defense film "The Blood on the Wolf Mountain" calling for the war of resistance against Japan; in 1937, he filmed the opera film "Zhanjingtang"; in 1940, directed the period drama "Confucius"; in 1941, Wrote the script for the film "Children of the World", which was jointly shot by China and the United States for the first time, and then withdrew from the film industry; in 1942, the Shanghai Art Theater was established; in 1944, the New Art Theater was founded; in 1948, the first in China was filmed A color film "Life and Death"; on January 31, 1951, Fei Mu died of a heart attack at the age of 45.
Character evaluation: The film directed by Fei Mu shows proficient technology. He is good at delicate inner description, and his emotions are also appropriate. The angle of the lens and the composition of the picture are also perfect. From different aspects, it has carried out a philosophical discussion on the value of human existence, the purpose and meaning of life. In the artistic treatment, the lens is condensed and the composition is beautiful, forming his unique style.
Representative works: "City Night", "Tianlun" etc.
16. Cai Mingliang
Cai Mingliang, director and screenwriter of Taiwanese film and television. In 1993, the director's film debut "Young Nezha" won the Bronze Award in the Tokyo International Film Festival Young Director Competition. The second film "Long Live Love" directed in 1994 won the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 51st Venice International Film Festival. The third film "River" directed in 1996 won the Berlin International Film Festival Jury Silver Bear Award and International Journalism Award. In 1998, he won the Best Director Award at the 14th Singapore International Film Festival for his work "The Hole".
's 2001 film "What time are you there" won the 54th Cannes International Film Festival Comprehensive Technology Award. In 2005, he shot the erotic musical "A Cloud in the Sky" and won the Alfred Bauer Award at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival. The 2013 film "Outing" won the 70th Venice International Film Festival Jury Award and the 50th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Award for Best Director.
Character evaluation: Cai Mingliang’s works are humorous, expressing themes of modern society, loneliness, and the frenzy of urban life, trying to explore the conscious self-defense of urban residents. This style is embedded in most of Cai Mingliang’s works. The form of topics discussed
Representative works: "Long Live Love", "River", "A Cloud in the Sky"
15. 大岛渚
大岛渚 (Nagisa Oshima), born on March 31, 1932 in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, a Japanese actor, Screenwriter and director.
In 1960, he won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best New Director with the feature film "Youth Cruel Story". In 1966, he directed the feature film "The Devil of the Day", which was named the ninth place in the 1966 "Film Weekly" Top Ten Awards. In 1978, he won the Best Director Award at the 31st Cannes Film Festival for his love horror film "Dead of Love". In 1986, directed the French film "Max, My Love", which was nominated for the main competition of the 39th Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, filmed a documentary about the hometown of Nagisa Oshima-Kyoto, "Kyoto, Mother City". In 1999, he was shortlisted for the best director of the 23rd Japan Film Academy Awards with his costume film "Gofado". In 2014, Nagisa Oshima was awarded the Special Prize of the President of the Japan Film Academy Awards. Character evaluation of
: Ritualization is the bizarre characteristic of Oshima Nagisa's movies. Oshima's description of sex is serious and consistent, and even has a sympathetic color; the observation of the instinct of sex has become a brilliant bloom of his unique artistic thought. The expression of sex in Oshima's works focuses on the subtle emotions between men and women, between the same sex, and between humans and animals. These emotions are completely alienated
representative works: "Dead of Love", "Yufa Du" etc.
14. Jia Zhangke
Jia Zhangke, Chinese director, one of the representative figures of the sixth generation of directors in China.
In 2007, he served as Chairman of the Jury of the Cannes International Film Festival. On August 5, 2010, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 63rd Locarno International Film Festival. In 2015, he won the Golden Carriage Award at the Cannes Film Festival and became the first Chinese director to win the award. On May 8, 2016, Jia Zhangke won the Best Director Award at the 23rd Beijing University Student Film Festival for his "Old Man in Mountains and Rivers". He is currently the Vice President of the International Federation of Writers and Composers Associations (CISAC), the Vice President of the Chinese Film Directors Association, and the Dean of the Shanghai Vancouver Film Academy. Character evaluation of
: Jia Zhangke’s films are generally defined in the category of realism or realism, but surrealism elements are also added to some works. These elements are added to fully express reality and retell the audience from past films Freed from the laws of reality, it provides the audience with a rich interpretation angle, with a little postmodern touch.
Representative works: Lu Yao (2010), Good People in the Three Gorges (2006), Tianzhuding (2013), Mr. Hello! Tree (2011), etc.
13, Ang Lee
Lee An (Ang Lee), ancestral home from Dean, Jiangxi , Screenwriter and director.
In 1995, Ang Lee won seven Oscar nominations for his English film "Sense and Emotion" and entered the ranks of Hollywood A-level directors. In 1999, he won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for the first time for directing "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". In 2006 and 2013, he won the 78th and 85th Academy Awards for Best Director for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Fantasy Drifting of Boys", becoming the first Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Director twice. The director is also the first Chinese and Asian director to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2006, he was awarded "One Hundred People Influencing the World" by Time Magazine.
In his directorship as of 2019, Ang Lee has won three Academy Awards, five British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, two Golden Lion Awards at the Venice Film Festival and two Golden Bear Awards at the Berlin Film Festival. . Ang Lee is the first Chinese director in film history to win the best director at the three major international film awards, the Oscars, the British Academy of Film Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.
Character evaluation: Ang Lee’s lens language matches his text content. On the one hand, it echoes the inner narrative system with strong drama and strong conflict, and on the other hand, it has a calm, restrained and compassionate style, forming a certain The tension between form and content. Moreover, as an oriental director, he interprets the West as an outsider, with accurate interpretation of Western culture and meticulous portrayal of characters. Representative works of
: "Fantasy Drifting of the Youth School", "Brokeback Mountain", "Lust, Caution", etc.
12. Zhang Yimou
Guo Shi Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director, one of the representative figures of the "fifth generation director"
. In 1986, he starred in the first movie "Old Well" and won three movie stars. The first film "Red Sorghum" directed in 1987 won China's first international film festival Golden Bearprize. From 1987 to 1999 directed "Red Sorghum", "Judou", "Raise the Red Lantern", "Qiuju's Lawsuit", "Living", "No One Less", "My Father and Mother", etc. The film has won numerous film awards at home and abroad, and nominated for three Oscars and five Golden Globes. After 2002, the commercial films "Heroes", "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Full City with Golden Armor" and "Thirteen Hairpins in Jinling" set the Chinese box office record twice and won the annual Chinese film box office champion four times. In 2008, he served as the chief director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, and directed "Shadow" in 2017. On November 17, 2018, he won the Best Director Award at the 55th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for "Shadow". In China, Zhang Yimou's name represents the director and our national teacher.
Character evaluation: The outstanding feature of Zhang Yimou’s works is a deep understanding of traditional Chinese feudal consciousness and a strong critical spirit, a strong sense of history and life in it, a peculiar landscape of ancient folk customs, and also full of resistance to women Acura and praise of the spirit, he insists on the truth of life and the lyrical narrative behind his strong colors and bold composition.
Representative works: Da Zhaimen (2001), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Red Sorghum (1988), etc.
11. Mikio Naruse
Mikio Naruse, Japanese film director, screenwriter, and producer.
In 1933, he wrote and directed the feature film "Farewell to Your Lord" and "Dreaming Every Night". The two films were included in the Top Ten Films of the Year by "Film Xunbao"; in 1935, the feature film "Wish Wife Like Rose" was filmed. ", the film was named the first ten best movies of the year by "Film Xunbao"; in 1939, he shot the feature film "The Working Family", directed the movie "Until Victory"; in 1951, directed the feature film " "Fan", the film ranked second in the "Cinema Xunbao" annual top ten; in 1952, directed the feature film "The Rice Wife"; in 1953, directed the feature film "Wife"; in 1954, directed the feature film " "Sound of the Mountain", the film won the sixth place in Japan's Top Ten of the Year; in 1955, he filmed the romantic movie "Floating Clouds", which won the Best Japanese Film Director of the Tenth Film Awards; in 1960, he directed the feature film "Woman When Stepping Up the Stairs"; in 1962, he produced and directed the feature film "The Wanderer"; in 1967, he directed the feature film "Random Clouds"
Character evaluation: Mikio Naruse always has a kind of respect for women, he treats women Both spiritual awareness and psychoanalysis can be said to be three points into the woods. Reflected in "Fan" and "Mother"; the second is to explore the subtle love psychology of women. He combines the beautiful love with the original trauma of women, and explores the mysterious inner world of women under the influence of experiencing erotic trauma and mental trauma This is reflected in "Floating Clouds" and "Chaotic Clouds". In the eyes of Naruse Mikio, the state of love and life should be attributed to a kind of plainness. If there is any pursuit in life, then the goal should be how to experience the three flavors of life in plainness and realize happiness.
Representative works: "Mother", "Fan", "Sound of the Mountain", etc.
