Chen Kaige
Chinese film director and screenwriter
3.73body-of-work score · ranked #300 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- August 12, 1952 · Beijing
- Nationality
- People's Republic of China
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer
- Movement
- fifth generation Chinese cinema
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1993 · China · drama, romance
Palme d'Or winner 1993 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1994 #2 · TIME All-TIME 100
3.398 citations - 20.191 citation
- 3The Emperor and the AssassinJing Ke ci Qin Wang
1998 · China · drama, romance
Sarris's annual top 10 1999 #9
0.151 citation
Complete filmography
All 24 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1984Yellow Earth
- 1986The Big Parade
- 1987King of the Children
- 1991Life on a String
- 1993Farewell My Concubine
- 1996Temptress Moon
- 1998The Emperor and the Assassin
- 2002100 Flowers Hidden Deep
- 2002Killing Me Softly
- 2002Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
- 2002Together
- 2005The Promise
- 2007To Each His Own Cinema
- 2008Forever Enthralled
- 2010Sacrifice
- 2012Caught in the Web
- 2015The Monk
- 2017Legend of the Demon Cat
- 2019My People, My Country
- 2021The Battle at Lake Changjin
- 2022The Battle at Lake Changjin II
- 2023Volunteers: Xiongbing Attack
- 2024The Volunteers: To the War 2
- 2025The Volunteers: Peace at Last