Dai Sijie

Chinese–French author, screenwriter and film director

0.16body-of-work score · ranked #2377 of 2631 directors · 1 film in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: March 2, 1954 · Chengdu
Nationality: People's Republic of China
Work: film director, screenwriter, writer, director
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

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
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress巴尔扎克与小裁缝
2002 · China / France · romance, drama
Sarris's annual top 10 2005 #8
0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 6 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1989China, My Sorrow
1994The Moon Eater
1998The Eleventh Child
2002Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
2006The Chinese Botanist's Daughters
2015Le Paon de Nuit