Lou Ye
Chinese film director
0.64body-of-work score · ranked #1260 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- 1965 · Shanghai
- Nationality
- People's Republic of China
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, film producer, film actor
- Movement
- sixth 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.
- 1Suzhou River蘇州河
2000 · China / Germany / France · film-noir, romance
Sarris's annual top 10 2000 #6 · Hoberman's annual top 10 2000 #8
0.342 citations - 20.301 citation
Complete filmography
All 11 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1995Weekend Lover
- 2000Suzhou River
- 2003Purple Butterfly
- 2006Summer Palace
- 2009Spring Fever
- 2011Love and Bruises
- 2012Mystery
- 2014Blind Massage
- 2019Saturday Fiction
- 2019The Shadow Play
- 2024An Unfinished Film