Stanley Kwan

Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

0.27body-of-work score · ranked #1815 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

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

Born
October 9, 1957 · British Hong Kong
Nationality
People's Republic of China
Work
film director, film actor, director, screenwriter
Movement
Hong Kong Second Wave
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Stanley Kwan
am730 · CC BY 3.0

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. 1
    Rouge胭脂扣

    1987 · Hong Kong, China · drama, romance, fantasy

    Criterion Collection spine #1129

    0.161 citation
  2. 2
    Center Stage阮玲玉

    1992 · Hong Kong, China · biography

    Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema

    0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 13 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1985Women
  • 1986Love Unto Waste
  • 1987Rouge
  • 1989Full Moon in New York
  • 1992Center Stage
  • 1993Kin chan no Cinema Jack
  • 1994Red Rose White Rose
  • 1996Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
  • 1998Hold You Tight
  • 2000The Island Tales
  • 2001Lan Yu
  • 2005Everlasting Regret
  • 2018First Night Nerves