Xie Jin

Chinese film director (1923–2008)

0.53body-of-work score · ranked #1360 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

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

Born
November 21, 1923 · Shangyu District
Died
October 18, 2008 · Shangyu District
Nationality
People's Republic of China
Work
film director, screenwriter, politician, director
Movement
third generation Chinese cinema
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Xie Jin
Emmanuel Severi, pour le Festival de Cinema chinois de Paris · CC BY-SA 4.0

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
    Hibiscus Town芙蓉鎮

    1987 · China · drama, romance

    Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1988 #5

    0.391 citation
  2. 2

    1980 · China · drama

    Kehr's annual top 10 1985 #10

    0.141 citation

Complete filmography

All 16 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

  • 1957Woman Basketball Player No. 5
  • 1961The Red Detachment of Women
  • 1964Two Stage Sisters
  • 1975Spring's Seedling
  • 1977Youth
  • 1979A, yao lan
  • 1980Legend of Tianyun Mountain
  • 1982The Herdsman
  • 1984Qiu Jin
  • 1984Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain
  • 1987Hibiscus Town
  • 1989The Last Aristocrats
  • 1992Bell of Purity Temple
  • 1993An Old Man and His Dog
  • 1995Penitentiary Angel
  • 1997The Opium War