Female directors!

[Young Master]

Please name female directors that have a minimum of 3 movies directed in their filmography..
And I add them to the list below. Thanks!

The list this far:

Alice Wang
Ann Hui
Angela Mak
Barbara Wong
Carol Lai Miu-Suet
Clara Law
Cecille Tong
Go Bo-Shu
Lee Yuk-jan
Li Shao-Hong
Mabel Cheung
Ning Ying
Pearl Cheung
Peng Xiao-Lian
Rachel Shin/Zen
Sylvia Chang
Teresa Woo San
Wong Hiu-Wai (Wang Haowei)
Xu Jing-Lei
Yang Chia-Yun
Zero Chou Mei-Ling

[calros]

Alice Wang (Karate Girls, Aunt Tiger, Love and Courage)

[Young Master]

Added to the list, thanks!

[dleedlee]

Rachel Shin/Zen
Xu Jinglei - My Father and I is also missing.
Peng Xiaolian should be but her filmography is incomplete.
Li Shaohong - ditto- oops you have her listed
Ning Ying - ditto

[Young Master]

Great, 4 more! (added) Thanks!

[Young Master]

Updated the list with Mabel Cheung and Yan Yan Mak!

[Mike Thomason]

...Yan Yan Mak!

What else has Ms Mak directed, apart from Ge Ge and Butterfly?

[Young Master]

What else has Ms Mak directed, apart from Ge Ge and Butterfly?

August Story

[Mike Thomason]

What else has Ms Mak directed, apart from Ge Ge and Butterfly?

August Story

But it's still not a feature film, is it? It's a short made for television re-edited to just over 60m -- which equates it to "feature length" in film speak, but still doesn't make it a "film" due to its television origins. Ah well, each to their own (set of beliefs)...

[Young Master]

Yeah.. not sure if she should qualify to be in the list with that movie after all. (removed) Thanks!

[Brian Thibodeau]

Yeah.. not sure if she should qualify to be in the list with that movie after all. (removed) Thanks!

Well, now I'm intrigued about the purpose of the criteria for this list. I realize the original post does specify female directors with three films, but why three films, in particular? Obviously, a female director with only one film under her belt is still a director (hell, even the TV episode qualifies as "direction"), so I'm curious to know why we're looking for triple-play ladies only?

[Brian Thibodeau]

Yeah.. not sure if she should qualify to be in the list with that movie after all. (removed) Thanks!

Well, now I'm intrigued about the purpose of the criteria for this list. I realize the original post does specify female directors with three films, but why three films, in particular? Obviously, a female director with only one film under her belt is still a director (hell, even the TV episode qualifies as "direction"), so I'm genuinesly curious to know why you're looking for triple-play ladies only? Is there a club?

[Young Master]

Well, now I'm intrigued about the purpose of the criteria for this list. I realize the original post does specify female directors with three films, but why three films, in particular? Obviously, a female director with only one film under her belt is still a director (hell, even the TV episode qualifies as "direction"), so I'm genuinesly curious to know why you're looking for triple-play ladies only? Is there a club?

Hehe, no there's no club , just that Im curious to see how many that actually reaches over that limit (approximately). Other female directors with only one or two movies directed (who perhaps have been working with something different as Yan Yan Mak for example) aren't discriminated even if they might have a great experience in their profession.

[Brian Thibodeau]

Probably far too late for this:

Lee Yuk-jan
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

[Young Master]

Never too late Brian, thanks Please let me know when you know someone more that can be added. There are now 19 directors in the list!

[Brian Thibodeau]

I realize that this is a fairly dead topic some two years later, but I just stumbled across a couple more female directors via the rotating posters on the main page, in this case a 1983 movie called I DO!.

However, these ladies, like others mentioned in this thread, don't quite qualify for the three-films rule, but since the rule was rather arbitrary in the first place (along with the "debate" it engendered above), I figured these ladies might deserve some credit for being able to helm more than one picture.

Annette Sam Yuet-ming (1-and-1/3 movies)
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

Angela Mak Leng-chi (2-and-1/3 movies; technically this means she worked on three films)
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

Their codirector on I DO!, Hilda Chan Chuk-chiu, only has 1/3 of that picture to her credit, but that still makes here a director!

Honestly, though, I'd love to see a list of ALL female Hong Kong directors, regardless of how many pictures they've done. Is their any way of searching such things in the DB?

Perhaps the original list can be upgraded to include directors with one or two pictures to their credit? If anyone's even interested anymore that is . . .

[dleedlee]

Ma Li-Wen
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

[Brian Thibodeau]

Lily Lau Lap-lap:
http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng

(mostly Taiwanese pictures, so hopefully that falls under Young Master's umbrella here! Is he even around anymore? )