The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Vietnam
This page contains a list of the greatest Vietnamese Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 2 of which were born in Vietnam. This makes Vietnam the birth place of the 53rd most number of Film Directors behind Bangladesh, and Taiwan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Vietnamese Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Vietnamese Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Tsui Hark (b. 1950)
With an HPI of 59.31, Tsui Hark is the most famous Vietnamese Film Director. His biography has been translated into 32 different languages on wikipedia.
Tsui Hark (Chinese: 徐克, Vietnamese: Từ Khắc, born 15 February 1950), born Tsui Man-kong (Vietnamese: Từ Văn Quang), is a Hong Kong filmmaker. Tsui has directed several influential Hong Kong films such as Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983), the Once Upon a Time in China film series (1991–1997) and The Blade (1995). Tsui also has been a prolific writer and producer; his productions include A Better Tomorrow (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (1987), A Chinese Ghost Story (1987), The Killer (1989), The Legend of the Swordsman (1992), The Wicked City (1992), Iron Monkey (1993) and Black Mask (1996). He is viewed as a major figure in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema and is regarded by critics as "one of the masters of Asian cinematography". In the late 1990s, Tsui had a short-lived career in the United States, directing the Jean-Claude Van Damme–led films Double Team (1997) and Knock Off (1998). Both films were commercially unsuccessful and critically panned; Tsui himself was unsatisfied with his lack of creative control and returned to Hong Kong to continue his career, where he found commercial and critical success with blockbusters such as the Detective Dee film series, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011), and The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014).
2. Tran Anh Hung (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 52.54, Tran Anh Hung is the 2nd most famous Vietnamese Film Director. His biography has been translated into 23 different languages.
Trần Anh Hùng (English: Anh Hung Tran), born December 23, 1962) is a Vietnamese-born French filmmaker.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Vietnamese film directors born between 1950 and 1962. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Vietnamese film directors include Tsui Hark, and Tran Anh Hung.
