FILM DIRECTOR

King Hu

1932 - 1997

King Hu

King Hu Jinquan (Chinese: 胡金銓, 29 April 1932 – 14 January 1997) was a Chinese filmmaker and actor, based in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is known for directing various wuxia films in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought Hong Kong and Taiwanese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of King Hu has received more than 261,463 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). King Hu is the 560th most popular film director, the 698th most popular biography from China (down from 662nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Chinese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

260k
Page Views (PV)
53.53
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
21
Languages Editions (L)
4.07
Effective Languages (L*)
2.37
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, King Hu ranks 560 out of 2,041. Before him are Gore Verbinski, David O. Russell, Anja Breien, George Albert Smith, Grigori Kozintsev, and David Byrne. After him are František Čáp, Thelma Schoonmaker, Sergei Yutkevich, Chris Menges, Tonino Delli Colli, and Georges Lautner.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

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Gore Verbinski
1964 - Present
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 554
David O. Russell
1958 - Present
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 555
Anja Breien
1940 - Present
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 556
George Albert Smith
1864 - 1959
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 557
Grigori Kozintsev
1905 - 1973
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 558
David Byrne
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.54
Rank: 559
King Hu
1932 - 1997
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 560
František Čáp
1913 - 1972
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 561
Thelma Schoonmaker
1940 - Present
HPI: 53.52
Rank: 562
Sergei Yutkevich
1904 - 1985
HPI: 53.51
Rank: 563
Chris Menges
1940 - Present
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 564
Tonino Delli Colli
1923 - 2005
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 565
Georges Lautner
1926 - 2013
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 566

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, King Hu ranks 194. Before him are Vladimir Voinovich, Mostafa Chamran, Christiane Kubrick, Mamo Wolde, Blagoje Adžić, and U. R. Ananthamurthy. After him are Hassan Al-Turabi, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Andrea Mead Lawrence, Majel Barrett, Alfred Worden, and Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Among people deceased in 1997, King Hu ranks 117. Before him are Anatoli Boukreev, Amha Selassie, Ho Feng-Shan, Saw Maung, Harold Robbins, and Luigi Villoresi. After him are Lev Kopelev, Jeff Buckley, Paul Carell, Georges Marchais, Francisco Aramburu, and K. Shivaram Karanth.

Others Born in 1932

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Vladimir Voinovich
WRITER
1932 - 2018
HPI: 53.70
Rank: 188
Mostafa Chamran
POLITICIAN
1932 - 1981
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 189
Christiane Kubrick
PAINTER
1932 - Present
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 190
Mamo Wolde
ATHLETE
1932 - 2002
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 191
Blagoje Adžić
MILITARY PERSONNEL
1932 - 2012
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 192
U. R. Ananthamurthy
WRITER
1932 - 2014
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 193
King Hu
FILM DIRECTOR
1932 - 1997
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 194
Hassan Al-Turabi
POLITICIAN
1932 - 2016
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 195
Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern
POLITICIAN
1932 - 2016
HPI: 53.43
Rank: 196
Andrea Mead Lawrence
SKIER
1932 - 2009
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 197
Majel Barrett
ACTOR
1932 - 2008
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 198
Alfred Worden
ASTRONAUT
1932 - 2020
HPI: 53.28
Rank: 199
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
FILM DIRECTOR
1932 - Present
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 200