Christopher Doyle

• Name — Christopher Doyle • Born — 2 May 1952 • Birthplace — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Occupation — * Cinematographer • actor • photographer • film director • Years Active — 1978–present (photographer); 1983–present (cinematographer) Christopher Doyle (born 2 May 1952), also known as Dou Ho-fung, is an Australian cinematographer, known for his work in arthouse cinema, mainly Hong Kong films, as well as films directed by Wong Kar-wai. Doyle has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as the AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse award (four times), and the Hong Kong Film Award (six times).

Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen. Doyle arrived in Taiwan for the first time in the 1970s, while his ship was docked in Keelung Harbor. Doyle met Stan Lai and Ding Nai-chu at Idea House, a restaurant in Taipei.

• Illustration — Doyle receiving the Golden Horse Award for Best Cinematography at the 34th Golden Horse Awards in 1997 While living in other countries, he took on several odd jobs, such as being an oil driller in India, a cow herder in Israel, and a doctor of Chinese medicine in Thailand. In the late seventies, Doyle took an interest in Chinese culture and received the Chinese name Dù Kěfēng, which translates to "like the wind". After language studies in Taiwan, he started working as a photographer. A couple of years later, he became a cinematographer, working with Taiwanese director Edward Yang on the 1983 film That Day, on the Beach. Doyle has worked on over 50 Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai in Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, and Dumplings. He has also made more than 20 films in various other languages, working as director of photography on Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Liberty Heights, Last Life in the Universe, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Paranoid Park, and The Limits of Control, among others. He also wrote, shot, and directed Warsaw Dark, Away with Words starring Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous, an experimental portrait of three generations of Hong Kong people. He co-directed The White Girl with Jenny Suen.

• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2018 — Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown — Asia Argento — Episode "Hong Kong"; With Frederic Menou • 2020 — Ouverture of Something that Never Ended — Alessandro Michele Gus Van Sant — 7 episodes

Film • Year — Title — Director • 2015 — I Am Belfast — Mark Cousins • Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous — Himself • 2017 — Human Flow — Ai Weiwei • 2019 — The Rest Television • Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1996 — Century of Cinema — Stanley Kwan — Segment Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

• Year — Title — Director — Writer — Notes • 1998 — Typhoon Shelter — TV movie, co-directed with Shuji Tsukamoto • 1999 — Away with Words • 2006 — Paris, je t'aime — Segment "Porte de Choisy" • 2008 — Izolator aka "Warsaw Dark" • 2014 — Beautiful 2014 — Segment "HK 2014 - Education for All" • 2015 — Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous — Documentary film • 2017 — The White Girl — Co-directed with Jenny Suen • 2018 — Love Only — Creative and visual director

• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1983 — That Day, on the Beach — Edward Yang — With Hui-Kung Chang • 1984 — A Fu de li wu — Chi-Hua Li Wei-Ming Lo Peter Mak — With Hui-Kung Chang and Chi-Ming Leung • 1986 — Soul (1986 film) — Shu Kei • Noir et Blanc — Claire Devers — With Daniel Desbois, Alain Lasfargues and Jean-Paul Rosa da Costa • 1988 — Burning Snow — Patrick Tam • 1989 — My Heart Is That Eternal Rose — With David Chung • Shuo huang de nu ren — Tony Au • 1990 — Days of Being Wild — Wong Kar-wai • 1992 — The Peach Blossom Land — Stan Lai • Mary from Beijing — Sylvia Chang • 1994 — Chungking Express — Wong Kar-wai — With Andrew Lau • Ashes of Time — With Pun-Leung Kwan • Fei xia a da — Stan Lai • Red Rose White Rose — Stanley Kwan • 1995 — The Peony Pavilion — Chen Kuo-fu • Fallen Angels — Wong Kar-wai • 1996 — Tristar — Tsui Hark — With Arthur Wong • Temptress Moon — Chen Kaige • 4 Faces of Eve — Kwok-Leung Gan Eric Kot Jan Lamb • 1997 — Happy Together — Wong Kar-wai • Motel Cactus — Ki-Yong Park • Choh chin luen hau dik yi yan sai gaai — Eric Kot • 1998 — Psycho — Gus Van Sant • 1999 — Away with Words — Himself • Liberty Heights — Barry Levinson • 2000 — In the Mood for Love — Wong Kar-wai — With Pun-Leung Kwan and Ping Bin Lee • 2001 — Made — Jon Favreau • 2002 — Rabbit-Proof Fence — Phillip Noyce • The Quiet American • Hero — Zhang Yimou • 2003 — Last Life in the Universe — Pen-ek Ratanaruang • Green Tea — Zhang Yuan • 2004 — 2046 — Wong Kar-wai — With Pun-Leung Kwan • Dumplings — Fruit Chan • 2005 — The White Countess — James Ivory • 2006 — Invisible Waves — Pen-ek Ratanaruang • Lady in the Water — M. Night Shyamalan • 2007 — Paranoid Park — Gus Van Sant — With Rain Li • 2008 — Downloading Nancy — Johan Renck • 2009 — The Limits of Control — Jim Jarmusch • Ondine — Neil Jordan • 2010 — Ocean Heaven — Xue Xiao-Lu • Yong xin tiao — Stanley Kwan — With Rain Li • Passion Play — Mitch Glazer • 2011 — Underwater Love - A Pink Musical — Shinji Imaoka • Love for Life — Gu Changwei — With Changwei Gu and Tao Yang • Tormented — Takashi Shimizu • 2013 — Magic Magic — Sebastian Silva — With Glenn Kaplan • American Dreams in China — Peter Chan • Bends — Flora Lau • Lanse gotou — Jian Cui • 2014 — Ruined Heart! Another Love Story Between a Criminal and a Whore — Khavn • 2015 — Beijing, Niuyue — Rain Li — With Rain Li and Sion Michel • Port of Call — Philip Yung • Fundamentally Happy — Tan Bee Thiam Lei Yuan Bin • Enishi: The Bride of Izumo — Hiroshi Horiuchi • 2016 — Endless Poetry — Alejandro Jodorowsky • Stockholm, My Love — Mark Cousins — With Mark Cousins • 2017 — You Mean The World To Me — Saw Teong Hin • The White Girl — Himself Jenny Suen — With Kubbie Tsoi • 2018 — Love Only — Charine Chan • 2019 — They Say Nothing Stays the Same — Joe Odagiri • Tezuka's Barbara — Makoto Tezuka — With Kubbie Tsoi • 2020 — Love After Love — Ann Hui • 2021 — Gei wo 1 tian — Erica Li — With Kubbie Tsoi • 2025 — Morte Cucina — Pen-ek Ratanaruang

• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1996 — wkw/tk/1996@7′55″hk.net — Wong Kar-wai • 1998 — Motorola • 2002 — Goin Home — Peter Chan — Segment of Three • 2004 — The Hand — Wong Kar-wai — Segment of Eros • Dumplings — Fruit Chan — Segment of Three... Extremes • 2006 — The Madness of the Dance — Carol Morley — With Rain Li • 2007 — Meeting Helen — Emily Woof • 2012 — Linda Linda — Tsien-Tsien Zhang