Christopher Doyle

Known For: Camera
Born: May 2, 1952
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Christopher Doyle

Christopher Doyle is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer who often works on Chinese language films. He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival, as well as AFI Award for cinematography, the Golden Horse awards (four times), and Hong Kong Film Award (six times). Doyle is an affiliate of the Hong Kong Society of Cinematographers. Doyle was born in Sydney, Australia in 1952. He left his native country on a Norwegian merchant ship at the age of eighteen, after which he took on a number of odd jobs including as a Kibbutz-nick cowboy in Israel, homeopathic doctor in Thailand, and “green agriculturalist” in India work. In the late seventies, Doyle was “re-birthed” as Du Ke Feng, which means “like the wind.” Following his time as a language student in Taiwan and having found work as a photographer, he was hired as a cinematographer on Edward Yang’s That Day, on th…

Filmography

Morte Cucina

2026 · Director of Photography

In the Mood for Love 2001

2025 · Director of Photography

M on the Bund

2024 · Self, Executive Producer

Just 1 Day

2022 · Cinematography

Love After Love

2021 · Director of Photography

Tezuka's Barbara

2020 · Director of Photography

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

2019 · Director of Photography

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

2019 · Self

The Boat Burning Festival+

2019 · Cinematography

China on Film

2019 · self

Cuba

2019 · Cinematography

To Heaven, to Gather

To Heaven, to Gather

2018 · Cinematography

Love Only

2018 · Cinematography, Director

The White Girl

2017 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography

Human Flow

2017 · Director of Photography

You Mean The World To Me

2017 · Director of Photography

Wind

2016 · Himself, Director of Photography

Stockholm, My Love

2016 · Director of Photography

I Am Belfast

2016 · Director of Photography

Endless Poetry

2016 · Director of Photography

Enishi: The Bride of Izumo

2016 · Cinematography

Port of Call

2015 · Director of Photography

Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous

2015 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography

Fundamentally Happy

2015 · Director of Photography

Beijing, New York

2015 · Director of Photography

Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore

2014 · Director of Photography

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World

Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World

2014 · , Director

Beautiful 2014

2014 · Director

Blue Sky Bones

2013 · Cinematography

Bends

2013 · Director of Photography

Magic Magic

2013 · Director of Photography

American Dreams in China

2013 · Director of Photography

A Good Story

2013 · Director of Photography

Rabbit Horror

2011 · Director of Photography

Love for Life

2011 · Director of Photography

Underwater Love

2011 · Director of Photography

Passion Play

2011 · Director of Photography

Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema

2011 · Self

Showtime

2010 · , Director of Photography

Ocean Heaven

2010 · Director of Photography

A Moment in Time

2010

Ondine

2010 · Director of Photography

The Limits of Control

2009 · Director of Photography

Behind the Blur

2009

Warsaw Dark

2008 · Director

Making Paranoid Park

2008

Downloading Nancy

2008 · Director of Photography

In the Mood for Doyle

2007 · Himself

Paranoid Park

2007 · Uncle Tommy, Director of Photography

Reflections of Lady in the Water

2006

Lady in the Water

2006 · Director of Photography

Paris Je T'aime

2006 · Director, Writer

Invisible Waves

2006 · Director of Photography

McDull, the Alumni

2006 · BBQ Cook

Twelve Twenty

2006 · Taxi Driver / Captain, Cinematography

Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her

2006 · Director of Photography

Perhaps Love

2005 · Director of Photography

The White Countess

2005 · Director of Photography

Eros

2004 · Director of Photography

The Hand

2004 · Director of Photography

The Culture Show

2004 · Self

2046

2004 · Director of Photography

Blue

2004 · Director, Writer

Three... Extremes

2004 · Director of Photography

Dumplings

2004 · Director of Photography

Green Tea

2003 · Director of Photography

1:99 Shorts

2003 · (segment "Spring, 2003")

Last Life in the Universe

2003 · Director of Photography

Hero

2002 · Director of Photography

The Quiet American

2002 · Director of Photography

Three

2002 · Director of Photography

Three: Going Home

2002 · Director of Photography

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002 · Director of Photography

Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong

2001 · Self

Made

2001 · Director of Photography

Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken

Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken

2001 · Himself

In the Mood for Love

2000 · Director of Photography

Liberty Heights

1999 · Director of Photography

Away with Words

1999 · Writer, Director, Director of Photography

Psycho Path

1999 · Self - Cinematographer

Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together'

1999 · Director of Photography

Psycho

1998 · Director of Photography

Andromedia

1998 · Sakkaa / Soccer

Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema

1998 · Director of Photography

Typhoon Shelter

1998 · Director

Motorola

1998 · Cinematography

First Love: The Litter on the Breeze

1997 · Director of Photography

Chinese Box

1997 · Second Unit Director of Photography

Motel Cactus

1997 · Director of Photography

Yesterday You, Yesterday Me

1997 · Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator)

Happy Together

1997 · Director of Photography

wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net

1996 · Director of Photography

Comrades, Almost a Love Story

1996 · Jeremy

4 Faces of Eve

1996 · Director of Photography

Irma Vep

1996 · Thanks

Temptress Moon

1996 · Director of Photography

Tri-Star

1996 · Director of Photography

Out of the Blue

1995 · Cinematography

The Peony Pavilion

1995 · Director of Photography

Fallen Angels

1995 · Director of Photography

Red Rose White Rose

1994 · Director of Photography

Ashes of Time

1994 · Director of Photography

Red Lotus Society

1994 · Director of Photography

Chungking Express

1994 · Director of Photography

Beijing Bastards

1993 · Producer

Mary from Beijing

1992 · Director of Photography

Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

1992 · Director of Photography

My Nostalgia, My Songs

1991 · Cinematography, Editor, Director

Days of Being Wild

1990 · Director of Photography

Family Day

1990 · Tourist

Return Engagement

1990 · Director of Photography

Carry On Yakuza

1989 · Fake Arms Dealer

I Am Sorry

1989 · Director of Photography

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose

1989 · Director of Photography

I Love Mary

1988

Burning Snow

1988 · Director of Photography

Omega Syndrome

1986 · Leonard Waxman

Soul

1986 · Director of Photography

Noir et blanc

1986 · Director of Photography

逆旅與幻象

1984 · self, Cinematography

Ah Fu

1984 · Director of Photography

That Day, on the Beach

1983 · Director of Photography

The Sexy Lady Driver

1982 · Steven George

家庭／電影

1981 · self, Director, Cinematography

Idle Dream

1981

The Land of the Brave

1981 · Australian Man (Cameo)

Journey through Images

1981 · Cinematography, Editor, Director

Christine (Film of Her)

1980 · Director

The Boat-Burning Festival

1979 · Cinematography

Archive / Preserving Taiwan’s Historic Sites

1979 · Cinematography

Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild

Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild

— · Himself

Christopher Doyle: Chungking Express

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Moving Pictures: Chungking Express

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The Star

— · Director of Photography

Hunters in the Dark

Hunters in the Dark

— · Director of Photography

Late in Summer

— · Director of Photography

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