Extensive guide to East/Southeast Asian women directors. (in progress)

Other lists:
Korea
Japan
-Hong Kong-
China
Taiwan

so far the easiest country (territory) to navigate through because of the english first names.

that said, i added the full names of many of these directors to the database to make finding them easier, as the abbreviated english ones alone often don't yield many (or any!) results. this is the list i spent the most time on thus far, trying to add every film of every director i can find, which includes changing around a lot of metadata for duplicate entries under different names. i'm also adding biographies and pictures for the directors since most don't have any!

besides a relatively decent number of directors, theres also lots of prolific female producers, writers, and assistant directors who have worked behind the scenes from the start to get HK to where its at today.

And Selina Chow, who now heads Hong Kong’s tourism board, launched countless careers as a TV and film producer. “Selina Chow invented the New Wave in the 80’s discovering and giving jobs to folks like Ringo Lam, John Woo, Tsui Hark, Patrick Tam, Ann Hui and pretty much everyone you can name,” says Hendrix. “Most of the people you can associate with Hong Kong cinema are her discoveries. She is literally responsible for the careers of thousands of people who are still working today.” - source