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 the Beach in 1983. Since his “birth in art,” Du Ke Feng has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films. He is best known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-Wai, including Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and 2046 (the latter of which saw Doyle walking off set mid-way through production). He has collaborated with other Chinese filmmakers on projects including Temptress Moon, Hero, Happy Together, and Dumplings. As his "alter ego" Christopher Doyle he has made more than twenty in various other languages and film cultures, 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, The Limits of Control. 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.[5] He is currently filming The White Girl, another tribute to his adopted hometown of Hong Kong, with co-director Jenny Suen. On May 26, 2017 Doyle was honored during the 70th Cannes Festival with the “Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography” award, in tribute to his rich and influential career. The ceremony was co-hosted by filmmaker Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche, among others.

Filmography

• 2026Morte Cucina — Director of Photography
• 2025In the Mood for Love 2001 — Director of Photography
• 2024M on the Bund — Self, Executive Producer
• 2022Just 1 Day — Cinematography
• 2021Love After Love — Director of Photography
• 2021The Hand — Director of Photography
• 2020Tezuka's Barbara — Director of Photography
• 2019Cuba — Cinematography
• 2019The Boat Burning Festival+ — Cinematography
• 2019They Say Nothing Stays the Same — Director of Photography
• 2018Love Only — Cinematography
• 2018To Heaven, to Gather — Cinematography
• 2017Human Flow — Director of Photography
• 2017The White Girl — Writer, Director, Director of Photography
• 2017You Mean The World To Me — Director of Photography
• 2016Endless Poetry — Director of Photography
• 2016Enishi: The Bride of Izumo — Cinematography
• 2016I Am Belfast — Director of Photography
• 2016Stockholm, My Love — Director of Photography
• 2016WIND — Himself, Director of Photography
• 2015Beijing, New York — Director of Photography
• 2015Fundamentally Happy — Director of Photography
• 2015Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous — Director, Writer, Director of Photography
• 2015Port of Call — Director of Photography
• 2014Beautiful 2014 — Director
• 2014Christopher Doyle: Filming in the Neon World — Director
• 2014Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore — Director of Photography
• 2013A Good Story — Director of Photography
• 2013American Dreams in China — Director of Photography
• 2013Bends — Director of Photography
• 2013Blue Sky Bones — Cinematography
• 2013Magic Magic — Director of Photography
• 2011Love for Life — Director of Photography
• 2011Passion Play — Director of Photography
• 2011Rabbit Horror — Director of Photography
• 2011Underwater Love — Director of Photography
• 2010A Moment in Time
• 2010Ocean Heaven — Director of Photography
• 2010Ondine — Director of Photography
• 2010Showtime — Director of Photography
• 2009Behind the Blur
• 2009The Limits of Control — Director of Photography
• 2008Downloading Nancy — Director of Photography
• 2008Making Paranoid Park
• 2008Warsaw Dark — Director
• 2007Paranoid Park — Uncle Tommy, Director of Photography
• 2006Digital Sam in Sam Saek 2006: Talk to Her — Director of Photography
• 2006Invisible Waves — Director of Photography
• 2006Lady in the Water — Director of Photography
• 2006McDull, the Alumni — BBQ Cook
• 2006Paris Je T'aime — Director, Writer
• 2006Twelve Twenty — Taxi Driver / Captain, Cinematography
• 2005Perhaps Love — Director of Photography
• 2005The White Countess — Director of Photography
• 20042046 — Director of Photography
• 2004Blue — Director, Writer
• 2004Dumplings — Director of Photography
• 2004Eros — Director of Photography
• 2004Three... Extremes — Director of Photography
• 20031:99 Shorts — (segment "Spring, 2003")
• 2003Green Tea — Director of Photography
• 2003Last Life in the Universe — Director of Photography
• 2002Hero — Director of Photography
• 2002Rabbit-Proof Fence — Director of Photography
• 2002The Quiet American — Director of Photography
• 2002Three — Director of Photography
• 2002Three: Going Home — Director of Photography
• 2001Made — Director of Photography
• 2000In the Mood for Love — Director of Photography
• 1999Away with Words — Writer, Director, Director of Photography
• 1999Buenos Aires Zero Degree: The Making of 'Happy Together' — Director of Photography
• 1999Liberty Heights — Director of Photography
• 1998Andromedia — Sakkaa / Soccer
• 1998Motorola — Cinematography
• 1998Psycho — Director of Photography
• 1998Typhoon Shelter — Director
• 1998Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema — Director of Photography
• 1997Chinese Box — Second Unit Director of Photography
• 1997First Love: The Litter on the Breeze — Director of Photography
• 1997Happy Together — Director of Photography
• 1997Motel Cactus — Director of Photography
• 1997Yesterday You, Yesterday Me — Yeung Seng Bo at 33 (Narrator)
• 19964 Faces of Eve — Director of Photography
• 1996Comrades, Almost a Love Story — Jeremy
• 1996Irma Vep — Thanks
• 1996Temptress Moon — Director of Photography
• 1996Tri-Star — Director of Photography
• 1996wkw/tk/1996@7'55''hk.net — Director of Photography
• 1995Fallen Angels — Director of Photography
• 1995Out of the Blue — Cinematography
• 1995The Peony Pavilion — Director of Photography
• 1994Ashes of Time — Director of Photography
• 1994Chungking Express — Director of Photography
• 1994Red Lotus Society — Director of Photography
• 1994Red Rose White Rose — Director of Photography
• 1993Beijing Bastards — Producer
• 1992Mary from Beijing — Director of Photography
• 1992Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land — Director of Photography
• 1991My Nostalgia, My Songs — Cinematography, Editor, Director
• 1990Days of Being Wild — Director of Photography
• 1990Family Day — Tourist
• 1990Return Engagement — Director of Photography
• 1989Carry On Yakuza — Fake Arms Dealer
• 1989I Am Sorry — Director of Photography
• 1989My Heart Is That Eternal Rose — Director of Photography
• 1988Burning Snow — Director of Photography
• 1988I Love Mary
• 1986Noir et blanc — Director of Photography
• 1986Soul — Director of Photography
• 1984Ah Fu — Director of Photography
• 1984逆旅與幻象 — self, Cinematography
• 1983That Day, on the Beach — Director of Photography
• 1982The Sexy Lady Driver — Steven George
• 1981Idle Dream
• 1981Journey through Images — Cinematography, Editor, Director
• 1981The Land of the Brave — Australian Man (Cameo)
• 1981家庭／電影 — self, Director, Cinematography
• 1980Christine (Film of Her) — Director
• 1979Archive / Preserving Taiwan’s Historic Sites — Cinematography
• 1979The Boat-Burning Festival — Cinematography
• Christopher Doyle: Chungking Express
• Hunters in the Dark — Director of Photography
• Late in Summer — Director of Photography
• Moving Pictures: Chungking Express

Appearances as themselves (11)

• China on Film — self
• 2019Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks — Self
• 2013Wu Xia Pian - Le Festin du Tigre Chinois — Self
• 2011Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema — Self
• 2007In the Mood for Doyle — Self
• 2006Reflections of Lady in the Water — Self
• The Culture Show — Self
• 2001Grit & Polish: Heroines from Hong Kong — Self
• 2001Orientations: Chris Doyle - Stirred But Not Shaken — Himself
• 1999Psycho Path — Self - Cinematographer
• Christopher Doyle in Conversation: Days of Being Wild — Himself