Name
Nelson Yu Lik-wai
Known For
Camera
Birthday
1966-08-12 (60 years old)
Place of Birth
Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Biography
Yu Lik-wai (simplified Chinese: 余力为; traditional Chinese: 余力爲; pinyin: Yú Lìwéi; Jyutping: Yu4 Lik6 Wai4; born 12 August 1966), sometimes credited as Nelson Yu, is a Hong Kong cinematographer, film director, and occasional film producer. Born in Hong Kong, Yu Lik-wai was educated at Belgium's INSAS (Institut National Superieur des Arts de Spectacle) where he graduated with a degree in cinematography in 1994. Yu has become a mainstay in both the cinemas of China (where he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with director Jia Zhangke) and Hong Kong.
Yu has served as director of photography for nearly all of Chinese director Jia Zhangke's films, and along with Jia, the two men founded their own independent film production company, Xstream Pictures.
Known For
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In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about the...
6.5
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their indus...
5.4
Hua, a woman in her late twenties, goes against her family to become a teacher in Paris. S...
6.396
A woman will go to whatever lengths necessary to obtain her dream home with a view of the ...
6.872
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun...
7.465
After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and ...
7.2
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Thr...
6.947
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999...
7.213
Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged b...
5.1
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film...
- 2010 Dream Home as Brother Wah
- 2016 Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang as Self
