Database Statistics

(Updated on 12 August 2007)

There are total 16704 films and TV programmes information in Chinese Movie Database, including 16329 films and 375 TV programmes.

Chinese language movies and TV programmes

16257 movies. 373 TV programmes.
Among them,
3950 are made in mainland China.
9371 are made in Hong Kong.
3464 are made in Taiwan.
3 are made in Macau.
95 are made in other regions;
All include co-productions.

Movies and TV programmes in other languages

72 movies. 2 TV programmes. See all the non-Chinese movies here.
Among them,
4 are made in mainland China.
5 are made in Hong Kong.
1 is made in Taiwan.
71 are made in other regions;
All include co-productions.

Persons

There are 15616 unique individules in the database.
And total 109343 name entries.

Top 15 most credited names in the Database, and the number of movies they are in:

	Name	Times credited	Movies in
1	LEUNG Sing-Bo (Liang Xingbo, 梁醒波)	402	402
2	CHEUNG Ying (Zhang Ying, 张瑛)	360	332
3	CHOU Tat-Wah (Cao Dahua, 曹达华)	324	318
4	LAW Yim-Hing (Luo Yanqing, 罗艳卿)	311	311
5	YUM Kim Fai (Ren Jianhui, 任剑辉)	294	294
6	SHIH Kien (Shi Jian, 石坚)	292	291
7	SUN MA Sze-Tsang (Xin Ma Shizeng, 新马师曾)	287	283
8	WONG Jing (Wang Jing, 王晶)	286	172
9	NG Chor-Fan (Wu Chufan, 吴楚帆)	279	272
10	TENG Pi-yun (Deng Biyun, 邓碧云)	269	268
11	LAM Ka-Sing (Lin Jiasheng, 林家声)	266	266
12	Bowie WU Fung (Hu Feng, 胡枫)	258	253
13	CHU Gei (Zhu Ji, 珠玑)	257	242
14	PAK Yin (Bai Yan, 白燕)	250	247
15	CHEUNG Wood-Yau (Zhang Huoyou, 张活游)	248	244

Not surprisingly, all of the top 15 persons are based in Hong Kong. Most of them have Canton opera background, appearing in many Canton opera movies of 50's and 60's. Zhuji is the most prolific director, directing 242 films in 28 years. The only person who is active and not mainly an actor is Wong Jing, who's renowned for making movies quickly and cheaply. He himself appears in many movies.

Companies

There are 1134 companies in the database.
And total 12352 company entries.