Jingsong Dong
The Wild Goose Lake (2019) is Dong Jinsong’s fourth collaboration with director/writer Diao Yinan. In 2003 he shot Diao’s directorial debut Uniform, in 2007, he shot Night Train which premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes that year and Black Coal, Thin Ice which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014. In 2011 Dong was Director of Photography on Xiaoshuai Wang’s 11 Flowers, which was nominated for Best Children’s Feature Film in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and also for Cai Shangjun’s People Mountain People Sea which premiered In Competition at the 68th Venice Festival.
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Biography from TMDB.
- Cinematographer
- 6 on MovieCove · 15 credits in all
What are Jingsong Dong's films like?
Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
A split, not a type: Light 0 · Serious 3 · Dark 2
A split, not a type: Grounded 2 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 2
Gentle 0 · Charged 2 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 3 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
Casual 0 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 3
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 3
A split, not a type: Resolved 0 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Bittersweet2
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Jingsong Dong's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 6 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on The Criterion Channel (2).
Subscription and free streaming for Jingsong Dong's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
15 credits, 6 with a MovieCove page.
Resurrection(2025)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Endless Journey(2023)
Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films
Infernal Affairs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Night Light: Making of The Wild Goose Lake (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
The Wild Goose Lake(2019)
Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
The Lady in the Portrait(2017)
Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films
The Donor (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Black Coal, Thin Ice(2014)
Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films
People Mountain People Sea (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
11 Flowers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
Night Train (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Uniform (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2003)
Mamma Dunhuang (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Red Snow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 15 titles, 13 of them dated from 2003 to 2025.
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Jingsong Dong's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 76th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 77th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th1
Shape of the crowd
5 of their 6 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Crowd Pleaser5
- Mixed1
Reviewers score the cinematography 87/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 91, detractors 78. The element that speaks to their work as a cinematographer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Jingsong Dong's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Jingsong Dong work with?
People who share at least 2 of Jingsong Dong's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Yang Shen shares the most, 3.
Directors
- Bi GanShared titles: Resurrection (2025), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Bi Gan
- Yi'nan DiaoShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Yi'nan Diao
Actors
- Chloe MaayanShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Chloe Maayan
- Fan LiaoShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Fan Liao
- Jue HuangShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Jue Huang
- Lun-Mei GweiShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)See all 2 shared titles with Lun-Mei Gwei
Producers
- Yang ShenShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018), Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)See all 3 shared titles with Yang Shen
- Charles GillibertShared titles: Resurrection (2025), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Charles Gillibert
- Hao MaShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Hao Ma
- Stanley TongShared titles: The Wild Goose Lake (2019), Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Stanley Tong
