Rina is a director of photography based in London. She grew up in a small city in Japan, where she studied still life and portrait painting. She has been selected for the BAFTA Breakthrough 2020, and she is also the first female DOP ever to win a cinematography award at the British Arrows, as well as being nominated for a best cinematographer in fiction at the BAFTA Cymru Awards 19', making history in both commercials and narrative categories.
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Biography from TMDB.
- January 1, 1986 (40)
- Cinematographer
- 8 on MovieCove · 18 credits in all
What are Rina Yang's films like?
Across their 6 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 6
Light 1 · Serious 3 · Dark 2
Grounded 2 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 2
Gentle 1 · Charged 3 · Intense 2
A split, not a type: Steady 2 · Shifting 4 · Whiplash 0
Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 2 · Even-paced 4 · Relentless 0
A split, not a type: Casual 3 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 2
A split, not a type: Easy watch 1 · Affecting 2 · Heavy 3
A split, not a type: Resolved 4 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 2
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- 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 Rina Yang's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 8 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.
Subscription and free streaming for Rina Yang'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
18 credits, 8 with a MovieCove page.
Mother Mary(2026)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
O'Dessa(2025)
Midcredits score: 38th percentile of all films
The Fire Inside(2024)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Nanny(2022)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films
Sitting in Limbo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Becoming(2020)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Top Boy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Kiss of the Rabbit God (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Euphoria(2019)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all shows
Bohemian Rhapsody(2018)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Confessions to the Mirror (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Prima Donna (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Girl Electric (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Noro (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Noriaki (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Telephone Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
Roxanne (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
Career shape
A full career of 17 titles from 2014 to 2026.
Biggest box office
The Fire Inside (2024)
Highest rated
All Too Well: The Short Film (2021)
Most popular right now
Mother Mary (2026)
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.
Awards
Nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2025, Best Cinematography.
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Rina Yang's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 73rd percentile, the median of all 7; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 58th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up4
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th3
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 8 titles are Mixed.
- Universally Loved2
- Divisive1
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the cinematography 76/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 81, detractors 65. 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 Rina Yang's work okay for kids?
Across up to 5 MovieCove titles with content scores, 1 of the 5 categories sits near the median of all films.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted. The band's colour is the severity of their median, named beside it.
Who does Rina Yang work with?
People who share at least 2 of Rina Yang's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Sadie Sink shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Sadie SinkShared titles: O'Dessa (2025), All Too Well: The Short Film (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Sadie Sink
Composers
- Jack AntonoffShared titles: Mother Mary (2026), All Too Well: The Short Film (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Jack Antonoff
Producers
- Michael BloomShared titles: Mother Mary (2026), Nanny (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Bloom
- Ryan HellerShared titles: Mother Mary (2026), Nanny (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Ryan Heller
