Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#133830
of 909177 performers
Top 25%
Qian Siyi works on quiet performance rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Qian Siyi appears in 5 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Qian. Drunken Master Su Qier is the clearest case: a film rated 7.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are quiet performance, screen presence, charisma. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for fantasy, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Yang Haiting, Qian Siyi helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Drunken Master Su Qier (2021) as Ling Dang · The Land of Women (2024) · Longmen Town Inn (2021) as Luo Xiaoman
Career snapshot
Ranked #133830 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
5
2020–2024
Career length
4 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.2
Drunken Master Su Qier
Average Nutevio score
4.1
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.2
Drunken Master Su Qier
Most frequent director
Yang Haiting
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Yang Haiting
Most common genre
Fantasy
2 titles
Average runtime
1h 18m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.1
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2020s
4.1 average MV
The 2020s are where the work and the material meet. The Land of Women, Drunken Master Su Qier, Detective Dee and Hidden Demon — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2020s
4.1
Across 5 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2020s
4.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2020s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. The Land of Women, Drunken Master Su Qier, Detective Dee and Hidden Demon.
Most productive era
2020s
5 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2020s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 1.01 film |
| Action | 5.51 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2020Classic of Mountains and Seas: Ingenious Garlic
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Ah Gua.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
7.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
5 of 5 films
Directed by Yang Haiting
as Luo Xiaoman
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Ling Dang
Drunken Master Su Qier (2021)
Performance score7.3
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Ling Dang gives Qian Siyi a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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The Land of Women
The Land of Women (2024)
Performance score6.9
The Land of Women asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. The role is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Si Nyan
Detective Dee and Hidden Demon (2021)
Performance score6.5
Detective Dee and Hidden Demon asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Si Nyan is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Luo Xiaoman
Longmen Town Inn (2021)
Performance score6.5
Longmen Town Inn asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Luo Xiaoman is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Ling Dang
Start here. Drunken Master Su Qier is the clearest statement of what Qian Siyi does — accessible, 73 minutes, and rated 7.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Qian at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Classic of Mountains and Seas: Ingenious Garlic (2020)
Same director as Drunken Master Su Qier, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Detective Dee and Hidden Demon (2021)
Same director as Classic of Mountains and Seas: Ingenious Garlic, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Longmen Town Inn (2021)
Same director as Detective Dee and Hidden Demon, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
The Land of Women (2024)
A deliberate change of key after Longmen Town Inn — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Yang Haiting
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Land of WomenSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Drunken Master Su Qier
as Ling Dang
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Detective Dee and Hidden Demon
as Si Nyan
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Drunken Master Su Qier
as Ling Dang
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
The Land of Women
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Drunken Master Su Qier
as Ling Dang
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Qian Siyi has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Fantasy Legend
Awarded
2 catalogue titles in fantasy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
The Land of Women
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Drunken Master Su Qier
as Ling Dang
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Detective Dee and Hidden Demon
as Si Nyan
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Land of Women
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Drunken Master Su Qier
as Ling Dang
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Longmen Town Inn
as Luo Xiaoman
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Detective Dee and Hidden Demon
as Si Nyan
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Land of Women
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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