Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor. He was born in Taipei, Taiwan. His father Chang Kuo-chu and his brother Hans Chang are also actors.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film A City of Sadness (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for The Assassin (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include The Puppetmaster (1993) and Flowers of Shanghai (1998).
Chu Tʻien-wen is a Taiwanese fiction writer. Chu is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for most Hou Hsiao-hsien films. She is the recipient of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.
The Taipei National University of the Arts is a national university in Guandu, Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan.
Dust in the Wind is a 1986 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is based on co-screenwriter Wu Nien-jen's own experiences, and is the first of a trilogy of Hou and Wu's collaborations, the others being A City of Sadness (1989) and The Puppetmaster (1993).
The Time to Live and the Time to Die, also known as A Time to Live, A Time to Die is a 1985 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. This film is inspired by Hou's own experience of growing up in Fengshan, Kaohsiung city. It is the second part of Hou's coming-of-age trilogy, preceded by A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) and followed by Dust in the Wind (1986).
Chen Kun-hou (陳坤厚) is a veteran cinematographer, who started his career in the 1960s. He won his first best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards in 1978 for He Never Gives Up (汪洋中的一條船), directed by Lee Hsing (李行). In the early 1980s he began to direct his own films in collaboration with Hou Hsiao-hsien (侯孝賢). After series of urban comedies, he made quite a few representative films of the Taiwan New Cinema, such as Growing Up, which won him the best director award at the Golden Horse Awards, His Matramony, which won him the second best cinematography award at Golden Horse Awards, and My Favorite Season, and Osmanthus Alley. He is awarded for his life achievement in Taiwan cinema at the 60th Golden Horse Awards in 2023.
Taipei Story is a 1985 Taiwanese film directed by Edward Yang — his second full-length feature film and third overall. The film stars Hou Hsiao-hsien and singer Tsai Chin to depict the grinding relationship of Ah-lung and Ah-chen, who have known each other since childhood in Taipei. It is doomed to fail because Ah-lung cannot forget about the past while Ah-chen is eager to embrace the future as Taipei undergoes modernization and globalization. Taipei Story is one of the representative films of the New Taiwanese Cinema. It won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 38th Locarno Film Festival in 1985.
The Boys from Fengkuei, also known as All the Youthful Days, is a 1983 film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. This movie is about a group of teenagers with nothing to do, high energy and impulsive. While waiting to be enlisted in the army, they caused trouble in their hometown, Fengkuei, and ran away from Penghu to Kaohsiung. From a small town to a big city, the depression and turmoil of youth made them experience unforgettable life scenery, and gradually receded from the original youthfulness. It was Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first art film after he directed three light comedies in the early eighties and a representative work of the Taiwan New Cinema at its inception.
Dust of Angels is a 1992 Taiwanese crime film directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming, executive produced by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. It was entered into Directors' Fortnight at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. "An lah" (安啦) is a Taiwanese Hokkien colloquialism; the title in full roughly translates to "take it easy, lad" or "cool it, kid."
Where the Wind Settles is a 2015 Taiwanese historical period film directed by Wang Toon. Spanning the years from 1949 to 2010, the film chronicles the lives of several mainland Chinese people who resettled in Taiwan near the end of the Chinese Civil War.
Hanky Panky is a 2017 Taiwanese comedy film directed by Huang Chao-liang and starring Chu Ke-liang in his final film role. Lan Cheng-lung and Aggie Hsieh also star. The film was released in theaters on January 26, 2017.
When a Wolf Falls in Love with a Sheep is a 2012 Taiwanese romantic fantasy film directed by Hou Chi-jan and starring Kai Ko and Jian Man-shu.
Missing Johnny is a 2017 Taiwanese drama film written and directed by Huang Xi. The film stars Lawrence Ko, Rima Zeidan and Sean Huang. Missing Johnny is Huang's debut feature. It is executive produced by Hou Hsiao-hsien.
Hsiao Ya-chuan is a Taiwanese film director.
Peggy Chiao is a Taiwanese/Chinese filmmaker, producer, distributor, educator, juror, critic, and author. She is known internationally as the "godmother of New Taiwan Cinema".
Hou Chi-jan is a Taiwanese director and writer. His works are often related to historical memories.
Light the Night, previously known as Blue Hour, is a 2021 Taiwanese Netflix original series written by Ryan Tu and directed by Lien Yi-chi. The series stars Ruby Lin, Yo Yang, Cheryl Yang, Rhydian Vaughan, Derek Chang, Puff Kuo, Esther Liu, Cherry Hsieh and Nikki Hsin-ying Hsieh.
Liao Ching-Sung, also known as “Liao-san (廖桑),” is a Taiwanese film editor, known for his work with Taiwanese New Wave directors such as Hou Hisao-Hsien, Edward Yang and Wan Jen. He has received numerous accolades including two Golden Horse Awards for Outstanding Taiwanese Filmmaker of the Year, as well as the Special Contribution Award of Golden Horse Awards in 2018.
A Time in Quchi, directed by Chang Tso-Chi, is a Taiwanese film that was released in 2013. The film premiered in competition at the 66th Locarno International Film Festival. It received two nominations for Best New Performer and Best Original Film Music at the 50th Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards.
