Edward YangFilmography

Born:
November 6, 1947 in Shanghai, China
Occupation:
Director, Screenwriter
Birth name:
Yang Te-ch'ang
Biography:
Though largely unknown in the West, Edward Yang emerged, over the course of two decades, as one of international cinema's most distinctive voices and, along with Hou Hsiao Hsien, one of Taiwan's finest filmmakers. Born in Shanghai in 1947, Yang fled with his family to Taiwan during the tumult of...Read More

  • Kau Banji

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Ni Ming Ran, Kelly Ko, Cai Xinghung, Xu Hui Ni, Tao Chuan Zheng

    Synopsis: Alex Yang's debut feature, The Trigger is a story of a man trying to help a teenager who is headed down the wrong path. Gui (Ni Ming Ran) is a mafia hitman who has a crisis of conscious. His sense of right and wrong, as well as a fear of what may happen to his wife and kids, convinces him to turn Read More

    2002

  • Yi Yi

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Wu Nien-Chen, Kelly Lee, Elaine Jin, Chen Xisheng, Jonathan Chang

    Synopsis: Master Taiwanese director Edward Yang spins this intricate and complex yarn about life's everyday crises. The film focuses on N.J. Jian (Wu Nien-Jen, a noted writer/director in his own right); his wife, Min-Min (Elaine Jin); and their two children, teenager Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee) and young Read More

    10/6/00

  • Mahjong

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The European Upper Crust meets the Taiwan Underworld in this convoluted comic action thriller. Winston Cheng (Chang Kuo-shu) is a prominent businessman who has somehow managed to fall deep into debt to organized crime leaders in Taipai, to the tune of $100 million. When it becomes clear that the Read More

    1996

  • A Confucian Confusion

    Crew: Director, Production Designer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Chen Xiangqi, Ni Shujun, Wang Weiming, Wang Zhongzheng, Wang Yeming

    Synopsis: Taiwanese society is closely examined in this complex political drama that includes elements of black comedy. The underlying thesis is a call for nouveau riche Asian countries to expand their horizons and reconsider their traditional ways. The relationships within the film are quite Read More

    1995

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Chang Kuo-Shu, Elaine Jin, Wang Juan, Chang Han

    Synopsis: Edward Yang's fifth picture is a novelistic exploration of the meanings and contradictions of Taiwanese cultural identity. Set in 1960, and based on a true incident weighing heavily on Yang's own youth, the film -- which, in its unedited form, clocks in at just under four hours -- primarily Read More

    1991

  • The Terrorizers

    Crew: Director, Screenwriter

    Actors: Cora Miao, Lee Lichun, Jin Shi-Jye, Gu Bao-ming

    Synopsis: Three groups of complete strangers are shown to have their lives intertwined in strange ways in this enigmatic thriller. An amateur photographer witnesses a police raid on a gang during which one, a girl, escapes. Meanwhile, a doctor and his wife are having a difficult time together. He is Read More

    1987

  • Taipei Story

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Tsai Chin, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wu Nien-Chen, Ko Su-Yun

    Synopsis: The disintegration of a relationship has undertones that find an echo in the possible disintegration of both the economy and the society in this intriguing tale from director Edward Yang. Qin (Cai Qin) has a high-paying job in a computer company, and her fiancé, Lon (Hou Xiaoxian), works in a Read More

    1985

  • A Summer at Grandpa's

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Actors: Wang Chi-Kwang, Lin Hsiao-Ling

    Synopsis: Grandpa (Koo Chuen) and Grandma (Mei Fong) live in the fertile Taiwanese countryside. A boy (Wang Chi-Kwang) and his sister (Sun Cheeng-Lee) are packed off to their grandparents when their mother falls ill. Though relationships are strained at first, the boy and girl end up having a wonderful Read More

    1984

  • That Day, On the Beach

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Sylvia Chang, Terry Hu, David Mao, Hsu Ming

    Synopsis: Two estranged friends reunite and end up reminiscing, dreaming, and sharing their deepest secrets in this Taiwanese drama. One of the friends is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour. The other is a divorcee who has just started a new business. The two haven't seen each other Read More

    1983

  • In Our Time

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Lee Lichun, Zhang Yingzhen

    1982

  • 11 Women

    Crew: Director

    1981

  • Winter of 1905

    Crew: Screenwriter

    1981

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