Chen Yao-chi

Movies

The Tofu Maker Had a Dream
Spring Swallow
Director
The story depicts a dwarf who wanted to get married. Through the arrangement of his family, he was going to marry a girl, Peach. Peach rejected him in the beginning and gradually she was touched by his talents and thoughtfulness and finally accepted him.
Girl with a Gun
Screenplay
An attempted rape of a deaf mute girl causes her to take revenge. Soon the killings begin.
Girl with a Gun
Director
An attempted rape of a deaf mute girl causes her to take revenge. Soon the killings begin.
The Anger
Director
Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
The Anger
Screenplay
Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
Devil Returns
Screenplay
A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.
Devil Returns
Director
A woman is raped and impregnated by a psychopath, who comes back from beyond the grave to exact revenge when his demonic son undergoes an exorcism.
Kill for Love
Director
Drama-thriller from Taiwan.
The Pioneers
Director
Wu Linfang, an immigrant from the mainland to Taiwan more than a hundred years ago, grows from a poor boy to a leader who instructs villagers to open oil wells
Going Up, Anybody?!
Screenplay
An ambitious country boy gets a job as a security guard in Taipei.
Going Up, Anybody?!
Director
An ambitious country boy gets a job as a security guard in Taipei.
Making It
Director
Those who grew up in Hong Kong in the 1970s definitely remember the Wynners, a band formed by Alan Tam, Kenny Bee, Bennett Pang, Danny Yip, and Anthony Chan. They first dabbled into the film industry with Let's Rock in 1975, and in 1978 Taiwanese director Chen Yao Chi created another Wynners movie Making It. With a script tailored for the Wynners, youth film Making It is an updated Chinese version of The Prince and the Pauper. Five up-and-coming young music lovers, played by none other but the Wynners, overcome a lot of difficulties before they have a chance to perform at a restaurant. However, one of the band members, Alan (Alan Tam), suddenly feels ill and is hospitalized. His four friends fortunately come across the rich Sylvester (also Alan Tam) who looks exactly like Alan, and the four desperate band members ask him to take Alan's place for the performance. Meanwhile, Sylvester's parents, busily fetching Sylvester to fulfill an arranged marriage, mistake Alan as Sylvester...
The Diary of Di-Di
Director
A young girl, her life in despair, finds confidence in life again through the encouragement of her lover and relatives.
The Misty Moon
Director
Brigitte Lin and Charlie Chin star in this Taiwanese drama about a kindergarten teacher who falls in love with a divorcee but leaves him because she thinks he's still in love with his ex-wife.
The Chasing Game
Director
Mandarin movie about the romance of an undergraduate with the prettiest girl on campus.
Come Fly with Me
Director
Charlie Chin is Cheng Chieh, an engineer obsessed with flying. Brigitte Lin is Liu Yen-mei, a rich girl who has to choose between Chieh and a rich man's son who stoops to manipulation to separate the 2 lovebirds.
Run Lover Run
Director
Brigitte Lin stars as a young girl on the cusp of becoming a woman...a problem for her mother, who thinks it's about time that her daughter got hitched! The dilemma: Brigitte is a tomboy, and more likely to wallop a suitor than wink at him. Luckily, the neighbor's son Alan Tang is returning from obtaining his nuclear physics degree, and seems to be the perfect catch. Mom sets her trap, and Brigitte and Alan are roped in, much to their dismay! Ever the canny young girl, Brigitte does her best to pawn Alan off on her brother's girlfriend...but her heart tells her ever so slightly that she might have made a mistake! Can she win Alan back?
Come Rain or Come Shine
Screenplay
A musical comedy developed from the usual poor-boy-loves-rich-girl situation.
Come Rain or Come Shine
Director
A musical comedy developed from the usual poor-boy-loves-rich-girl situation.
Liu Pi-Chia
Director
LIU PI-CHIA, a biographical documentary depicting the life of a veteran who joined tens of thousands of others to work on national infrastructure construction projects in the 1960s, is considered Taiwan’s first cinéma vérité film.
The Mountain
Director of Photography
The director follows three art college students HUANG Yong-song, MOU Tun-fei, and HUANG Gui-rong as they enjoy an excursion into the mountains. As the song ‘California Dreamin’ plays, the three talk about their artistic ideals, how only KMT party members were eligible for scholarships, and their view on the Vietnam War.
Through the Years
Director
THROUGH THE YEARS touches on the theme of Westward expansion by combining facts with fiction. A film about three college students.
The Mountain
Director
The director follows three art college students HUANG Yong-song, MOU Tun-fei, and HUANG Gui-rong as they enjoy an excursion into the mountains. As the song ‘California Dreamin’ plays, the three talk about their artistic ideals, how only KMT party members were eligible for scholarships, and their view on the Vietnam War.
The Archer
Director
A hand-drawn animation of the Chinese folktale “Houyi Shoots Down the Suns.”