Pong-Fong Wu
Nacimiento : 1964-11-02, Taiwan
Muerte : 2020-05-25
Historia
Wu Pong-fong (Chinese: 吳朋奉; 2 November 1964 - 25 May 2020) was a Taiwanese actor and choreographer.
Wu
A gang conflict brews as dispute about the lucrative elver harvest rises. Fellow gangster Loo is desperate to extricate his fisherman father, Gu, from the impending warfare, but they are nonetheless caught in the crossfire.
Sergeant
A boy lives with his Grandma and Mr. Lin, the tenant who looks after him and Grandma. But when Grandma passes away, the boy's uncle returns to Taiwan and discovers that ownership of the apartment was transferred to other people.
On the day Taiwan passes its same-sex marriage law, Wen-de’s daughter is at home, celebrating her new engagement to her girlfriend.
Huang Jhenfu
Chairman of The Education Department
When her daughter's slipping grades threaten their status in life, a mother resorts to extreme measures to avoid losing social standing.
A-Tek is on a quest to find his favorite metal band, Chthonic, and persuade them to play a benefit protest concert in his southern Taiwan hometown. Can music save a Taiwanese homeowner from a Chinese land grab? He sure hopes so.
Wu
Alifu, a 25 year-old Paiwan boy, works as a hair-dresser in Taipei and struggles between his dream of getting a sex change operation and following his father’s footsteps to inherit the title as Chief of the indigenous Paiwan tribe. His lesbian roommate, Pei-Zhen, is also his best friend and confidante. Sherry, a transgender man, is the owner of a drag queen bar. For years, Sherry has been in love with the plumber, Wu, even though Wu only sees him as his buddy. Chris, a civil servant, lives a dull life. A one-time gig as a drag queen in the bar unexpectedly becomes his unique and secret way to relief stress. Chris has no choice but to keep this gig a secret from his girlfriend Angie. Across different genders and sexualities, the only common ground these people share is their search for love, understanding and acceptance.
(Source: Golden Village)
Hui Min Yan
Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the family mementos, Tae finds a red box full of recipes and letters written by their mother who died 20 years ago. In these recipes and letters, she finds out how her mother had struggled in her life due to relocation from Japan to Taiwan, the death of her Taiwanese husband, and a battle with cancer. Tae travels to Taiwan to trace her mother's past, reminiscing about the dishes she made for the family.
陳世昌
Printing Company Owner
Wan Zhen (Janine Chang) is an editor of a fashion magazine where she is competent that she can do her job successfully but was very clueless in real life. Since her boyfriend Hao Jie (Peter Ho) works from home, he looks after her so well that they adopted a golden retriever (Li La) which drastically changed Wan Zhen’s life that she begins to woke up early and cook for Li La. Wan Zhen is soon promoted and begins to devote more to her work but as her career soars, her time become hectic. Will Wan Zhen choose the job she loves or Li La who has become family to her?
Master Chef
More than 20 years ago, there were three "Ban Dou" master chefs who dominated the catering business in Taiwan. However, the street banquet business has been in decline since Taiwan's economic boom. Master Fly Spirit wants to pass the family recipes and culinary skills on to his only child, Wan, but she desperately wants to run away from the family business and to become a film star.
In Taiwan, there are over 36000 foreign workers on the run, hiding in the darkness and making money illegally. The government offers reward for runaways all over the island. Illegal employers, agents and foreign worker are put on alert. A new profession has therefore arisen: bounty hunters who capture illegal foreign workers...
A young woman in Taipei is confronted with the blindness of her mother who is convinced she has a sixth sense. Shot with little facilities, but it is Verbeek’s most mature film - about uprooting, spirituality and modernity.
Big Chung / Ghost
Inspired by an ancient Chinese ghost story, the tale that goes beyond what viewers usually expect in the ghost movies and further to challenge the traditional story-telling pattern.
Chunmei, away from home, she boards a taxi in the city. She goes to see the sea, to the hair salon for a youthful haircut, and is invited to dinner with her taxi driver. They go to karaoke and drink wine. The taxi driver finds Chunmei's behavior bizarre, but he knows she is a dissatisfied woman, and he begins to feel pity for her. When dawn comes, looking out the window, searching in the busy crowded city, can they find their way back home again?
2012 film
A-yi
Flying Dragon, Dancing Phoenix is a contemporary comedy based on Taiwanese opera.
Juliets's dad (segment "Two Juliets")
A triptych reinterpreting Shakespeare's classic character Juliet. The three stories are directed by 3 different directors; Juliet's Choice (By Hou Chi Jan), Two Juliets (By Shen Ko Shang), and Another Juliet (By Chen Yu Hsun) Juliet's Choice : In the 70's, Ju worked in a printing store where a boy with a banned article changes her life. Two Juliets : Mei is told that in the 80's, a woman faked insanity to be locked up just to wait for her lover. Another Juliet : In 2010, "Juliet" tries to commit suicide but a TV commercial crew gets in the way.....
A-yi
"Seven Days in Heaven" covers the 7 days of the Taoist morning ritual after the death of Lin Guo Yuan (Po Tai). The movie examines the effects of his death on his children, nephew, and sister-in-law ...
Reading Club member
In the early 1950s, even the small villages in Taiwan were bathed in the atmosphere of White Terror. It was a difficult time for all. There was a beautiful young woman called A-zhen. She always felt that there was something weird in her house since she got married to her husband, A-yi, the village glassblower. A-zhen was very curious about the mystery surrounding the wall in her house. So, one day, she decided to investigate the real secret behind the wall.
Rebellious girl Lan leaves home at a young age, and the cruel reality forces her to sell her body in order to get by. Her hope of happiness and freedom vanishes the moment she stabs her priest husband. After being released from prison, she meets Blackie, her live-in boyfriend who is a gambler, and Xiu Xiu, a kind-hearted girl who intends to help her lead a normal life. But Lan makes the same mistake again and is back in jail...
After her mother died, the youngest daughter has been dreaming about her dead mother for nights. In the dreams, her mother expresses her will not to be buried next to her dead husband. On the seventh night after the mother’s death, the hidden past of the family was finally revealed.
吳耀文
相依為命的父親死了, 吳曉瑛依著父親的遺言, 心不甘情不願地去投靠母親白瑜珍, 但是二十年的親情隔閡, 讓母女關係充滿著對立和不信任。 白瑜珍繼承了父親遺留下的園藝公司, 物質生活優渥,情感自主, 白瑜珍經營的個人形象, 是吳曉瑛一個貧窮環境女孩所無法理解的成人世界。 但是吳曉瑛並不想找回親情, 她不懂自己心裡幽微的希望, 她只是疑惑,明明能愛人、能照顧人的白瑜珍, 為什麼吝嗇地不愛父親,不愛自己?