Winston Chao

Winston Chao

Nacimiento : 1960-06-09, Taiwan

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Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor. He came to international attention for his performance in the 1993 film The Wedding Banquet. He is also known for his roles in Red Rose White Rose and Eat Drink Man Woman, and for his five portrayals of Sun Yat-sen, notably in the films The Soong Sisters (1997), Road to Dawn (2007) and 1911 (2011). His notable television roles include the adaptation of Cao Yu's play Thunderstorm (1997), a double role in the historical drama Palace of Desire, the biographical mini-series The Legend of Eileen Chang (2004), the historical drama Da Tang Fu Rong Yuan (2007), the adaptation of Ba Jin's novel Cold Nights (Han ye, 2009), and the portrayal of Confucius (2011). Description above from the Wikipedia article Winston Chao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Winston Chao
Winston Chao

Películas

I Dreamed A Dream
An experimental "dream yoga" master Li Shihao experiences a stroke and falls into a coma. His daughter decides to go to his dream world to drag him out and wake her father up.
Pegasus
Wan Heping
Un conductor de carreras que en sus tiempos fue campeón regresa al volante.
Piano Lesson
A pianist, who has already lost his real audience, is searching for his fans via performing music in a world controlled by Artificial Intelligence. However, his only audience is a deaf and dumb cyborg girl, who is raised by data and has no actual experience with real humans. Can they identify each other’s feeling by the signals of music? As AI rises, how can the last generation of Homo sapiens and posthuman face their fate of desolation?
Megalodón
Zhang
Un sumergible de aguas profundas que forma parte de un programa internacional de vigilancia submarina, ha sido atacado por una enorme criatura que se creía extinta. Ahora está averiado en el fondo de la fosa oceánica más profunda del Pacífico con su tripulación atrapada en el interior. El tiempo se acaba y, en contra de los deseos de su hija Suyin (Li Bingbing), un visionario oceanógrafo chino (Winston Chao) contrata a Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham), un especialista en rescate en aguas profundas. Su misión será salvar a la tripulación y también al océano de una amenaza imparable: un tiburón prehistórico de 23 metros conocido con el nombre de Megalodón.
Kabali
Tony Lee
Previamente a su independencia de la India, muchos integrantes de la etnia tamil fueron enviados a Malasia como trabajadores bajo contratos precarios. Muchos años después el protagonista del film, Kabali luchará contra la opresión que sufrirá allí tras un largo período encarcelado. Cuando el destino de su gente esté en peligro él se verá más seguro que nunca para luchar por ellos y por su independencia. Todo en un contexto de crimen organizado y mafias.
Atrapa a un ladrón
Victor Wong
El detective de Hong Kong Bennie Black (Chan) ha estado siguiendo durante décadas a un conocido jefe de la delincuencia, Victor Wong. Cuando la joven sobrina de Bennie, Samantha, se mete en problemas con el sindicato del crimen de Wong, Bennie deberá localizar a la única persona que podrá ayudarlo: el jugador estadounidense Connor Watts (Johnny Knoxville). (FILMAFFINITY)
Xuan Zang
Emperor Taizong of Tang
Una obra épica sobre Xuanzang, ilustre monje budista de la dinastía Tang de China. "Xuan Zang" narra la historia legendaria del arduo viaje que el religioso realizó en solitario a la India en busca de escrituras budistas cuando China estaba bajo el imperio de la dinastía Tang (618-907). Su aventura acabó inspirando el clásico de la narrativa china "Viaje al Oeste".
Chinese Wine
Surprise
Murong Hao
A monster crosses paths with the foursome from the classic Chinese story Journey To The West.
Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal
Zhang Daoxian
Zhong Kui es un joven guerrero al que otorgan fantásticos poderes para enfrentarse a la lucha contra poderosos demonios, en un mundo en el que conviven las fuerzas del bien, del mal y los mortales, mientras intenta salvar a la mujer que ama.
The Palace
Kangxi Emperor
In Qing Dynasty, Chen Xiang and Liuli became maids and friends in the imperial palace. Liuli wanted to be famous whereas Chen Xiang just wanted to live a normal life. Liuli attempted to change her life by knowing the prince, even at the cost of betraying Chen Xiang.
Great Rescue
In 1932, as Korea is occupied by Japan, Chu Fucheng, an important figure in the city of Jiaxing, China, is asked to help in hiding exiled Korean nationalist Kim Gu.
1911
Sun Yat-sen
La historia se centra en el nacimiento en 1911 de la República China, cuando las fuerzas nacionalistas comandadas por Sun Yat-sen expulsaron a la Dinastia Quing.
Road to Dawn
Based on the story of Dr Sun Yat Sen’s revolutionary efforts and his love affairs while he was in Penang in 1910.
Those were the Days
Hu Weichen
El secreto del talismán
Yin's Father
En una época de grandes peligros, los monjes de Dunhuang esconden el Sharira, un talismán budista que contiene la esencia de un hombre santo, en un lugar inaccesible para los mortales. Sin embargo, está escrito que algún día alguien lo encontrará. Yin (Michelle Yeoh) y su hermano Tong son los últimos descendientes de una antigua familia de acróbatas. Un día, se presenta Eric (Ben Chaplin), un hombre que conoció a Yin en el pasado. Trae un medallón que será la clave para descifrar los misterios del Sharira. Juntos se lanzan a un peligroso viaje en busca del Talismán. Pero Karl (Richard Roxburgh) busca lo mismo que que ellos y los sigue de cerca: es un hombre rico que carece de compasión y escrúpulos y que no se detendrá ante nada. La búsqueda los conduce al desierto de Dunhuang y después al Tibet. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Little Life-Opera
Sanpeng
The story of a part-time opera troupe in coastal Fujian province of China and their struggles.
Burning Harbor
Sato
At the end of WWII, the Japanese decide to build a secret submarine base in Hong Kong for a last point of resistance. The mariners on a Chinese cargo boat are interned and forced to be labourers. When the Japanese commander orders that the laborers are to be killed on completion of the base, the captain of the cargo boat leads his crew in a fight for survival.
Hak gam (Island of Greed)
Minister Feng
Chou, un despiadado criminal se presenta a las elecciones taiwanesas. Pero el policía Lau y su grupo investigan la campaña del candidato para descubrir si está limpia hasta la toma de poder.
Intimates
Wah
Foon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.
Destination: 9th Heaven
Chin Ching
A father and daughter struggle with relationships as China regains control of Hong Kong.
The Soong Sisters
Sun Yat-sen
The Soong family was a political dynasty in China that reached the highest levels of power. This film follows the lives of the three Soong daughters, who were educated in America and returned to China. Ai-ling married a wealthy and powerful businessman. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary founder of modern China. Mei-ling married Chiang Kai-shek, China's leader during World War II. The sisters captured the world's fascination for their brilliant marriages and their strong influence on their nation.
Tonight Nobody Goes Home
Chen Siming
The Chen family contagiousness extends to taking on an extra-marital affair. Gua Ah-leh is at the movie's centre: she shines as Lung's wife, who finds she has a thing or two to learn from the gigolo after Lung blithely. Lang Hisung plays old dentist for broad comedy he is sixty years old.
In a Strange City
Yu Jane, a high school teacher and Xiang Guo-Chen, a successful industrialist, are secretly having an affair outside of his marriage. Xiang is on his way to a political career. His campaign advisor wants him to break off his relationship with Yu so to present himself as a candidate with an untarnished image.
Thunder Cop
Cop action movie clumsily inter-cut with slapstick. Dumb cop befriends triad guy who wants to go straight but is being set up by his unscrupulous drug dealing colleagues.
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Ever-changing life in a busy modern metropolis brings both ecstasy and sorrow: One night, 24-year-old A Rong by chance helps A Min, a beautiful woman, defending her from group of harassers on the street. A Rong takes A Min sleep in his house, while he himself goes to a friend's house to sleep on the sofa. The next morning, A Rong arrives home to find A Min gone; he does everything he can to find her and ask her to marry him.
Xiu Xiu
Li Zhao
Yu Lei plays an orphan Xiu Xiu, who is married to a foreign land when she was 3. Her husband, a hunter (Lau Hok Yin), doesn't know how to love her. So a passionate affair is unavoidable when she meets up with a military doctor (Winston Chao).
I Want to Go on Living
A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.
Red Rose White Rose
Tung Zhenbao
Chronicles the love life of a man, Zhenbao. He has a steamy fling with the wife of a friend, the saucy and exciting Red Rose. Even though he feels happy with her, he knows he will not end up with her. To maintain his reputation, he marries an antiseptic, frigid but classy lady of a prim and proper background (White rose). Dissonance abound when he finds his bride irritating.
Comer, beber, amar
Li Kai
Agridulce comedia sobre la vida de Chu, un viejo chef de Taipei, viudo y con tres hijas (Jen, Chien y Ning) muy distintas pero con algo en común: la rebeldía. Un buen día, sus vidas empiezan a complicarse: una gruñona viuda se muda al apartamento de al lado, alguien se queda embarazada, alguien cae en una profunda depresión, alguien muere y alguien encuentra el amor verdadero. El reputado director Ang Lee volvió a Taiwán para contar otra historia de sentimientos y emociones.
In Between
Wong Man Fai
Three flatmates share a luxury flat. A philandering hairdresser meets his match. A young stockbroker meets his boss's soon-to-be-ex-wife. A pregnant lady unsure over the identity of the baby's father.
El Banquete de Boda
Wai-Tung Gao
Simon y Wai-Tung son dos gays que viven juntos en Manhattan. Para disipar las sospechas de los padres de Wai-Tung, Simon sugiere que organice una boda de conveniencia con Wei-Wei, una joven inmigrante que necesita la carta verde de inmigración para poder permanecer en los Estados Unidos. Pero cuando los padres de Wai-Tung llegan a Nueva York insisten en organizar el banquete, lo que traerá muchas complicaciones.
The Legend of Nezha
Master Tai Yi
Nezha gets into trouble and implicates his parents, who get punished by the heavens along with him. He bravely steps up and admits his fault, which touches the heavens, and his effort comes to fruition. The family of three finally reunites in the end.