Winston Chao

Winston Chao

出生 : 1960-06-09, Taiwan

略歴

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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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.
ペガサス 飛馳人生
Wan Heping
カーレースの世界で繰り広げられる男たちのプライドをかけた戦いを描き、中国で大ヒットを記録したカーアクション。かつてトップレーサーとして一世を風靡したチャン・チーは、5年間の出場禁止を経て復帰を果たすことに。若き天才レーサーのリン・ジェントンに挑戦するため、ナビゲーターのソン・ユーチャンやメカニックのジ・シンらかつてのチームスタッフを呼び戻すが…。
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?
MEG ザ・モンスター
Zhang
大陸から200キロ離れた海洋研究施設から、潜水した探査船が未知の海溝を発見。しかし、喜びもつかの間、船は未知の海域で消息を絶った。潜水レスキューのプロ、ジョナス・テイラーは、救助に向かった先で、生物学の常識を超えた“モンスター”=MEGと遭遇。しかし、その恐怖は単なる始まりに過ぎなかった。船を破壊し、研究施設を壊滅させたMEGは、陽光まばゆいビーチをも恐怖に陥れようとしている。ジョナス率いる海洋エキスパート・チームは、この危機をどう乗り切るのか。
Kabali
Tony Lee
A gangster in Malaysia goes in search of his family after 25 years of imprisonment.
スキップ・トレース
Victor Wong
香港警察の刑事ベニーは黒社会の大物ウォンを追う中で同僚ヤンを殺され、そのひとり娘サマンサの後見人になる。9年後、強引な捜査が問題視されたベニーは停職処分を受けるが、マカオのカジノで働くサマンサを騙して荒稼ぎした米国人詐欺師ワッツを捕まえんとロシアへ。実はワッツはウォン逮捕を可能にする重要人物であると同時に、数々の犯罪組織に命を狙われていた。ベニーとワッツは、中国を横切るルートで香港に向かう。
Xuan Zang
Emperor Taizong of Tang
Buddhism-themed Chinese-Indian historical adventure film based on Xuanzang's seventeen-year overland journey to India during the Tang dynasty in the seventh century. Xuan Zang (c. 602 - 664), was a Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang dynasty. From boyhood, he took to reading religious books, including the Chinese classics and the writings of ancient sages. He later travelled throughout China in search of sacred books of Buddhism. Subsequently, he developed the desire to visit India. This is when he became famous for his seventeen-year overland journey to India, which is recorded in detail in the classic Chinese text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions.
Chinese Wine
Surprise
Murong Hao
A monster crosses paths with the foursome from the classic Chinese story Journey To The West.
魔界戦記 ~雪の精と闇のクリスタル~
Zhang Daoxian
若いながらも神力を手にした鍾馗は、魔界の妖怪たちの襲撃から民衆を守るために斬妖士となる。彼は全ての妖怪たちのエネルギーを司る大切なクリスタルを魔界から盗み、妖怪たちから狙われる立場になってしまう。逃げる道すがら出会った美貌の女性雪晴に、鍾馗は心奪われる。
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
清朝末期の20世紀初頭の中国。列強各国が支配の手を伸ばそうと虎視眈々と機会をうかがう一方で、清朝政府の腐敗と退廃が進み、祖国の将来を憂う若者たちを中心に、革命の機運が各地で高まっていた。1911年3月、孫文は革命を志したものの武装蜂起に失敗して、やむなく国外へと亡命。彼の意志を引き継いだ同志・黄興が、国内にとどまって苦難に満ちた戦いを繰り広げる中、孫文は国外で革命への支援を広く呼び掛けていく。
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
The Touch
Yin's Father
A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.
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.
Island of Greed
Minister Feng
A gutsy police detecive and his team of cops probe into the widespread illegal dealings of a criminal mastermind who schemes to redeem himself by running for government office in taiwan.
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.
恋人たちの食卓
Li Kai
A retired and widowed Chinese master chef Chu and his family live in modern day Taipei, Taiwan. He lives with his three attractive daughters, all of whom are unattached. Soon, each of the daughters encounter new men in their lives. When these new relationships blossom, stereotypes are broken and the living situation within the family changes. Since the family has difficulty expressing their love for each other, the intricate preparation of banquet quality dishes for their Sunday dinners is the surrogate for their familial feelings.
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.
The Wedding Banquet
Wai-Tung Gao
A Taiwanese-American man is happily settled in New York with his American boyfriend. He plans a marriage of convenience to a Chinese woman in order to keep his parents off his back and to get the woman a green card. Chaos follows when his parents arrive in New York for the wedding.
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.