Chen Kun-Hou

출생 : 1939-07-25, Taichung, Taiwan

약력

CHEN Kun-hou (born 25 July 1939 in Taichū, Japanese Formosa) is a Taiwanese film director and cinematographer. He is known for his film Growing Up (1983), one of the films that initiated the Taiwan New Cinema movement. Chen was also the cinematographer for several of fellow director HOU Hsiao-hsien's earlier films.

참여 작품

Colorful Mind
Director
When reaching the station a soul is told he has won another chance at life. He is placed in the body of 14 year old Makoto Kobayashi, who just committed suicide. He is watched over by a spirit named purapura. The soul is granted with the task of discovering the greatest sin he committed before time runs out.
My Mother's Teahouse
Director
A brothel disguised as a teahouse is staffed with old ladies long past their prime. However, things begin to change and become chaotic when the owner takes in a young girl.
Osmanthus Alley
Director of Photography
Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to rise from her poverty. She becomes famous for her embroidery and eventually marries into a rich family, but tragedy ensues.
Osmanthus Alley
Director
Ti Hung's parents die when she is twelve. When she is sixteen, she determines to change her fate, swearing to rise from her poverty. She becomes famous for her embroidery and eventually marries into a rich family, but tragedy ensues.
The Scalper
Director of Photography
The 'scalper' is a cinema ticket-tout skirting the law and police harassment to make a living for herself and her three children in downtown Taipei.
His Matrimony
Director of Photography
This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Hsia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Hsia is afraid to tell her mother about their seeing each other. They wait till Yun-Lang sends a matchmaker to Mei-Hsia's family. There was no way that Mei-Hsia's family would agree to their marriage. Mei-Hsia's parents send her to a relative in the northeast of Keelung, in an attempt to stop them from seeing each other, but Yun-Lang follows her there. Mei-Hsia's relative doesn't stop them until Mei-Hsia's mother finds out. Now their love is an open affair. This time, it's the Mei-Hsias turn to propose a marriage between the two families. To everyone's surprise, the Yun-Langs turn it down. Mei-Hsia and Yun-Lang planned to elope, but they failed. She kills herself. At last, Yun-Lang can call Mei-Hsia his wife by marring her memorial tablet.
His Matrimony
Director
This is a story located in a small town in Taiwan during the 50's and 60's. Mei-Hsia is from the most prominent family in town. Yun-Lang works in the local peasant assocation. They like each other, but Mei-Hsia is afraid to tell her mother about their seeing each other. They wait till Yun-Lang sends a matchmaker to Mei-Hsia's family. There was no way that Mei-Hsia's family would agree to their marriage. Mei-Hsia's parents send her to a relative in the northeast of Keelung, in an attempt to stop them from seeing each other, but Yun-Lang follows her there. Mei-Hsia's relative doesn't stop them until Mei-Hsia's mother finds out. Now their love is an open affair. This time, it's the Mei-Hsias turn to propose a marriage between the two families. To everyone's surprise, the Yun-Langs turn it down. Mei-Hsia and Yun-Lang planned to elope, but they failed. She kills herself. At last, Yun-Lang can call Mei-Hsia his wife by marring her memorial tablet.
My Favorite Season
Director of Photography
Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...
My Favorite Season
Director
Bi Bao-Liang is a 29 year-old man who believes that he will have bad luck if he touches a woman before he turns thirty. Liu Xiang-mei is a beautiful woman who had a love affair with her married boss, and now she is pregnant. In order to give her child a family name, she decides to find a man to have a one-year marriage contract. Bi Bao-Liang is the perfect man she is looking for because he is afraid of women. However, their marriage does not follow what they've planned...
동동의 여름방학
Director of Photography
고색창연한 졸업사를 통해 '집단'과 '예식', 즉 근대화 과정에서 필수적인 공동체 의식에 관한 기억으로 시작한다. 어린 남매가 시골에서 보내는 하루하루를 조용하게 가라앉은 카메라로 관찰하며 허우 샤오시엔 감독은 천진난만한 유년기 시절을 빌어 대만 사회의 가치관의 변화와 혼란을 바라보는 세대간의 갈등에 초점을 맞춘다. 양덕창이 아버지 역할로 출연하며, 낭뜨 영화제에서 후 샤오시엔 감독에게 두 번째로 그랑프리를 안겨주었다. 버라이어티지는 "허우 샤오시엔의 개인적이고, 행복한 기억이 담긴 일기장 같은 영화. 성장에 관한 그의 다음 작품들에 앞선 종결편이자 예고편 같은 영화이다."라고 했다. (보도자료 인용) 학교에 들어간 동동은 여름방학을 맞아 여동생 정정과 외삼촌 창민, 그리고 창민의 애인 벽운과 함께 외갓집에 간다. 동동의 어머니는 몸이 아파 병원에 입원한 상태이다. 동동은 외갓집에서 시골 친구들과 즐거운 시간을 보낸다. 동동의 어머니 병이 악화되어 수술을 한다는 편지가 날아오자 집안 분위기는 뒤숭숭해진다. 벽운이 임신을 하자 벽운의 어머니가 집으로 찾아오고, 창민은 할어버지의 분노로 집에서 쫓겨나 벽운과 살림을 차린다. 삼촌의 집에 놀러간 동동은 삼촌이 친구인 강도들을 숨겨주고 있었다는 것을 알게 되고 삼촌은 취조를 받는다. 동동의 어머니가 위독한 상태에서 고비를 넘기고 삼촌은 할아버지가 경찰서에 찾아간 덕에 풀려난다. 방학이 끝나자 동동은 데리러 온 아버지를 따라 집으로 돌아간다
Out of the Blue
Director
A boy fell in love with a girl, then the girl left. Years later, the boy found that he is a father now.
Out of the Blue
Cinematography
A boy fell in love with a girl, then the girl left. Years later, the boy found that he is a father now.
샌드위치 맨
Director of Photography
'샌드위치 맨'은 생계를 꾸려가기 위해 피에로 분장을 하고 몸 앞뒤에 포스터가 붙은 판자를 둘러메고 극장 홍보를 하는 한 가장과 그 가족의 이야기이다. 주인공에겐 아내와 어린 아기가 있으며, 일이 끝난 후에도 피에로 분장을 거의 지우지 않고 생활을 한다. 그런 어느날 극장 주인은 피에로 일을 그만 두는 대신 삼륜차를 타고 홍보 활동을 하라고 주인공에게 시키게 된다. 피에로 분장을 지우고 아내와 아기 앞에 선 남편. 그러나 아기는 아빠를 알아보지 못하고 낯선 사람인 양 울음을 터뜨린다. 아기가 자신을 알아보지 못한다는 사실을 안 주인공은 조용히 다시 피에로 분장을 하며, 이유를 묻는 아내에게 주인공은 환히 웃으며 '난 내 아들의 인형이잖아.'라고 말하면서 영화는 끝난다.
펑꾸이에서 온 소년
Director of Photography
펑후 섬의 마을 펑꾸이는 소금과 건조한 바람, 비릿한 내음과 밝은 햇빛으로 가득한 곳이다. 펑꾸이 출신인 아칭은 자신이 7살 때 아버지가 야구공에 맞아 갑자기 백치가 되버렸던 그 순간을 잊지 못한다. 그 뒤 변해버린 생활은 그에게 깊은 인상을 남기고 결국 그는 친구 아정, 쿠오추와 함께 고향 펑꾸이와는 흙이나 공기마저 완전히 다른 대도시 카오슝으로 향한다.
Growing Up
Director of Photography
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.
Growing Up
Director
The story follows a young man as he changes from an intelligently aware youth, to a teenager with much less confidence than he once had, and finally, to a stable adult.
The Green, Green Grass of Home
Director of Photography
A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country life and a fellow teacher at the school.
The Green, Green Grass of Home
Supervising Producer
A substitute teacher from Taipei arrives in a country village to teach a class of mischievous students. He soon falls in love with nature, country life and a fellow teacher at the school.
The Merry Couple
Director of Photography
Taiwanese romance film.
Play While You Play
Director of Photography
A photographer travels with her boyfriend to a seaside village in Penghu. There she strikes up a relationship with a blind man. When they reencounter one another back in Taipei, where he is preparing to undergo an operation to restore his sight, their connection intensifies.
Spring in Autumn
Director of Photography
Spring in Autumn
Spring in Autumn
Director
Spring in Autumn
The Story of a Small Town
Director of Photography
The film revolves around a family living in a small town. Kenny Bee plays the male family member who is released from prison and falls in love with a mute woman (Lin Feng-jiao).
Lovable You
Director of Photography
The daughter of a wealthy man takes French lessons so she can go to France with her fiancée, but ends up falling for a poor man who studies civil engineering.
A Sorrowful Wedding
Director of Photography
Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen are childhood friends. Chia-wen is the son of a rich landlord and Hsiao-fen is the daughter of a poor couple who works on the rich lanlord's land. Even as children Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen love each other deeply. Chia-wen is sent to school in the city. After graduation Chia-wen returns to the countryside and plans to make his childhood friend Hsiao-fen his wife. Chia-wen's father disapproves of the marriage between Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen and disowns Chia-wen. With the disapproval of their marriage, Chia-wen takes Hsiao-fen and they run away together. Unmarried, Chia-wen and Hsiao-fen live together and struggle to make a living.
He Never Gives Up
Director of Photography
Have no other info than it was part of Golden Horse's 100 Greatest Chinese-Language Films.
Good Morning, Taipei
Director of Photography
A loose youth passes the time freely until he comes across a young, female broadcaster who works at a radio station.
Lover on the Wave
Director
Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate even though she had given him a hard time. They soon fell in love and decided to get married but due to Yuan-yuan's heart problem, there is a possibility that she may not conceive.
Lover on the Wave
Director of Photography
Chao Ta-jung and Yuan-yuan met at the seashore by chance. Ta-jung was impressed with Yuan-yuan's compassion towards those who were less unfortunate even though she had given him a hard time. They soon fell in love and decided to get married but due to Yuan-yuan's heart problem, there is a possibility that she may not conceive.
The Glory of the Sunset
Director of Photography
A young doctor, regardless of his family’s objection, had decided to marry his beloved one. When he discovered that he had contracted a terminal disease and had only a few months to live with, he left his house without a word and came to a rural village. When the doctor saw the run-down medical facilities in the village, he thought he should contribute his best to provide medical assistance to those needy during his lifetime. Hence, he started a medical clinic, which in a short time, his name was spread wide and far. Meanwhile, his beloved girl friend finally found him in the village. Upon hearing his terminal disease, she insisted to marry the dying doctor…
Come Fly with Me
Director of Photography
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.
The Lucky Bumpkin
Director of Photography
A young woman's heart and jewels were swindled by three con-artists. As if this wasn't enough, they murdered her. With the help of a kind passerby, her ghost is now able to seek revenge.
Four Winds
Director of Photography
This film depicts the conflict between the West and Eastern culture, the Northern and Southern ways of life and the traditional and modern concepts. It consists of six stories.
Love Is an Elusive Wind
Camera Operator
Taiwanese romance film.
Woman Guerrillero with Two Guns
Camera Operator
An exciting story of daring guerrilla warfare.