Tu Duu-chih

Tu Duu-chih

Nascimento : 1955-04-05, Taipei, Taiwan

História

Tu Duu-chih (Chinese: 杜篤之, Born in 1955 in Taipei), Tu was trained in 1973 as a sound engineer in the Film Technicians Training Program conducted by Central Motion Pictures Corporation. In 1978 he was hired by CMPC as assistant sound engineer, thus began his career in film and has been responsible for the sound recording, editing and mixing of many of the ‘Taiwanese New Wave’ works. He has been one of the leading sound technicians in the Taiwan film industry since the 1980s, and was instrumental in the sound engineering for the filmmakers of the "Taiwan New Wave." He has been involved in the majority of Taiwanese films that have garnered international critical acclaim. He worked for HOU Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) in "City of Sadness,"(悲情城市) "The Puppetmaster,"(戲夢人生) "Good Men, Good Women,"(好男好女) "Flowers of Shanghai,"(海上花) "Millennium Mambo," and “Kohi Jikou”(咖啡時光). His works for Edward YANG include "That Day, On the Beach," (海灘的一天) "Taipei Story," (青梅竹馬) "The Terrorizer," (恐怖份子) "A Brighter Summer Day," (牿嶺街少年殺人事件) "A Confusion, Confusion," (獨立時代) "Mahjong," (麻將) and "A One and a Two." (一一) His other important works include "A Borrowed Life," (多桑directed by WU Nien-Jen吳念真) "The Peach Blossom Land," (暗戀桃花源 directed by Stan LAI賴聲川) "In the Mood for Love," (花樣年華directed by WONG Kar Wai王家衛) and "What Time is it There?" (你那邊幾點directed by TSAI Ming-Liang蔡明亮). Tu received the Prix du Jury a Un Technicien for "Millennium Mambo" and "What Time is it There?" at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.

Perfil

Tu Duu-chih

Filmes

Heaven and Hell
Sound Director
The movie tells the story of a restaurant owner (played by Duan Yihong) who's chased after the murderer of his son for seven years. On the way, he met a young man (played by Shi Pengyuan) with a complicated background. Amidst suspicion and temptation, the relationship between the two began moving in an unexpected direction.
Dormir de olhos abertos
Sound
Uma cidade de praia no Brasil. Fu Ang, Kai e Xiaoxin quase não se encontram nessa comédia sutil de mal entendidos. Mas ao longo de um verão, relações delicadas são formadas entre eles, como ilhas em águas infestadas por tubarões.
All Shall Be Well
Sound
When her partner Pat unexpectedly dies, Angie is left to worry about the flat in which the couple lived together for over 30 years. Supported by her chosen family, Angie begins a later-life journey into emancipation.
Kids
Sound Designer
The Horse
Sound Designer
On the brink of moving away, Jing stands in front of the entrance of a room. As she struggles to step into the room and pack, a horse unexpectedly appears in the apartment.
Be With Me
Sound
This is a story of reminiscence, remembering my long-deceased Grandpa. To remember is to transcend, therefore it’s a story of time and space, overlapped and intertwined. It’s also a quest of love and work, a spiritual and emotional journey; and through which values are re-examined and life reaffirmed.
A Boy and a Girl
Sound
In a declining small town, an idle boy encounters a heartbroken girl. Trying to escape, they devise a secret plan and set off for a one-way journey.
Snow in Midsummer
Sound
For 49 years, Ah Eng and Dou E were trapped in the "513" timeline. In 1969, post-election tensions gripped Kuala Lumpur when the Cantonese street opera "Snow in June" showcased Dou E, portrayed by the troupe master. Amid a riot, Ah Eng and her mother sought refuge with the troupe, losing contact with her brother and father. In 2018, Ah Eng returned to Kuala Lumpur and unexpectedly encountered "Dou E" at the cemetery.
BIG
Supervising Sound Editor
Film set at the Pediatric Oncology Ward.
Come Back, My Child
Sound
This documentary tracks three elderly women from Taiwan, China and the US who are drawn together by the bound they develop with inmates of a maximum-security prison in New York.
See You at the Rally
Supervising Sound Editor
This film is a film about the relationship between Chou Ta-Long and his son Dong, the transformation and growth of the decadent father's attitude towards life. Jun, a genius rally driver who has just been released from jail, accidentally comes into their life. A new journey is about to start. The spirit of rally is persistence and determination. This time, can they overcome the obstacles and finish the game? It’s a life story about family, friendship and redemption.
Workers The Movie
Sound Director
Abang Adik
Sound
Abang and Adi are undocumented orphans living in present-day Malaysia. While the older brother, a deaf mute, has resigned himself to a life of poverty, his younger sibling burns with indignation. A brutal accident upsets the fragile balance of their relationship.
Where the Wind Blows
Sound Designer
In the 70's, Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption(HKICAC) was founded. The mission to hunt down corrupted detectives unveiled a new chapter of the colonial Hong Kong. Lui Lok (Aaron Kwok) and Nam Kong (Tony Leung) who used to be two rightous police officers wanted to change the status quo. They built an empire of corruption by controlling organized crimes and eventually took the position of Chief Chinese Detective. However, power struggle has always been the cause of chaos between the triad and police. Lui Lok’s wife, Tsai Zhen (Du Juan) was targetted by the triad for helping her husband in gaining his position. Even the most loyal detectives Fat-Bee (Michael Chow) and Yim Hung (Patrick Tam), almost turned their backs to Lui Lok. A new episode of history has begun when HKICAC issued the wanted notices for Lui Lok and Nam Kong. Their era has officially come to an end. Where the wind blows, Hong Kong is no longer where it used to be.
Lost in the Forest
Sound
Asheng, once a gang member of the Zhongshan District, was sent to jail for 12 years after saving his friend Shaou. He is released and returns to Linsen North Road, his old turf, finding it familiar yet perplexing after being away for so many years. Shaou is now a mob boss with his own turf. When the son of Seagull’s patron, Mr. Xiao, is murdered, the evidence points to up-and-coming mobster Monkey. Shauo tries to ambush Monkey and fails, getting shot by the drugged up gangster instead. Asheng, who initially refused to help Shaou, is now filled with rage and decides to avenge his friend.
Welcome Home
Sound
This is a short film about women with a great influence in a Chinese family. In this mother-and-daughter relationship hides a cycle of love, life and hurting each other.
Girls, be ambitious!
Sound Designer
Aspiring AV actresses Liz Ai Ai and Berry fail to break into the industry and somehow end up joining a wrestling club, where they use their AV-style “special moves” to rise to superstardom. Starring Kimi HSIA, Gemma WU and Tiara HUANG, with stunts directed by Japanese wrestling promotion Stardom, this is a comedy about the struggles and tears behind the pursuit of dreams.
Coo-Coo 043
Sound Designer
The sound of wings reverberates through the air. In the murky half-light, race pigeon 043 has finally returned after seven years. The family's barely-maintained peace after their son's missing is shattered by 043's return, as the daughter brings a street boy home. Things begin to change gradually, so do the people. In the aftershock of the storm, what course should the wounded follow?
GAGA
Supervising Sound Editor
The tribal village gets misty in September, letting out an atmosphere as intriguing as Hayung's family in this autumn-winter season. After Hayung's homeland was occupied, one 80-year-old man devoted his whole life to worshipping GAGA. The traditions were forgotten by his descendants after his passing... The Hayung's family represented indigenous families in Taiwan. Each tribe represents a withering big family. The eldest son Pasang joins in the election campaign, neglecting the opposition from his family. The second son, who is a farmer, is thus affected. After the election campaign, the entire family is on the verge of falling apart, and the village witnesses the snow for the first time in a very long time... With snow melting, new lives emerge. The broken family has started mending and repairing...
On the Train
Sound
On the Train captures from the birth to the last moment of the railway, 98.2 kilometers long and opened in 1992, crossing southern Taiwan.
Fantasy · World
Sound
A cold, hard-nosed lawyer, Zhang, discovers that his past client, Tang, is involved in yet another case of sexual assault. Thirteen years ago, Zhang was a rookie and mentored by a senior lawyer, Tu. Young and ambitious as Zhang was, his outstanding performance successfully helped Tang exonerated from the charge. However, the brutal cross-examination on the victim inevitably became his nightmare. After so many years, tormented by guilt, Zhang finally has the opportunity to atone for his mistakes and avenge the girl he loved. Challenged by Tu and Tang, he decides to pursue justice at any cost.
Yanagawa
Sound Director
A pair of brothers from Beijing went to Yanagawa, Japan. Trying to find the girl they both loved in their youth.
Life For Sale
Sound
Untouchable
Sound Director
“Siaulian”, who is released from prison and trying to turn his life back to track, runs into his childhood friend Tang, now a police officer, in a gang fight. Siaulian is wanted by the gangs since he has been made the one responsible for the fight. Siaulian is forced to form his own gang in order to protect his family and seek revenge. Eventually, he is wanted by both the gangsters and the police. As for Tang, he is struggling to protect his dearest friend as he is actually the reason why Siaulian was sentenced to prison.
Before Next Spring
Sound Director
Where is home? For a group of Chinese students studying and working in Tokyo, it might be the Nankokute restaurant whose manager has been in Japan for years without ever managing to obtain a residence permit. The cook left his family in China and hasn't yet managed to have them brought over to join him and one waiter's father is sick while the other's is a violent alcoholic. An engaging fresco of everyday life with touching moments and an authentic, natural atmosphere.
My Best Friend's Breakfast
Sound
Xiang Wei Xin, a 17-year-old high school sophomore, regards eating as the most important and most healing thing in life. The first time she met her senior Tao You Quan was in the school’s welfare agency. At that time, Xiang Wei Xin lost 5 yuan and could not buy her favorite pineapple bread. Tao You Quan made up the money for her, which made her feel deeply indebted to her. The next day, she saw a breakup scene by the school’s swimming pool. She broke up with her cheating girlfriend but couldn’t separate it. Xiang Wei moved her heart and used her best friend Fang Qi Ran as an excuse to let Tao You Quan break up successfully. She believed that she was brave and repaid.
Garota Americana
Sound Designer
Tendo que sair dos EUA após sua mãe ser diagnosticada com câncer de mama, Fen, de treze anos, luta para se ajustar à vida em Taipei. Enquanto Fen percorre seu caminho pela escola e se reconecta com seu pai há muito separado, seu vínculo turbulento com sua mãe piora. Fen se afasta ainda mais de sua mãe por meio de uma série de atos rebeldes antes que sua irmã mais nova seja diagnosticada com SARS, empurrando Fen e sua mãe para um confronto acalorado e de longa gestação
Terrorizers
Sound Designer
The film is set in a pre-Covid Taipei, where a group of disenchanted souls are lost in a parallel virtual world.
Love After Love
Sound Designer
Weilong, uma estudante de Shanghai, procura conforto e educação em Hong Kong sob a proteção de sua tia, a Sra. Liang. Mas sua guardiã socialite tem outros planos para ela: a adolescente se tornaria mais um bem valioso a ser penhorado a homens ricos.
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Sound Supervisor
On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs. Liang. Meanwhile, the body is discovered—riddled with bullets. Chen, the detective in charge of the investigation, becomes obsessed with the case. Years later, all three remain caught in a tangled web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed…
The Hand
Sound Designer
Hong Kong, anos 1960. O tímido assistente de alfaiate Zhang fica fascinado por sua cliente imperiosa, a Srta. Hua. Ao conhecê-la, ela faz algo inusitado para garantir que seja lembrada sempre que ele fizer suas roupas. Após esse primeiro encontro íntimo, nasce um elo entre os dois.
Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'
Self
A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark Lee Ping-bing, producer and editor Liao Ching-sung, production designer Hwarng Wern-ying, and sound recordist Tu Duu-chih.
Whale Island
Sound Designer
Taiwan is an island country. Although it is surrounded by the sea, its people fear the sea since the politics, the history and the religious beliefs held on this island make people turn their backs to the sea. Oceanic literature author Liao Hung-chi and underwater photographer Ray Chin lead the audience out to the sea and into the water. They prompt us to understand the sea and to think about the possibility that the ocean might become our lives and the future of our country.
Taipei Suicide Story
Sound Mixer
O recepcionista de um hotel suicida em Taipei, Taiwan, cria uma amizade passageira ao longo de uma noite com uma hóspede que não consegue decidir se quer viver ou morrer.
Seu Nome Gravado em Mim
Supervising Sound Editor
Em 1987, após o fim da lei marcial em Taiwan, Jia-han e Birdy se apaixonam e são alvo de homofobia, pressão familiar e estigma social.
Enforcados 2
Sound
“Enforcados” é um filme de terror taiwanês, que gira em torno de trágicos acontecimentos após um sacerdote taoísta tentar ajudar uma jovem médium a libertar sua tia de uma poderosa possessão demoníaca.
A Sun
Sound Director
Uma família lida com as consequências da prisão do filho mais novo e com uma desgraça ainda maior que se segue.
Night Bus
Supervising Sound Editor
Late night, a commuter bus was speeding along the coastal highway when, suddenly, a loud and panicky scream pierced the night’s silence. This wealthy and elderly lady had just woken to find her precious necklace stolen. What follows was a series of intriguing turn of events, chaotic mob justice, vengeful lynching, as the truth behind the theft unfolds. The film climaxes as the commuter bus went ablaze, burning and glittering against the pitch-dark coastal sky.
Balloon
Sound Designer
No Tibete rural, Darie e Drolkar vivem uma vida simples e serena com os seus três filhos e o avô, quando uma situação embaraçosa provoca uma série de dilemas, e quebra a harmonia da família.
Suburban Birds
Sound Designer
Hao is part of a team of young engineers called in to investigate a series of craters that have opened up on the edge of the city. Meanwhile, a younger boy, also named Hao, spends long afternoons playing with friends and making mischief until one-by-one, his playmates start to disappear. As these parallel stories unfold, the connections between them proliferate and grow stranger.
Spring Tide
Sound Director
Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.
Jinpa
Sound Designer
Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he’s going to kill the man who murdered his father.
Cities of Last Things
Sound Designer
Lao Zhang é um ex policial deprimido que vive remoendo seu amor perdido e brigando com sua esposa infiel. Quando ele decide agir para matar a intensa dor que está o destruindo, o mundo a sua volta se abre, revelando todos os seus relacionamentos e as mulheres que o ajudaram a ser quem ele é hoje.
Xiao Mei
Sound Designer
A film about the tormenting presence of absence. A young shop girl named Xiao Mei suddenly vanishes from her usual existence, without explanation or trace. Has she dissolved, or perhaps redeemed herself somehow? Nine people from her immediate surroundings try to fill the empty space left behind by this supposedly insignificant young woman. In a kaleidoscope of meandering memories, projections, confessions, interpretations, incantations and helpless speculations through which the young escapee wanders aimlessly, they attempt to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
To Heaven, to Gather
Sound
A vast, blue sky. An endless mountain path. This is not an excursion, but the journey of three-year-old Xiao Wu and her lamb to the orphanage where they will be abandoned.
Baby
Sound Designer
When a woman who was abandoned at birth because of a genetic disorder sees a child facing the same fate, she finds herself trying to persuade their parents to reconsider and goes to extreme lengths to save the child.
Back to the Good Times
Sound
Nearly a year has gone by since the passing of Grandma, and the Zheng family is busy preparing for memorial rituals. Hwa Jia (Crowd Lu) gets discharged from military service and happily reunites with Wei (Vera Yen). The next morning, Wei's parents catch them in bed together and flip out. Wei's angry parents confront Hwa Jia's family, and the whole meeting turns into a farcical mess. Faced with an unprecedented crisis, Hwa Jia must figure out how to save himself and his family. Part of TTV's acclaimed Qseries imprint, the quirky and moving family series A Boy Named Flora A (2017) turned into one of Taiwan's biggest television hits of 2017. The cast and crew return with more family love and laughs in the 2018 feature film Back to the Good Times (2018), directed by Yu Ning Chu. Released during the Chinese New Year period, the film follows the post-military life of protagonist Hwa Jia, played by popular singer-songwriter Crowd Lu
Take Me to the Moon
Sound Designer
Zheng Xiang reunites with the members of his high school band and reminisces about their lead singer and his past love, En Pei, whose pursuit of her dreams ended in tragedy. He regrets encouraging her to join the pageant, wondering if she would have died if he hadn't done so. Drunk after the memorial, he's suddenly transported back to the past, where he sets out to stop En Pei from making the same mistake.
The Bold, the Corrupt and the Beautiful
Sound Designer
Madame Tang colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang's relationships with her own family forever.
Love Education
Sound Editor
When Huiying hears that her mother's dying wish is to be buried next to her husband, she discovers that his remains are in the countryside and cared for by his first wife. A conflict ensues, and Huiying's daughter, an intrepid reporter, breaks the story as the three women search for proof of love.
The Great Buddha+
Sound Designer
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies’ will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.
Monstros de Segunda a Segunda
Sound
Um aluno e seus amigos violentos torturam um fantasma que come carne, mas não sabem que a criatura tem um passado turbulento e uma irmã.
52Hz, I Love You
Sound Director
'Cape No. 7' director Wei Te-Sheng returns to his melodic roots with Taiwan's first musical, '52Hz, I Love You.'
O Caminho para Mandalay
Sound Designer
Two illegal Burmese migrants fleeing their country’s civil war find love with each other while struggling to survive in the bustling cities of Thailand.
The Tenants Downstairs
Sound
A loafer inherits an apartment block and lets out the place to a group of tenants, including a lusty gymnastics teacher, a geeky college student, a single father with his young daughter, a gay couple, a writer and a sexy female office worker. An incredible story is about to unfold as they start their lives in the same building.
Hang in There, Kids!
Sound Designer
In a secluded indigenous tribe, 3 kids who grew up in the mountains and the woods. They are all very optimistic, energetic and playful; yet, they are also troubled by their own family issues. Their handicapped teacher opened an after school session to help them with their schoolwork. For the children, it's like a ray of love shone on them. The teacher has a beautiful voice, but never sings. One day, the 3 kids find a tape of their teacher's recording and are amazed by her voice. They decide to bring this tape to Taipei.... What changes will this trip bring to all of their lives?
Wansei Back Home
Sound
'Wansei' refers to those Japanese who were born in Taiwan during the colonial period. After WWII, they were repatriated to Japan. It took the director 12 years to conduct the interviews and five years to shoot. It tells the stories of not only Wansei themselves but their friendships, family ties and bravery when facing the harsh adversity.
Escritório
Sound
Johnnie To se aventura por um inusitado e estiloso musical, passado no mundo das grandes corporações. Em meio à crise global causada pelo colapso da Lehman Brothers, Miss Cheng, uma alta executiva temida e respeitada, se prepara para colocar sua empresa de um bilhão de dólares na bolsa. Ho Chung-ping, o presidente da empresa, que já foi seu mentor e agora é seu amante, prometeu-lhe uma gorda fatia das ações assim que o capital da companhia fosse aberto. Mas quando uma auditoria expõe anos de corrupção, a promessa de Chung-ping corre o risco de não se concretizar.
Underground Fragrance
Sound Designer
The lives of three people entwine in Beijing's Underground City.
A Assassina
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
No século VIII, durante a dinastia Tiang, Yinniang (Shu Qi) é uma assassina profissional, treinada com os melhores mestres. Ela é encarregada de matar um homem do governo, mas não consegue cumprir a tarefa quando o vê segurando um bebê recém-nascido. Punida por sua covardia, ela recebe a tarefa mais difícil de sua vida: matar o próprio primo, por quem é apaixonada, e com quem deveria se casar desde a adolescência. Yinniang tem que se confrontar ao passado para cumprir as ordens de sua mestra.
A Assassina
Sound Editor
No século VIII, durante a dinastia Tiang, Yinniang (Shu Qi) é uma assassina profissional, treinada com os melhores mestres. Ela é encarregada de matar um homem do governo, mas não consegue cumprir a tarefa quando o vê segurando um bebê recém-nascido. Punida por sua covardia, ela recebe a tarefa mais difícil de sua vida: matar o próprio primo, por quem é apaixonada, e com quem deveria se casar desde a adolescência. Yinniang tem que se confrontar ao passado para cumprir as ordens de sua mestra.
Elena
Sound Designer
A violin teacher from a working-class background embarks on a brave journey in search of true love. The absurd process gradually makes her realize that returning to her true self is the only shortcut to happiness.
Murmur of the Hearts
Sound Director
Mei falls for an underachieving boxer, and begins years of soul searching in the city, where she reunites with her estranged brother under unexpected circumstances. What was remembered and forgotten are lessons that have profound consequences.
Meeting Dr. Sun
Sound Director
Two factions of Taipei's poorest high school students both plot to steal their school's iconic statue of the famed philosopher Dr. Sun to make some much-needed money-but when their plans clash and they find themselves at war, they have to question: what are they really fighting for?
Aberdeen
Sound Designer
The extended Cheng family, which, like Aberdeen harbor’s Chinese namesake, represents today’s Little Hong Kong and its myriad of contradictions between traditions and modernity; superstitions and materialism; family and individuality.
Stray Dogs
Sound Designer
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Soul
Sound
A-Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, A-Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, eat or even go to the toilet on his own. One day his father returns from work only to find A-Chuan sitting in the corner with his daughter lying dead in a pool of blood. In an unfamiliar, eerily calm voice, A-Chuan says, “I saw this body was empty, so I moved in.
Walker
Sound Designer
Uma metáfora para o luto e a busca espiritual, bem como um lembrete para diminuir o ritmo. O belo Walker de Tsai Ming-liang conta com seu ator favorito Lee Kang-sheng em roupas vermelhas de monge, passeando pelas ruas agitadas de Hong Kong.
Namorada/Namorado
Sound Designer
Na década de 1980, estudantes do ensino médio Aaron, Mabel e Liam são melhores amigos e também são apanhados em um triângulo amoroso. Como os três amigos passam por tempos turbulentos, quando a revolução social toma conta sobre a lei marcial, seus relacionamentos passam por muitos altos e baixos.
Return Ticket
Sound Designer
All the way, Cao Li has come alone. From Fuyang to Shenzhen. From Shenzhen to Shanghai. From Shanghai to home? Leaving hometown is her choice, the choice out of no choice. Returning home is her dream, the dream getting blinded by the neon lights in the city.--
Great Wall, My Love
Sound Editor
Chun, 28, Taiwanese, goes on a conflict-packed search journey with her Chinese guide, Ming, to find her father's long-lost first love, XiuQian, in China. Chun's father had promised XiuQian 60 years ago that he'd definitely come back to marry her. But not until recently, Taiwan and China were hostile to each other, he was never able to fulfill his promise. Chun and Ming grew up on two sides of the Taiwan Strait and were brought up with different values. They don't hesitate to cut each other down to size. Their turbulent romance unfolds in tears, laughter and a clash of values. The love story of two generations, across the Taiwan Strait, told with touching drama and biting comedy, is a poignant and entertaining road movie.
Buddha Mountain
Sound Director
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
The Fourth Portrait
Sound
Ten year-old Xiang faces a lonely future after his father dies. Just when he thinks he's going to spend his life in the orphanage, his estranged mother shows up. And his life changes forever... A loveless mother, a hateful stepfather, a chilly home. Where's Xiang heading to? He finds comfort in drawing and his work reveals his longing for care and affection. Life is full of hope again when he meets the old school janitor who doesn't show his kindness easily and a portly man who has crazy ideas and is haunted with nightmares of his brother. A scary truth is about to be unmasked. Will Xiang be able to depict his own image in the fourth portrait?
Au Revoir Taipei
Sound
Kai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.
Hear Me
Sound
A delivery Boy falls for a young girl who is hearing impaired. Comparing themselves with water birds and trees, together they are going to break the barrier and pursuit their dreams and take their relationship to the next level.
Su mi ma sen, Love
Sound
Chie Tanaka, playing herself, meets Huai-chung Wu, whom I presume is playing himself, after she loses her wallet. From that point on, the rest of the movie is about two restless and unhappy people spending the day together, falling in love, and learning to relate to each other without caring that they were strangers that morning.
Candy Rain
Sound Designer
Four separate vignettes about lesbian relationships and dating, ending with a summation about relationships.
Parking
Sound
On Mother's Day in Taipei, Chen Mo makes a date for dinner with his wife, hoping to bring their estranged relationship back together. While buying a cake on his way home, a car unexpectedly double parks next to his car, preventing his exit.
Reflections
Sound Designer
A couple is torn by conflicting emotions. Jing and Mi are two women living in Taiwan who have been lovers for some time; Jin is a singer in a rock band who suffers from severe mood swings and has been suffering from a fractured relationship with her mother, while Mi is the more sedate and level-headed of the couple.
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
Sound
Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitress Chyi. His love for Rawang is put to the test.
Do Over
Sound
Do Over follows five characters over twenty four hours on the last day of the year. As the interrelated stories proceed, the connections between the lives of the five characters begin to reveal themselves and their stories unravel. By depicting five different characters at emotional crossroads, Do Over examines the struggle of overcoming our greatest fears; the unknown of what lies ahead in the future, the fading value of our existence in the present, and most of all, irreversible mistakes made in the past that may catch up to us.
Verão Eterno
Sound Designer
O filme mostra a relação entre dois estudantes que são unidos como par por um jogo da classe, no qual o melhor aluno tem que tomar conta do pior. Assim começa o relacionamento entre Jonathan (Bryant Chang) e Shane (Joseph Chang) em um colégio em Taipé. Uma amizade? Uma relação de irmãos? Ou paixão? Conforme eles vão se descobrindo no mundo da delicadeza do sentimento juvenil a entrada de uma garota desperta para o reconhecimento da paixão. Há uma passagem de tempo após um terremoto na cidade, e eles se encontram para resolver e relembrar o passado anos depois. Uma das seqüências mais aplaudidas do filme é a em que Jonathan conhece Shane, cujo tom de inocência permanece até o final.
Três Tempos
Sound Designer
Três diferentes épocas, três histórias, o mesmo actor e actriz, evocando três reincarnações de um amor inacabado... 1966 - "Um tempo de amar". Uma jovem, May, e um soldado, Chen, conhecem-se numa sala de jogos. Partilham momentos numa maravilhosa noite quente. 1911 - "Um tempo de liberdade". Durante a ocupação japonesa da Formosa, um diplomata casado ganha, através da sua bondade, a admiração de uma cortesã, num bordel em Dadaocheng. Contudo, os seus princípios modernos não permitem que a tome como sua concubina. 2005 - "Um tempo de juventude". Sob a ameaça de guerra com a China, a Formosa encontra-se instável. Uma jovem bissexual, Jing, envolve-se num triângulo amoroso. Paixões secretas fervilham por entre mal-entendidos, rejeições e relações modernas que florescem e falham à distância segura de sms e de emails.
O Sabor da Melancia
Sound Designer
Taipei passa por estiagem terrível e a água começa a ficar cada vez mais escassa. As pessoas são obrigadas a saciar a sede com suco de melancia, mais barato e mais fácil de encontrar que a água. A jovem Shiang-Chyi conhece Hsiao-Kang, um vendedor, por acaso e um romance se inicia entre eles. O que a moça não sabe é que ele é um ator pornô que está filmando em um dos apartamentos de seu prédio.
Love's Lone Flower
Sound
A woman falls in love with two different girls, both singers - one in Shanghai during the late 1940s, the other in Taiwan during the late 1950s.
Holiday Dreaming
Sound
Ah-Zhou, who is about to be honorably discharged from the military service, has a surreal dream. In the dream he sees the dead body of Shing-Shing Chen, a classmate in elementary school from years back. Is this dream implying that Shing-Shing Chen might have died? Soon afterwards, Ah-Zhou gets an unexpected five-day vacation and decides to look for Shing-Shing Chen. Nevertheless, he quickly learns that the special vacation is for him and another soon-to-be-discharged solider, Xiao-Gui, to go after a deserter, Kuen-He, who ran away with weapons two days ago. Both of them are worried about this assignment because they, the old birds, used to pick on Kuen-He, a spring chicken. And Kuen-He is now a deserter, armed and dangerous.
Café Lumière
Sound Designer
Making her way through life by forming superficial relationships, Yoko keeps everyone at arm's length, whether it's her father and stepmother or Hajime, the owner of a small bookstore who could be the father of her unborn child. Yoko seems most at home when she's riding the train, speeding around the city with only her thoughts to entertain her.
Love of May
Sound
Ah Lei is the younger brother of Stone, a guitarist of Mayday. He is also the administrator of Mayday's fansite, in charge of replying to fan letters and emails. One day, he befriended a girl named Zhao Xuan through a chatroom. He told her that he's actually Ashin, the lead vocal of Mayday. She started writing letters to him, believing that he was Ashin. Finally, Xuan's peking opera group from school gets to leave Harbin and travel to Taiwan to perform. The two promised to meet in a library, but Ah Lei didn't have the courage to meet up with her. He decides to follow her around, but did not expect that she followed him back, and that she saw through his lies all along.
20, 30, 40
Sound
Três mulheres de idades distintas enfrentam as emoções, dilemas e desafios da condição feminina como liberdade, relacionamentos amorosos e solidão.
Adeus, Dragon Inn
Sound
Na última noite antes de um velho cinema fechar uma jovem japonesa corre para o cinema, mesmo apesar da chuva. O cinema parece deserto, sem vida. Mas, no entanto, há algumas pessoas, algumas talvez não sejam pessoas...
My Whispering Plan
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A Passarela Se Foi
Sound
Devido à demolição não anunciada de um passarela em Taipei, uma senhora não consegue atravessar a avenida com sua mala pesada. No mesmo local, Chen Shiang-chyi procura por um vendedor ambulante na multidão, sem perceber que ele está muito mais próximo do que imagina.
Blue Gate Crossing
Sound Designer
Kerou Meng é uma estudante colegial de 17 anos. Como outras garotas de sua idade, ela está em busca de si mesma. Um pouco sonhadora, ainda lhe falta autoconfiança e ela sente saudades do estado de negligência e liberdade típico da infância. Shihao Zhang é um garoto bonito e sedutor, com um quê de rebeldia no sangue. Ele é o preferido entre as garotas. Yuezhen Lin, a melhor amiga de Kerou, sente ciúmes e raiva dela. Shihao, apesar de estar mais interessado em ganhar o campeonato de natação da escola, sente-se muito atraído pelas maneiras misteriosas de Kerou e deseja conquistá-la. Um dia, de repente, Kerou aparece no meio de um treino de Shihao e abre seu coração. O que ela lhe diz vai mexer profundamente com seus sentimentos. Juntos, os dois adolescentes vão ter o primeiro vislumbre dos dissabores do mundo adulto.
Princess D
Sound Designer
Joker is a computer programmer working on a 3-D adventure game starring a virtual idol. Stuck for inspiration, he ends up finding it in Ling, a bartender at a dance club. While in a drug-induced stupor, Joker imagines Ling to be the perfect image of his virtual girl. He's immediately smitten, but more important, he now has a model for his virtual heroine: Princess D.
Princess D
Editor
Joker is a computer programmer working on a 3-D adventure game starring a virtual idol. Stuck for inspiration, he ends up finding it in Ling, a bartender at a dance club. While in a drug-induced stupor, Joker imagines Ling to be the perfect image of his virtual girl. He's immediately smitten, but more important, he now has a model for his virtual heroine: Princess D.
July Rhapsody
Foley
Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?
July Rhapsody
Foley Editor
Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?
July Rhapsody
Foley Recordist
Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?
July Rhapsody
Sound Designer
Lam Yiu Kwok, a Hong Kong secondary school teacher is facing a mid-life crisis. While he has only his pride and Chinese poetry to fall back on, his peers are successful businessmen and professionals who flaunt their extravagant lifestyles at reunion dinners. After many years, Lam is still living in a modest apartment with his wife, Man Ching and two teenage sons. However financial stagnancy is not his only problem. An old flame of Man Ching (who was the couple's former schoolteacher) returns to Hong Kong and uncovers old wounds. Man Ching feels obliged to help her ex-lover. Meanwhile, Yiu Kwok faces another dilemma: Choy Lam, a precocious student, has a crush on him and the 'forbidden fruit' looks more and more tempting in the light of his wife's 'infidelity'. Will he succumb to young charms and let history repeat itself?
Millennium Mambo
Sound Designer
The beautiful Vicky drifts through her empty life in the neon-lit Taipei, maintaining a pointless relationship with her loser DJ boyfriend, Hao-Hao, and an unsatisfying career as a nightclub hostess. As her romance becomes increasingly strained, she decides to take up with Jack, a caring but criminally connected businessman. But this new relationship can't change Vicky's aimless nature, and her future remains as doubtful as ever.
A Hora da Partida
Sound
Hsiao Kang trabalha vendendo relógios e acaba de perder o pai; sua mãe em casa tenta de todas as formas deixar tudo como está, pois tem a certeza de que o espírito do pai vai voltar. O ambiente é cada vez mais insuportável para o rapaz, até que conhece Shiang-chyi e fica interessado nela, que, infelizmente está prestes a viajar para a França.
Betelnut Beauty
Sound
A cute coed leaves her mother's home and gets involved with a pastry chef who has links to the local criminal element.
Disponível Para Amar
Sound
Kong Kong, 1962. Chau, o editor dum jornal local, muda-se para um novo edifício, juntamente com a sua esposa. Aí conhece Li-Chun, que vive na casa ao lado e que se muda para o prédio no mesmo dia de Chau. É também uma coincidência, o facto de ambos estarem a mudar sem a ajuda dos respectivos esposos que, mais uma coincidência, se encontram fora em trabalho. Com os esposos fora, Chau e Li-Chun passam cada vez mais tempo juntos. Até que um dia ambos se dão conta que estão a ser traídos pelos respectivos cônjuges. E esta descoberta chocante aproxima-os ainda mais...
As Coisas Simples da Vida
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NJ Jian mora com sua esposa, seus dois filhos e a sogra já idosa, formando uma típica família de classe média. NJ é sócio de uma bem-sucedida empresa de computação, mas, se não buscar novos rumos, em breve irá à falência. Para tanto, ele busca fazer uma parceria com Ota, um inovador designer de jogos de computação no Japão, que pode dar o novo toque que sua empresa precisa. Mas as coisas começam a dar para os Jian quando a integrante mais velha da família sofre um derrame e entra num coma o qual poderá nunca mais acordar. Neste meio termo, NJ ainda reencontra Sherry, seu primeiro amor de infância, que reaparece em sua vida, agora casada com um americano.
Lament of the Sand River
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To achieve his dream of being a trumpet player, a man leaves his hometown and works in a touring operetta troupe. He falls in love with a girl but then contracts tuberculosis, forcing him to give up the trumpet.
Flowers of Shanghai
Original Music Composer
Women struggle in a Shanghai brothel where everything only appears to be beautiful.
Jam
Sound
The lives of two young thieves, a mob hitman and a film producer are entangled when the two thieves steal a car that had already been previously stolen to been used as a getaway car.
JIA MIEN CHAO REN
Sound
Such a life
Sound
'Such a Life' is quite a sad film. It is set in the sixties, in a village on the west coast of Taiwan, where many are succumbing to 'black foot', a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water. The only 'cure' is to amputate the afflicted limb, and to avoid drinking the contaminated water. Many in the village were already sick, and few could afford to have tap-water installed. At the center of the story is Ah Chung, who lives with his grandfather, who has already lost one leg to 'black foot'. In the same village also live an opera family, who are finding things increasingly difficult there, an oyster farmer, who complains that his oysters are being poisoned by a nearby pharmaceutical plant, and an assortment of children who enjoy swimming in the sea, and who bully Ah Chung. A significant portion of the action also takes place in the village school, where Ah Chung is having trouble keeping up with the fees.
Love Go Go
Sound
Infused with a few moments of pathos, this off-beat comedy centers on a trio of Taiwanese outcasts who go looking for love.
Yours and Mine
Sound
This is a four-part anthology comedy. The themes of four parts are: car, house, body and friendship. The central characters are a plastic surgeon Chen, a nurse, an experienced maid, three energetic teenagers and a young couple. The stingy surgeon Chen treats a car and a man so differently that he could be a perfect example to show how treasonously modern people treat their cars and how indifferently they treat other people. The maid Ying is like a knight on her "iron horse" (a bicycle), fighting in the city. Every day she rushes home after work to wait up for a husband never returns. The new nurse has problem with her colleague because they support different idle. What she also doesn't know is the reason why her brother's girlfriend sends her free lunchbox so often. The truth is that her brother's girlfriend wants to get plastic surgery in the clinic. Almost everyone here is not satisfied with his/her body. Moreover, they try to change their body with quite violent ways.
Felizes Juntos
Sound Editor
O casal Lai e Ho viaja de Hong Kong para a Argentina em busca de uma vida melhor. Seu relacionamento tórrido sobrevive em meio a bares de tango e salsa das calçadas de La Boca. Longe de casa, eles se sentem desesperadamente sós.
Wolves Cry Under the Moon
Sound
Episodic drama from Taiwan. Was nominated for nine awards at the Golden Horse Film Festival.
Goodbye South, Goodbye
Sound Recordist
In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.
A Drifting Life
Sound
After his wife dies during childbirth, Ku-cheng leaves his children behind in their rural village while he finds work on a construction site in the city. He develops a relationship with a widow but despite their intimacy, he refuses to remarry.
The Peony Pavilion
Sound
A high school student and a pop singer meld reality with fiction as they both fantasize themselves as characters in a Ming dynasty tale of seduction - "The Peony Pavilion."
Mestre das Marionetes
Sound
Hou Hsiao-Hsien centra este seu filme (Prémio do Júri do Festival de Cannes 1993) na vida e carreira do marionetista Li Tien-Lu, cuja vida pessoal combina com a história de Taiwan entre 1909 e o fim da dominação japonesa da ilha em 1945. "The Puppetmaster," como é internacionalmente conhecido, é o segundo dos títulos da trilogia histórica do realizador, também composta por "A City of Sadness" (1989) e "Good Men, Good Women" (1995).
Dust of Angels
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A-Guo and A-Dou are two teenagers living in an industrial town in Taiwan, who fight, loaf, and cause trouble all day and hang out with Jie, a young gangster. When Jie's gangland patron is gunned down, the trio set out to revenge the killing. As a result, the two teens are forced into hiding.
Um Dia Quente de Verão
Sound
Baseado em uma história verídica sobre um conflito entre duas gangues de jovens, a namorada de um garoto de 14 anos entra em conflito com o chefe de uma gangue por uma razão pouco clara, até que finalmente o conflito atinge um clímax violento.
Song of the Exile
Sound Recordist
Set in the early 1970s, it tells the story of a Chinese-Japanese student who returns to her native Hong Kong after graduating from a university in London. Once she arrives back home, she and her family begins to fight, largely due to cultural and societal conflicts between her mother and herself.
A Cidade das Tristezas
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Filme que narra uma série de acontecimentos em Taiwan entre 1945 e 1949 a partir das experiências de uma família de quatro filhos, um patriarca e alguns agregados. Destaque para o trágico acontecimento de 28 de fevereiro de 1947, quando mais de 20 mil taiwaneses foram mortos por tropas nacionalistas chinesas.
Neverending Memory
Sound Designer
Yeh's directorial debut film pays tribute to the golden years of Taiwanese-dialect films in the 1960s.
Split of the Spirit
Sound
A ghost takes over a dancer's body in order to find those who killed her, and thus her revenge.
The Game They Call Sex
Sound
The whole story revolves around a woman from marriage, marriage to divorce encounter sexual problems as the main axis, reflecting the Taiwan society in this regard subjective and objective taboos. The first paragraph of the description of the actress Xiao Xiaomin arranged with the parents of the scholar if strong engagement after the agreement with the high school students often travel, and finally cancel the engagement. The second paragraph to write her marriage in order to fight for a wounded into her young Wu Dawei testify to her husband's misunderstanding, but also the end of the divorce. The third paragraph to write her commitment to kindergarten education work to recognize the disabled young boy odd, she did not dare to face the problem of love, but the other's cheerful outlook touched her.
Run Away
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Kidnapped by a group of bandits and raped by their chief, Dan Zhu slowly develops feelings for the perpetrator. Echoing the social realism of Taiwanese new wave filmmaking, director Wang Tung revisits the wuxia genre, with the emphasis on psychology rather than action.
Spring Daddy
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Zang Guang-xing is a veteran soldier from Mainland China who married a young Taiwanese woman. He has been working as a supervisor in a construction company for seven years. Everyday he rides the same motorbike to work. He suffers enough misery from riding that motorbike, and dreams of buying a car. So he asks around for decent second-hand cars. His son doesn't like any car he chooses. His wife, a typical Taiwanese woman who lives frugally, shaves any penny she can. She is the one who pays for the family's new car. They go out on trips happily, and become the envy of the neighborhood. Zhang thus gets the new car he's always dreamed of, but he starts to worry about it getting dirty, because it's simply too new, too nice for him. The car thus becomes his son's vehicle. He rides the old bike to work again, just like he has during all these years.
Super Citizen
Sound
A young man from the country comes to Taipei to search for his sister from whom he has heard nothing during the past year. Beginning in a tenement slum, the young man travels through the city's lowlife, where street hustlers sell fake Rolex watches and other contraband, gangs fight each other, and the ubiquitous sex businesses ply their trade. The young man befriends a rich teenage girl and a young prostitute as he and a hustler who knew his sister search for her through a trail of clues leading to restaurants, dance joints, and brothels.
My Favorite Season
Original Music Composer
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...
História de Taipei
Original Music Composer
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
História de Taipei
Sound
A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
Ah Fei
Sound Designer
The startling contrast between old and new Taiwan is the subject of Wan Jen's epic of traditional identities coming into conflict with an urban life, emphasizing the situation of women.
In Our Time
Sound
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.
The Bloody Mission
Editor
Two brave swordsmen fight for supremacy in the martial world and for the hand of a mysterious maiden in this lavish sword picture from kung fu icon Raymond Liu.
If I Were for Real
Sound Recordist
Taiwanese film about the dark days of the Cultural Revolution and the young people who were destroyed by it, centered on a group of students who perform Nikolai Gogol’s play The Inspector General.
The Voice of Algal Reefs
Sound
Pierce
Sound
Jie doesn’t get along with his cult-going, homophobic mother, which makes harboring a secret crush on his boys fencing club teammate difficult. When his violent and troubled older brother, who was an avid fencer himself, returns suddenly after seven years, Jie is drawn to him and sees him as the savior from his unbearable mother. As his brother struggles to deal with his situation, Jie will find out just how far he is willing to go for him.